“Here’s a seal helping a stranded turtle get in the water.”
“This was the course of things, the women knew. They would see it through to the end.”
“Were you there when they crucified the poor?”
“Sometimes it causes me to tremble tremble tremble.”
“What stands out in the Holy Week services is humility in the face of unreasoning authority. What stands out, ultimately, and whether you believe in the Resurrection or not, or think the whole thing is a bunch of hooey imported from the Egyptian mystery cults or somewhere, is that, in the story of Easter week, unreasoning authority loses.”
“The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
“I am a member of the United States of America. I do not want to be a member of a North American country.”
“Most of the people reading this post will have been born after modern science clearly and unambiguously established this fact: there is nothing wrong with homosexuals. This has been understood in the science for over half a century.”
“Evaluate the morality of sexual behavior by looking at the relational context within which sexual acts occur and not by focusing exclusively on the acts themselves.”
“So, in the bishops’ view, a woman is denied freedom of choice because she is prevented from refusing (free) coverage for services she is morally opposed to and therefore won’t avail herself of.”
“A New American Media analysis shows that where states are hostile to a woman’s right to choose, they are likely hostile to immigrants, too.”
“A major anti-abortion group has expanded its scope beyond abortion clinics to include protests against in vitro fertilization clinics.”
“Look back to this GOP presidential primary to find examples of Republicans questioning the courts’ legitimacy and even threatening to neuter them using powers reserved for the other two branches of government.”
“Republican leaders didn’t hesitate to issue none-too-thinly veiled threats of violence against the nation’s judges.”
“When you tell that crowd that some members of your society are harmful and dangerous and should be eliminated, that some members of society don’t deserve control over their own lives and bodies, you shouldn’t be surprised when some members of that crowd decide to put your words into hateful action. Because that’s what you’re telling them to do.”
“Never forget.”
“The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 36, but other estimates of black fatalities have been up to about 300.”
Florida’s push to block voter registration.
“These are the reasons why I’m a proud, card-carrying, hell-free heretic and proud of it.”
(Post title honors the 60th birthday of Clarke Peters.)
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