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The US Catholic Bishops rejection of VAWA because of gay inclusion

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  • #16
    Originally posted by Spartacus View Post
    I've been wondering about the role of federal funding of Catholic charitable efforts. It can become not only a question of funding, but of licensing: if, in order to be allowed to provide these services, catholic organizations had to provide abortion referrals, etc, how should these organizations respond? By disbanding? By violating the law and continuing regardless? By obeying the law and forsaking their consciences? By totally secularizing their charitable functions?
    Second option

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    • #17
      Hey, did you know that the Latter-Day Pamphlets were available in easy-to-copy-from html instead of Google Books? It's totally awesome:

      Originally posted by Thomas Carlyle
      But now there is the select small minority, in whom some sentiment of public spirit and human pity still survives, among whom, or not anywhere, the Good Cause may expect to find soldiers and servants: their method of proceeding, in these times, is also very strange. They embark in the "philanthropic movement;" they calculate that the miseries of the world can be cured by bringing the philanthropic movement to bear on them. To universal public misery, and universal neglect of the clearest public duties, let private charity superadd itself: there will thus be some balance restored, and maintained again; thus,—or by what conceivable method? On these terms they, for their part, embark in the sacred cause; resolute to cure a world's woes by rose-water; desperately bent on trying to the uttermost that mild method. It seems not to have struck these good men that no world, or thing here below, ever fell into misery, without having first fallen into folly, into sin against the Supreme Ruler of it, by adopting as a law of conduct what was not a law, but the reverse of one; and that, till its folly, till its sin be cast out of it, there is not the smallest hope of its misery going,—that not for all the charity and rose-water in the world will its misery try to go till then!

      This is a sad error; all the sadder as it is the error chiefly of the more humane and noble-minded of our generation; among whom, as we said, or elsewhere not at all, the cause of real Reform must expect its servants. At present, and for a long while past, whatsoever young soul awoke in England with some disposition towards generosity and social heroism, or at lowest with some intimation of the beauty of such a disposition,—he, in whom the poor world might have looked for a Reformer, and valiant mender of its foul ways, was almost sure to become a Philanthropist, reforming merely by this rose-water method.

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