Links for 05/20/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 05/20/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The Koch Brothers have been funding the American Legislative Exchange Council, including the ham handed attempts to get Roe v. Wade back before the SCOTUS - the ultimate Caholic wedge issue to try to pry Catholics out of the Democratic Party. Such efforts have been successful - not in actually doing anything about abortion (which would kill the movement as a political tool - just as the gay lobby is wondering what it will do when the SCOTUS nationalizes gay marriage).  Using the Pope to keep Latino Catholics in the party is one of theose instances where turnabout is fair play.



I was thinking HRC was Human Rights Campaignn - MSW is using it as Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Then he highlights a New York Post editorial that starts quoting FoxNews and goes down from there.  If this is the best the right wing has got, Bill needs to start looking for a new pattern for the White House china. There is such a thing as being too desparately against someone that you listen to lies, especially Big Lies.  I fear MSW has crossed that line.



Patrick Deneen's quote is what we call faux populism.  The truth is that the federal RFRA is about ameliorating religous discrimination resulting from necessary government action.  It was never meant to overturn the public accomodations in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  It is good that by hook or by crook, Indiana was shamed into not doing so. There is no direct First Amendment protection either - moral scorn by individuals, whether in the barracks or the bakery, is the constitutional equivalent of yelling fire at the AMC. Contraception insurance is RFRA relevant. Gay weddings are not, save that the 14th Amendment requires that they be allowed, moral scorn by the Catholic bishops in NOM notwithstanding.