Supreme Court won’t hear Catholic hospital challenge to transgender surgery

 Washington Times  "The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not hear a challenge over a Catholic hospital declining to provide transgender surgery, leaving in place the lower court’s ruling in favor of the transgender man.

"A transgender man, Evan Minton, sued Dignity Health after the hospital declined to perform his hysterectomy.

"He received the surgery three days later at a non-religious hospital but filed a lawsuit in California claiming he was discriminated against.

"The lower courts ruled in his favor and against the hospital, which asked the justices to review the case.". . . 

"Specifically, Dignity Health argued that religious health care institutions should be protected by the First Amendment and not forced to perform surgeries that conflict with its ethics.

"The majority of the justices declined to get involved.

"Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. would have taken up the case for review." . . .

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This case should be similar to the Burwell v Hobby Lobby case, where it was ruled by the Supreme Court that a private business with religious beliefs cannot be forced to act against those beliefs by the government. The question for this lawsuit will be whether a private hospital with religious beliefs can refuse to perform procedures that would go against those beliefs. The Blaze