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Arguments for Religious Liberty Under Same-Sex Marriage: Latest Version

Posted on May 02, 2009
Four of us legal academics (Garnett, Wilson, Esbeck, and Berg) who have been pressing legislators for religious liberty protections in same-sex marriage laws have a slightly revised version of our arguments in this letter. We sent it to the governor....

Continuing with "Capitalism and Christianity" ...

Posted on May 02, 2009
In asking Chris Scaperlanda for permission to post his message (here), I added: "'Government is not the answer.' Government is not the answer to what? There are surely many things that 'government'--collective public action--is not the answer to. But just...

Capitalism v. Christianity, Con't

Posted on May 02, 2009
In response to this brief post yesterday--which, appropriately enough, was May Day--I received a message from a MOJ-reader (who happens to be the son of an MOJ-blogger), Christopher Scaperlanda. With Chris's permission, I am posting his message: "[Y]our most recent...

Attend church = support torture?

Posted on May 02, 2009
It seems that Christian churches -- including the Catholic Church -- need to do a lot more talking, and teaching, about torture. This survey reports that the more frequently a person attends church, the more likely they are to believe...

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More from the CUA conference on "religious mission" and law schools

Posted on May 02, 2009
As Patrick and Amy have already mentioned, we had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at Catholic University last week on the subject of "Realizing Religious Mission in Legal Education." Their remarks were, no surprise, both inspiring and...

Conference on Catholic Legal Thought

Posted on May 01, 2009
The 4th Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought will be hosted at Catholic University?s Law School (Washington D.C.) from June 9 ? 11, 2009. As you may know, in June, 2006, at Fordham Law School, twenty-three Catholic law professors from...

Should Deal Hudson be denied communion?

Posted on May 01, 2009
Last week I noted Deal Hudson's apparent application of just war theory to torture. My post was picked up by the folks at Vox Nova, who observed: If this is true, and Hudson did indeed make this argument, then it...

Catholicism v. Capitalism

Posted on May 01, 2009
Which are you: a capitalist? or a Catholic? Alasdair MacIntyre wants to know! Check this out, at dotCommonweal. :-)

Judge John Noonan to deliver Notre Dame Laetare address at ND graduation

Posted on April 30, 2009
The announcement is here. (REVISED: Among Judge Noonan's stellar law clerks: At Notre Dame Law, Cathy Kaveny, and at Villanova Law, Kathleen Brady and MOJ's own Patrick Brennan.)

Catholic legal education; Judge Noonan

Posted on April 30, 2009
As Amy mentioned here, CUA's Columbus School of Law recently sponsored a conference on "Realizing the Promise of Religious Mission in Legal Education." Especially in light of Judge Noonan's place in the reflections I offered at the conference, here they...

Philpott on reconciliation

Posted on April 29, 2009
Great stuff, at America, from my friend, political scientist Dan Philpott. Check it out.

Religious Mission Conversations at CUA

Posted on April 29, 2009
Last Friday, together with fellow MOJers Rick and Patrick, as well as MOJ friend Fr. Reggie Whitt, I participated in a panel discussion at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law on ?Realizing Religious Mission in Legal Education.?....

"Obama the Conservative"

Posted on April 29, 2009
An interesting post, at dotCommonweal. Here is just a part: First off, mirabile dictu, is L?Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily that titled its analysis ?The 100 days that did not shake the world.? As John Thavis reports for CNS, the...

Same-Sex Marriage, Con't

Posted on April 29, 2009
NYT, April 30, 2009 N.H. Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill By ABBY GOODNOUGH CONCORD, N.H. ? The New Hampshire Senate voted narrowly on Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage, paving the way for the state to potentially become the fifth in...

"Torture: What it is, and Why it is wrong"

Posted on April 28, 2009
Philosopher Chris Tollefson explains, here, at Public Discourse. (ed.: But wait, there must be some mistake. Public Discourse is a front for right-wing Catholic torture apologists, isn't it? We all know that Robby George and that crew care only about...

Cardinal Rigali Also Endorses Pregnant Women Support Act

Posted on April 28, 2009
Cardinal Rigali, as chair of the U.S. bishops' committee on pro-life activities, has written a letter to all members of the House urging that they vote for the Pregnant Women Support Act, the bill largely developed by Democrats for Life...

Cardinal Rigali responds to Kmiec re: embryo-destructive research

Posted on April 28, 2009
I expressed some doubts, a few days ago, about Doug Kmiec's defense of the Administration's new guidelines on funding embryo-destructive research. Cardinal Rigali has a more elaborated expression of similar doubts, here. A bit: With all due respect to Kmiec,...

Mary Ann Glendon Declines Notre Dame's Laetare Medal

Posted on April 27, 2009
You can read her explanation here.

More on Conscience Protection

Posted on April 25, 2009
I should like to begin by thanking my MOJ friends Rick Garnett and Tom Berg for their great work, and that of their colleagues, for preparing their responses to the Connecticut legislative initiative to codify the decision in the Kerrigan...

Reducing-Abortions Information

Posted on April 24, 2009
The Democrats for Life have been the movers behind proposals for abortion-reducing policies both nationally (with the Pregnant Women Support Act) and in states. I haven't mentioned before that the national organization's website has a document, for which I took...

Call for Papers: "Christian Realism and Public Life: Catholic and Protestant Perspectives"

Posted on April 24, 2009
November 20-21, 2009 The Terrence Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas will sponsor a conference titled "Christian Realism and Public Life: Catholic and Protstant Perspectives," on November 20-21, 2009, in Minneapolis...

SSM and Religious Liberty: Response to Dale Carpenter

Posted on April 24, 2009
In response to the proposal of four of us for a broad religious-liberty exception in same-sex marriage bills in Connecticut and elsewhere, Dale Carpenter at the Volokh Conspiracy welcomed but also raised some questions about our proposal. Below is our...

Interlude

Posted on April 24, 2009
Primary Wonder Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; cap and...

Can any form of torture be justified as "harm distribution?"

Posted on April 24, 2009
A quick reaction to Chris Eberle's response to Casey Khan's point regarding the information gap: Approaching torture as a means of "harm distribution" seems to have no logical or moral stopping point. If waterboarding did not convince KSM to talk,...

Securing Religious Liberty in an Age of Growing Intolerance

Posted on April 24, 2009
Tom Berg among others has posted (here and here) on gay marriage and religious liberty. In one post, Tom writes: "It may be time for defenders of traditional opposite-sex marriage to shift some attention from trying to stop gay marriage...

Deirdre McQuade on the FDA's approval of the "Morning-After Pill" for minors wihout a prescription

Posted on April 24, 2009
The USCCB's pro-life spokesperson, Deirdre McQuade, had the following to say about this recent FDA action: Much to the surprise of the morning-after pill?s early advocates, five years of research in Europe and the U.S. shows that increased access to....

A Jesuit Law School: What's the Difference

Posted on April 24, 2009
Yesterday I participated in a program at Loyola Law School that aimed at dialogue over what it means for a law school to be Jesuit and Catholic. MOJ'er John Breen organized and moderated the event, which included myself, Vince Rougeau...

More on Interrogational Torture

Posted on April 24, 2009
[Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, was the counselor of the State Department from 2005 to 2006 and the executive director of the 9/11 commission. He contributes to the Shadow Government blog at ForeignPolicy.com. Zelikow...

A Jesuit law school -- what's the difference?

Posted on April 23, 2009
If you're in the Chicago area this evening, make time for what promises to be a fascinating conversation at Loyola University Law School. Titled A Jesuit law school -- what's the difference?, the program features MoJers John Breen and Susan...

Religious liberty in Connecticut (and beyond?)

Posted on April 23, 2009
Congrats to Rick and Tom B. for lending a hand to the cause of religious liberty in Connecticut. It appears that the proposal they submitted (along with Doug Laycock, Carl Esbeck, and Robin Wilson) helped shape the same-sex marriage bill...

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