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religious liberty

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Asian doctor and an assistant in the operating room for surgical venous vascular surgery clinic in hospital.
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 12, 2023
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Maryland Catholic Hospital Liable for Refusing Transgender Hysterectomy

Wesley J. Smith
January 12, 2023
Two principles of Catholic health-care ethics forbid removing healthy organs and sterilizing a patient absent a necessity caused by a pathology, such as cancer. These principles are increasingly in conflict with the transgender movement that has the ACLU and others suing when Catholic hospitals refuse transgender surgeries based on these religiously based precepts. Read More ›
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Christian friends group reading and study bible together in home or Sunday school at church with window light
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 28, 2022
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Conscience
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Religious Freedom: Biden Policy Not Where Administration’s Mouth Is

Wesley J. Smith
October 28, 2022
Until President Biden protects the right to act in the public square here at home consistently with one’s religious beliefs, his administration’s support for International Religious Freedom Day has to be judged so much hot air. Read More ›
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Senior man kneel, holding wooden rosary beads in hand with Jesus Christ holy cross crucifix in the church. Natural light background. Prayer pose crop closeup with copy space. Catholic symbol of faith.
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Wesley J. Smith
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February 1, 2022
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Health Care
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Defending Catholic Healthcare

Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2022
The threats against religious freedom in the United States have become so acute that five major Catholic organizations have formed the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance (CHCLA), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to defending the right of Catholic hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutions—as well as Catholic doctors, nurses, and pharmacists—to provide care and treatment in accordance with the moral precepts of the Catholic Church. Read More ›
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Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 21, 2021
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Conscience
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Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2021
Compelling doctors to hew to secular cultural values in their practice of medicine is both authoritarian and un-American. If the anti-medical conscience campaign succeeds, we will all be the poorer for it. Read More ›
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A no vaccine, no mask, no entry sign at a restaurant, cafe or other establishment.
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 31, 2021
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COVID-19
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Questioning Vaccine Mandates

Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2021
If a free society is to remain worthy of the name, persuasion—not coercion—must be the watchword. Because if COVID becomes the excuse for government and Big Business to exert such extreme control, even greater intrusions on civil liberties will surely follow. Once power is grabbed, the grabbers rarely let go. Read More ›
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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 4, 2021
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Transgenderism
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Bioethicist: Right to Transgender Healthcare Akin to Freedom of Religion

Wesley J. Smith
August 4, 2021
Critics of the transgender moral panic have been arguing that the movement is akin to religion. Now, that criticism finds support in the Journal of Medical Ethics — only rather than a criticism, the author contends that there is a right to GAH — gender-affirming health care — that is equivalent to freedom of religion. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 18, 2021
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Human Rights
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The Attack on Religious Liberty is an Attack on All Our Freedoms

Wesley J. Smith
May 18, 2021
More than two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers changed the world by imbedding the fundamental human right to religious freedom in the Constitution. That right now hangs by a thread. Read More ›
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Pope in the church. Back view
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 22, 2021
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Conscience
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Equality Act’s Attack on Religious Liberty, Medical Conscience

Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2021
President Biden said during the campaign that he supported the Equality Act, which is being sold as a means of guaranteeing equality for LGBT people. But it does more than that. It would destroy medical conscience by removing existing protections that permit doctors and nurses to refuse participation in abortion, and it would gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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November 6, 2020
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Human Rights
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Chinese Government Goes After Nuns!

Wesley J. Smith
November 6, 2020

The pope just renewed the Vatican’s deal with the Communist Chinese to govern the appointment of bishops in China. In what I interpret as a show of utter contempt for the Church, the government has now forced nuns to leave a convent. From the Catholic News Agency story: Due to pressure from the Chinese government, eight Catholic nuns have reportedly been forced to leave their convent in the northern province of Shanxi. Their current whereabouts have not been reported. “Officials declared us ‘dangerous persons’ and repeatedly harassed us,” said one of the nuns, according to Bitter Winter, an Italian magazine that focuses on human rights and religious liberties in China. “They asked us to write down what we had done since kindergartens and demanded to Read More ›

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