Now Planned Parenthood has released its minions on a Wisconsin food pantry for the poor: One thing we learned from the Komen/Planned Parenthood fiasco is that it may be easier to say no to the mob than Planned Parenthood. We saw it again recently in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This one didn’t make much news, but created a local social network bully fest. Planned Parenthood called Paul’s Pantry, part of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the biggest food pantry… Read more
Thoughts on homosexuality not being genetic
February 16, 2012 By Gene Veith 209 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I posted this: Evidence homosexuality is not genetic | Cranach: The Blog of Veith. It was a link to a discussion of how identical twins (who share the exact same genes) are not particularly likely to both be gay (something that happens in only 10% of the cases). That would indicate that homosexuality is not genetic, or, if there is some kind of genetic component, it isn’t causative or determinative. That post attracted more than… Read more
He is Jewish, Christian, AND Muslim
February 16, 2012 By Gene Veith 20 Comments
Sean Stone, son of the conspiracy-theorist filmmaker Oliver Stone, has converted to Islam in a ceremony held in Iran. But, he says, that doesn’t mean he isn’t still a Christian. And a Jew. A U.S. filmmaker who has a Jewish father and Christian mother today decided to convert to Islam in Iran, where he is making a documentary. But Sean Stone, 27, son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, insisted the switch did not signal him abandoning the faiths of his… Read more
Matt Harrison to testify to Congressional committee today
February 16, 2012 By Gene Veith 32 Comments
I have it on good authority that Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, will testify before a Congressional committee investigating the religious liberty issues in the Obamacare abortion pill/contraception mandate. Testimony is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. ET. I’m told that you can watch it here: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. I’m glad he is doing this. It’s important to demonstrate that this is not just a Roman Catholic issue. Do you think this… Read more
Wash and be clean
February 15, 2012 By Gene Veith 26 Comments
At church last Sunday we had texts on Naaman the Leper (2 Kings 5:1-14) and the leper who begged Jesus for healing (Mark 1:40-45). The former, thinking to buy healing, came with $400,000 worth of silver and $4 million worth of gold (I appreciated how Pastor Douthwaite translated the ancient weights into their modern equivalence an worth). The latter came with nothing but desperation. God ended up healing them both, though not as Naaman expected. Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon, all of… Read more
Nostalgia liberals vs. accountability liberals
February 15, 2012 By Gene Veith 26 Comments
Fred Hiatt, himself a liberal, notices the rise of two different and contending kinds of liberals: Nostalgia liberals and accountability liberals. The priorities of nostalgia liberalism are community, social cohesion and preservation of New Deal and Great Society programs. Accountability liberals put more stock in market forces and individual empowerment. Their debate is sure to sharpen over the next four years. . . . Accountability liberals say reform is needed to save Social Security — and that the only way… Read more
Do 98% of Catholic women use contraceptives?
February 15, 2012 By Gene Veith 62 Comments
Apologists for the administration’s abortion pill & contraceptive mandate are pointing to statistics that say as many as 98% of Roman Catholic women use contraceptives in defiance of the teaching of their church. This is then used to encourage Democrats to not back down from the mandate, despite what the bishops say, as if rank and file Catholics will support the Obama administration anyway. It turns out, though, that the 98% numbers are yet another way to lie with statistics,… Read more
A Valentine’s Day meditation on Scripture
February 14, 2012 By Gene Veith 48 Comments
In honor of the noble martyr Valentine, whose day we celebrate today, I would like to propose a meditation on Ephesians 5: 22-33. In this text we learn that a husband plays the role of Christ and the wife plays the role of the Church (or, to put it even more strongly and in vocational language, the husband is a mask of Christ and the wife is a mask of the Church). When this passage is usually contemplated, the discussion… Read more
A man gives birth?
February 14, 2012 By Gene Veith 30 Comments
Well, a transgendered man, one who used to be a woman. And evidently still is: The man, who is believed to be in his 30s, was able to carry a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment. The Daily Telegraph understands that the man, whose identity has not been diclosed, is from the West Midlands and is in a long-term relationship. It is not clear whether his partner is male or female…. Read more
Obama, Henry VIII, and tooth-level surveillance
February 14, 2012 By Gene Veith 82 Comments
Mark Steyn compares President Obama’s religion policies to those of Henry VIII, whose “Act of Supremacy” gave him sole authority over his subjects’ faith and practice. You need to read what he says. But I draw your attention to just two parts of that essay. The first, where he quotes a provision of Obamacare that gives Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sibelius authority over our teeth: “The Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.”… Read more
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