CP – Pro-life groups and a church have filed a lawsuit against New York for a newly signed state law that they argue forces them to hire people who support abortion. Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed Senate Bill 660, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a person’s reproductive healthcare decisions.
Among its provisions, the new law forbids employers from requiring employees to sign a document that “purports to deny an employee the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions” and denies them access to an employee’s reproductive health history.
The Rochester-based pregnancy care center CompassCare, the Hilton-based First Bible Baptist Church, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates filed suit last Thursday in United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
The lawsuit argued that SB 660 was “a transparent attempt to meddle in the affairs of religious and pro-life organizations” by “forcing them to employ and associate with those persons who do not share or live by the organizations’ beliefs regarding abortion, contraception, and the impropriety of sexual relations outside the context of a marriage between a man and a woman.” READ MORE
My, my New York lawmakers. You know what the bill’s intentions were and still you passed it, effectively forcing organizations and businesses with opposing religious views, including same-sex marriages and/or LGBTQ agendas and views. If I hire someone with completely opposite beliefs and they cause problems, and they will, at work I should be able to fire them without worrying about getting hit with ridiculous lawsuits for discrimination of crazy state laws. This doesn’t make sense and has always been a company/organization’s right when people clearly are in opposition of their views and may even say if staff cause them problems they’ll sue the company/organization. Have you lost your minds or have you just become evil recently?