Talk about giving the last drop of political blood. President Obama defended the HHS Mandate until it got swacked at the Supreme Court, then he and his supporters in the United States Senate tried to kill the court decision with statutes. Now, after all that, the White House announces that it will come up with an “opt-out alternative for Catholic and other religious employers.” I am guessing this is in advance of what he sees as a catastrophic (at least... Read more
Watch the videos below and consider this: Our government puts $542 million into Planned Parenthood each year. And that’s just federal dollars. Many states add their own $$$ to the pile. Also the Affordable Health Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has large amounts of monies for block grants for education. Planned Parenthood will probably end up with a lot of this money, as well. The ignominious HHS Mandate was written by a committee that was overloaded with representatives from... Read more
Patheos is doing geek surgery on itself today, and I’ve been advised to stay away. I’m going to kick back and enjoy. See you tomorrow! Read more
Pray for our Iraqi brothers and sisters in Christ. Read more
There are two kinds of people who obsessively watch porn. Those who enjoy it. and … Those who believe it. Either way, porn is addicting and degrading. Porn is based on degrading a group of people for the titillation of those who get off on the degradation. Both those who watch porn because they enjoy it, and those who believe it, will become addicted to it if they don’t pull back from it. That alter world where degradation of... Read more
The Civil War split the Southern side of my family. My great-great grandfather was from the South, but fought on the side of the North. This sheared him from his family, his people, his past. It, in a round-about way, is why I am an Okie today. My family has others who fought in that war, Southerners who fought for the North. My grandfather’s father was a drummer boy. My family tends to have children late, which is why the... Read more
This is the story that irony built. It seems that Sara Hellwege is a nurse-midwife in Tampa, FL. She applied for a job at Tampa Family Health Centers. In an email exchange Tampa Family Health Center’s HR director, Chad Lindsey, quizzed her about her affiliation with the American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Ms Hellwege said that she would not prescribe chemical birth control. She was told that this was part of the job. They didn’t hire... Read more
One of my Facebook friends called him “the great divider.” Even though I am both aware and horrified by the endless hatred directed at whoever sits behind the desk in the Oval Office, I think that’s a fair thing to say about President Obama. His penchant for one man sledgehammer legislating against the First Amendment is a particular case in point. So far as I am concerned, the HHS Mandate is a permanent blot on his presidency. I’ve spent the... Read more
To join the discussion about Saints and Social Justice, A Guide to Changing the World, or to order a copy, go here. Saints and Social Justice is an inspiring book. Brandon Vogt, who is donating — tithing sounds more like it — 100% of his royalties from this book to Catholic Charities, has put the faces and stories of several saints on the universal call to social justice that comes to us from Our Lord. By doing this, he shows... Read more
President Obama issued his much-ballyhooed executive order on employment discrimination concerning sexual orientation (ENDA) today. I need to think this through before I write about it. In them meantime, here are my first thoughts: 1. The order is a not a statute. That means it is limited in scope to federal situations. 2. It certainly applies to direct, federal employees. It almost certainly also applies to federal contractors. Does it apply as well to federal grantees? I’m guessing yes. Does... Read more
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