{"id":70,"asset_id":230,"title":"Obama Picks Jesuit University Critic of Religious Liberty","alias":"obama-picks-jesuit-university-critic-of-religious-liberty","introtext":"<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Tahoma; background-color: #f5f5f5;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n<table style=\"width: 709px; height: 500px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"709\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" align=\"center\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td colspan=\"4\" width=\"690\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/cimages\/8df73d4deadfa80d4ada540aa9b70751\/cns_header3.gif\" alt=\"Cardinal Newman Society\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"307\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">April 30, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td width=\"31\">\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"352\"><strong><em>Important News Update<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"307\">\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #771515;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Religious Liberty Foe\u00a0<br \/>a Professor\u00a0at Georgetown Law<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The fate of a Catholic college could be in the hands of radical Georgetown Law School professor Chai Feldblum, recently named by President Obama to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u00a0 An advocate of \u201csexual liberty,\u201d Feldblum reportedly said, \u201cSexual liberty should win in most cases\u2026 I\u2019m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.\u201d\u00a0 This is bad news for Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic institution in North Carolina that is appealing an EEOC finding that its refusal to provide contraception coverage in its employee health plan discriminates against women.\u00a0 We'll be continuing to monitor this situation closely.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td width=\"31\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" colspan=\"2\" width=\"352\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #771515;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Bishop\u00a0Criticizes Planned\u00a0<br \/>Same-Sex 'Marriage' Course<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Thank you, Archbishop John Myers!\u00a0 Today the Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, issued a powerful statement critical of Seton Hall University\u2019s plans to offer a class on same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d in the Fall 2010 semester.\u00a0 The proposed class would be taught by an openly homosexual associate professor who was demoted in 2005 after complaining about the Catholic Church\u2019s stance on homosexuality.\u00a0 Archbishop Myers wrote, \u201cThis proposed course seeks to promote as legitimate a train of thought that is contrary to what the Church teaches. As a result, the course is not in synch with Catholic teaching.\u201d\u00a0 Read the rest of the Archbishop\u2019s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/ct\/4190271:6225564949:m:1:154042644:B4FE6ED37779AA27D1C920381A63CA1C\">statement<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td colspan=\"4\" width=\"690\" height=\"4\"><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td colspan=\"4\" width=\"690\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Please support the work of The Cardinal Newman Society to renew Catholic higher education.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/ct\/4190272:6225564949:m:1:154042644:B4FE6ED37779AA27D1C920381A63CA1C\">Click here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p><br \/><br \/><\/p>","fulltext":"","state":1,"catid":"20","created":"2010-05-02 15:36:52","created_by":"72","created_by_alias":"CNS","modified":"2020-05-17 04:07:20","modified_by":"873","checked_out":"873","checked_out_time":"2020-05-17 04:06:18","publish_up":"2010-05-02 00:00:00","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":6,"ordering":"46","metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":"194371","metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"0","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}