Links for 07/08/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Berkowitz is right, the GOP has been saved from itself yet again. It is attacking its approach to health care (although there are those who want to go all the way and tax employer supplied benefits as income, which makes everyone who gets them have to pay more, so it would probably lead most to switch to non-comprehensive insurance - no one wants to do that). Their real objection to the ACA is the increase in taxes on unearned income - but removing just those provisions is subject to a Budget Act point of order that they cannot defeat.
Walker has no real good grounding in labor law, but the problem is he did not hire anyone who had an appreciation of why unions are necessary, even in the public sector. Of course, he is being overshadowed by Trump.
Laudato Si’ essentially calls for more socialism and condemns capitalism without saying so directly. The condemnation of Marxism was necessary due to its atheistic nature. While there are secularists in modern Democratic Socialism, they are not the only voices.
The right to die was never going to pass legislatively. It will only be recognized as a right under privacy – not the privacy of secrecy but of autonomy – as in the people, through the government, do not have a right to a say on how their neighbors end their lives when they are terminally ill. The most the public should be able to do is require alternatives be explored, including medication for depression. Even then, there are limits to what society should be able to do. Now, if the bishops want to continue to base their defense against this right on the fact that God is an Ogre, they can. I see no other real reason why they should care this much than the belief that suicide leads one to Hell.
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