MGB:_If the War on Chirstmas was their only issue, the Values Summit would be a quaint ananchronism defeated by everyone honoring the astorlogical origins of the holiday by saying Good Yule. It is as much grievance as policy, however. At this stage, there is nothing that can be done about gay marriage or the right of gay people to a job, given that the federal courts are about to say that the marriage decisions automatically include emploment non-discrimination, which is going to be a problem for the Church in its backlash against gay married staff.
Abortion is similarly a dead issue, because if the 20-week ban cannot pass the House it will never see the light of day in the Senate. The obscene thing is that these values Catholics and Evangelicals won’t even consider what Pope Pius XI says about fighting abortion using a family sensitive wage backed by tax policy. They see that as paying people not to kill their children and subsidizing other people’s sexuality. In other words, NARAL is right, it is about controling women’s bodies and it’s not Catholic.
That the usual Catholic right-wingers were there is no shock. One wonders about their appearance fees. This event has devolved into entertainment for and by the usual suspects. It is hardly worth covering.
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