Catholic Charities Screws Over Its Employees Just to Stick It to Gays
- Just to spite gay folks, Catholic Charities throws its straight employees under the bus.
- For decades, the church has been at the forefront of worker benefits, so this move cuts against their understanding of social justice and health benefits to all possible.
- Same-sex marriage leads Catholic Charities to adjust benefits
Devona Walker, AlterNet
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Ken Mitchell
Photo Credit: Sakurai Midori
The day before same-sex marriage was to become legal in the District of Columbia (Wednesday, March 3), Catholic Charities modified its personnel policies refusing to pay for the health benefits of any newly married couple it employs.
The memo, signed by the charity’s president, doesn’t explicitly mention gay marriage. Instead, he references the need to change policy due to a “change in law.”
“We sincerely regret that we have to make this change…but it is necessary to allow Catholic Charities to continue to provide essential services to the clients we serve in partnership with the District of Columbia while remaining consistent with the tenets of our religious faith,” read the memo.
So just to spite gay folks, and from the fear that one might actually work for them, Catholic Charities is throw its straight employees under the bus? This new personnel policy, by law, cannot apply just to gays. So Catholic Charities is denying benefits to all newly married people.
Related:
Same-sex marriage leads Catholic Charities to adjust benefits, William Wan, Washington Post
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Joe Chouinard
Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday (March 1) that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers -- the latest fallout from a bitter debate between District officials trying to legalize same-sex marriage and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
