The State Forces Nuns to Deny Reality: New York’s Transgender Tyranny Against the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
The EWTN News portal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit filed by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne against the state of New York, which is attempting to force their nursing home to accommodate biological males who claim a female gender identity. The sisters, who have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients for 125 years, face the revocation of their license if they refuse to comply with regulations mandating that they house transgender women in female wards, allow them access to female restrooms, and use preferred pronouns. The DOJ asserts that New York’s law violates the sisters’ First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion and equal protection. This case exposes the fundamental incompatibility between the natural law, which the Church has always taught, and the totalitarian demands of the modern secular state, which seeks to compel even religious communities to affirm objective falsehoods under threat of legal punishment.