Ethics

Catholic Charities Ends Spousal Benefits

By Ed Brayton

Jim Burroway reports that Catholic Charities of Washington DC has ended its spousal benefits to make sure that they don't have to give benefits to the spouse of a gay person at some point in the future:

In a bid to avoid inadvertently providing spousal benefits to gay men and women who happen to be employees, Catholic Charities of Washington, D.C. , has taken the extraordinary step of ending spousal benefits for all of its employees, the Washington City Paper reports.

Catholic Charities President and CEO Edward Orzechowski sent a memo out to employees yesterday informing them that spouses' who have already been enrolled in the health plan would continue to receive care under a grandfather clause, but that new employees or newly married employees would no longer be eligible to obtain coverage for their spouses through Catholic Charities.

Yes, they're so intent on making sure no gay person could ever get health insurance or pension benefits that they're going to deny such benefits to everyone else too. I guess they believe you should love your neighbor, but that doesn't include treating them like actual human beings.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 07, 2010 (boomark / email).