Links for 06/12/17: In the Washington Post, Andy Slavitt on how the GOP-led Senate is approaching health care. This is despicable. Sen. Mitch McConnell is from the same as the immediate past president of the b...
MGB: McConnell does not know how to govern, or so it seems. I suspect that reform is supposed to be a colossal failure because the insurance companies and PhARMA like that status quo exactly the way it is. While there is room to compromise on health care reform and trade the high income surtaxes for a more general value-added tax, it would challenge Republican orthodoxy too much - even if it gave the rich a tax cut. Any other change would require certain parts of the law be more liberal. The GOP does not have the votes to move it to the right, so they will lose in a way that they can blame the Democrats.
Vote boycotts are a perversion of democracy. It could be that a deal was made and the major parties wanted someone else to support statehood because their members never would. There may be hope for DC statehood yet if they bring them in as a pair.
Leave it to LifeSiteNews consider marrying for new love a mortal sin. According to Garry Wills, they also misread Paul on Communion. The term mortal sin had not been coined when Paul was writing. According to Wills, this passage referred to eating at the Agape meal, although MSW does not seem to like the book where this analysis takes place. I agree with LSN on one thing, the long-misunderstood doctrine on Communion and sin needs more formal reconsideration rather than pastoral adjustment. Too many feel too guilty subjectively on what is not sinful at all for most. Catholic divorce should also be codified. Sometimes one spouse hurts another or two spouses hurt each other in ways that cannot be mended without having to claim that marriage was somehow invalid.
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