By Maggie Gallagher
Last month, facing the problem of Muslim assimilation, British Prime Minister David Cameron denounced multiculturalism and called for a new “muscular liberalism” as the basis for a shared national identity.
Applauding conservatives, beware. Read more…
The Obama administration made the incoherent declaration last week that it will no longer defend in court a federal law it must enforce. And thus the Justice Department signaled the likelihood that injustices may lie on the landscape for a host of issues.
Starting with religious liberty and marriage law.
Robert P. George, perhaps the nation’s top Catholic scholar on marriage, described [U.S. Attorney General Eric] Holder’s defense of the administration’s position as “extremely worrying.” Read more…
By George Neumayr | December 2010
The phrase “social justice,” when invoked by members of the Catholic left, is a euphemism for the agenda of the Democratic Party. “Social justice” refers not to objective principles of justice but to specific policies of Democrats on health care, labor, welfare, and other matters. Read more…
The news is that the effort to gather enough signatures to put a repeal of Proposition 8 on the ballot for 2010 has fallen short. But the pro same-sex ‘marriage’ folks are resolved to bring it to a vote (again) in 2012.
I’m almost disappointed. An effort to repeal Prop 8 just two years after the voters of California passed the amendment would have probably failed severely and made it all the more difficult (if not impossible) to pull it off in 2012. At least we’re safe for the next two years, though.
It will be interesting to see how another battle over same-sex marriage during a Presidential election year will affect the vote.
That’s the question Colleen Carroll Campbell asks. in reference to the recent story about a Catholic school in Colorado that denied readmission to the child of a lesbian couple. As she put it:
Boulder’s vociferous gay-rights activists mobilized to protest the priest, the parish and the Archdiocese of Denver, brandishing signs outside the church that plaintively asked: “What would Jesus do?”
For the reporters breathlessly covering the story and many Catholics, the answer was obvious. Jesus would allow the children to stay in the school. He would tell the teachers not to worry about the conflict between their duty to teach Catholic doctrine on marriage and their desire to protect the feelings of students being raised by a couple that flouted that doctrine in a particularly obvious way. Read more…
so says Maggie Gallagher, of our sister organization, the National Organization for Marriage, over at NRO. Here is one of my favorite reasons:
4. Progressives are often wrong about the future. Read more…
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