Links for 05/28/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 05/28/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The author of the piece is from First Things.  The article itself is in ridicule mode (and yes, Parish Social Ministry IS meant to be the grass roots political arm of the Church). While the encyclical is about man and the biosphere, it is mostly about the victims of capitalism, in this case the poor who are uprooted or killed by warming.  As for Federalist, they are no libertarians.They are the idiots who take point on the notion that national power should almost never be used (what is not libertarian), but that state governments should run point on all dometic issues, from race and wedding cakes for gay weddings (which they would not mandate states do), to abortion law.  Indeed, the Pro-Life movement RELIES on their approach to make its bones.  Their poster child is Antonin Scalia.  Hardly Libertarian.  Stll, one cannot say he is a pro-lifer and deny the Federalist approach.



Love the use of a quote posted by Sarah Silverman. This was hyberbole, probably written by a staff member who got a scrip from his boss for medical marijuana. If anyone goes to Senator Paul's house in the middle of the night, it won't be for eye care, but for medical marijuana. In reality, insurance just means that you can get paid by all your patients, the medical oath means they get seen.  In the middle of the night, its usually a hospital and you are on call (rare if you have your own medical society).



The closest we come to attacking religious belief is by having welfare - it is the conservatives who claim it is a religious, rather than a civil responsibility - that they don't have to pay taxes or raise the minimum wage or not serve gays or blacks - unless they are slaves (or pseudo-slaves like Latino migrants or drug convictgs).



The reality is that most of what people point to as violating their religious principles is an assertion that they can ignore the rights of others, who should have no recourse at all - save compliance with the moral issues that they don't want changed.  Examples are treating Latino citizens as a protected class (rather than as white people who don't get protected, even when discriminated against - and why any Latino who is pro life does not know history), gays, women in need of contraception or abortion, Catholics in areas where the prevailing belief is that the Pope is the anti-Christ, gays who want to serve in the military (and women).  We don't care what you believe - we are what you do to others.   Losing the power to descriminate is not descrimination.



Marilyn Manson (what a perfectly evocative name) is a Satanist, not to really worship Satan, because that implies a God, but to be outrageous in deprogramming religous people.  They don't kidnap people for this treatment.  You go to them just like any other church. He is not the government and he is protected against Christian office holders who don't get the joke.