LAS VEGAS (TNVCNews)- Picture this: humble Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who for nearly 125 years have quietly devoted their lives to comforting the dying poor at Rosary Hill Home — a 42-bed Catholic hospice serving indigent terminal cancer patients with Christian charity and dignity. These devoted women, who treat every soul regardless of background without complaint, now find themselves hauled into federal court by their own state government simply for refusing to deny biological reality and their Catholic faith.
On April 6, 2026, the sisters filed suit in U.S. District Court against Governor Kathy Hochul and state Health Commissioner James V. McDonald. At issue is New York’s 2024 LGBTQ Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights, signed into law and enforced under Hochul’s administration. The mandate compels hospice staff to use patients’ “preferred pronouns” — even when the patient is not present — assign rooms and allow restroom access based on gender identity rather than biological sex, permit cross-dressing, and refrain from segregating facilities by sex. It also requires “cultural competency” training in gender ideology and posting notices of compliance. Violations carry heavy fines, loss of licensing, and up to a year in jail.
Mother Marie Edward, general superior of the Hawthorne Dominicans, spoke with quiet clarity: “We Sisters have taken care of patients from all walks of life, ideologies and faiths. We treat each patient with dignity and Christian charity. We have never had complaints. We cannot implement New York’s mandate without violating our Catholic faith.” The sisters requested a religious exemption months ago. When the state ignored them, they turned to the courts, arguing the law unconstitutionally compels speech they reject and burdens their free exercise of religion under the First Amendment.
This isn’t compassionate care — it’s government coercion forcing faithful servants of the dying to affirm a radical ideology that contradicts core Catholic teaching on the immutable nature of sex and gender. The nuns aren’t turning anyone away; they simply ask to serve according to their vows and conscience while caring for the vulnerable in their final days. Yet Hochul’s New York would rather threaten these women with punishment than grant a simple exemption that harms no one.
For pro-family, pro-life, faith-based conservatives who hold traditional values dear, this case lays bare the left’s intolerance. The same progressive machine that lectures endlessly about “inclusion” shows zero tolerance for orthodox Christian belief. They demand the nuns deny God’s design for male and female — even in a hospice where patients face eternity — or shutter their ministry of mercy. This is the fruit of radical gender ideology: not liberty, but compelled speech and the persecution of believers who built institutions of genuine compassion long before government mandates existed.
Nevada conservatives watch this with alarm and resolve. Our Silver State must never follow New York’s path of weaponizing state power against churches, charities, and people of faith. We affirm that religious liberty is a God-given right protected by our Constitution, not a privilege granted by Albany bureaucrats. True dignity for the dying comes from loving care rooted in truth, not ideological slogans.
As pro-America patriots who cherish our Judeo-Christian heritage, we stand with these courageous sisters. We pray the court upholds their rights swiftly and that Governor Hochul reconsiders her administration’s hostility to faith. America remains the world’s last, best hope because we defend conscience, protect the vulnerable, and refuse to let government redefine reality or silence believers.
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