Religion & Law

Actually, Michael . . .

By Rick Garnett

. . . I think it does get "clearer than that."  It is not at all obvious that Limbaugh was trying to make anything like Glendon's sophisticated, anthropological point.  Limbaugh said he didn't want to be dependent, or "owe" people, but he was also talking about "insurance plans," which suggests (to me) that he is indicating a desire to be financially, or materially, independent.  He's talking about -- or, he could easily be understood as talking about -- a Dave Ramsey-type life strategy, not metaphysics or the mystery passage.  There's nothing non-Catholic about not wanting to be in (financial) debt or not wanting to be in the uncertain position of depending on public assistance.  (To say this is not, of course, to question the importance, in the Catholic Social Tradition, of providing such assistance to those who need it.)

Full post as published by Mirror of Justice on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).