Gender ideologues, bureaucrats and judges take aim at small businesses; Is Catholicism at odds with the American experiment?
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Gender ideologues, bureaucrats and judges take aim at small businesses
By John Bursch • October 2, 2019
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If there is one thing every American ought to be able to do, it’s rely on what the law says. Without that assurance, every individual and business is subject to sudden and unexpected changes in the law by unelected judges and bureaucrats rather than our elected legislators. Yet, there’s no doubt we’ve seen a sharp erosion of our shared reliance on the law in recent years. A prime example of this dangerous trend is front and center in R.G. & G.R. Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Headed for oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court this October, this case has drawn intense interest. The stakes are high. Will the Supreme Court uphold long-standing protections against sex discrimination and recognize "sex" as a biological reality, or will the justices effectively redefine "sex" as a subjective, self-realized and fluid sense of self that will generate legal chaos in virtually every sphere of American life?
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Acton Line Podcast: Is Catholicism at odds with the American experiment?
October 2, 2019
Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan pose for the cameras in front of an American flag ([link removed] )
In 1995, Pope John Paul II spoke to a crowd in Baltimore, MD, saying, "Democracy cannot be sustained without a shared commitment to certain moral truths about the human person and human community. The basic question before a democratic society is: how ought we to live together?" This question has proved important throughout history and has left some people wondering how neutral our founding ideas were, and whether particular faith traditions, especially Catholicism, are compatible with the American political order. So what defines our American political order? Is it at odds with Catholic Social Teaching? John C. Pinheiro, professor of history and the founding director of Catholic Studies at Aquinas College, joins the show to break it down.
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