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Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious
freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex
couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal
to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise
from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. It explores two
principal questions. First, exactly what kind of religious freedom
conflicts are likely to emerge if society embraces same-sex
marriage? A redefinition of marriage would impact a host of laws
where marital status affects legal rights-in housing, employment,
health-care, education, public accommodations, and property, in
addition to family law. These laws, in turn, regulate a host of
religious institutions-schools, hospitals, and social service
providers, to name a few-that often embrace a different definition
of marriage. As a result, church-state conflicts will follow. This
volume anticipates where and how these manifold disputes will
arise. Second, how might these conflicts be resolved? If the
disputes spark litigation under the Free Speech, Free Exercise, or
Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment, who will prevail and
why? When, if ever, should claims of religious liberty prevail over
claims of sexual liberty? Drawing on experience in analogous areas
of law, the volume explores whether it is possible to avoid these
constitutional conflicts by statutory accommodation, or by
separating religious marriage from civil marriage.
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the tension between civil
rights and public safety has dominated public discourse. On issues
ranging from racial profiling to military tribunals, Americans have
had to ask whether it is possible for the United States to defend
itself against terrorism without violating the values and
principles that lie at the heart of its democratic order. In Rights
vs. Public Safety after 9/11, some of the nation's leading legal
experts and social critics confront this question head-on. The
contributors offer measured, often communitarian, approaches to
topics such as the changes in United States immigration policy
after September 11th, the practical and moral difficulties of
racial profiling, the ethical dilemmas of an emergency response to
a bioterrorist attack, and the role of the government in promoting
national service. This balanced compilation of essays highlights
where government will need to expand its authority in the fight
against terrorism, where it risks overreaching, and how this new
era might strengthen American society.
Douglas W. Kmiec -- at one time head of the Office of Legal Counsel
to President Reagan -- is credited with helping win a sizeable
Catholic majority in key electoral states for Barack Obama in 2008.
Until recently, he served as U.S. Ambassador winning the confidence
of his embassy and the profound admiration and high praise of his
host country, the Republic of Malta. Nevertheless, Ambassador Kmiec
offered to resign rather than allow his efforts to be undermined by
the State Department bureaucracy contrary to his publicly announced
White House portfolio to advance inter-faith diplomacy and
understanding. The Department rushed to accept as the White House
stayed bafflingly silent. Was the Department miffed at Kmiec's UN
presentation describing Obama as a genuine honest broker in
Arab-Israeli relations? Why did the White House not "have the back"
of its scholarly ally? Today, when the culture war is defining the
Republican ticket and the President is accused of starting a "war
on religion" at home while abroad he is confronted by an
understandably anxious Israel fearful that the President's reliance
on diplomacy and sanctions will not corral Iran, a book written
with grace, objectivity and charity toward one's opponents is a
surprisingly welcome tonic from all the noise and deserves notice.
In a genre that is at once biography, political commentary, and
religious reflection, the book ties these seemingly disparate
features of our lives together with success. The Romney and
Santorum teams would like nothing better if they could win back the
conservative, pro-life Catholic who served in the top ranks of the
Reagan administration, but today Doug Kmiec remains Obama's
Faith-filled Ambassador and fully expects the President to win a
second term. Find out why. Here is the Ambassador's poignant
recounting of the cost paid for his Obama support as well as the
tragic deaths that now shape the rest of his time on earth.
Together with actor Martin Sheen's spot-on foreword, the account
will bring tears, laughter, even outrage, but by virtue of Kmiec's
recounting of a Theology of Kindness, the book by sheer force of
friendships won and lost has the potential to change your life for
the better and elevate all of our political discourse. Read the
book that Sojourner's Jim Wallis, NCR's Michael Sean Winters, and
other open-minded faith and political leaders have described as
"honest," "powerful." and "deeply compelling," from the author
LATimes Tim Rutten found to be a "muzzled diplomat" seeking only to
bring our politics into touch with civility, common ground, and
"our better angels."
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious
freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex
couples. It represents the only comprehensive, scholarly appraisal
to date of the church-state conflicts virtually certain to arise
from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. It explores two
principal questions. First, exactly what kind of religious freedom
conflicts are likely to emerge if society embraces same-sex
marriage? A redefinition of marriage would impact a host of laws
where marital status affects legal rights_in housing, employment,
health-care, education, public accommodations, and property, in
addition to family law. These laws, in turn, regulate a host of
religious institutions_schools, hospitals, and social service
providers, to name a few_that often embrace a different definition
of marriage. As a result, church-state conflicts will follow. This
volume anticipates where and how these manifold disputes will
arise. Second, how might these conflicts be resolved? If the
disputes spark litigation under the Free Speech, Free Exercise, or
Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment, who will prevail and
why? When, if ever, should claims of religious liberty prevail over
claims of sexual liberty? Drawing on experience in analogous areas
of law, the volume explores whether it is possible to avoid these
constitutional conflicts by statutory accommodation, or by
separating religious marriage from civil marriage.
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the tension between civil
rights and public safety has dominated public discourse. On issues
ranging from racial profiling to military tribunals, Americans have
had to ask whether it is possible for the United States to defend
itself against terrorism without violating the values and
principles that lie at the heart of its democratic order. In Rights
vs. Public Safety after 9/11, some of the nation's leading legal
experts and social critics confront this question head-on. The
contributors offer measured, often communitarian, approaches to
topics such as the changes in United States immigration policy
after September 11th, the practical and moral difficulties of
racial profiling, the ethical dilemmas of an emergency response to
a bioterrorist attack, and the role of the government in promoting
national service. This balanced compilation of essays highlights
where government will need to expand its authority in the fight
against terrorism, where it risks overreaching, and how this new
era might strengthen American society.
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Faith and Public Policy (Hardcover)
James R. Wilburn; Contributions by Eloise Anderson, John J. Diiulio Jr, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Patrick Fagan, …
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R3,198
Discovery Miles 31 980
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Faith and Public Policy turns the spotlight on the role of faith in
the public square and the spiritual consequences of public
policymaking. The work brings together fourteen of America's most
respected writers on the intersection of faith and public policy to
discuss the changing roles of government, church, education, and
the family. Chapters investigate such issues as inner city
programs, the secularization of faith-based programs, the impact of
tax policy on the family, and the status of school vouchers.
Contributions by Steve Forbes and William E. Simon illustrate the
deep personal faith that informs and fuels the public leadership of
America's leading thinkers and political figures. Readers will find
Faith and Public Policy a timely and vigorous conversation on the
commingling of government and religion in America, a country eager
to return to the Founding Generation's idea of a nation in covenant
with God.
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Faith and Public Policy (Paperback)
James R. Wilburn; Contributions by Eloise Anderson, John J. Diiulio Jr, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Patrick Fagan, …
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R1,590
Discovery Miles 15 900
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Faith and Public Policy turns the spotlight on the role of faith in
the public square and the spiritual consequences of public
policymaking. The work brings together fourteen of America's most
respected writers on the intersection of faith and public policy to
discuss the changing roles of government, church, education, and
the family. Chapters investigate such issues as inner city
programs, the secularization of faith-based programs, the impact of
tax policy on the family, and the status of school vouchers.
Contributions by Steve Forbes and William E. Simon illustrate the
deep personal faith that informs and fuels the public leadership of
America's leading thinkers and political figures. Readers will find
Faith and Public Policy a timely and vigorous conversation on the
commingling of government and religion in America, a country eager
to return to the Founding Generation's idea of a nation in covenant
with God.
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