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In the Pseudo-Catholic Parallel Universe…

16-Nov-12

http://gradsgate.com/?churching-71958163_devolution/ Those of us with conservative Catholic friends had to deal with the usual Facebook nonsense about how it all was coming to an end on Election Night – I couldn’t stop snipping at one of them, “Yes, a terrible night for legitimate rapists everywhere,” which indeed would make it a bad night for a certain […]

Good Lord, Obama is Going To Destroy This Man.

10-May-12

http://dardogallettostudios.com/blog/2014/06/06/shall-we-tango-nyc-tango-festival/ I was surprised to see Obama come out for gay marriage – it’s a long-term winning issue, but in the short term it’s risky, and I don’t associate Obama with risk.  But then a day later as if on cue out comes the dirt on Romney – that he teased gay students in his high school […]

The two faces of government.

17-Mar-09

A quotation from Matt Walsh which appeared on this blog: This whole national debate [on gay marriage] is overwrought. If the state sanctions marriages (check) and confers benefits to the parties involved (check check) then anyone should be able to marry anyone. Whatever church or cult you belong to doesn’t have to recognize it. This […]

Some sense on marriage.

04-Mar-09

I’ve finally seen some internet writing on gay marriage that makes sense – a reader writing in to Andrew Sullivan, who makes a nice, tempered, intelligent reply.  The problem with the gay marriage campaign has been that marriage is not a right, but, as the above reader describes it, “a social institution.”  It is a […]