Dear Friends,
Common sense has prevailed.
 It was a crazy lawsuit in the first place—but today, you can’t be too protective of religious freedom for Catholic educators.
As reported in Matt Archbold’s “Report Card” column
this week, the Second Circuit Court decided that Catholic diocesan
schools have a religious purpose (go figure!) and therefore it’s the
Church’s discretion to decide who leads them.
The decision was unanimous, which is a well-deserved embarrassment to
the attorney who filed the lawsuit against the Archdiocese of New York,
which he compared to “slave owners.”
Meanwhile, a judge has also upheld the right of a New Jersey Catholic
school to prevent girls from playing on a boys’ basketball team—and to
deny enrollment to a family that has tried to force the school into
submission.
Again, the court simply deferred to the school’s judgment. “The court
does not have the authority to meddle in this decision,” it ruled,
because a Catholic school is free to make decisions rooted in its
religious beliefs.
The First Amendment survives… for now!
Please say a prayer of thanksgiving for this good news and read about it at the link below.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
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Patrick Reilly
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