I don't understand your point about free passes.
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From: Nathan Oman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:28 PM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: RE: Catholic Charities Issue
"I am not sure that we have a mirror here. Gay people are trying to get
out from under an oppressive regime the likes of which conservative
believers have not had to endure - nor are likely to."
This just seems to muddy the issue to me. Doug's claim is not that gays
and conservative Christians have suffered comperable levels of
oppression, but that both should be accord a space in which to work out
their visions of the good free of collective coercion. Furthermore, I
think that it is a mistake for gays -- or any other oppressed minority
-- to use the fact of their oppression to suggest that they get some
sort of free pass on the basic commitments of philosophical liberalism,
given that they are much more likely to persuade those who disagree with
them by appeals to liberalism than by attacks upon it.
NBO
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Nathan Oman
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have the law give over, once and for all, the strivings of the centuries
for a rational coherence, and sink back in utter weariness to a justice
that is the flickering reflection of the impulse of the moment."
-- Benjamin Cardozo
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