The assisted suicide movement is so full of pretense. It is “only” about terminal illness when nothing else can be done to end suffering, they coo. Baloney. Well, it is only for the “hopelessly ill.” Baloney. Once one accept the ideology of euthanasia, . . . . Continue Reading »
Courtesy of the aggregator RealClearReligion , I chanced upon this story at the ABC News website by Erin McLaughlin, titled ” First Military Base Same-Sex Wedding Held .” It concerns a male couple, one of them an Air Force noncom, the other a civilian, who were . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t miss this post at The Atlantic by senior editor Garance Franke-Ruta (brought to you by First Links ). Mainstream intellectuals continue to make really admirable progress up the learning curve: What if the goal of women’s equality within the American political system is partly . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on songs of the church militant : Christian worship is inherently political. As Bernd Wannenwetsch points out, this isn’t because worship is a tool for ginning up enthusiasm for a candidate or for stirring the fires of patriotism. On the contrary, “It is just because . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Father Ian Boyd, President of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture , explained why Chesterton’s writings are more powerful now than when he published them: “What strikes me most of all in reading Chesterton is that his real audience . . . . Continue Reading »
We take sympathy and sorrow for granted when people die in circumstances like the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting . Unfortunately, we can also take for granted that a chorus of voices in favor of gun repression, as if the availability of guns inspires mass murderers. You’ll hear all . . . . Continue Reading »
The Failures of College Trustees K. C. Johnson, Minding the Campus The Marriage Decline’s Political Consequences Garance Franke-Ruta, The Atlantic Opposing Government Not the Same as Opposing Community Katrina Trinko, The Corner John Chanche and Mississippi Catholicism Pat . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on bachelorettes and Humanae Vitae : I am rethinking Humanae Vitae , Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical condemning artificial birth control. Well, actually not rethinking since I cannot remember ever thinking about it much at all, ever, except dismissively. So best . . . . Continue Reading »
The European Court of Human Rights has refused to impose euthanasia on the EU based on the right to family life. From the Reuters story:The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it’s up to individual countries to decide on euthanasia. It also decided, however, that the German . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor Robert George at Princeton has been one of the most articulate spokesmen for the view of marriage as a union of one man and one woman. He has demonstrated the absurdity of liberal claims that there is no rational basis for objecting to same-sex marriage. Today on Public Discourse he has . . . . Continue Reading »
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