Et cetera: Taking dictation
norms? Is this so far beyond reasonable belief as to constitute the analogy assumes rather than examines the claim that bigotry? So far beyond the reach of reasonable argument as the...
...Is this so far beyond reasonable belief as to constitute the analogy assumes rather than examines the claim that bigotry...
...Ia Taking dictation According to a report in the National Catholic Reporter (September 1), the Vatican has told the U.S...
...Second, Jesus never chose a woman to be a general secretary, nor did any ecumenical council, including Vatican II...
...The changes being In effect, this is argument by analogy-but does the anal- pressed ask the citizens of Vermont, and the whole country, ogy hold...
...Euart, a highly respected canon lawyer, has held her current job for more than a decade but will leave at the end of this year...
...So, too, by religion and history, as some might argue, or is it religion the effort to introduce sympathetic accounts of same-sex and history reminding us that these customs and social forms unions into school curriculums is compared to efforts to por- are deeply congruent with the human ability to survive and tray African Americans as parents, workers, political leaders, flourish...
...Sister Sharon Euart, currently an associate general secretary, was being considered for the post, hence the inquiry by the bishops to Rome: Could a lay person or a religious be elected...
...Perhaps in the long term, little legal precedent...
...And, for iconic purposes, biology counts...
...In other words, altering may not be as susceptible etc., in schoolbooks...
...Commonweal 6 October 6, 2000...
...bishops that the general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has to be a priest, and that the NCCB must change its bylaws to reflect that requirement...
...Gay advocates have consider how to order our common life...
...Rome says no...
...It Sometimes this deficiency is compared to the prohibition of rests as well on deeply embedded ideas about men and black-white marriages found in antimiscegenation laws swept women, sex and the family...
...According to a later NCR report (September 15), she has been forced to resign by the incoming general secretary, Monsignor William Fay...
...Is this simply prejudice hallowed away by civil-rights legislation and court decisions...
...So far beyond the reach of reasonable argument as the differences between heterosexual and homosexual relato justify abandoning democratic debate and legislative are- tions are as irrelevant to moral reasoning and public policy nas for the pursuit of remedies in the courts, where there is as the differences of skin color...
...More important, and family...
...rights and equality pioneered by African Americans-and No doubt some of it is...
...gays will win the political argument and succeed in legalThere is an honorable model in turning to the courts and izing same-sex unions...
...unions and to teaching children that homosexual and hetThis was true, in particular, of the women's movement, and erosexual sex are equivalent deserves equal regard as we now is true of the gay-rights movement...
...He offered the following: "First, the Vatican has no objection to women being secretaries, they simply cannot be general secretaries...
...This resistance often argued that the lack of legal recognition for same-sex unions rests on religious beliefs and moral views that tie procreis a form of civil discrimination akin to that suffered by blacks...
...Equating heterosexuality and homosexuality advocates to press their issues against what they see as the when it comes to families and family formation is social exsame kind of prejudice that blacks confront...
...It is not clear that the civil disabilities suffered to overlook strongly held views about appropriate partners by women or homosexuals as a class have been as severe for sexual intercourse and about the meaning of marriage as those suffered by African Americans...
...ation and the care of children to the building of families...
...Judicial caution and tolerance for real political debate would certainly seem to be in order...
...We turned to a long-time Vatican observer, Father Guido Sarducci, for an assessment of this decision by Rome...
...But reasoned resistance to same-sex viewed opposition as the hopeless moral equivalent of racism...
...The success of African Americans in to political pressures and court-mandated solutions as gay adachieving many of their civil-rights goals encourages gay vocates hope...
...Since tance they encounter in Vermont, Hawaii, and other states or, the 1960s, virtually every group that considered itself the for that matter, with the Boy Scouts and other groups and invictim of discrimination has cast its cause in terms of civil stitutions for minors, count as bigotry...
...Finally, the general secretary might have to act, in emergencies, in persona Christi...
...In the meantime, should the resisin characterizing opposition to one's agenda as bigotry...
...perimentation on an unprecedented scale...
Vol. 127 • October 2000 • No. 17
