Comments on: Secularism in Action — In the Supreme Court http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2000 Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mary http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2000&cpage=1#comment-11819 Mary Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:27:12 +0000 http://blog.archny.org/steppingout/?p=2000#comment-11819 Oh dear. I gotta hand it to the secularists. They can spot a legal winner for our times when they see one. All the right secular elements are there: The teacher is a woman. She's young. Her disability is physical (narcolepsy) and though not curable is can be helped by medication and lifestyle adjustments. She taught nonreligious subjects. All very sympathetic. She could be your daughter, your friend, your mother. And what do we have on the other side? A religious institution. (Ugh! or perhaps Ho hum!) Operating outside the law. (Grrrrr). Able to deny this perfect person (in legal terms) her civil rights. (Bad.) After reading this: I pray for our lawyers. I thank God I am not a lawyer and can't possibly follow the stomach-turning details. I should perhaps be more attentive to all the Scripture involving Pharisees and Biblical rulers. St. Thomas More, pray for us. Oh dear. I gotta hand it to the secularists. They can spot a legal winner for our times when they see one.

All the right secular elements are there: The teacher is a woman. She’s young. Her disability is physical (narcolepsy) and though not curable is can be helped by medication and lifestyle adjustments. She taught nonreligious subjects. All very sympathetic. She could be your daughter, your friend, your mother.

And what do we have on the other side?

A religious institution. (Ugh! or perhaps Ho hum!) Operating outside the law. (Grrrrr). Able to deny this perfect person (in legal terms) her civil rights. (Bad.)

After reading this: I pray for our lawyers. I thank God I am not a lawyer and can’t possibly follow the stomach-turning details. I should perhaps be more attentive to all the Scripture involving Pharisees and Biblical rulers. St. Thomas More, pray for us.

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