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Catholic Charities on the Dole.

30-Dec-11

Pregabalin online without prescription Catholic Charities in Illinois has closed down all its foster-care operations rather than comply with new regulations allowing same-sex couples to adopt.  The bishops’ lawyers are out, contesting that they have a First Amendment right to freedom of religion, and hence do not have to abide by state regulations; which sounds mildly plausible, until you […]

Establishment Christianity.

21-Dec-10

http://partnershipforcoastalwatersheds.org/steering-committee-2/ Astonishing statement by a U.S. servicemember on DADT, reported to me by a friend: “This is the first time my government and my religion are in conflict.” What an indictment of establishment Christianity.  On the normal processes of military operation – killing, torture, violence – a soldier can see his Church as favorable or irrelevant. […]

Slave to Secrecy.

26-Sep-10

The older my former students get, the more astonished I am by them – these people I knew as children now lead lives whose richness and complexity equals or exceeds mine, and it occasions strange thoughts in me – a kind of autumn feeling, watching the harvest come in, so fast, it seems. One story […]

Solving the Humanity Problem with the Criminal Code.

03-Feb-10

It is tried over and over again – and it fails every time.  The Law, as says Paul, “is powerless to oppose the flesh.”  But still the temptation remains to fix it all with a law.  The most effective mode of practicing this heresy, of course, is to pick a minority and enforce the law […]

Those Who Live By the Law…

18-Oct-09

The man in the photo with the Leviticus quotation tattooed on his arm, who clearly sees it as a justification for violence against gays, got some great treatment from a pastor who reads Andrew Sullivan’s blog: Too bad the guy with the passage from Leviticus tattooed on his arm didn’t read the next chapter: “You […]