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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (17619)	7/1/2001 11:19:39 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

This is another installment in my continuing role of reporting to you examples of negative attitudes toward the secular in high places. FWIW. This morning on Meet the Press the discussion was on the Senates role in advising and consenting on judicial appointments. Senator Sessions mentioned that there are some legal scholars who think that the law should be secular, that is, should have no moral factor. That's not an exact quote but it's pretty close. Naturally, he got my attention. Yes, secular has no religious factor, but no moral factor? Tsk, tsk. Karen

To: Neocon who wrote (17619)	7/1/2001 5:31:12 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Neocon, reading the lack of an invocation of infallibility on the "every sperm is sacred" doctrine as some sign of flexibility is, shall we say, exceedingly speculative? It's certainly true that practicing America Catholics, don't much care what the Pope says on the subject. but the Catholic hierarchy in its current incarnation, doesn't much care what practicing American Catholics think either. JPII has stacked the college of cardinals with like minded "weak reasoners" to about as large an extent as possible, so the likelyhood of change on that particular doctrinal front any time soon is very remote. It doesn't much matter for Americans, Catholic or otherwise. Official church doctrine on the subject is much more problematic in the poorer regions of the world, but that's another story.