Sunday, November 21, 2010
Greg Baylor on church-state "separation" (well understood) and Ex Corde
Commenting on this piece (which will not be particularly enlightening to anyone who has followed at all the "Catholic universities" conversation) from Inside Higher Ed, Greg Baylor writes (here):
It is up to the church to decide how its universities should operate. The secular government should not interfere.
Many — particularly those on the secular left — are so focused on achieving what they believe is the “right” outcome that they have little regard for the constitutional and prudential limitations on the role of government in such situations. They are less solicitous of “sphere sovereignty” or “subsidiarity” than they ought to be. Let us hope that dissenters from Ex corde Ecclesiae are unable to invoke the power of the civil magistrate to achieve their desired results. Genuine religious freedom demands nothing less.
Indeed.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/11/greg-baylor-on-church-state-separation-well-understood-and-ex-corde.html
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The post by Professor Baylor also states:
"Let us hope that dissenters from Ex corde Ecclesiae are unable to invoke the power of the civil magistrate to achieve their desired results. Genuine religious freedom demands nothing less."
He refers to "the secular left" and the dissenters from Ex Corde, as if they are one in the same.
In any event, the notion of invoking the power of the government "to achieve their desired results" (whatever those are) sounds like some strange conspiracy theory to me.
A few examples of the threat he writes of would be useful.