{"id":197595,"date":"2008-01-23T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/and-from-the-fascist-wing-of-the-catholic-church\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:46:00","slug":"and-from-the-fascist-wing-of-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/and-from-the-fascist-wing-of-the-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"And From the Fascist Wing of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke calling for Rick Majerus, the St. Louis University basketball coach, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/sports\/stories.nsf\/slu\/story\/8A3A84A2F45BAE60862573D8005B256B?OpenDocument\">to be disciplined for making a campaign appearance for Hillary Clinton and expressing support for Roe v. Wade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a priest, this is not a professor in the divinity department, this is a freaking <b>BASKETBALL COACH<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that St. Louis University is a Catholic school, but demanding that employees who have <b>absolutely nothing<\/b> to do with the religious mission of the school have to toe their political is outrageous, particularly given this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Last year, St. Louis U. celebrated a legal victory that affirmed it is not controlled by the Catholic church or by its Catholic beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Supreme Court agreed with the school in handing down a decision that the city of St. Louis did not violate state and federal constitutions by granting the university $8 million in tax increment financing for its new arena.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the $80 million arena sued the school in 2004, halting construction.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Constitution prohibits public funding to support any &#8220;&#8230; college, university, or other institution of learning controlled by any religious creed, church or sectarian denomination whatever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The debate came down to two words: &#8220;control&#8221; and &#8220;creed.&#8221; Does the guiding mission of a Catholic university align with the specific system of religious faith espoused by the Catholic church? And if so, does that system of faith control the actions of the university?<\/p>\n<p>In a 6-1 decision, the court said SLU &#8220;is not controlled by a religious creed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I recall<sup>*<\/sup>, Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s cousin, Stephn N. Limbaugh, Jr. serves on this court, and had been nominated by Bush to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;.I guess that Rush is the smart one of his family&#8230;Scary thought.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>And by, &#8220;As I recall&#8221;, I mean checking the Wiki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke calling for Rick Majerus, the St. Louis University basketball coach, to be disciplined for making a campaign appearance for Hillary Clinton and expressing support for Roe v. Wade. This is not a priest, this is not a professor in the divinity department, this is a freaking BASKETBALL COACH. I understand &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,970,972,985,1021,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-justice","category-regulation","category-religion","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}