[Magdalen] Scripture Study Redux

[Christopher Hart]

John Roberts and all of the other conservative Justices are Roman Catholic,
as is Sonia Sotomayor. The other three liberal Justices are Jewish. This is
the first time in the history of the Supreme Court that there has not been
even one protestant on the bench. While I consider myself an
Anglo-Catholic, I find this absence of the traditional protestant
understanding disturbing.


On Mon, 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
> > >
> >
>



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