{"id":4820,"date":"2011-10-24T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2012-02-18T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T16:29:07","slug":"other-legal-news-law-religion-and-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=4820","title":{"rendered":"Other legal news: Law, religion and conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"

An obituary<\/a> in the October 23, 2011 New York Times<\/em> stirred me. It begins:<\/p>\n

Anita Caspary, the onetime mother superior who led the largest exodus of nuns from the Roman Catholic Church in American history, died on Oct.5 in Los Angeles. She was 95.<\/em><\/p>\n

Caspary’s exodus was both a triumphal march for women’s rights and a protest against laws suppressive of them. I got a chill at this paragraph about Cardinal McIntyre, her “boss.” Here’s how she described him:<\/p>\n

In her memoir, Dr. Caspary struggled for nunlike equanimity in writing about <\/em>[Cardinal McIntyre]. He was \u201cstubborn, paternalistic, authoritative, frugal and puritanical,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“Stubborn, paternalistic, authoritative, frugal and puritanical:”the underlying characteristics of the current American conservative movement, which I have long viewed\u2014along with all brands of religious fundamentalism\u2014as a “paternalistic” effort to stuff women’s rights back into the bottle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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