Stacking the Deck Against Us

1. With all of the qualified attorneys in the United States, the President has chosen someone to head the influential Office of Legal Counsel of the Justice Department who is so pro-abortion that she thinks that pregnancy is comparable to slavery. Guess what? Her previous job was as Chief Counsel to NARAL.

2. Interesting analysis by Ed Peters of the Canon Law issues involved in withholding Holy Communion from pro-abortion public officials.

3. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that "reproductive rights" (i.e., killing unborn children and sterilizing mothers) is at the top of the US foreign policy agenda. Well, religious liberty apparently isn't at the top of the agenda, as evidenced by our government's cavalier attitude towards it in the Middle East. (By the way, the key decisions were made while the prior Administration was in office).

4. So the HIV/AIDS rate in Washington DC is higher than in some African nations, despite handing out 1.5 million condoms last year (the DC population is about 600,000). The answer? More condoms, of course.

5. A good indicator of the derangement of the pro-abortion absolutists is their reaction to the "Choose Life" license plates. Now, they're going bananas because the Governor of Virginia (who also happens to be the Chairman of the Democratic Party) signed a bill authorizing them. Perhaps the Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood, will try to get "Choose Death" plates.

6. So the newest trend among self-styled atheists is to file documents with the Church seeking to "de-baptize" themselves. I can hear them now: "I keep rubbing this mark but it won't come off. It must be indelible!" (See CCC 1272)

7. The President of the United States has just fired the head of a private corporation (GM), as a condition of that corporation receiving public money, and guaranteed the company's auto warranties. I seem to have overlooked the clause in Article 2 of the Constitution that gave the President that power. But in any event, does this precedent give anyone pause about government funding for Catholic schools (e.g., vouchers) and other institutions?

8. This was sent to me, and I pass this along without comment, because no matter what I say I'll get in trouble. A new reason to support adult stem cell research.