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Posted by Brittany Hunter
on Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The First Amendment rights of religious groups are under assault in the public square. As Kevin Schmiesing reminds us in today’s Acton Commentary, “History’s tyrants recognized the progression that some of us have forgotten: Where people are free to act according their conscience, they will demand the right to determine their political destiny.”
Read the commentary at the Acton Website and comment on it here.
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Just because an argument might be politically brutish doesn’t make it incorrect.
I understand that the invitation by Notre Dame to President Obama raises issues, but those issues are between the Notre Dame administration and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, not between the Catholic Church and the president. As between the president and the church Notre Dame, the invitation was graciously extended by Father Jenkins, and graciously accepted by President Obama. It would be impolite, if not downright rude, for that invitation to be withdrawn now.
Hiram
April 16, 2009
7:44 am
“if a moral argument finds support in any religious commitment, then the promulgation of that argument in law is a violation of the principle of religious disestablishment.”
I think that’s considerably further down the slippery slope than the Iowa Supreme Court intended or would allow itself to go. The notion that moral arguments that are supported by church authority is indeed as absurd as the writer suggests. But the courts shouldn’t go that far. What they should and do say is that the government should not impose religious principles, as such, on the people.
Hiram
April 16, 2009
7:50 am
I notice that Ken does not make a judgement of the correctness of Notre Dame in granting an honorary degree to President Obama. To have someone speak at Notre
Dame who is at odds with Catolic dogma is not wrong, but when the issue is human dignity and life and the relationship between God and man, I find the honoring of such a man to be an act of disrespect to both the Catholic hierarchy and the laity who adopt the church’s teaching. Is Notre Dame now a radical institution on par with Harvard and the other Ivies?
Gene Pierce
May 4, 2009
6:07 pm
Does the Catholic Church ignores the millions of people that have gone humanistic? or Atheistic.? How much longer can this deception continue? Anywhere where catholicism has its hand people turn conformist, just look at Mexico. USA still has creative minds and will continue disliking the opinions of those who want to reinterpret, or redifine the concept of freedom, and because of freedom you can not do it.
Horacio
July 3, 2009
9:14 pm