{"id":4138,"date":"2005-10-07T22:28:26","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T02:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/10\/07\/playing-the-faith-card-is-mor"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:31","slug":"playing-the-faith-card-is-more-honest-than-the-wink-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/10\/07\/playing-the-faith-card-is-more-honest-than-the-wink-game\/","title":{"rendered":"playing the faith card is more honest than the wink game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is a space holder, while I’m working up a reply to Steve Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A>‘s <\/FONT>The Faith Card<\/EM><\/A>.   <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I wrote What if John Roberts is a “Serious Catholic”?<\/FONT><\/A>, because I believed that many of <\/FONT>those <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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who railed against asking John Roberts about the impact of his faith on serving as <\/FONT>a Justice<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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did so because they concluded silence served their agenda better<\/EM> than having Roberts expose <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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his position. (Of course, they assumed they already knew and agreed with his position.)  Faith <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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was very<\/EM> relevant, but <\/FONT>mentioning it in <\/FONT>the Roberts situation was deemed by those supporting <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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him to be politically <\/FONT>unwise.  Now, <\/FONT>they are willing to play the faith card in order to shore up the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Miers’ <\/FONT>nomination.  <\/FONT>Unwilling to chance using winks, they are are publicizing her brand of religion.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  No matter the denials by the flashers or the <\/FONT>flashees, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the faith card has <\/FONT>already been played — <\/FONT>flashed for all to see. <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Of course, <\/FONT>the Roberts confirmation was a week ago, not a decade, which would cause a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wee bit of embarrassment for most thoughtful citizens.  Luckily for the zealots, of course, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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their God <\/FONT>works in mysterious ways — and so, apparently, do his servants. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"commandments\"  If nothing else, laying the Faith Card face up on the table is the honest <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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approach — <\/FONT>a bit more <\/FONT>consistent <\/FONT>with a Commandment or two.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– more to come –<\/EM>  see faith, agendas and the supreme court<\/FONT><\/A> (Oct. 8, 2005)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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If you’re interested in my discussion with <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Prof. B., start <\/FONT>here<\/FONT><\/A> and go <\/FONT>there<\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the thump<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of a thousand rumps<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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returning to their pews in unison<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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battery weakened<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the low, slow laughter<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of a demon<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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John Stevenson<\/FONT><\/A> from <\/FONT>Some of the Silence<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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This post is a space holder, while I’m working up a reply to Steve Bainbridge‘s The Faith Card.   I wrote What if John Roberts is a “Serious Catholic”?, because I believed that many of those who railed against asking John Roberts about the impact of his faith on serving as a Justice did so because they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-14K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12987,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/12987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}