A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Life in the Crisscross......Page 14
Part 1 Law as a Teacher......Page 34
1 Rules Are Not Enough: Why Judges Need Empathy......Page 38
2 Teacher or Remedy: What Is the Law for?......Page 41
3 Letter versus Spirit: Why the Constitution Needs Interpreting......Page 44
4 Remember the Mormons: Thinking about the Nature of Marriage......Page 47
5 Regulating Abortion: What Did the Roberts Court Do?......Page 50
6 Caught in the Gap: What Hostility to Health-Care Reform Has Wrought......Page 53
7 \"Peaceful and Private\": Montana\'s Supreme Court Rules on Assisted Suicide......Page 56
8 More Than a Refuge: Why Immigration Officials Should Steer Clear of Churches......Page 59
9 Justice or Vengeance: Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual?......Page 62
10 Undue Process: The Evisceration of Habeas Corpus......Page 65
11 Bad Evidence: Not only Is Torture Immoral, It Doesn’t Work......Page 68
12 Perverted Logic: Behind the Bush Administration\'s \"Torture Memo\"......Page 71
13 Regret Is Not Enough: Why the President Should Read Paul Ramsey......Page 74
Part 2 Religious Liberty and Its Limits......Page 78
14 The Right to Refuse: How Broad Should Conscience Protections Be?......Page 84
15 The Bishops and Religious Liberty: Are Catholics Becoming a Sect?......Page 88
16 Is the Government \"Defining Religion\"?: The Bishops\' Case against the Mandate......Page 95
17 Defining Exemptions Does Not Equal Defining Religion: A Category Mistake......Page 98
18 An Evolving Accommodation: Religious Minorities and the Common Good......Page 102
19 Employment Division v. Smith: The Eye of the Storm......Page 108
20 Smith, RFRA, and the Bishops\' Claims: Neutral Laws of General Applicability?......Page 113
21 The Key Supreme Court Case for the Mandate: U.S. v. Lee......Page 117
22 Reading the Tea Leaves: Why the Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Block the Contraception Mandate......Page 123
23 A Minefield: The Troubling Implications of the Hobby Lobby Decision......Page 126
Part 3 Conversations about Culture......Page 132
24 Watch Your Mouth: Sage Advice from St. James......Page 140
25 Model Atheist: Jeffrey Stout and the Culture Wars......Page 143
26 Bishops and Politics: Lessons from Australia......Page 146
27 Moving beyond the Culture Wars: Why a Bioethics Council Needs Diversity......Page 149
28 A Flawed Analogy: Prochoice Politicians and the Third Reich......Page 153
29 Sick Minds: What Can We Do to Prevent Another Tucson?......Page 156
30 Crime or Tragedy? Murder and Suicide at Villanova......Page 159
31 Dignity and the End of Life: How Not to Talk about Assisted Suicide......Page 162
32 The Right Questions: Catholic Colleges and Pop Culture......Page 165
33 Either/Or? Catholicism Is More Complex......Page 169
Part 4 Conversations about Belief......Page 174
34 Family Feuds: What\'s Keeping Catholics Apart?......Page 180
35 The Martyrdom of John Roberts: Catholic Squabbling, Then and Now......Page 183
36 No Academic Question: Should the CTSA Seek \"Conservative\" Views?......Page 186
37 The \"New\" Feminism? John Paul II and the 1912 Encyclopedia......Page 190
38 Catholic Kosher: Is the Ban on Contraception Just an Identity Marker?......Page 193
39 The Big Chill: Humanae Vitae Dissenters Need to Find a Voice......Page 196
40 How about NOT Firing Her?: Moral Norms and Catholic School Teachers......Page 199
41 Truth or Consequences: In Ireland, Straying Far from the Mental Reservation......Page 203
42 Unspeakable Sins: Why We Need to Talk about Them......Page 207
43 A Darkening: Why a Church Scandal Does More Harm Than the New Atheism......Page 211
44 The Long Goodbye: Why Some Devout Catholics Are Leaving the Church......Page 214
45 That ’70s Church: What It Got Right......Page 217
Part 5 Cases and Controversies......Page 222
46 The Consistent Ethic: An Ethic of \"Life,\" Not \"Purity\"......Page 228
47 Contraception, Again: Where Can We Find Compromise?......Page 232
48 When Does Life Begin? Two Prolife Philosophers Disagree......Page 236
49 Why Prolife? It\'s about People, Not Abstractions......Page 239
50 The ACLU Takes on the Bishops: Tragedy Leads to a Misguided Lawsuit......Page 242
51 Co-Opted by Evil? Abortion and Amnesty International......Page 245
52 Boycotts in a Pluralistic Society: How and Where Do We Draw Moral Lines?......Page 249
53 Forever Young: The Trouble with the \"Ashley Treatment\"......Page 253
54 Risk and Responsibility: Why Insurance Is the Wrong Way to Think about Health Care......Page 256
55 A Horrific Crime: But Is Execution the Answer?......Page 259
56 Could the Church Have Gotten It Wrong? Let’s Look at the Facts......Page 262
Conclusion: Tradition and Transformation......Page 266
Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 274
About the Author......Page 308
Index......Page 310