{"id":94120,"date":"2020-06-18T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94120"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:53:10","slug":"responses-to-the-recent-supreme-court-decision-ii-ed-condon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94120","title":{"rendered":"Responses to the recent Supreme Court Decision (II)-Ed Condon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"b489\" class=\"fe ff ap cd fg b fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw ez\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">The vision of humanity, of the person and its innate character, meaning, and dignity has been redefined by the act of stripping away its definition. It is a nihilistic vision in which the great fallacy of the Enlightenment, <em class=\"fx\">cogito<\/em>, <em class=\"fx\">ergo<\/em> <em class=\"fx\">sum<\/em>, is elevated from intellectual narcissism to law of the land.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9662\" class=\"fe ff ap cd fg b fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw ez\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Of course, what the court giveth, the court can taketh away\u200a\u2014\u200ablessed be the name of the court. Many are now predicting, based on Justice Gorsuch\u2019s pointed reference to religious liberty, that we may soon see a companion decision which significantly broadens the ministerial exception. The court may yet allow, in the name of free exercise, for a host of religiously minded institutions to suddenly deem their social workers, teachers, administrators, even janitors, to be \u2018ministers\u2019 of the faith.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5c3e\" class=\"fe ff ap cd fg b fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw ez\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Such a \u2018solution\u2019 would, in fact, solve nothing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"d493\" class=\"fe ff ap cd fg b fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw ez\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Rather, it has the potential to screw the lid down tighter on the pressure building up on both sides: among those who believe with sincerity that male and female are not states of mind but facts of being, and those who believe that a person can redefine themselves at will as fundamentally as they are seeking to redefine our history and society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ed.condon\/on-this-house-divided-51cd28d326e6\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vision of humanity, of the person and its innate character, meaning, and dignity has been redefined by the act of stripping away its definition. It is a nihilistic vision in which the great fallacy of the Enlightenment, cogito, ergo<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94120\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,114,112,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-sexuality","category-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94122,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94120\/revisions\/94122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}