[Magdalen] Scripture Study Redux

[Jay Weigel]

Indeed. What "faith" does Roberts claim to practice? I've forgotten. I know
Scalia and Alito are dinosaur Catholics, and I believe Thomas belongs to
one of the AMIA outfits.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “Unfortunately, people of faith
> can take no comfort in the treatment they receive from the majority today.”
>
> As a person of faith, I resent that he assumptiously speaks for me.
>
> Grace, peace, and grrr,
> brud
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Learn something new every day -- the Scripture passages used against LGBT
> > people are called "Clobber Passages."
> >
> > From the moment the Supreme Court ruled last month in favor of a
> > constitutional right to same-sex marriage, opponents placed the decision
> in
> > a very specific analytical frame. Here, they contended, was an egregious
> > example of secular culture triumphing over religious values and religious
> > freedom.
> >
> > “Profoundly immoral and unjust,” the United States Conference of Catholic
> > Bishops said in a statement. The Orthodox Union, the national association
> > of Orthodox Jewish congregations, declared its “emphatic” and
> “unalterable”
> > religious opposition to same-sex marriage. The prominent evangelist
> > Franklin Graham reiterated that God had created marriage between man and
> > woman and said, “His decisions are not subject to review or revision by
> any
> > man-made court.”
> >
> > In the dissenting opinions in the 5-to-4 vote, justices seemed to
> > anticipate the battles to come over adherence to the law by individuals
> and
> > institutions that doctrinally oppose same-sex marriage. Justice Clarence
> > Thomas noted the “potentially ruinous consequences for religious
> liberty,”
> > while Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, “Unfortunately, people of
> > faith can take no comfort in the treatment they receive from the majority
> > today.”
> >
> > Yet the discussion of secularism versus religion is incomplete. It
> ignores
> > or elides the growing number of theologians and religious scholars in a
> > range of faiths who, over a half-century, have been assembling and
> > espousing scriptural arguments in favor of gay rights and ultimately
> > marriage equality. The debate about same-sex marriage that has gotten too
> > little attention is the intrareligious one.
> >
> > Well worth the read at:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/us/push-within-religions-for-gay-marriage-gets-little-attention.htmlCheers
> > ,
> > Jim
> >
> > "The enemy isn’t liberalism;
> > the enemy isn’t conservatism.
> > The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson
> >
>