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It\u2019s not just permissible to defend marriage between a man and a woman, but it\u2019s a necessity for the sake of justice.\u00a0 I love little things like that<\/a>.\u00a0 While I was gone tending to important matters of family \u2013 matters that will still keep me occupied for the next several weeks \u2013 I noticed our illustrious leader basically decided to have his justice departments stop doing what the justice department is supposed to do \u2013 and that\u2019s enforce the law.\u00a0 Neither he, nor the justice department, is in the business of solely determining what laws do or don\u2019t matter. Even if it\u2019s a lost cause, the law is the law.\u00a0 And yet, for convenience sake, how many Americans even care? <\/p>\n

Such a short sighted and ignorant dismissal of grave ramifications is about par for the course in our country today.\u00a0 It\u2019s the very intellectual\u00a0malaise that President Obama is able to exploit in order to keep attention off of everything else that\u2019s falling apart under his watch.\u00a0 Twenty years ago, had a president \u2013 Democrat or Republican\u00a0\u2013 done\u00a0 the same thing, I couldn\u2019t imagine there not being an outrage.\u00a0 But then, twenty years ago, I imagined that if a president committed perjury on the high court to derail an investigation of his potential abuse of power by way of sexual harassment, there would be a popular uprising as well.\u00a0 Or a president who sent us to war, insisting that the evidence for war was clear, only to discover the evidence for war not in existence, would receive the proper revolt from the public. Who knows, maybe I should have seen this coming after all. <\/p>\n

In any event, Archbishop Dolan sets the record straight, and demonstrates why \u2013 against all desires to the contrary \u2013 we can find comfort in the fact that, long after America has turned to dust, the Catholic Church will be alive and kicking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"