Catholic Charities Not Bending the Knee to Baal

2006-03-10 Thread Rick Duncan
From the Boston Globe:     The Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities said Friday it would stop providing adoption services because state law requires them to consider gays and lesbians as parents.   The social services arm of the Roman Catholic archdiocese has provided adoption services for

RE: Kosher slaughter

2006-03-10 Thread Sanford Levinson
From today's NYTimes (comments at conclusion)   March 10, 2006 Inquiry Finds Lax Federal Inspections at Kosher Meat Plant By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. An internal report from the Agriculture Department has found that one of the nation's leading kosher slaughterhouses violated animal cruelty la

RE: StateRFRAandnonreligiousgroupsthathaveconscientiousobjectionstoantidiscriminationlaws

2006-03-10 Thread Newsom Michael
With respect, I am not sure that characterizing the relation as akin to that of employer and employee tells us how to decide the question. I cannot imagine that there is a strong governmental interest in the gender of clergypersons. Any expression or statement of such an interest clearly results