Political Dissembling and Opportunism? Horrors!

1. During the Presidential campaign, the 95% pro-"gay" candidate insisted that he was not in favor of same-sex "marriage". But in 1996 he told a "gay" newspaper in a signed letter that he did favor legalizing same-sex "marriage" and would fight efforts to prohibit it. Hmm, I wonder what changed in the intervening decade? I'd hate to think that it was just political opportunism, and that he was just pretending to be moderate during the campaign so he could become the 100% pro-"gay" President.

2. Marvin Olasky, an expert in the history of the pro-life movement, provides helpful insight about how we've gotten to where we are. Having looked back in time, now look forward to the future of the movement by re-reading Fr. Neuhaus' great address to the National Right to Life Convention last year.

3. Here is a case study in feminism gone mad -- a deluded woman has issued a call to "say no to reproduction". So we have a complete inversion of values -- authentic feminism (and masculinity) entails embracing fertility as a blessing, so the person who is blinded by their slavery to sin sees it instead as a curse. The only bright side is that if this is taken to heart by the feminist movement, they'll soon pass out of existence, and since normal people will continue to reproduce, we really will fill the earth and subdue it (as the original designer intended).

4. This is just beyond belief, and too sad for words. An abortionist is soliciting funds so she can kill the unborn child of a mentally disabled 17-year-old, as demanded by the girl's mother. How many levels of depravity are here -- the rape of the mother, the crass cupidity of the abortionist, the brutal attitude of the girl's mother, everything. Everyone here is a victim of the Culture of Death and needs prayers.

5. Listen to the World's Smallest Violin playing "My Heart Bleeds for You" as you read Prof. Doug Kmiec complaining about the treatment he's received in the blogosphere. Now, there's no place in Christianity for hateful speech about others; we must pray for those who oppose us, not villify them. But we also must speak clearly about those who are dead wrong on the critical moral and political issues of our day, and who betray the cause of defending human life. Just as a reminder of how this can be done with humor and without nastiness, here's the best piece I saw about the thin-skinned professor -- a spoof letter by him endorsing Steven Douglass, the prototypical pro-choice candidate. Please pray for a conversion of heart for Prof. Kmiec.

6. New Yorkers, you know, seem to be, you know, catching on about, you know, Her Grace, Princess Caroline's lack of qualifications to be a US Senator. It seems that 48% of voters say she's unqualified, while 37% (who also believe in UFO abduction and Bigfoot, apparently) find her to be qualified. I think this means that 37% of the people believe she can find her way into the Senate Chamber and vote as a doctrinaire liberal Democrat. You know?