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GLBT curriculum (cont'd)

Posted on March 07, 2008
Well, the day started with a woman handing me a flyer about a proposed GLBT curriculum, and it ended with my comments at a public forum being part of the lead story on our local news tonight. I've received several...

Douglas Laycock, "Substantive Neutrality Revisited"

Posted on March 06, 2008
I just finished reading a new article by Douglas Laycock, who, after many years at the University of Texas, is now Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan (where his spouse is Provost). The article--titled Substantive...

Home schooling no more (in California)?

Posted on March 06, 2008
The L.A. Times has this story about a recent ruling by an appellate (state) court in California: Parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home, according to a state appellate court ruling that is sending waves of...

My daughter's "controversial GLBT curriculum"

Posted on March 06, 2008
This morning when I dropped my daughter off at school, a woman handed me a flyer alerting me that a "controversial GLBT curriculum" is coming to the Minneapolis public schools next year, and that I need to make my voice...

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Nun Threatened with Deportation

Posted on March 06, 2008
My student, Ash Mayfield, brought the following to my attention. Jim Roberts of KTBS reports: "Sister Cristina Angelini has been called the heart and soul of Shreveport's Renzi Center, an early child development center run by the Catholic church. But...

More on Hagee

Posted on March 06, 2008
So -- following up on Michael's post -- I think that John Hagee is loathesome. (How could a Roman Catholic not?) And, I blogged a few months ago about the "troubling" fact that Gov. Huckabee (who, at the time, many...

More on McCain and Hagee

Posted on March 05, 2008
Check this out, at dotCommonweal.

Evangelicals and the Choice Among McCain, Clinton, and Obama

Posted on March 05, 2008
Check out what David Skeel has to say, here.

B.C. Controversy

Posted on March 05, 2008
I'm not certain this is a complete answer to Richard's question, but the Boston Globe article about the Mukasy decision includes the following explanation from Dean John Garvey: Garvey said the decision to deny Mukasey the Founder's Medal predated the...

honoring political figures: another controversy at BC

Posted on March 05, 2008
I understand that there has been a lot of controversy at Boston College law school about honoring Attorney General Mukasey. As I understand things, Mukasey will be the commencement speaker at the law school's graduation ceremony but he won't receive....

More on Health Care

Posted on March 05, 2008
One MOJ reader had this to say on my posts (here and here) about the goal of affordable access to healthcare and the question of republican commitment to that goal: "With respect, I believe Republicans are making that argument but...

CST and Pedagogy

Posted on March 05, 2008
I really have no excuse for my long silence other than that I fell in love with an insane teaching method that gobbled up most of my January and February. For the first seven weeks of the semester here at...

Catholic Common Ground Conf on Ecclesial Movements

Posted on March 05, 2008
On a jaunt that is somewhat related to our broader project of tapping into resources for the "faith-life" connect, I spent the weekend in Chicago at the Catholic Common Ground?s Twelfth Cardinal Bernardin Conference, which focused this year on ?Understanding...

Some questions for Obama (and Kmiec, and Bellah, and Perry . . .)

Posted on March 05, 2008
Sherif Girgis asks: As an immigrant from Kenya, your father found new hope in America?s noble principles and vast opportunities. The same promise brought my parents here from Egypt when I was still too young to thank them. Now you...

Health Care Goals

Posted on March 05, 2008
One Mirror of Justice reader has this resonse to my post about access to health care: "From my perspective as a Catholic physician, every person should have access to essential health care. The tricky part is defining "essential health care."...

Republicans and Health Care

Posted on March 04, 2008
Several people have responded to the query Michael P. posted from one of his students yesterday. What puzzled me about the student's query was that one of the issues on which she found herself leaning republican was health care. Clinton...

Trials of the Saints

Posted on March 04, 2008
James Martin, SJ, had an interesting op-ed in the NYT yesterday. "LAST month, while Americans celebrated the feast days of two secular saints, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the Vatican issued a surprising new directive calling for greater rigor in...

Robert Bellah Weighs in on Barack Obama

Posted on March 04, 2008
[HT: dotCommonweal.] Many MOJ readers will be familiar with the great sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah. Here's how Commonweal identifies him: "Robert N. Bellah is professor of sociology emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books, he is coauthor...

Global Christianity

Posted on March 04, 2008
For an "Ecclesiology" class that I'm taking, we just read the first chapter of Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. While reading the following passage, I was unable to shake the memory of the opening plenary...

Barack Obama: Doug Kmiec responds to Robby George

Posted on March 04, 2008
Robby George criticized Barack Obama in the message I posted here this morning. For a rather different view of Obama, by Doug Kmiec, famously Catholic law professor at Pepperdine, former dean of the Catholic University School of Law, and, not...

"Moral Foundations of Law"

Posted on March 04, 2008
This summer seminar, "The Moral Foundations of Law", sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute at Princeton, might be of interest to MOJ readers who are law students: The Witherspoon Institute is pleased to announce the first annual summer seminar on the...

Pluralism, Religion and the Law

Posted on March 04, 2008
This Friday, March 7, Seattle University School of Law will be hosting a symposium entitled, Pluralism, Religion and the Law. Topics of discussion will include the role of religious morality in shaping legal freedoms, the freedom of religion and normative...

the scope of substantive due process

Posted on March 04, 2008
Last month, the Fifth Circuit decide a potentially important case, Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle. The opinion is here. The case involves "the constitutionality of a Texas statute making it a crime to promote or sell sexual devices." The Fifth...

"The Things That Are Not Caesar's"

Posted on March 04, 2008
Here's a reminder about an excellen upcoming conference, whose subject -- church autonomy and religious freedom -- should be of interest to many MOJ readers.

Robby George Responds to the 3L About Hagee and McCain

Posted on March 04, 2008
Dear 3L: Like you, I am disappointed that John McCain has accepted the endorsement of John Hagee. Mr. Hagee promotes some truly appalling libels against the Catholic Church, including those advanced first by European leftists, such as Rolf Hochuth, and...

McCain, Hagee, and Politics Generally

Posted on March 03, 2008
Michael P. has posted a serious question from a devout Catholic 3L who is troubled by McCain's failure to distance himself from the anti-Catholic Hagee. Michael asks me among others to respond to the student. Here is my response -...

McCain & Hagee, Revisited

Posted on March 03, 2008
I received an e-mail message from a third year law student today, and I thought that many MOJ readers would be interested in reading it. So, with the student's permission, I'm pasting the message below. I hope MOJ bloggers who...

Religiously Affiliated Law Schools conference

Posted on March 03, 2008
Detailed information on this year's Religiously Affiliated Law Schools conference (at Boston College, on April 6-7), can be found here. Here's the overview: Faith can spark professional formation and intellectual growth as well as spiritual and moral development...

Charlie Sheen on abortion

Posted on March 03, 2008
This year, the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal will be awarded to actor-activist Charlie Sheen. (Story here.) Here is the statement of Notre Dame's President, Fr. John Jenkins: "As one of our nation's most recognizable and accomplished screen actors,...

Hagee, McCain, and Bigotry

Posted on March 03, 2008
Why Won't John McCain Reject Anti-Catholicism? Dear Friend, Last Wednesday, Senator John McCain said he was "honored" to receive the endorsement of Evangelical pastor John Hagee. Pastor Hagee is a controversial and influential figure who has issued sentiments offensive to...

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