Remember, Scalia is the Culprit! | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The problem is that Scalia has a judicial philosophy that favors democracy provided that the results of that democracy are conservative. California and New York has abortion laws that precede Roe. Absent Roe, would Scalia honor their work? I doubt it. Will he honor gun control laws interpreting what the Second Amendment means? Absolutely not.
When Valerie Jarrett convinced Obama and probably forced Sebelius to push the bishops into a war on women, I doubt they thought the RFRA was in play in any case like Hobby Lobby - and even then this action did not do anything to the law but force the government into an accomodation they would grant anyway. How therequest was made should not have gotten to First Street, NE.
I amsure the Notre Dame case was the first in a group of Fortnight for Freedom cases to hit higher judicial levels. If any go on or win, all will be revisited. Sadly, the Church and Hobby Lobby were requesting relief based on questionable natural law and scientific conclusions (natural reason says life begins at gastrulation, not befoe). In any of these cases, if a finding of fact is made on gastrulation being "it" all the suits fall apart unless there is a finding the other way. The Catholic positon is fertilization if we don't know. But what if we know?
Gay rights is the next frontier regarding employees. If others with civil marriage (which the Church believes is not marriage) get benefits, the Church's argument will be reduced to bigotry. I hope they don't try to jutify bigotry under morality. They might reason themselves into that conclusion, but the law will not and should not let them - at it ruins evangelization if they try (and not sexual evangelization - also based on prejudice since epigenesis is not a choice by an embryo in the womb).
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