The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to intervene to assist an order of Catholic nuns in their lawsuit against New York’s Gov. Kathy Hochul, the agency announced on June 18.
The nuns filed suit after New York passed a law that would require them to house transgender-identifying male patients in the same spaces as women.
“For more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their last days,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement on June 18.
“New York’s law would force these religious women to choose between their faith and their license if they wish to continue serving the dying.”…