This is the story that irony built.
It seems that Sara Hellwege is a nurse-midwife in Tampa, FL. She applied for a job at Tampa Family Health Centers. In an email exchange Tampa Family Health Center’s HR director, Chad Lindsey, quizzed her about her affiliation with the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Ms Hellwege said that she would not prescribe chemical birth control. She was told that this was part of the job. They didn’t hire her.
Case closed.
Or, case not closed, as it turns out. Ms Hellwege has filed suit.
And I can’t stop laughing.
We’ve been peppered with one idiot lawsuit after another by people demanding that the courts force Catholic organizations, particularly schools, to employee them while they get gay married in defiance of Catholic teaching.
Anyone who objects to one of these lawsuits is treated to an arm-waving smack-down with words like , “tolerance” and “rights” flying through the air like bullets.
Now, it seems, the shoe is on the other foot.
Google gave me a whole page of links on this lawsuit. The most apoplectic commentary I saw was coming from the same folks who are soooo supportive of every lawsuit filed to force the Catholic Church to violate its beliefs.
Several posts I read tried to claim that the lawsuit is based on the Hobby Lobby decision. Unless Ms Hellwege is a privately-held corporation who is being forced by the HHS Mandate to buy insurance that pays for four kinds of abortifacient, the Hobby Lobby decision has nothing to do with her.
Having said all that, I don’t really have any quarrel with these opinion pieces. They are, after all, opinions.
I just can’t stop laughing.
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