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Last Sunday the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) protested on the sidewalk directly in front of Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral. They chose the Sunday that married couples renewed their vows, in honor of St. Valentine’s Day, to stage a protest against the Catholic Church’s teachings on marriage.
On their website they defend their protest as “a peaceful expression of 1st Amendment rights.” Unfortunately for all of us, the laws of the City of Chicago don’t allow for unrestricted freedom of expression, peaceful or not. [Continue reading ...]
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal starts out talking about a pregnant surrogate mother from Bulgaria in a hospital on the Greek island of Crete planning to deliver a baby whose biological mother is an anonymous European egg donor and whose father is Italian.
The arrangement is being coordinated by PlanetHospital, which WSJ describes as “a California company that searches the globe to find the components for its business line. The business, in this case, is creating babies.”
Hence the article’s title, “Assembling the Global Baby.”
CEO, Rudy Rupak boasts that PlanetHospital’s we-do-it-all approach to surrogacy can be likened to a “concierge service.” [Continue reading ...]
A story broke over the weekend in L’Osservatore Romano publishing excerpts of a new book, Light of the World: The Pope, The Church and The Signs Of The Times, which consists of interviews with Pope Benedict XVI conducted by German journalist Peter Seewald. Though the interviews touched on a myriad of subjects, the book has caught the attention of the media because of some brief questions on the issue of condom use.
Pope Benedict speculated that there are circumstances where the use of a condom for the purpose of preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases might be, for a person bereft of moral sensitivity, a “first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants.” The full text of the Pope’s statement with cogent commentary can be found on Fr. John Zuhlsdorf’s excellent blog, What Does the Prayer Really Say. [Continue reading ...]
Do you ever suffer from the Seinfeld Effect?
I read a really interesting article the other day about so-called “Same-Sex Marriage,” the Seinfeld Effect, and the “spiral of silence.”
It really struck a chord with me, because it emphasized the importance of every single person’s voice and the importance of people standing up for what they believe in.
Basically, the article uses an episode of Seinfeld to prove a point–people are afraid to admit if they believe homosexuality is wrong anymore. When Jerry and George are mistaken for being a gay couple, they deny it loudly but always add the caveat “not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
My point here is not to discuss homosexuality, though. My point is that they thought something was wrong enough that they wouldn’t want to be involved with it (their vociferous denials prove this) but that they were afraid to admit this out loud.
Can you imagine a world in which we all say, “I’m never going to have an abortion–not that there’s anything wrong with having one.”? [Continue reading ...]
Bishop Soto was invited to speak at the recent National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries Conference in California. Many people were upset that he was willing to attend and feared what the future bishop of Sacramento would say.
In San Francisco, California’s highest court has barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny performing artificial insemination on lesbians.
Judge Joyce Kennard wrote that Christian doctors who refuse this elective surgery have neither a free speech right nor a religious right to refuse to do something they consider morally evil. What ever happened to the right to follow one’s conscience? Judges such as Kennard are tyrants, and should be thrown off the bench.
A weird story on the Chicago Tribune news services says there is not presently any strong evidence that “abstinence-only” programs are working.
A report supposedly based on a review of the research that has been done, released by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, assures us that efforts to promote abstinence appear to have little positive impact.
Saturday’s prayer vigil and protest at Planned Parenthood’s largest abortion mill in the world in Aurora, IL was a huge success with more than a thousand attending and praying that the mill will go away.
You might want to mark your calendar with a big black “X” on Saturday, August 11, 2007. That’s the day the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America died a horrible, shameful death when its large assembly, meeting out in the lake on Navy Pier, voted to allow sodomy among its clergy.
Our picket of the Democrat Debate at Soldier Field Tuesday afternoon was a howling success, once the police got us settled far enough away from the entrance so that most of the AFL-CIO folks couldn’t see us.