Error Has No Rights
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February 25, 2013, 6:32 AM Tweet Though he didn't use this precise verbal formulation, the 19th century Pope Pius IX, in his (in)famous Syllabus Of Errors, set forth the principle that "error has no rights" -- error has no rights history this, to explain why religious freedom should not be tolerated. Over the weekend, the Washington Post‘s outgoing ombudsman illustrated how this principle works at his newspaper -- and, in my informed opinion, in the mainstream media -- with regard to believers in traditional marriage. In a nutshell, when it comes to reporting on the debate and events around the same-sex marriage issue, the Post feels it has no responsibility to report "pius ix" + "syllabus of errors" fairly and accurately on people who oppose same-sex marriage, because they are morally wrong. Excerpts: I get a steady stream of e-mails and phone calls from readers who assert that The Post has a “pro-gay agenda” and publishes too many “puffy” stories about gay marriage, and that it even allows too many same-sex couples to appear in the Date Lab feature in Sunday’s WP Magazine. “The conservative, pro-family side gets short shrift,” as one reader recently put it, and The Post “caters slavishly to Dupont Circle.” Indeed, that reader got into a vigorous three-way e-mail dialogue with a Post reporter and me over the issue, an exchange that goes to the heart of the question of whether The Post, and journalists in general, are hopelessly liberal and genetically tone-deaf to social conservatives. Here are excerpts from that dialogue, with the reader’s and reporter’s names kept out of it at their requests. The reader wrote that Post stories too often minimize the conservative argument: “The overlooked ‘other side’ on the gay issue is quite legitimate, and includes the Pope, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, evangelist Billy Graham, scholars such as Robert George of Princeton, and the millions of Americans who believe in traditional marriage and oppose redefining marriage into nothingness. . . . Is there no room in The Post for those who sup
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Alfredo Ottaviani, head of the Holy Office in the Vatican in the 1950's: As a legal scholar considering the future of society, Ottaviani's fear was that religious freedom would result in religious indifference and then a http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2013/08/error-has-no-rights.html collapse of religious conviction, which would in turn lead to state hostility toward religious believers and religious institutions. His theological argument against religious freedom, widely held in the Roman universities of the day, rested http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=171679 on the proposition that "error has no rights." The council's response to that claim was that persons have rights, whether their religious opinions be erroneous or not, and that, in any event, states lack error has theological competence. Alfredo Ottaviani lost virtually every one of the battles he fought at Vatican II, but from his present, post-mortem position he may be enjoying a last laugh (if of a subdued, even sorrowful, sort). For the notion that "error has no rights" is very much alive--and precisely in those quarters where religious indifference has indeed led to intolerance of religious conviction. When a Canadian Evangelical pastor is error has no levied a significant fine for advocating biblical truth about men, women, and the nature of marriage, or when a Polish priest and magazine editor is punished with even stiffer fines (these, like the Canadian fines, were later thrown out) by a Polish court for accurately describing in print what an abortion does, the forces of coercive political correctness (embodied in the gay insurgency and the global campaign for "reproductive health") are using state power to nail down the notion that "error has no rights." When the present U.S. administration attempts to overturn decades of equal employment opportunity law by attacking the legal exemption that allows religious bodies to choose their religious leadership according to their own criteria, the same dynamic is at work. And that mantra--"Error has no rights!"--will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same-sex "marriage": by taking away their tax-exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both. An idea long associated with the farther reaches of Catholic traditionalism has thus migrated to the opposite end of the political spectrum, where it's become a rallying point for the lifestyle left. There are many reason
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