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US Supreme Court Discusses All-Male Catholic Priesthood
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Posted on 10/08/2011 11:47:15 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: BenKenobi
Why would it astonish you? This trains been rolling this way for some time now. Call it the conservative instinct. It can't get *that* bad, I've told myself. This is America!
I've trusted too much in the Constitution to keep things safe. But if there isn't a cultural consensus about religious freedom, especially an elite consensus, religious freedom will fall by the wayside no matter the constitutional precedent.
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posted on
10/09/2011 2:16:44 AM PDT
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Dumb_Ox
To: xzins
I think you’ve totally nailed it, xzins.
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posted on
10/09/2011 5:58:58 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(A poor excuse for a pirate. Arrrr, you get what you pay for!)
To: Ken522
- the case is about a LUTHERAN teacher and has no relevance to the CATHOLIC CHURCH ... so why is this even being brought up? Attack piecemeal. Get the sought-after ruling, then use it as a weapon in future attacks.
When questioned by Chief Justice John Roberts on whether religious groups should have the right to judge the qualifications of their own key employees, she replied: We don't see that line of church autonomy principles in the religion clause jurisprudence as such.
translation: ... she replied, "No."
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posted on
10/09/2011 9:52:30 AM PDT
by
Daffy
To: Dumb_Ox
It happened in England, it can happen in Ameerica. England was very Catholic, and she still hasn’t recovered. Wasn’t until 1830 that Catholics could even vote.
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posted on
10/09/2011 10:46:00 AM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
To: marshmallow; Chode; Tax-chick
Rev. Mother Superior is not pleased by this at all!!
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posted on
10/09/2011 11:20:02 AM PDT
by
Morgana
("Since using your shampoo my hair has come alive!" ----Medusa)
To: Morgana
so much for the separation of Church and State...
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posted on
10/09/2011 11:48:18 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Dumb_Ox; BenKenobi
"Why, this isn't Spain, my good man! This is England!" -- "Thomas Cromwell," in "A Man for All Seasons".
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10/09/2011 5:13:33 PM PDT
by
Campion
("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
To: marshmallow
There didn't seem to be any hard attacks by the justices on the "ministerial exception" (the right of a religious organization to require employees adhere to the organization's doctrine tenets) however four justices repeatedly brought up the question of pretext.
The Sixth Court of Appeals also raised that issue of examining whether the alleged discrimination was covered by the ministerial exception under church doctrine, or whether church doctrine was used as a pretext for discrimination in the instant case.
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