Curing Homosexuality
Via Neil (read his post because he’s funnier than me), James Dobson shares his cure for homosexuality.
...read moreGod Hates Dudes in Dresses
Or, why Dennis Prager should do two minutes of research before writing something for publication.
...read moreRick Santorum and Pitting the Working Mothers Against the “Non-Losers”
Chuck pointed out this letter to the editor in our local paper that I seem to have missed: I’m in my own little world apparently. Every day I wake up with two happy kids, even when I go out the door for work. I work nights, my husband works days and due to the rising [...]
...read moreTattoos for Jesus
I know a few people who have quite literally gotten tattoos for Jesus, but this? The tattoo is as old as Cain. In Jesus’ time, condemned criminals were tattooed. Tattoos have marked those set apart or condemned as recently as World War II when our Jewish brethren perished. In the last few centuries tattoos have [...]
...read moreOur Lady of Guadalupe
A well-known fact among my friends, I am obsessed with religious art. The gaudier the better. I am especially intrigued by gothic religious art that depicts gruesome acts, peculiar because I can’t stand gore. One of my favorite subsets of this subject is the wide variety of Our Lady of Guadalupe imagery that can be [...]
...read morePro-Life… as long as you’re Protestant
An anti-choice adoption agency that receives money from the sale of “Choose Life” license plate won’t accept Catholics as clients – reminding us that being “pro-life” is more about control and religious dogma than true compassion. Equally disturbing is that the news article linked above only mentions that the agency discriminates against Catholics. But when [...]
...read moreHate Crime in Indiana
Crap. Let me reiterate that I live in Indiana, goddammit. FBI agents and members of its Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating a fire early today at a Bloomington mosque. Officials at the Islamic Center of Bloomington said a window was broken at the center and a liquid accelerant was poured through the window to [...]
...read moreHow to fight terrorism
I just wrote a huge, long post about this, and the internet in this cafe stopped working and the whole thing got erased. So, you will all get the condensed version. First, check out the New York Times op/ed section for a variety of ideas. The Washington Post offers up some decent op/eds too, but [...]
...read moreMending the church-state split
Noah Feldman, will you marry me? My favorite NYU Law professor, author of a handful of fabulous books (I would enthusiastically recommend After Jihad: American and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy and What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building) and one of the many reasons I would love to attend NYU [...]
...read moreThy Virginity Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks.
From the Catholic Church’s press release factory, we have an update on federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs, titled To Abstain or Not to Abstain. On June 9 the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies approved an increase of $11 million in abstinence funding [...]
...read moreBlaming “the culture”
What caused the rampant sexual abuse in the Catholic church? Why, academics, liberals, and “the culture,” of course! That’s according to Sen. Rick Santorum, at least. It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning “private” moral matters [...]
...read moreKnow the Lord
With summer classes afoot, I’ve had to let a few principles go. E goes to a summer camp in the morning and then with my mother in the afternoon. This week, my church-going mother agreed to work the church’s Vacation Bible School, a somewhat innocuous five-day sermon complete with crafts and coloring books. Ethan goes [...]
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