Lawler, Douthat, and Loyola on "Catholic and American" and "The Terms of Our Surrender"

A trio of articles or commentaries worth reading and thinking about:

Over at First Things' First Thoughts, Peter Lawler responds to Patrick Deneen in a post titled "Catholic and American (and Quirky About It)." In response to what he calls Deneen's "real divide" essay on American Catholic thought, Lawler distinguishes himself from other thinkers in what Deneen has described as the Murray/Neuhaus/Weigel school (as compared with the MacIntyre/Schindler school).  

In the New York Times, Ross Douthat has an op-ed titled "The Terms of Our Surrender." Douthat sees in the "mendacious and hysterical" coverage of Arizona SB 1062 the ascendancy of the equation of opposition to same-sex marriage with opposition to inter-racial marriage.

Catholic Education Daily has a news item on Loyola (Chicago's) policy on the use of campus facilities for weddings and wedding receptions. Loyola's policy is that only Catholic weddings may be held in the Catholic chapel, and no weddings may be held elsewhere on campus, but there are no religion-based limitations on wedding receptions.