Laws mandating cooperation with the state's new sexual orthodoxy
are among the leading contemporary threats to the religious freedom
of Catholic institutions in the United States. These demand that
Catholic schools, health-care providers, or social services
cooperate with contraception, cohabitation, abortion, same-sex
marriage, or transgender identity and surgeries. But Catholic
institutions' responses seem thin and uninspiring to many. They are
criticized as legalistic, authoritarian, bureaucratic, retrograde
and hurtful to women and to persons who identify as LGBTQ. They are
even called "un-Christian." They invite disrespect both for
Catholic sexual responsibility norms and for religious freedom
generally, not only among lawmakers and judges, but also in the
court of public opinion, which includes skeptical Catholics. The
U.S. Constitution protects Catholic institutions' "autonomy" -
their authority over faith and doctrine, internal operations, and
the personnel involved in personifying and transmitting the faith.
Other constitutional and statutory provisions also safeguard
religious freedom, if not always perfectly. Catholic institutions
could take far better advantage of all of these existing
protections if they communicated, first, how they differ from
secular institutions: how their missions emerge from their faith in
Jesus Christ, and their efforts both to make his presence felt in
the world today, and to display the inbreaking of the Kingdom of
God. Second, they need to draw out the link between their teachings
on sexual responsibility and love of God and neighbor. Drawing upon
Scripture, tradition, history, theology and empirical evidence,
Helen Alvare frames a more complete, inspiring and appealing
response to current laws' attempts to impose a new sexual orthodoxy
upon Catholic institutions. It clarifies the "ecclesial" nature of
Catholic schools, hospitals and social services. It summarizes the
empirical evidence supporting the link between personnel decisions
and mission, and between Catholic sexual responsibility norms and
human flourishing. It grounds Catholic sexual responsibility
teachings in the same love of God and neighbor that animate the
existence, operations, and services of Catholic institutions.
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