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Religious unity against HHS decision

Posted by: Phineas on February 4, 2012 at 6:18 pm » 11 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I wrote earlier that Catholic bishops across America had come out strongly against the Obama administration decision requiring religious organizations to pay for the cost of providing contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees. Jewish and Protestant groups aligned themselves with the bishops. Now Orthodox Christian bishops have joined in: The First Amendment [...]

 

Justice Ginsburg: “Don’t use the US Constitution as a model”

Posted by: Phineas on February 4, 2012 at 4:15 pm » 10 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Pardon me, but …ahem… WTF?? Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on which she sits to rule on constitutional matters, gave an interview to Al Hayat TV on the revolutions overtaking the Arab world and the prospects for democracy. (Video here.) She starts off fine: [...]