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Herein of Intellect/Will, Reason/Prejudice, Provocations, and Civility

Posted on April 07, 2009
Sometimes, when provoked, I say things I later regret saying?typically things I don?t even mean. (I envy you if you don?t often have that experience.) I like myself least when I realize that, once again, I have succumbed in that...

In Reasoned Defense of Traditional Marriage

Posted on April 07, 2009
In response to my post, Ryan Anderson sends the these helpful links (here, here, here, and here) providing reasons, including the interests of children in having a mommy and a daddy, for defending traditional marriage.

From the Iowa Supreme Court to the Vermont Legislature

Posted on April 07, 2009
April 7, 2009 Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:17 a.m. ET MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage -- and the first to do so with a legislature's...

Post-Metaphysical, Michael Perry, and the Limits of Blogs

Posted on April 07, 2009
I too am interested in what Michael Perry means when he says that he is a ?post-metaphysical, apophatic Catholic/Christian.? It is mainly the post-metaphysical aspect that I am curious about. I take apophatic to mean that the nature of God...

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One's point of view...

Posted on April 06, 2009
I would like to thank Rob for his critique of my last posting. As you say, Rob, a lot depends on one's point of view regarding this and other hotly debated issues. I think it is clear that from my...

Bishop Gene Robinson at Emory Law

Posted on April 06, 2009
Last week, Bishop Gene Robinson spoke at Emory Law, in a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. John Witte, who directs the Center, introduced Bishop Robinson, and Mark Jordan, formerly at Emory's Candler Divinity...

Will vs. Reason and SSM

Posted on April 06, 2009
I think that judicial invalidation of same-sex marriage bans may actually be a disservice to the cause of SSM by allowing opposition to SSM to focus on political legitimacy concerns, rather than the straightforward merits of the cause. That said,...

Why be Catholic?

Posted on April 06, 2009
As probably seems evident by now, Michael P.'s recent posts have raised many questions for me. In his blog letter to me, he said that he does not "interpret the 'apostolic succession' narrative literally." Later he gives us an insight...

Dialogue and the Closed Mind

Posted on April 06, 2009
I was deeply saddened and disturbed by parts of Michael P.'s blog letter to me. Michael P. wrote: Michael [S.], you and I live in very different theological universes. I'm guessing, for example, that you interpret the infancy narratives literally....

News about the D.C. school-choice program . . .

Posted on April 06, 2009
. . . in the Washington Post, here. I want everyone to picture me wagging my finger, angrily, at those in Congress and in the Administration who are trying to kill the D.C. experiment (and, in so doing, undermine the...

Finger Wagging

Posted on April 06, 2009
Michael, Michael, Michael, as I write this imagine (smiling) that my professorial finger is wagging seriously but playfully in your face. You missed the whole point of my post. What I wrote had nothing to do with whether we live...

Reason v. Prejudice

Posted on April 06, 2009
Michael P, what are your "reasons" for concluding that those who support the Iowa gay marriage decision have exercised "reason" and those who oppose the decision do so on the basis of "prejudice"? If that is not what you meant...

A clarification

Posted on April 06, 2009
One reader thought i was insulting Micheal P. I'm sorry to have given that impression. I in no way wished to denigrate either his arguments or his honesty. Rather, I had gotten the impression from his prior statements like "I...

Hey, Rick, wait a minute! It ain't over!

Posted on April 06, 2009
NYT, 4/6/09 Louisville Advances to Its First Title Game By JONATHAN ABRAMS ST. LOUIS ? The other promise never garnered as many headlines, but it was the one that held steady and the one that remains alive heading into [Tuesday...

The Profound vs. the Muddy

Posted on April 06, 2009
All that Micheal P. has brought up is worthy of deep consideration and reasoned conversation if put forward in the spirit of a genuine search for truth that is in principle accessible, at least in hope (as Josef Pieper put...

Have you no sense of irony, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of irony?

Posted on April 06, 2009
I received an apparently serious e-mail from someone asking if I meant to suggest that Galileo approved of same-sex marriage. What's to say? (HT. Joseph Welch.)

Same-Sex Couples as Parents: Passages for Thought

Posted on April 06, 2009
[This is just the beginning ... a kind of prolegemenon to what is to come.] The reason produced for condemning the opinion that the earth moves and the sun stands still is that in many places in the Bible one...

Will v. Intellect and SSM

Posted on April 06, 2009
I've been trying since this morning to find some time to respond to Robert Araujo's post of this morning, criticizing the Iowa decision invalidating a ban on same-sex marriage. I have difficulty understanding the distinction he draws between will and...

Prejudice Exemplified (in support of Fr. Araujo)

Posted on April 06, 2009
One reason for opposing adoption by same-sex couples is this: Virtually all of us agree that at most only a small minority of persons are genetically predisposed to homosexuality. Ten percent or less is commonly accepted. So the chances are...

Prejudice Exemplified?

Posted on April 06, 2009
Just a quick response to Michael P.'s latest post with an understanding that my points need further elaboration. If others have the facts at their finger tips, please email. Four points: 1. Is Michael P. correct on the facts? Are...

Prejudice Exemplified

Posted on April 06, 2009
Robert Araujo writes that when a child is a candidate for adoption, an opposite-sex couple can serve as fitting parents but that a same-sex couple cannot. ("But, again in my view, it is impossible for the same-sex couple to provide...

Yes, God help us...

Posted on April 05, 2009
With Michael P., I pray that God help us, that He guide our leaders, giving them holiness, courage, and wisdom. A couple of questions for Michael. 1) Michael, are you suggesting that women are sinless? (There is a precedent, but...

Will v. Intellect ... or Reason v. Prejudice

Posted on April 05, 2009
In the immediately preceding post, my fellow Georgetown alum Robert Araujo criticizes the Iowa gay marriage decision--which was unanimous, and in which the court's opinion was written by the Republican-appointed chief justice--by deploying the distinction between "intellect" (good) and "will"...

Catholic Legal Theory?what to teach?

Posted on April 05, 2009
Over the past several days several of our friends at Mirror of Justice have offered news and insights about Varnum v. Brien, the Iowa same-sex marriage decision. I am grateful to them for their contributions. I most likely agree with...

Dear Michael S.,

Posted on April 05, 2009
Thank you for your response. You ask: "{A]re you suggesting that women are sinless?" Um, no. Did you think I might be? You also ask: "Or, are you suggesting that women sin differently than men so that while we might...

The Smart Daley Says Something Stupid

Posted on April 04, 2009
Rick?s comments on William M. Daley?s Chicago Tribune editorial responding to Cardinal George?s remarks concerning Notre Dame et L?Affaire Obama are right on point. The really sad thing is that here in Chicago Billy Daley is known as the ?smart...

God help us ...

Posted on April 04, 2009
[These are the men--the men!--whose insights regarding the complexity of human sexuality we are expected to genuflect before. Gimme a break. If women had been bishops--indeed, if mothers had been bishops--would this have happened?] New York Times Aoril 3, 2009...

Acknowledging Suffering

Posted on April 03, 2009
A reader had this reaction to my post about acknowledging the suffering involved in raising a child with a disability: For me, one of the most alienating aspects of much that has been written from a religious perspective about life...

Massachusetts, Connecticut, California . . . Iowa?

Posted on April 03, 2009
Here is the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban as violating the Iowa Constitution. The Court used an equal protection analysis, applying intermediate scrutiny. Here's a key step in the Court's analysis: Therefore, with respect...

World Autism Day

Posted on April 03, 2009
If you noticed a flurry of news stories about autism yesterday, it's because it was World Autism Awareness Day. I didn't know about it ahead of time, but just coincidentally the night before I had gone to see a truly...

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