{"id":117968,"date":"2020-11-23T02:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T02:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:57:08","slug":"the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#The church has its own rights and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c62b4041fb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c62b4041fb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/#Religion_beat_The_Church_Has_Its_Own_Rights\" >Religion beat: The Church Has Its Own Rights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/#Police_officer_Thanksgiving_Is_No_Crime\" >Police officer: Thanksgiving Is No Crime<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_School_Closures_Doom_Children\" >Libertarian: School Closures Doom Children<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Wiping_All_Student_Debt_Is_Dumb\" >Conservative: Wiping All Student Debt Is Dumb<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-church-has-its-own-rights-and-other-commentary\/#Culture_critic_Is_Sex_Positivity_Good_for_Women\" >Culture critic: Is Sex Positivity Good for Women?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The church has its own rights and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/paris-protest.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Religion_beat_The_Church_Has_Its_Own_Rights\"><\/span>Religion beat: The Church Has Its Own Rights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As Europe enters a second lockdown, \u201cauthorities are not imposing restrictions equally on churches and civil establishments,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/11\/the-mass-is-the-first-necessity\">seethes Gladden Pappin at First Things<\/a>. \u201cInstead, churches are arbitrarily subject to the harshest \u00adrestrictions.\u201d The disparities, especially glaring in France, \u201chighlight the difficulty of settling this dispute between church and state on the grounds of religious liberty alone.\u201d The French government, after all, insists it \u201crespects religious liberty,\u201d with churches open for private prayer and Masses available to watch online. But \u201cin a situation where sanitary pre<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ions are applied inequitably, the church would have the right to refuse them\u201d\u00a0\u2014 since these would violate the rights of Catholic Church as a unique \u201cpolitical society,\u201d with its own collective rights, and not just one more private association like any other. Meanwhile, American Catholics might \u00ad\u201cresolve now to form an alliance in defense of the rights of the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Police_officer_Thanksgiving_Is_No_Crime\"><\/span>Police officer: Thanksgiving Is No Crime<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite an onslaught of \u201coften unconstitutional edicts\u201d from governors trying to curb the COVID-19 surge, \u201cno good cop is interested in enforcing tyrannical and unending lockdown orders from state and local executives,\u201d a police officer from the Washington suburbs <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/20\/i-wont-arrest-you-for-celebrating-thanksgiving-and-no-good-cop-would\/\">writes anonymously at The Federalist<\/a>. The pandemic may have \u201cincreased the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> and police power of the busybody\u201d complaining about strangers not wearing masks properly, but \u201cin a world where the police in the United States are routinely compared to Nazis, these officers look the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_School_Closures_Doom_Children\"><\/span>Libertarian: School Closures Doom Children<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>By shuttering\u00a0schools again, Mayor de Blasio is once again proving that \u201cpublic-school children and working-class families appear to be planners\u2019 last priority,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/19\/schools-covid-19-reopening-close-nyc-biden-trump-union\/\">fumes Reason\u2019s Robby Soave<\/a>. With the latest decision, \u201cmany parents are rightly infuriated, and even some district officials think the call might have been premature.\u201d With children in low-income families falling through the cracks, \u201cpolicy makers could be dooming a generation of at-risk students to years of suboptimal social and professional outcomes \u2014 and it\u2019s all for nothing, since pandemic mitigation doesn\u2019t actually require this course of action.\u201d But the evidence has not convinced influential teachers unions that in-person learning is safe, \u201cso many officials in blue cities feel they have little choice but to heed their demands.\u201d And children pay the price as school closures have become one more example of politicians turning the pandemic into a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of \u201cpolitical football.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Wiping_All_Student_Debt_Is_Dumb\"><\/span>Conservative: Wiping All Student Debt Is Dumb<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Although \u201csome on the left, perhaps most prominently Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, have encouraged Joe Biden to forgive loads of student debt via executive order,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/forgiving-student-debt-is-still-a-dumb-idea\/\">National Review\u2019s Robert Verbruggen<\/a> points out the myriad reasons why that\u2019s a bad idea. Because those who are unable to pay their loans tend to have smaller amounts of debt and lower incomes, \u201cforgiving debt for everyone is a poorly targeted policy.\u201d Instead of stimulating the whole economy, it \u201chelps the wealthy\u201d at the expense of the poor, and \u201cit\u2019s not fair to people who paid off their debts early.\u201d And while it may be legal, forgiving student loans \u201cwould be a blatant abuse of the power the executive has been granted.\u201d Less-educated Americans are the ones \u201chaving a particularly rough time\u201d amid lockdowns imposed by and the behest of the managerial class \u2014 which means\u00a0\u201cshoveling tons of taxpayer money toward the college-educated would produce a major backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture_critic_Is_Sex_Positivity_Good_for_Women\"><\/span>Culture critic: Is Sex Positivity Good for Women?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSex-positive liberal feminism is the order of the day,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/11\/is-casual-sex-immoral\/\">observes Louise Perry at Unherd<\/a>. Do as you please, it teaches, just ask for consent. Yet this ethic ignores \u201cdifferences between men and women\u201d: A mountain of research shows\u00a0men want more partners, watch more porn, are more likely to harbor fetishes and to be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly beastly. Women, meanwhile, \u201cmostly say they would prefer a committed relationship.\u201d Yet all this is verboten information \u201cin sex-positive circles,\u201d whose worldview rests on a blank-slate sexual anthropology. Hence the paradox: Sex-positivism ends up working very well, indeed \u2014 for men.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by Ashley Adams &amp; Sohrab Ahmari<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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