Archbishop Cordileone, Archbishop Lori, Archbishop Wenski, and Bishop Malone, “Hobby Lobby and ENDA,” USCCBLOG, July 17, 2014:

“So what is really the matter with ENDA according to these groups [that are demanding that the religious organization exemption be removed]?

“They argue that ENDA in its current form would leave religious employers free to ‘discriminate’ based on their religious convictions. They argue that religious people cannot ‘impose’ their morality on others. This ignores the fact that these advocates themselves seek to impose their morality on religious people and runs directly counter to the religious diversity that modern societies aspire to.

“As Pope Francis wrote: ‘A healthy pluralism…does not entail privatizing religions in an attempt to reduce them to the quiet obscurity of the individual’s conscience or to relegate them to the enclosed precincts of churches, synagogues or mosques. This would represent, in effect, a new form of discrimination and authoritarianism’ (Evangelii Gaudium no. 255).

“To dismiss concerns about religious freedom in a misguided attempt to address unjust discrimination in the workplace is not to advance justice and tolerance. Instead, it stands as an affront to basic human rights and the importance of religion in society.”