Faith groups losing gay rights fights - Washington Post- msnbc.com

[Paul Finkelman]

Thanks for posting this Marci.  

This is particularly true in the area of choice.  People forget that there are organizations such as Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, or that Jewish Law *requires* an abortion to save the of a pregnant woman and thus the extreme position of the Catholic Church and others that NO abortion should ever be performed is an attack on other people's religious rights.  

The many g/l churches, temples, etc. illustrate that the gay rights movement also has an important faith component.  About 6 years ago, for example, the Reform Movement began to perform same-sex marriages.  

Paul

----

Paul Finkelman

President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law

Albany Law School

80 New Scotland Avenue

Albany, NY  12208



518-445-3386 (p)

518-445-3363 (f)



pfink at albanylaw.edu



www.paulfinkelman.com

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, hamilton02 at aol.com <hamilton02 at aol.com> wrote:

From: hamilton02 at aol.com <hamilton02 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: Faith groups losing gay rights fights - Washington Post- msnbc..com
To: "Law & Religion issues for Law Academics" <religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:48 AM

The problem with this coverage as with so much news coverage of religion is that it leaves out of the picture the religious believers on the other side. The issue is not between secular gay activists and religious believers, but rather religious believers who support gays and religious believers who do not.   It is not unlike the abolition movement.  On the one side is tradition and religious text and on the other side are arguments for equality. The latter are based in no small part on a theological vision of justice and love. When looked at as a debate between religious believers, the term religious liberty loses its force on the one side, because both sides are arguing for liberty based on a religious worldview.
Marci

Marci A. Hamilton
Paul R. Verkuil Chair in 
Public Law
Cardozo School of Law  
------Original Message------
From: Joel Sogol
Sender: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics'
ReplyTo: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Sent: Apr 10, 2009 4:00 AM
Subject: Faith groups losing gay rights fights - Washington Post- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30146878/


_______________________________________________
To post, send message to Religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw

Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private.  Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.


Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
_______________________________________________
To post, send message to Religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw

Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private.  Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.



      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/attachments/20090410/810a9362/attachment.htm>