On Being a Breed Mare, Part II
The Well-Timed Period responds to the story about catholic hospitals who refuse to give emergency contraception to rape patients who may have ovulated: If Catholic hospitals may ignore the standard of care, and treat patients based on religious doctrine, any and all hospitals should be able to do the same. This means we abolish the [...]
...read moreUh Oh
Something out there is pissed. Should there be a god, this is my kind.
...read moreBenedict XVI
Apologies to Lauren for jumping in, but this is very important. The conclave has chosen Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to be the next pope. He is going to call himself Pope Benedict XVI. I have nothing to say. A woman who was watching with me has gone out of her mind, and I’m about to. _________________________ [...]
...read moreSex and Carnality
Jesse at Pandagon writes on the debate over the morning-after pill in Illinois. He has a point in saying that pharmacists are speading bad science as pro-life propaganda, but concludes that this denial of medical treatment is about the fear of sex. The more I read these kinds of stories, the less I think the [...]
...read moreNewsflash: Non-Threatening Sex Talk Increases Readership
The Village Voice notes a trend: college newspapers running female sex advice columnists. What are these columnist saying? Apparently, nothing: Hyper-feminine, even reactionary, most articles read like giggly guides for good manners. We imagine these writers much like Carrie Bradshaw: on their beds with a shiny white laptop, typing, but also taking plenty of breaks [...]
...read moreJames Baldwin
In my African American Experience class, we have begun talking about the “Double V” campaign (victory over Hitler and Jim Crow), the post-World War II era, and the beginning of the modern civil rights movement. One of the great writers of the civil rights era was James Baldwin. As we were discussing World War II [...]
...read moreCardinal Law
I believe this headline from the Kansas City Star says it perfectly: “Disgraced Law celebrates Mass for pope”. Over the past week, I have often found myself coming to the defense of Pope John Paul II on liberal blogs. While I am no big fan of the Roman Catholic Church (I’m too Baptist to like [...]
...read moreSin and same-sex marriage
My name is Enyo and I’ll be a guest blogger this week. My blog is Redfish. I’m sorry about this post being a bit scattered, but I just haven’t been able to get my thought together very coherently. * * * I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about same-sex marriage recently. I believe that [...]
...read moreEaster
Norbizness feels the holiday spirit: – Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. I heard it in a Beatles’ song once, so it must be true. But what if I told you that you could double the amount of mercy you obtain without having to give out any more mercy? I know it [...]
...read moreOpen Blogging Schiavo…
I’m Dylan, and I spew my rhetoric at Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane. I hope this doesn’t bore anyone to death about a subject that is already getting beaten into the ground, but here’s my take. And now for the most often typed phrase in the blogosphere over the past 3 weeks: I haven’t written [...]
...read moreWJWD
What Jesus wouldn’t do: The hardest saying of Jesus and perhaps the most controversial in our post–Sept. 11 world must be: “Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you.” Let’s be honest: How many churches in the United States have heard sermons preached from either of these Jesus texts in the years since America [...]
...read moreSupreme Court To Rule on 10 Commendments Cases
Does the display of the Ten Commandments at a courthouse consistute an unconstitutional government establishment of religion? Well, the phrase “I am the Lord thy God” does a bang up job of that. My courthouse has no such sign, but there is a mobile nativity scene carried on the back of one man’s pickup truck [...]
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