A couple of my fellow bloggers have addressed this. Apparently, the EEOC doesn't feel that Belmont Abby, a private Catholic College, has the right to operate according to Catholic teachings. The EEOC wants to force everyone to fund contraception. Students at Catholic universities, citing religious freedom concerns, have voiced their opposition to a federal ruling that Belmont Abbey College engaged in unlawful discrimination by refusing to fund contraceptives in its health care plan. After a faculty member discovered that contraception, abortion and voluntary sterilization were covered by the North Carolina college’s health care policy, the drugs and procedures were removed from the plan in December 2007.
Some faculty opposed the move and appealed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Though the EEOC ruled in the college administration’s favor in March, it reversed its decision on August 5.
On that day Reuben Daniels Jr., Director of the EEOC Charlotte District Office, ruled that the health care policy change was discriminatory because only women take oral contraceptives.
Last week Belmont Abbey College president Dr. William Thierfelder told LifeSiteNews.com that he understood that the reversal came after the case had gone to Washington, D.C. However, he did not know whether complainants themselves brought the case to that higher level or the EEOC had revisited the issue on its own initiative.
Thierfelder has stated that Belmont Abbey College would close rather than provide contraceptive coverage. Are you listening Fr. Jenkins? Could be an example for Notre Dame.
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