Catholic Witness -- For Real

1. This is major, major news -- Mary Ann Glendon is turning down her award from NDU and will not appear at the commencement. Now that is the public witness we expect from authentic Catholics. God bless her!!

2. Jennifer Roback Morse dissects the Iowa marriage decision -- there is no such thing as real marriage any more, only "The Institution Formerly Known as Marriage".

3. The next step in conscience threats to medical staff -- forcing them to participate in offensive activity.

4. Support grows for the authentic "abortion reduction" bill, the Pregnant Women Support Act. If the Administration and Congressional leadership are serious about reducing abortion, this will be a test. Watch to see if they try to stuff more money for contraceptives into the bill.

5. In case you're wondering if the First Commandment is still "relevant" to the modern age, see this new picture of the President.

6. Interesting article about opposition to same-sex "marriage" from the African American religious community, focusing on Senate Majority Leader Smith's own congregation.

7. Weird, weird, weird. A woman has written a book decrying what she sees as our culture's "obsession with virginity". I guess she was really looking at the Parallel Universe version of the United States, you know, like the one in the comic books where Superman is actually evil. Weird.