Gay Marriage v. Religious Freedom: A Cautionary Tale

Earlier this week Chuck Colson from Breakpoint  offered up an interesting commentary about Gay Marriage versus Religious Freedom.  Click here to listen to this interesting commentary.

Here's part to whet your appetite...

Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., has announced changes to its employees’ health care benefits. Normally, this wouldn’t be big news. But this story isn’t only about deductibles and co-pays—it’s about the increasingly fragile state of religious freedom in the America.

Employees were told that starting March 2, Catholic Charities would “not offer benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees not already enrolled” in the health plan. Spouses currently covered under the plan would still be covered.

The timing of the changes wasn’t a coincidence. On March 3, same-sex “marriage” became legal in the District of Columbia. In connection with the new law, the D.C. Council insisted that, as a city contractor, Catholic Charities had to offer the same benefits to same-sex couples that it did to heterosexual ones.

In other words, Catholic Charities had to choose between church teaching and ministering to the city’s neediest residents.

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What do you think? Should a charity that is religious in its origin have to deny its origin or religious convictions if laws violate their morality?  Please comment below.