Feds' threat to Catholic hospital funding
over chapel candle could ignite 'legal
firestorm,' attorneys say
Posted By: Beardo, 5/4/2023 2:29:24 PM
A religious liberty nonprofit is threatening the federal government with a legal battle after a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma was offered the choice of either extinguishing a sacred candle in its chapel or being stripped of its federal funding. (snip) The hospital entreated the agency in vain four times for a waiver regarding the candle, according to the Becket Fund, which noted that similar flames in the building such as pilot lights and those in gas stove heaters did not prove to be a problem. "The government’s demand is absurd and unlawful — it is targeting Saint Francis’s sincere beliefs without any good reason,"
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