A federal judge has ruled that Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services must offer health care coverage to the spouses of gay employees as long as the employees’ jobs are nonreligious in nature.
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake ruled last week that the worldwide charity violated federal law in 2017 when it withdrew coverage from the husband of a male employee on the grounds that doing so fell within its rights as a faith-based institution.
Blake wrote in a 23-page memorandum on the case that such a claim was invalid because it violated the employee’s rights under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a provision that “prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.
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