April 8, 2026

An order of Catholic nuns who care for terminally ill patients has sued New York over a law that mandates nursing homes use preferred pronouns.

To respect the dignity of these patients, the state should be doing everything in its power to ensure they accept the body God gave them. Rather than do that, they would much rather live out their days in a nursing home where they mandate nuns to affirm delusions against biological reality and universal truth. That will never put them on the right side of history, and it is deeply deranged, to say the very least.

 

New York has apparently discovered a thrilling new frontier in public health: making nuns participate in government-approved improv. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who run a 125-year-old home for terminally ill patients and say they’ve never had complaints, are suing over a state law that orders nursing homes to use “preferred pronouns” and treat gender identity like a sacred administrative fact, even when that collides head-on with Catholic teaching and common sense. Because nothing says compassionate long-term care quite like a Department of Health memo instructing caregivers to choose between their faith, their biology, and a bureaucrat’s vocabulary worksheet. The state says this is rights protection; the sisters say it’s compelled speech with a halo on it. And so, in the grand modern tradition of turning every human disagreement into a compliance seminar, New York has managed to make bedside charity sound like a regulatory violation.

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