{"id":18230,"date":"2010-03-03T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/same-sex_marriage_leads_catholic_charities_to_adjust_benefits\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:05:13","slug":"same-sex_marriage_leads_catholic_charities_to_adjust_benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18230","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage leads Catholic Charities to adjust benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers &#8212; the latest fallout from a bitter debate between District officials trying to legalize same-sex marriage and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Tuesday, Catholic Charities will not offer benefits to spouses of new employees or to spouses of current employees who are not already enrolled in the plan. A letter describing the change in health benefits was e-mailed to employees Monday, two days before same-sex marriage will become legal in the District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We looked at all the options and implications,&#8221; said the charity&#8217;s president, Edward J. Orzechowski. &#8220;This allows us to continue providing services, comply with the city&#8217;s new requirements and remain faithful to the church&#8217;s teaching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/01\/AR2010030103345_pf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers &#8212; the latest fallout from a bitter debate between District officials trying to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18230\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,576,135,579,168,114,98,154,108,364,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-churchstate-matters","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}