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20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon Return To The Heartland Of America: "For decades, the heartland of America has been the breadbasket of the world. Unfortunately, those days will shortly come to an end. The central United States is rapidly drying up and dust bowl conditions will soon return. There are a couple of major reasons for this. Number one, the Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted at an astounding pace. The Ogallala Aquifer is one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the entire world, and water from it currently irrigates more than 15 million acres of crops. When that water is gone we will be in a world of hurt. Secondly, drought conditions have become the 'new normal' in many areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and other states in the middle part of the country. Scientists tell us that the wet conditions that we enjoyed for several decades after World War II were actually the exception to the rule and that most of time time the interior west is incredibly dry. They also tell us that when dust bowl conditions return to the area, they might stay with us a lot longer than a decade like they did during the 1930s. Unfortunately, without water you cannot grow food, and with global food supplies as tight as they are right now we cannot afford to have a significant decrease in agricultural production. But it is not just the central United States that is experiencing the early stages of a major water crisis. Already many other areas around the nation are rapidly developing their own water problems. As supplies of fresh water get tighter and tighter, some really tough decisions are going to have to be made. Fresh water is absolutely essential to life, and it is going to become increasingly precious in the years ahead.
Most Americans have never even heard of the Ogallala Aquifer, but the truth is that it is one of the most important bodies of water on the globe. It covers well over 100,000 square miles and it sits underneath the states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota.
Water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer is used to water more than 15 million acres of crops. Without this source of water, the United States would not be the breadbasket of the world.
That is why what is happening right now is so alarming.
The following are 20 signs that dust bowl conditions will soon return to the heartland of America..."
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20 Signs That Dust Bowl Conditions Will Soon Return To The Heartland Of America
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Italian sausage, casings removed
1/2 (1 pound) loaf
day old French bread, broken into small pieces
3 tablespoons
butter, melted
1 pound
shredded Monterey Jack cheese
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1/3 cup
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green onions, chopped
2 teaspoons
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1 cup
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Delicious! I used half pepperjack and half monterey jack. And you definitely need more than 4oz of sausage... other than that, perfection! I gave out the recipe all morning
I thought it was too rich and a few too many flavors going on with the wine, sour cream & italian sausage. I won't bother making it again
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Great dish, went like hot cakes for the office Friday brunch. I use l lb. of Jimmy Dean Italian Sauage and used ground red pepper instead of the flakes. As my husband would say "This is company quality".
Fantastic! Not sure what makes it Bayou-like - it might need crawfish for that. :) I did make some changes, using:
- 1 lb turkey italian sausage
- About 13 oz of a fresh baguette that I "butterflied" and put in the oven at low heat for a while until somewhat dry.
- 1/2 lb Sargento shredded Mexican cheese blend
- 2 c whole milk
- 16 eggs
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- About 3/4 - 1 c sour cream in the egg mix and dolloped the rest of the 16 oz container on top after cooking
- About 1/4 t cinnamon
- Sprinkled the green onions on top instead of baking in the eggs
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In a word...OUTSTANDING!!! As the man of the house I do virtually all the cooking. I can tell you that this is one of the easiest recipes to fix, and the results were just incredible. There were only two small pieces left from the 8 serving dish. I have already emailed this to everyone I know. Thank you so very much for a tasty dish that even a man can't mess it up!!!
I think the title of being a "bayou" style dish is a little inappropriate given the chosen ingredients, but that being said, it tasted really good. Because I was wanting a Cajun kick, I bought a 4 pack of Louisiana style Cajun sausages. Several reviewers suggested that it didn't have nearly enough sausage in it, so I just chopped up all 4 sausages and I thought it was the perfect amount. I also really liked the subtle wine flavor, which is unique for a breakfast casserole (I just used the cheapest Chardonnay I could find). My only suggestion is that I think the Monterey cheese could be cut down from 4 cups to 3 cups. Overall, I thought it was a unique, great idea, and I will definitely make it again.
This was a good dish to make for a brunch. However, I made some changes that I think really improved it. First of all, there's not enough sausage in the original recipe. I doubled it, and it was just enough where you could at least taste it. Second, it calls for a lb. of cheese. For me, that is way too much. I cut that in half and used one package (8 oz) of cheese which worked fine. That way you can taste the rest of this instead of just the cheese. Third, i didn't have green onions so I chopped up one onion and sauteed it in a pan THEN added it. It was delicious and you could taste that buttery soft onion in there... I would make this again, but not as the original recipe states. The bread soaking in the egg overnight made it delicious though and it is worth a pop in the oven!
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EVANSVILLE - Plenty of sleep and a nutritious breakfast are at the top of a to-do list for students in most area elementary and middle schools while teachers prepare them for spring ISTEP testing that begins Monday.
Students in grades 3-8 in public and many nonpublic schools will take the applied skills, open-ended, portion of the assessment from March 4-13. ISTEP's purpose is to measure student achievement in English/Language Arts and math. Students in grades 4 and 6 are also tested in science, while students in grades 5 and 7 are evaluated in social studies. The multiple choice section will be given in both a paper-and-pencil format and online from April 29 to May 10.
ISTEP (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus) reports student achievement levels according to the Indiana Academic Standards that were adopted in November 2000 by the Indiana State Board of Education. Jody Pfister, curriculum, grants and testing director for the Metropolitan School District of Mount Vernon, explained teachers collaborate to choose the best instructional strategies to achieve student learning using the standards, formative and summative assessments.
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"In the grand scheme, everything teachers do in regard to core curriculum is helping students pass this test," she said. "ISTEP is summative, over everything a student has learned, but interim assessments such as Acuity and Dibbles help teachers find out what students are not doing well in, so that these areas can be retaught in a different way."
Individual progress is measured with ISTEP data that teachers can use to indicate areas of need in the classroom. On a larger scale, the scores also serve as a factor in determining a school and district grade, ranging from A-F, for the Indiana Department of Education accountability model, which takes into account the number of students that pass, as well as if scores are improving.
Pfister explained ISTEP data is also used as a percentage in figuring a teacher's evaluation rating based on new Indiana teacher evaluation legislation.
It's not really about the week of testing, but focusing more on the other 170 instructional days, a philosophy Superintendent Brad Schneider said is used in Warrick County School Corp. schools.
"We try to spend all the other weeks of the school year preparing our kids, teaching our kids the state standards and giving them the tools so when we do get to the week of testing they feel comfortable and confident that they can answer the questions presented," he said.
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The Gipsy Kings are largely responsible for bringing the joyful sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco to the world. The band started out in Arles, a village in southern France, during the '70s when brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes, the sons of renowned flamenco artist Jose Reyes, teamed up with their cousins Jacques, Maurice, and Tonino Baliardo, whose father is Manitas de Plata. They originally called themselves Los Reyes and started out as a Gypsy band traveling about playing weddings, festivals, and in the streets. Because they lived so much like Gypsies, the band adopted the name the Gipsy Kings. Later, they were hired to add color to posh parties in St. Tropez. Popularity did not come to Los Reyes right away, and their first two albums attracted little notice. At this point the Gipsies played traditional -- albeit passionate -- flamenco music punctuated by Tonino's precise guitar playing and Nicolas' exceptional voice. Though they had devoted fans, they still had yet to gain wider recognition until 1986 when they hooked up with visionary producer Claude Martinez, who could see that the Kings had the makings of a world-class band.
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Caramel Pear and Pecan Glaze over Cheesecake
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Caramel Pear and Pecan Glaze over Cheesecake
Caramel Pear and Pecan Glaze over Cheesecake
67 comments:
Oh my Evelyn that looks absolutely lovely.ReplyDelete
ONG !!!ReplyDelete
Evelyn - this is an amazing cake!:)
My mouth is watering just looking at these photos
Looking good, girl!! This competition is ON! lol This looks divine!! xo, ClaireReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! This looks delicious, Evelyn - pinned :-) The topping is very interesting !ReplyDelete
That looks delicious, I am not such a great cook. I do OK, but I'd never get my chef on....I'd have to find him first! You put pecans in your crust and orange juice in your cheesecake? Is that for this recipe, or do you use them in all of your cheesecakes?ReplyDelete
Can you taste the OJ?
Wow! That looks amazing!! Good luck!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I want a piece! ~ Paula www.callmepmc.comReplyDelete
On my way across the country, I'm stopping by for a slice of this cheesecake! Ha :) This looks fabulous and so tasty! You've got mad skills, friend ;)ReplyDelete
You hit it outta the park!ReplyDelete
I wanted to participate this month, but too many things kept getting in the way. Good luck--but I don't think you need it!
Oh Evelyn, this looks amazing! I'm pinning it to my Cheesecake board! :)ReplyDelete
Oh my word!! That looks soo good! I love the whole competition thing too! How fun. Thanks for linking up to Tell Me Tuesday:)ReplyDelete
Cheesecake is ALWAYS good! This looks delicious!ReplyDelete
Good luck!
Pear cheesecake? Brilliant!ReplyDelete
Hold the FORK... I mean- HAND IT OVER!! YUM!!! You nailed it!ReplyDelete
Hi Evelyn, How delicious, I would definitely eat this cheesecake if only for the topping. Oh, soooo good. Thanks so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
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golly gee...like gee whiz...and hey there!! that looks amazing!!ReplyDelete
And have I mentioned how fabulous your pictures are lately? fabulous!
Wow!! and OMG!! I Love Cheesecake and Pears!! I am making this!! You definitely nailed it!! Lynn H @ Turnips 2 Tangerines!ReplyDelete
This looks divine! Great entry! Theresa @ DearCreatives.comReplyDelete
This looks delicious! I love pears on cheesecake. I made a similar recipe for the Spiked! Recipe Challenge.ReplyDelete
I'm your newest follower via GFC. Come visit me over at My Sesame Seed Buns sometime!
Oh man, that looks amazing!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, this is making me drool!! Found you at Cast Party Wednesday, new fan! :-)ReplyDelete
Yum! I love cheesecake and pears so I'm sure I'd love this. Thanks for sharing at The Weekly Creative link party!ReplyDelete
Shannon @ Sewing Barefoot
Oh, wow! That looks marvelous and your photos are gorgeous, too, what a spectacular dessert!ReplyDelete
My, oh my....I'm dying to taste this! Pinned it to my decadent desserts board, to remember to try it sometime!ReplyDelete
Oh my Evelyn, that looks amazing! Cheesecake with fruit topping is my fave!ReplyDelete
Be sure to come share it at the Farm Girl Blot Fest on Friday! I'd love it if you did!
Kristi@Let This Mind Be in You
This looks so good, I'm making this first chance I get. Your pictures are beautiful. Thank you for linking it up. I wish I had a pear recipe, I will have to come up with one.
Wanda Ann
Yum, that looks absolutely fabulous! I love cheesecake. :-)ReplyDelete
That's about the best looking thing I've seen all day!ReplyDelete
Oh wow, this looks great, Evelyn! I sure do wish I had a slice!ReplyDelete
I am making this as soon as I get back home. I am also featuring you on Follow Up on Alaska and Link Party today. This recipe totally deserves it.
Thank you for linking up my friend.
Wanda Ann @ memoriesbythemile.com
That looks delicious!!ReplyDelete
OMG....I wish I could put you in my kitchen right now! That looks amazing. I think I will pin this on my "Recipes To Try" board. Just cruising Katherine's blog hop and thought I would say hi!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness how much fun!! And that looks delicious!ReplyDelete
Saw your post on The Taylor House Link Party. Cheesecakes looks delish! Pinning now. My post is #38.ReplyDelete
This is a really cool thing to do as a bunch of bloggers, huh? Love it and the cheesecake glaze. O dear! I love cheesecake and the pear glaze.. just ramps it up, doesn't it? Thanks for being a bloggy friend, LindaReplyDelete
How pretty :) I love it, pinning this. Thanks for the recipe! If you don't mind I wanted to invite you to come link up at Recipe Sharing Monday and share your favorite recipes. Have a super week. :)ReplyDelete
Oh my word, I'm salivating! That looks delicious, so of course I'm going to have to pin this!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing :-)
Stopping by from Love and Laundry's link up party
This is one killer cheesecake.ReplyDelete
Could I please have an extra serving of glaze on mine please? Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for sharing your tasty recipe with Full Plate Thursday.ReplyDelete
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Miz Helen
OMGosh my dear that looks so yummy!!!! When I'm back on carbs and fruit so on my to do list :)ReplyDelete
wow sweetie you knocked this out of the park. two big yums ( thumbs) up! Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xoReplyDelete
Oh. My. Goodness. That looks delish!ReplyDelete
This looks so delicious! I never thought about pears with cheesecake. Thanks for sharing on Whisk Away Wednesday!ReplyDelete
This looks awesome! =)ReplyDelete
My, oh my, .... looks soooo sooo goood!ReplyDelete
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This is such a beautiful and mouthwatering cheesecake! I love it!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing this at Wednesday Extravaganza - see you there again next week with more deliciousness :)
This looks great! I have eaten these pears in tins. I love them and I am sure this tastes good.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness... does that ever look GOOD!!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for partying with me last week at The DIY Dreamer… From Dream To Reality! I'm really looking forward to seeing what you share tomorrow evening!
Oh my gosh! I really want a piece of that right now!! That looks so good :) Thanks for linking up to The Weekly Creative.ReplyDelete
Shannon @ Sewing Barefoot
YUM! You had me at caramel. It really is beautiful. I am sure that it is delicious as well. I no longer have a springform pan. I think I need to get one again. Thanks for sharing with SYC.ReplyDelete
This looks heavenly. I'd have to make it without the pecans, though, as my husband doesn't care for nuts. I bet it would still be delicious. Thank you for sharing in the GRAND Social.ReplyDelete
Hi Evelyn, Thanks for linking up @ DearCreatives.com who ended up winning? or are you all winners? xoReplyDelete
Oh my that looks Delish!!! Thanks so much for sharing at Thursday's Temptation. I am going to be featuring this at tonights link party! Wahoo!ReplyDelete
Great use of pears, my goodness that looks amazing! Love the caramel sauce! Thanks for sharing this at One Creative Weekend!ReplyDelete
WOW! Looks amazing!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, that looks amazing!!! I want a piece right now. :) I am thrilled that you shared with us at A Bouquet of Talent this week. Have a wonderful weekend! :)ReplyDelete
Kathy @ www.lifeonlakeshoredrive.com
Wow! That looks delicious!ReplyDelete
Just wanted you to know that your recipe is being featured to today on foodie friday. Will be pinning and tweeting it this week too. Thanks again for being part of our party.ReplyDelete
All the way through reading this post my brain was repeating "oh my gosh!" It looks so good I can't stand it! Thanks for linking with me :)ReplyDelete
Oh my. I think I just put on two pounds just looking at it but I would be it is well worth a few extra trips to the gym. :D Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Looks amazing and bet it tastes even more so! Thanks so much for sharing on Busy Monday!ReplyDelete
Oh, sweet Lord, this looks good!!! Thank you for sharing this at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. Hope to see your prettiness again on Monday. Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouseReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with us at Creative Mondays, featuring this week :)ReplyDelete
Evelyn, you will be one of the features today at the Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House...that is if I could hurry up and get the post written...lol. Swing on by and pick up a feature button for your blog. See you later at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouseReplyDelete
Your cake looks so good! I have never seen the cake topping like this!ReplyDelete
I cannot think of an adjective to describe how wonderful this cake looks. Your husband is one lucky man. Thanks for sharing at Saturday Dishes! -SavannahReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, this cake looks so fabulous! If pears and caramel aren't a great enough combination, throw in the cheesecake and I'm definitely excited for this one! Pinning.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing at Saturday Dishes! Hope to see you back this weekend!


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The World Will Be Different
Professor Michael McConnell, an expert on religion and the law, is interviewed by Timothy Dalrymple of Patheos:
Constitutional provisions separating church and state were intended by the Founding Fathers not merely to prevent the establishment of a state church but also (and especially) to protect the churches from government interference. Those longstanding protections hang in the balance as the Supreme Court prepares its decision on Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, according to Michael McConnell. Oral arguments were presented on April 19, 2010, and a decision is expected in June.
The case began roughly six years ago, when the Hastings School of Law, which belongs to the public University of California system, denied official status to a Christian student group because it required its members to affirm a statement of faith and conduct. The Christian Legal Society (CLS), a nationwide ministry to students and practitioners of the law, professes the traditional Christian teaching that sex is reserved for marriage between a man and a woman. This, determined the law school and its dean, Leo Martinez, constitutes discrimination on the basis of religion and sexual orientation.
McConnell argued the case before the Supreme Court on behalf of CLS. A federal judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2002 to 2009, he is one of the nation's preeminent authorities on the framework of church and state. McConnell now directs the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford University.
He spoke by telephone with Timothy Dalrymple.
Before we come to the details of CLS v. Martinez, I want to ask: Where do you see the emerging battlefronts right now on matters of religious liberty?
It depends in part on how CLS v. Martinez is decided. If it is decided in favor of Hastings, it will open up any number of battlefronts where political majorities that dislike one or another aspect of religious practice will employ all of the carrots and sticks at the government's disposal to attack what they do not like.
The essential theory underlying Hastings' position is that allowing a group to meet on campus amounts to a benefit or a subsidy that the university is entitled to grant or withhold on the basis of its own approval or disapproval of the group's practices. If that is so, if being able to participate on an equal basis with other groups in the common resources of civil life is a benefit or subsidy that the government controls in this way, then there is essentially no more separation between church and state. The government will be able to exercise a kind of power over religious organizations that it has never before exercised in America.
The opposition might say that they are protecting the separation of church and state by keeping the state from subsidizing a religious group. Yet you insist that it is you who are on the side of the separation of church and state, because you are rejecting the notion that the state can encourage some religious groups and inhibit others by granting common resources to those it favors and withholding those resources from those it does not favor. Is that right?
That's exactly right. One of the critical questions here is what we consider a "benefit" or a "subsidy." The right to speak on an equal basis on public property has never been understood to be a benefit or subsidy.
Could Hastings' line of argument eventually lead, for instance, to some churches being denied the tax-exempt status other churches receive if they are unwilling to ordain female or homosexual pastors? If the state could give advantages to the religious groups it favors, and therefore social-engineer the churches, where would this line of argument stop?
I think that is clearly what their argument is. Hastings itself explicitly cites tax-exempt status as a benefit to which the state can attach conditions. And for the past twenty years, feminist law professors have argued that tax-exempt status should be denied churches that discriminate on the basis of sex in the selection of clergy.
If the state can withdraw tax-exempt status because it does not approve of the way in which a church conducts its business, I have no idea where it will stop. Can the state withhold the ability to operate on government property? How about the use of the airwaves? The use of the postal service? Having your denomination represented in the chaplaincy corps? How about attaching conditions on individuals who use government benefits to obtain government-subsidized services such as voucher programs, hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid? All of those things are generally available to everyone, and we do not think of them as being occasions for the government to manipulate religious groups or individuals.
Obviously, there are political obstacles that would have to be overcome before threats of this kind could be put into effect. But if the Hastings case were decided in favor of Hastings, there would only be political obstacles and not Constitutional ones. All of these conflicts would become political battles for the legislatures, rather than having Constitutional protections that guarantee freedom of religion from the outset. That would open up any number of nasty battles that the First Amendment was intended to foreclose.
What exactly were the grounds on which Hastings refused to recognize CLS?
There are over sixty registered student groups on the Hastings campus, and when the Christian Legal Society applied to be one of them, it was told that Hastings could not grant them the same status as other groups because their insistence that their officers and those who vote for their officers subscribe to a statement of Christian beliefs amounted to discrimination on the basis of religion and sexual orientation.
The litigation history is complicated because Hastings shifted its rationale for disapproving CLS in the midst of the litigation. When CLS was denied, they were told it was pursuant to a written non-discrimination policy, and they had discriminated on the basis of religion and sexual orientation. Yet once the litigation started, about a month into the discovery process, Hastings shifted and said their policy is actually that all student groups have to be fully open, including their leadership and voting membership, to all students. Later this "all-comers" policy was refined yet again to the claim that you cannot discriminate on the basis of status or beliefs, which means that groups are specifically not allowed to confine their membership to people who believe in the fundamental purposes of the organization.
This is a very strange policy. So far as we can tell, it has not been adopted by any other public university or public law school in the country. It's by no means clear that Hastings even applies it at Hastings. There are something like eight student organizations who were allowed to register in the same year as CLS whose bylaws are in violation of an all-comers policy, yet it was never suggested that any of them were in violation.
When we point this out in our brief, Hastings' response is "Yes, but CLS is the only one whose bylaws violate one of the specific non-discrimination categories." Which of course is our point: it has never been about an all-comers policy, which is a late and for-litigation-only concoction of the law school. It has always been about discrimination on the basis of religion or orientation.
After the oral arguments were concluded, reports stated that the Supreme Court justices seemed confused over exactly the policy at issue. Was this a result of Hastings' shifting rationale?
That's right. The court would like to have a clearer case to decide. Legally speaking, our view is that it doesn't really matter, since both policies are unconstitutional, though for different reasons.
Are they redesigning their case in order to become a landmark case with a broader application, or in order to stand on more solid ground legally?
We don't know. The evidence in the case is closed as of 2004--2005. So we don't know what they have done since they announced this policy. Although, I can tell you that if you go to the Hastings website and click on student organizations, and click on the bylaws of the student organizations, you'll find at least four that still violate the all-comers policy. Yet that's not something the Supreme Court can look at.
Dean Martinez makes some pretty remarkable statements about the all-comers policy in a PBS report that was broadcast the day before oral argument before the Supreme Court. He says that racist skinheads could sit in on the NAACP chapter, and so on. I recommend you look at it, because people think I must be exaggerating when I spell out the implications of the Hastings policy. This is not an exaggeration; it comes right out of their mouths.
[Editor's Note: The link below is the PBS report, and the comments to which Mr. McConnell refers begin at 4:58.]
Watch the full episode here. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.
It's difficult to avoid the impression that this is another expression of liberal academics' antipathy toward Christianity, as though Christianity itself is discriminatory and oppressive and deserving of exclusion from the public sphere. Around the country there have been numerous cases of public colleges or universities attempting to deny normal student-group status and resources to Christian groups that require their members or leaders to consent to a statement of faith that includes traditional Christian positions on sexuality. Yet we could certainly imagine other groups that are even more exclusionary or discriminatory. Why are Christian groups singled out?
Or is this asking you to speculate outside your comfort zone?
[Laughs.] Well, I would ask Hastings that question. But I don't think it's any secret that traditional Christianity is regarded by many as inimical to the progressive project. And the truth is that until the sexual orientation issue arose, even Hastings didn't really care. Yet the important point is that the Christian Legal Society theologically does not believe in discrimination on the basis of orientation, but only on the basis of belief and conduct: that is, whether you believe that sex is properly reserved for married couples. They ask their members to subscribe to the traditional Christian teaching that sex is reserved for marriage between a man and a woman.
Our position, however, has absolutely nothing to do with what one thinks about same-sex conduct or whether sexual orientation should be protected as a matter of law. Our case would be identical in its legal framework if I were representing a religious student group that advocated same-sex marriage and was excluding leaders and voters who refused to accept the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. Our position would be exactly the same if we were representing a gay rights group that had been excluded from campus on the grounds that it didn't allow homophobic evangelicals to become voting members and officers. The First Amendment position here is completely independent of what happened to be this group's own beliefs about sexual morality.
I hope the Supreme Court sees that. A Civil Rights organization could be just as threatened under different social circumstances. It was not long ago that the ACLU was kept off of campuses. A fledgling chapter of the NAACP would have just as much reason to confine its officers and voters to people who share their mission. This is about protecting the freedom of any group to be able to form around shared beliefs.
It's also hard to avoid what seem to be the broader philosophical implications of this case.
There are broader philosophical implications. I'm a little hesitant to say what I think they are, but they're pretty plain on the surface of the case.
One philosophical question at issue seems to be: Is it always wrong to differentiate between persons? Or are there proper and improper grounds of "discrimination"? Are we reaching a point where we are prohibited from making any meaningful differentiation of persons, or are we still permitted to form groups centered on shared beliefs?
The problem is that Hastings and its supporters seem to believe that any time you slap the label "discrimination" onto something, it necessarily entitles the state to try to suppress it -- even when it is a religious organization "discriminating" on the basis of religion.
There is absolutely nothing invidious or immoral or improper or unneighborly or hostile or anything wrong whatsoever about religious organizations insisting that they be controlled by their own people. Being able to gather together with Catholics in one church and Baptists in their own organization, or Jews in a Talmud study, is very fundamental to the right of free exercise of religion. The state has zero legitimate interest in discouraging that. It's none of the state's business. That's what separation of church and state means.
Given the importance and the broad implications of the case, has it received sufficient attention in the media? When it was argued before the Supreme Court, there were several prominent editorials, but it dropped pretty quickly out of view. Are the media missing the boat here?
The case would be enormously important in a bad way if Hastings were to prevail. For CLS to prevail would simply be to shore up Constitutional protections that the court has been providing for the last thirty or forty years. My guess is that if CLS wins, all of the folks on the other side of the case will say, "Well, of course. This is a very small case." Yet if Hastings wins, and especially if they win on the theory that the government can withhold "benefits" to any group it disapproves of, the world will be a very different place the day after.
Some press organs have been better than others. Some outlets were extremely careless about their characterization of the facts in the case, where they described the case as about whether CLS could exclude "gays." That's completely ignoring the issue of discrimination on the basis of orientation versus conduct and belief.
Some newspapers also talked as though this were about CLS getting money. There is some possibility of money being involved. There is a student activities fee paid to the student government, and the student government doles out money to student groups that put on activities of campus-wide importance. If CLS prevails, they will be able to apply for that, but whether the student government gives them money is extremely unlikely. The student government submitted a brief in this case saying that the "vast majority" of students at Hastings believe that CLS ought to be kept off of campus, and that students ought to have a right to join CLS in order to "vote for change from within" -- which is to say that people who disagree with CLS's beliefs ought to be able to join and vote to change those beliefs. So the student government is hardly likely to give CLS money. The case is not about money.
The press was also very sloppy in discussing the Constitutional treatment in past cases of access to a forum in a public university. I believe this is the sixth case involving various student groups who are excluded. The Supreme Court has stood up for the student groups every time, and every time the University claims that this should be treated as a subsidy and they shouldn't be required to sponsor or endorse the group, and that the group is free to exist but not get the active support of the university. Every time, every time the Supreme Court has responded that a forum for speech and the use of public facilities is not endorsement, is not sponsorship, is not subsidy, and the University has to comply with the First Amendment in just the way that towns do with respect to access to parks and sidewalks and other forums for speech. The press did not acquaint their readers with that rather important part of the background.
But there's not much use complaining about the press. Some are better and some are worse. Some skirt the issues. The New York Times editorial says, "This is an easy case; the government does not have to subsidize discrimination." Thus they beg the question of what is a subsidy and they beg the question of what is discrimination. I also cannot believe that they would take this position if the shoe were pinching a different foot.
Michael W. McConnell received his law degree at the University of Chicago and clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. He is respected on the Right for his originalist judicial philosophy, and was considered a likely selection for the Supreme Court during the administration of George W. Bush. He is also respected on the Left for his criticism of the impeachment of President Clinton and of Bush v. Gore. When Barack Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, it was Michael McConnell, then a professor at the University of Chicago, who was impressed by a suggestion the young Obama made on one of McConnell's articles and thus brought Obama on a fellowship to Chicago.
McConnell has written books and articles and numerous influential opinions. The Supreme Court has reviewed four cases in which McConnell wrote an opinion, and has agreed with McConnell every time.