Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 6/21

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Justice Department Backs Catholic Nuns Against New York's Gender Ideology Law

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/06/20/justice-department-backs-catholic-nuns-against-new-yorks-gender-ideology-law-n2678044

The Justice Department has notified the U.S. District Court that it intends to intervene in a lawsuit filed by an order of Catholic nuns — the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne — against the State of New York.

The lawsuit challenges a state law that requires housing biological men with women in the Sisters’ residential hospice care program.

The United States supports the Sisters of Hawthorne’s argument that the New York law violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection of religious groups.

“States should take notice that they cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “For more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their last days. 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.”