Religious liberty

The Napa Legal Institute released its second annual Faith and Freedom Index last month, which essentially scores states on how easy it is for faith-based non-profit organizations to operate within them. Coming in at the top of states that “over-burden and are even hostile towards faith-based nonprofits” are Massachusetts, Michigan and Washington, while Alabama and Indiana topped the list of states with “robust protections for faith-based nonprofits that their less-free neighbors could learn from.

It’s been a pattern under Joe Biden’s time in executive office. As much as he has prefaced his political career in the media on his deeply held faith as a Catholic, time and again it is his administrations, as vice president and now as president, that have targeted American Catholic organizations with burdensome and often ridiculous regulatory challenges. The Little Sisters of the Poor met the ire of the Obama administration. Now Biden's Department of Health and Human Services is demanding that the largest hospital system in Oklahoma, Saint Francis Health System, literally snuff out the flame of their belief to keep their doors open. St. Francis, a nonprofit hospital system which opened in 1960 and now serves 400,000 Oklahomans every year, has chapels, you see.