In commenting on her disagreement with Mary Ann Glendon about inviting President Obama to Notre Dame she writes
http://newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=31294c4a-eee6-40b4-8571-21649eab8015But Glendon (and Maggie and Ramesh) live in a country where other frames of reference coexist as well. And the many Americans — many of them also Catholics — who participate in these nonreligious frames of reference may see in this decision something more than a private act of conscience. They may see one of America’s leading religious conservatives repudiating the moral legitimacy of the president of the United States.
There was too much of that in the past eight years.
And now, with year one of a new administration barely begun, prominent conservative voices are accusing this new president of instituting fascism, of falsifying his birth certificate, of sympathizing with Somali pirates over American sailors. For one of our most serious and most conscientious moral thinkers to join the radical rejectionists is alarming, no matter how well stated her reasoning. For Ramesh and Maggie to cheer her on — well that is disheartening. If NR has historically stood against anything, it has stood against this sort of conservative migration to the fringe.
They are just warming up for a full scale fight.
I think her term
Radical Rejectionists hits the nail on the head.
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