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For more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have quietly cared for the sick and accompanied them in their final days with dignity and compassion at the Rosary Hill Home in New York. These Catholic nuns provide free hospice care to terminally ill cancer patients who have nowhere else to go. They don’t take a dime from patients or taxpayers, they simply serve, guided by their faith and commitment to charitable care for the most vulnerable among us.
Instead of supporting these dutiful servants of God, New York State is threatening these nuns with fines, loss of license, and even jail time for refusing to renounce their faith.
Under a law signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, New York State has imposed new radical gender identity mandates on long-term care facilities. In practice, this means that these facilities are forced to adopt room and bathroom assignment policies based on gender preference, rather than biological sex, pronoun use, and internal procedures that directly conflict with the religious beliefs of the sisters.
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State regulators have made it clear that this is not optional. These women must abandon their faith and surrender to the Albany political machine or risk legal consequences. New York State would rather close a free care center for the terminally ill than allow religious freedom.
This is not about protecting the vulnerable. That is what the sisters already do, freely and without conditions. This is about enforcing obedience and obedience to the woke mob in Albany, even those who dedicate their lives to serving others. No one is spared.
This is part of a broader pattern.
Across New York, state officials have bulldozed everyone in their efforts to implement this radical agenda. Attorney General Letitia James has pressured hospitals to perform genital mutilation operations on minors and warned of legal consequences if they refuse. State agencies have issued guidelines to schools mandating compliance with gender identity policies, regardless of federal requirements. To make matters worse, Albany politicians are trying to erode parents’ rights by allowing schools to hide critical information from parents. New York uses its full power to crack down on those who refuse to follow the rules.
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This is happening at a time when New York faces serious challenges that require real leadership and focus. New Yorkers pay some of the highest taxes in the country, energy costs continue to rise, and families and businesses are leaving the state in record numbers in search of opportunity and affordability elsewhere.
Instead of addressing these issues, Albany is more focused on making gender policy more radical than the previous one. Instead of addressing rising health care costs, Albany wants to close a free hospice clinic while using taxpayer dollars to provide free health care to illegal aliens. Instead of serving New Yorkers, Albany wants to go after anyone brave enough to speak out against his radical gender identity platform.
That contrast is impossible to ignore.
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New York State is focused on shutting down a charity that provides care, compassion and dignity to people at the end of their lives, while leaving New Yorkers to suffer the consequences of their own policies.
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne do not discriminate; they care for all who come to them in their final days with compassion and respect. But in today’s New York, compassion and respect are not a priority. That is not a common sense policy either.
This is the chilling message Kathy Hochul is sending, not just to these sisters, but to every faith-based organization, every health care provider, and every institution that does not align with Albany’s ideological agenda.
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It raises a simple question: Who does Albany stand for?
Does it represent those who dedicate their lives to caring for the sick and dying? Does it stand for New Yorkers? Or does it represent their ideological system that prioritizes woke mandates over compassion and ideology over service?
The answer is important.
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Because if New York is willing to threaten the servants of God who provide free hospice care, then it is clear that they will stop at nothing to crush all dissent. And if this is where the state’s focus is at a time of rising costs, failing systems, rampant crime and continued emigration, then it is clear that something is deeply wrong.
Let’s call it what it is: an attempt to silence the faithful.
New Yorkers deserve better. They deserve leadership that focuses on the issues facing our state, supports those who serve their communities, and respects the fundamental freedoms that define this country.
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The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne should be honored, not targeted.
And New York must remember that compassion cannot be imposed, and should never be punished.
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