Voters in North Dakota yesterday rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would have increased the burden on civil authorities attempting to limit religion-based conscientious objection to state laws: North Dakota voters rejected Measure 3, which its proponents said was . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the Aparecida Document : Prior to an April visit to Argentina, I read the “Aparecida Document,” the final report of the Fifth General Assembly of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM), which was held in Brazil in 2007. This master plan for the New . . . . Continue Reading »
Wanna make it big in show business? Here’s a sure fire way to put a movie award statue on your shelf: Just produce, write, direct, or star in a movie that boosts euthanasia. It works like a charm, almost every time.Latest case in point is Amour, in which a man mercy kills his wife. . . . . Continue Reading »
The ruling from the European Court of Justice that prevents patenting embryonic stem cell-derived products is biting. The UK’s patenting authority has stated it will not approve patents of products that result from the destruction of human embryos. From the Out-law.com story:The . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in National Review Online , I have a piece on why fears of “creeping Sharia” are not only misplaced but dangerous: Unhinged rhetoric, if long enough tolerated, will eventually impose real costs. The National Conference of State Legislatures says anti-Sharia measures already have . . . . Continue Reading »
A Roundup of the Sr. Margaret Farley Controversy Elizabeth Scalia, Patheos How Silence Works: E-mailed Conversations with Trappist Monks Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston, The Awl Children at Protestant Communion Services Doug Wilson, Blog & Mablog Mindmaps and Kuyper’s Wisdom and . . . . Continue Reading »
And not with pacifists. Ricochet member and pomocon friend Flagg Taylor is over in the Czech Republic again, and sending home dissidents’ reports of what it was like to hear a U.S. president to speak openly against the communist oppression they lived under. . . . . Continue Reading »
Focus on the Family is gaining notice for its new willingness to speak about immigration reform: One of the most eyebrow-raising names to join a group of evangelical leaders to release an “Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform” was Jim Daly, president of . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. Peter Singer is one of the most subversive, pro culture of death advocates in the world, and he has been granted Australia’s highest civic award. After my head stopped exploding, I took to The Corner: From “Australia Awards Infanticide Guru Highest Civic . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on being bored beyond endurance : I am bored by the same people saying the same things, week after week, and by their dismaying contempt for curiosity, and by my own, too. A few days ago, the gaffe-prone (far more than the press will admit) President Obama said, “the private . . . . Continue Reading »
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