When it comes to admitting the true agenda of the gay rights movement, The Advocate can be refreshingly honest. “We often protest when homophobes insist that same sex marriage will change marriage for straight people too,” says the magazine in a recent article . “But in some ways, they’re . . . . Continue Reading »
A priest I know, responding to my A Great and Glorious, But Debated, Assumption , sent one observation worth sharing both as an addition to the argument and an illustration of the difficulties of ecumenical exchanges, for those who care. ”I would make one observation,” he wrote. . . . . Continue Reading »
A nasty shooting war over education is emerging between Education Secretary Arne Duncan and new presidential entrant Rick Perry. Although other issues are in the foreground, the broader backdrop is Duncan’s effort to set himself up as a one-man legislature versus Perry’s ferocious . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , David Bentley Hart considers the opposition between grammar “precriptivists” and “descriptivists”: The prescriber believes clarity, precision, subtlety, nuance, and poetic richness need to be defended against the leveling drabness of mass . . . . Continue Reading »
Abortion Abatement BreakPoint , Chuck Colson 40 Years Later: How to Undo the Autonomy Argument for Abortion Rights Public Discourse , Erika Bachiochi Florida teacher reassigned for Facebook comments on gay marriage CNN, Melanie Whitley Wiccan days included on Tenn. university calendar USA Today , . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan , one of America’s most prolific and admired bloggers, reports (with a generous quote and a link that helped my ratings significantly) that I’m fascinated with THE HELP. Right he is. Maybe it doesn’t take much to fascinate me. But he also quotes another expert who . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate.com asked several authors, critics, and editors to confess their least favorite “must read” book . The selections aren’t all that surprising ( Ulysses and The Catcher in the Rye are named twice; Gravity’s Rainbow three times), but I appreciated this insight by novelist . . . . Continue Reading »
An attempt to create a right to medical and non medical assisted suicide–in reality, all assisted suicides are non medical regardless of a doctor’s participation–has been thrown out of court. . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Russell E. Saltzman says that America’s politics is a mix of partisanship and pragmatism: Based on my own political experience in the 1970s, I related I did not in all my time in politics know any politician prepared to live or die by the rigidities of an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Princeton Review recently announced its annual survey of colleges with the most and least religious college students. The lists are based on a 122,000-student survey from 376 colleges: Top 5 Colleges for “Most Religious Students” 1- Brigham Young University (Provo UT) 2 -Hillsdale . . . . Continue Reading »
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