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Daily Kos — ... he still can't. David Brooks: I'm tired of blaming the auto unions for our current economic woes. Instead, let's blame the teachers union for our educational woes. EJ Dionne: Already, there is grumbling that Obama shouldn't try to do anything special with the stimulus; only old-fashioned programs need apply. The critics are grousing: How dare Obama try to use the crisis to transform the country! Kathleen Parker: Oogedy-boogedy. There, I said it again. Charles ...

Parker Tries Again
Rhymes With Right — I don’t know that Kathleen Parker will succeed in mollifying her many conservative critics (including me) with her most recent column , but she does make a good point that I believe bears repeating. How about social conservatives make their arguments without bringing God into it? By all means, let faith inform one's values, but let reason inform one's public arguments. It is, I would have to say, a quite valid position – and one to which I personally subscribe. As long as arguments are presented in strictly theological terms, conservatives ought to lose any argument on public ...

Yeah, But My God Is Bigger Than Your God
Balloon Juice — ... thinks Kathleen Parker has not thought through her assertion that social conservatives should “make their arguments without bringing God into it”: ...

‘Tis the season…
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... , Kathleen Parker comes back for another helping. She received so much attention for her previous cutesy use of “oogedy-boogedy” that she thought she’d milk it for another column. So, just to make her feel better, I’ll bring it back to life here. Unsurprisingly, this new one is just as incoherent as the other. ...

adequate secular reasons — or not
The American Scene — On Kathleen Parker’s claim that religious conservatives need to make arguments for their positions without invoking God, Larison surveys the arguments and the links. About this controversy I have just two things to say: 1) The issues at stake were thoroughly and intelligently hashed out more than a decade ago in this book by two Christian philosophers, Robert Audi and Nick wolterstorff. Audi thinks that religious believers in the public sphere always need to present “adequate secular reasons” for their views; Wolterstorff has his doubts about that. ...