Wandering Through Christendom

There are times when I might be hard put to define what a Christian is. Oh not from a technical standpoint. Any good dictionary will do for that, and certainly either the Nicene Creed or Apostles’ fits the bill.
What I mean is that in examining the speech and behavior of some people, I’d be hard [...]

The Big Lie of the Anti-choice Right

It is probably true that there is no basis of compromise between the two sides. One either believes that there is a fundamental right of a woman to control her own body or one believes that  conception and the resultant life trumps all other issues from the moment that sperm meets ovum.
We can all agree [...]

What’s In a Constitution?

The Contrarian raised the question: “How does one oppose pharmaceutical companies being allowed to advertise on TV without violating the first amendment?”
The thing about the Contrarian is, he seldom asks easy questions. And I’ve learned to mostly not think too much about his questions, because I usually have enough of my own. But, given my [...]

Just Ordinary Words

I’ve been kicking around a couple of ideas for the past twenty-four hours, trying to conflate them into one post. It isn’t working, unless I write a couple of thousand words, and that violates most known rules of blogging. So, I’ll spare you a tome and split the two.
A few days ago, I posted about [...]

On Whose Hands?

                                                                                                             Dr. George Tiller is dead. He was killed by some demented anti-abortionist activitist. Most of the right-to-lifer groups are trying to distance themselves. Not all, but most.
Dr. Tiller did what was and is legal in the United States of America. Agree with him or not, he was practicing medicine, as a fully licensed physician. [...]

Name Your Impulse

Okay, we’ve been through this before. What in the world makes a conservative, well conservative, and a liberal, liberal.
We try to converse with each other, end up yelling, throwing down our respective hats, and screaming bloody murder. “What is wrong with you. It’s obvious to anybody with a brain!”
Yet, we fail, and we are wont, [...]

The Inevitable Fear Push

Alternet has a post you ought to take a look at. It’s about abortion. Yes, THAT subject again. It is about the campaign being run by the USCCB to fight the passage of a bill not yet in Congress. The bill is the Freedom of Choice Act.
Conservative Catholics and no doubt other right wing religious [...]