I Haven’t Figured Them Out.

We now have one of the most conservative Supreme Court where they put “Religious Freedom” up on a pedestal but then they turn around and do this;

Supreme Court Allows Ruling in Favor of California Trans Man to Stand
This means Evan Minton's case against Mercy San Juan Medical Center — a hospital that denied him a hysterectomy — can go forward.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
November 2, 2021


The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal from a California Catholic hospital being sued over denial of care to a transgender man.

The high court’s action leaves intact the California Court of Appeal’s ruling that Evan Minton can go forward with his case against the hospital. Whether the hospital actually committed illegal discrimination has yet to be decided.

The court declined the case without comment, which is its usual practice. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch, all conservatives, said they would have taken the case.

When officials at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Catholic hospital near Sacramento, learned Minton was transgender, they canceled his scheduled hysterectomy shortly before it was to take place in 2016, calling it an “elective sterilization” that went against Catholic beliefs.
Oh how many time have we heard that; a religious affiliated hospital refusing to treat us? I know it one of my concerns, getting into a car accident and being refused treatment.

Hospitals are licensed by the state and they cannot discriminate but as more hospitals are bought up by religious organization they are claiming “religious freedom” to turn away LGBTQ+ patients and refusing to do abortions even of the mother’s life is in danger. I know of a case in Connecticut where a religious organization wanted to buy a rural hospital and they would not say if they would allow medically necessary abortions, the state blocked the sale.

A trial court ruled that delaying the procedure for three days did not constitute discrimination under the law, but the California Court of Appeals disagreed, ruling in 2019 that Minton had shown he has grounds for a lawsuit and that his case could go forward. Dignity/Mercy San Juan appealed to the Supreme Court, saying Minton’s suit “poses a profound threat to faith-based health care institutions’ ability to advance their healing ministries consistent with the teachings of their faith.”

I am stating to think that the line that is drawing is very close to overturning gender inclusive non-discrimination laws but does not want to cross it and throw out the laws altogether. Because I think they might foresee where if the say that you can discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community because of “religious freedom” then you can discriminate against unmarried couples, single mothers, and other religions.