By: Nick Givas
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The Department of Health and Human Services is backing down on threats to pull vital government funding from Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Okla., after previously tying funding to extinguishing an eternal gas-powered flame that regulators claim is a safety hazard.
After the hospital threatened legal action through The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the government reversed course on what seemed to be the latest development in a pattern of aggressive regulatory and criminal enforcement actions by the Biden administration against the Catholic Church.
>>"The government has seen the light and has abandoned its attempt to force an Oklahoma hospital to blow out a small candle or stop serving elderly, disabled and low-income patients," said Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund public interest legal group, according to Fox News.
Saint Francis, a Catholic health system, always keeps a sacred candle lit within its hospital chapels, yet the Joint Commission, a nonprofit group that accredits thousands of hospitals across the country claimed in February that one particular flame was dangerous and instructed the healthcare system to extinguish it or face the loss of federal funding.
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