The fact that there are laws in place is, often times, scant comfort. The religious liberty issue may, in the final analysis for some people, merely mean the liberty to bash in gay heads, all in name of God.
-----Original Message----- From: Brad Pardee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 5:44 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Catholic Charities Issue Michael Newsom wrote, "Being 'marginalized' and called a 'homophobe' is not quite the same thing as having your brains beat in because you are gay. To suppose that the two are morally equivalent is to make, with respect, a categorical error." It's true that these two are not morally equivalent. However, if a person is assaulted on the basis of their sexual orientation (or on the basis of anything else, for that matter), there are laws in place to punish those guilty of the attack (such as the murderers of Matthew Shepard, who are both serving life sentences without possibility of parole). In contrast, the marginilization being described is being done BY the law, not in violation of the law. That is where the issue of religious liberty comes in. Brad _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@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.
