Extract
A Failed Offensive
Daniel Maguire, professor of moral theology and ethics at Marquette University and a former Catholic priest, has made his name by dissenting publicly from Catholic teachings. He then plays the martyr because the Church declines to adopt his theories. First he did it with abortion in his book Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003). He has done it again in an article titled "A Catholic Defense of Same Sex Marriage," posted on the website of the grandiosely named Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics. His article is a classic example of special pleading, of rhetoric masquerading as scholarship, of authorities misleadingly cited, of self-serving interpretations of the Bible, of hidden premises, and of logical fallacies.
Maguire's first sentences set the tone: 'The Catholic Church is beginning to rediscover what it once knew; that not all p...See the full content of this document
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