The March Goes On

1. Same-sex "marriage" advances in Vermont. Meanwhile, in Iowa Their Imperial Majesties the Omnipotent Platonic Guardians of Justice and Niceness, er, I mean the Iowa Supreme Court, erased a duly-enacted law and legalized SSM this morning.

2. This letter to NDU, from Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Illinois, has some serious smoke coming off of it (he calls it "obscene" and invites the university to change its name to "Fighting Irish College" or "Northwestern Indiana Humanist University"). And here's another strongly worded letter from Archbishop Eusebius Beltran of Oklahoma City, who says that NDU has "certainly turned against the Catholic Church". Ouch!. At what point does NDU accept that they are being seriously admonished by the Successors of the Apostles, show some remorse, and correct their ways?

3. This is a very valuable overview from Americans United for Life of the effort by Congress and the Administration to enact FOCA piecemeal, entitled "FOCA by Stealth".

4. Here's where the "Death with Dignity" movement is heading -- a Swiss suicide "clinic" will help a healthy woman kill herself so she can die alongside her terminally ill husband. This is one of those cases where the authorities need to intervene to save a woman who is a danger to herself, and to provide her with the mental health aid she is obviously not getting from these profiteering vultures. And to arrest these murderers.

5. I try to stay away from the tragic train wreck of what used to be the Episcopal Church, but this cannot be overlooked. A lesbian "priest" has been appointed to head one of their seminaries. That's par for the course, for sure, but this is not -- she's so much a devotee of the Cult of Moloch that she calls abortion "a blessing" and "holy work", and extols it at such great enthusiastic length as to be stomach-turning. This is the spirit of anti-Christ that we were warned of in 1 and 2 John. Please pray for the remaining Christians in that ecclesial community.

6. Maggie Gallagher on the unfair and discriminatory statute of limitations bill here in New York.

7. Credit where credit is due. Catholic Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is functionally pro-abortion, signed two good bills this week -- one to limit funding for embryonic stem cells, and another to authorize "Choose Life" license plates. The Cult of Moloch crowd went crazy, of course. Nobody is defiled enough, er, I mean pure enough for them.

8. Gotta love Our Morning Paper for it's humble self-image. The managing editor of the Times says ""Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause." Yeah, just like it. If it weren't for the crossword puzzle, would the paper be worth anything?

9. The New York City Council spat on the First Amendment yesterday, passing the iniquitous clinic access bill. I'll blog about this today.