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June 7, 2019 – Book review: ‘Equality and Non-Discrimination: Catholic Roots, Current Challenges’

https://acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/06/07/book-review-equality-and-non-discrimination-catholic-roots The book is highly recommended to anyone interested in the issue of equality and non-discrimination. Too much is at stake not to be informed about these key issues. Several of the chapters are powerful enough to warrant book-length treatments of their own. Professor Benson was right to say that not one in a hundred…

201905.27
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May 27, 2019 – “Aborting Reason and Equality: A Religious Pro-Life Critique of Roe, Casey, and Abortion Rights Rhetoric”

https://www.law.uci.edu/lawreview/vol8/no4/Online_Smolin.pdf Thus, while certain laws or lawsuits may present the issue of a religious accommodation regarding abortion, such constellation of legal issues should not confuse the fundamental position of religion in American society as to the abortion issue. Pro-life religious beliefs are a call to inclusion of all human beings as deserving of recognition before…

201905.24
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May 23, 2019 – Iraq’s Christians ‘close to extinction’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48333923 The Archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, has accused Britain’s Christian leaders of failing to do enough in defence of the vanishing Christian community in Iraq. In an impassioned address in London, the Rt Rev Bashar Warda said Iraq’s Christians now faced extinction after 1,400 years of persecution. Since the US-led invasion…

201905.12
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May 10, 2019 – Jordan Peterson: When the left goes too far — the dangerous doctrine of equity

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-when-the-left-goes-too-far-the-dangerous-doctrine-of-equity In this occasional series, Jordan Peterson writes from his international speaking tour for his book, 12 Rules for Life. The mantra of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity (DIE) perhaps constitutes the primary identifying factor of the tiny minority of radical collectivist ideologues that nonetheless have come to dominate the humanities and social sciences in Western…