She Chose the Wrong Standard to Follow

1. Well, she has chosen whose standard she will follow. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas has vetoed the latest common-sense abortion regulation bill presented to her. Now, some Republican senators have grown spinal columns, and are challenging her nomination to be Secretary of HHS. May God have mercy on her for her terrible decision about the direction of her life.

2. A major breakthrough on deriving pluripotent stem cells from skin cells. As the article says, "The field has been moving at breakneck speed" -- yet at the same time, the ideologues in our government are falling over themselves to fund unethical stem cell research. In the background, there's an important point to remember -- most scientists really don't have a moral or ethical objection to cloning, just pragmatic objections.

3. Bishop D'Arcy of Fort Wayne says that there is now a "terrible breach" between NDU and the Catholic Church, and completely demolishes NDU's absurd legalistic parsing of the prohibition on honoring pro-abortion figures. News story here, full statement here. Strong words, indeed, but when a diocesan ordinary asserts his authority and uses those terms about a "Catholic" institution in his diocese, it has much more significance.

4. Still, Providence does take advantage of the errors of the Enemy. The NDU scandal offered an opportunity for an outstanding pro-life speech on campus. Was anyone from the school administration present?

5. At the same time, on the campus of a formerly Catholic law school, the noted legal scholar The Honorable Joseph Robinette Biden, Esq., received an award from a pro-abortion group and opined that there is no excuse for violence against a woman or a child. No, lightning didn't strike, nor did the audience dissolve in laughter at the tragic irony of the remark or at the sad lack of rudimentary self-awareness by the orator. As Mark Shea says, sin makes you stupid.

6. At a Congressional hearing, our Secretary of State continued her love-in with the wicked monster who founded the Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood. Now she absurdly compares that person to Thomas Jefferson, who, for all his faults, was never an evil racist genocidal apologist for mass murder. The only good part of the whole travesty was that she actually admitted that the term "reproductive health" is a code word for abortion.

7. Gov. Paterson seems to be shying away a bit from same-sex "marriage". Not quite Miss California territory, but promising.

8. This story floored me. Half of seminary students say that they were discouraged -- mostly by their families -- from pursuing their vocation.

9. Blogged yesterday on the Miss California situation, and the ugly face of the future -- not hers, certainly, but the intolerance of the same-sex "marriage" movement.