[Magdalen] Scripture Study Redux

[Jay Weigel]

Oh good grief, they're ALL over there? They probably all think Pope Francis
isn't Catholic enough, too.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:40 PM, AT&T <jhandsfield at att.net> wrote:

> Thomas swam the Tiber.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 27, 2015, at 4:29 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>
>