Democracy in Action -- Not

1. Rep. Chris Smith (D-NJ), a pro-life hero, was trying to offer some amendments to the appropriations bill now working its way through Congress. The amendments would have restored the Mexico City Policy and prevented taxpayer money from being used for coerced abortions abroad. The House Rules Committee killed the amendments, as in, they won't even allow the members of Congress to debate and vote on them. Democracy in action.

2. Susan Wills from the USCCB Pro-Life Secretariat responds fully and definitively to the nonsensical article in Time that alleged FOCA is a mirage.

3. Last week, in a Times op-ed, two scholars offered a "compromise" on same-sex "marriage" that amounted to a virtually complete surrender by defenders of traditional marriage. Here is a very cogent response to that proposal, with a more authentic compromise that would preserve the definition of marriage while granting benefits to civil union couples.

4. For those who need a refresher on the evil history of the Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood, and its wicked founder, here's a reprint of a Crisis Magazine story from 1998. The most important line is the quote from a former PPUSA president: "Planned Parenthood has never strayed from the fundamental principles she [Sanger] espoused". Precisely -- "a dog returns to its vomit" (Prov. 26:12).

5. To quote Shakespeare's Richard II, "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars ... This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England". How noble it must have been. But things have changed. Here's why -- the British "children's minister" (although she appears to be an adult) says that parents shouldn't teach their kids about moral values relating to sex because it prevents them from being truly "open". Yeah, just what we need, teens who are more open to disordered sexuality, damaged relationships, broken hearts, STD's -- and sin. It's done so much for society and individuals so far. To quote myself, "this land of moral morons."

6. The tragedy of the Octomom continues. She has now been offered a large amount of money to appear in a porn film. There it is -- it started as the misuse of sexuality and fertility, continued into treating human life as a commodity to be purchased with the complicity of an unscrupulous doctor, expands into the voyeurism of the celebrity culture, and ends with the perfect example of exploiting a person as if they were nothing more than an object. Sad, sad, sad.