Links for 06/02/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Brava to President Archer on her on-point take down of First Things and their thinly veiled Republicanism. Hopefully other Reactionary Catholic organizations will take note. She essentially handed them their hats.
Thank you to Mark Silk for the facts of the opinion. Note to religious freedom fanatics, the correct citation was the one used in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It had nothing to do with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which is a counter to governmental action, whie the CRA is about local government and private actions, like employers or merchants. This was the law that the Indiana RFRA would have foundered on. While employees could quite reasonably not serve a gay wedding customer, the establishment has no such protection if it opens its doors do the public. Private bakers, of course, like private golf courses, can discriminiate (and make no mistake, applying moral scorn to someone else's marriage is discrimination) but big players like Augusta National have shown that all the reactionary umph in the world won't stop society form shunning even private discrimination.
I am all for Mass at Catholic School, I was one of the Altar Boys almost every weeks (sadly they did not let girls in, the Pastor was fine but the Franciscan Nun would not allow it, having not been consulted before I trained two classmates. Of coure, the danger of Liturgy at School is that the Rabbi of Caphernum's message will get through and the students will become Modernist, not Reactionary - like Cardinal Burke and his new sidekick Archbishop Cordeleone. I don't mind the cappa magna. It seems like the perfect thing for a Catholic gay wedding - with full Extradordinary Rite pomp. Of course, Burke would likely call it desecration of the Rite, but I think it is the completiong and if it takes such a change to drive the point home to Reactionaries that Gay Weddings are not only worthy civilly but Eucahristically, so much the better.
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