history<\/a> and law. What is the intellectual and moral basis of Sargent\u2019s notion?<\/p>\nHe claims \u201cmajorities of Americans are not prepared to assign sub-par status to the intimate relationships of gays and lesbians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Certainly, that is true of the Albany legislature.<\/p>\n
But why then does Barack Obama seem so hesitant to embrace gay marriage?<\/p>\n
In 2012, we shall find out who is right politically, when the issue goes on the ballot in battleground states. But is moral truth to be discovered at a ballot box? Do we have no superior moral compass than majority rule?<\/p>\n
\u201cA new kind of America is emerging in the early 21st century,\u201d said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver last week, \u201cand it\u2019s likely to be much less friendly to religious faith than anything in the nation\u2019s past.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, pointedly, \u201cIf Catholic social services should be forced to alter their Catholic beliefs on marriage, the family, social justice, sexuality (and) abortion,\u201d they should terminate those services.<\/p>\n
Prediction: We are entering an era where communities will secede from one another and civil disobedience on moral grounds will become as common as it was in the days of segregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Source: Patrick J. Buchanan: Right From the Beginning \u201cThe opponents (of same-sex marriage) have no case other than ignorance and misconception and prejudice.\u201d So writes Richard Cohen in his celebratory column about Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s role in legalizing gay marriage in New York state. Now, given that no nation in 20 centuries of Christendom legalized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10236,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/10236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}