FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Religious identity, age, and Prop. 8

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 11, 2010 5:35:53 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
> 
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> As discussions continue on same-sex marriage, Susan Jacoby's latest 
> contribution will help. She goes into considerable depth analyzing the ways 
> different religious sects/denominations view homosexuality.
> 
> Humanists will be especially interested in understanding and promoting the 
> secularization of human rights (we could also speak of universalizing). As 
> Judge Walker said, moral disapproval ought not be made the basis of law in a 
> free and democratic society.
> 
> As this issue moves into the center of moral-legal discussions, humanists may 
> need to do some harder thinking about our allies in this struggle as those 
> alliances affect other causes and struggles.
> 
> Humanists will also be interested in Jacoby's reflections on her own <mixed 
> heritage>  as it relates to rabbinic law (the addendum to her post). 
> Especially her phrase <I am not about to use Nazi criteria for defining who I 
> am.>
> 
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> http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/spirited_atheist/2010/08/biblical_religion_the_only--and_illegitimate--_basis_for_anti-gay_laws.html
> 
> Bob
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