MGB:_As I have stated before, Chaput conflates religious liberty with religious power, particularly the cultural power weilded by the Church in the 1950s and which started to crack in 1959, as documented by the book of the same name. That year censorship, with Catholic participation, went away and civil authorities stopped enforcing Catholic moral values. That is not a bad thing, unless you are a Catholic bishop with nostalgia.
Obama was no narcisist, whe was simply comfortable in his own skin. Trump, on the other hand, is a textbook example of this disorder and Chaput and some of his brothers (thank Heaven, not including my Cardinal) helped put him in. Speaking of Cardinals, Chaput cannot have missed that Rigali is over 80 and he has no red hat, but Chicago does. He can’t be liking Francis or his friends who wrote the article calling him out. He should use it as an examination of consciece rather than arguing with it.
If the left seems hostile, it is because the right is seeking power in our name too and we don’t agree, especially when they lie about their program for the unborn, which is about votes for the Republicans, not actually stopping abortion. MSW, call a lawyer. Roe was rightly decided based on 14th Amendment law. The Rule of Law is about process, not results, which is also why gay marriage was correctly decided.
Justice Scalia believed in a democracy where religious power could be used to define public morality, mostly at the state level. He had a puny view of the 14th Amendment, which protects us from the tyranny of a moral or Catholic majority. Scalia is gone and I doubt Gorsuch will replace him in that view. But even then, Roberts and Alito will not, so the whole strategy of voting Republican for President, no matter how flawed, is a fool's errand and Chuput does not like being called a fool.
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