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Tag Archives: Conscientous Objection
“Religious Freedom”
Via The New York Post: Two children are dead, more are injured — yet a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis say they plan to defy a health order in the name of religious freedom. Less than a year after a Brooklyn … Continue reading
John Fisher: Biter Bit
Writing in the (British) Catholic Herald, Francis Phillips claims that she “feels a shiver when I see the parallels between our world and that of St John Fisher”. The context, inevitably, is of officialdom’s supposed attack on religious freedom in … Continue reading
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Tagged "Conscience", Cardinal Dolan, Conscientous Objection, contraception, John Fisher, Obamacare, Religious Freedom, Thomas Hitton, Thomas More, UK
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A Question of Identity (ctd)
More on this story (from the Guardian): Proposals to draft ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli army, ending an exemption that has lasted for 64 years, are bitterly dividing prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government ahead of a crucial debate on … Continue reading
A Question of Identity
I’m no fan of conscription, to put it mildly, but, if a state is going to insist on it, it should do so fairly.That does not appear to be the case in Israel, where the ability of the ultra-orthodox to … Continue reading
A Reasonable Compromise
Via the Washington Post: After two years of struggling to balance the rights of patients against the beliefs of health-care workers, the Obama administration on Friday finally rescinded most of a federal regulation designed to protect those who refuse to … Continue reading