Links for 5/1/18

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MGB: Seidel is all wrong and the bishops are idiots for supporting him. This is another case of putting loyalty and tradition above truth. Human sexual behavior is always culturally bound and any marriage between two people is sacred and should be both respected and blessed, as well as being a constitutional right that cannot be revoked by statute. The only justice that thought differently is long buried and the new one will make the Court unanimous.  The pernicious thing is that this bill will never pass. It is merely a device for fundraising money from idiots who believe his siren song.

I suspect that high school civics classes teach about the abortion debate, including the logic behind Roe and privacy rights (not secrecy, but the right to be left alone). The religious ramifications of this don't even come into play for most people. They have been overshadowed by the reverse simony of the Catholic bishops at the Republican altar.

The leadership of Catholic University of America has joined the plutocracy. No wonder Napa likes them so.  Sadly, their football team is not good enough to justify those numbers. George Mason students are at least conscious enough to sue, although a little research shows exactly how the Koch's are related to the school. Maybe they need a tuition refund.

I would call the Glendon award more of an Anachronist convention than a Republican one. The GOP would have thrown Maciel under the bus at the first sign of trouble. I recently reviewed Evangelium on both my website and in a book on Papal Anachronists. It was not as well done as Saint John Paul sycophants think it was, so the naming is apt. Of course, the encyclical does play right into the GOP conspiracy to snag Catholic voters for causes they have no hope of winning, so maybe it was a Republican event.

Disagree with Newman. The Heartland can only be taken by the Democrats if they jettison People of Color and sexual minorities (actually, women are the majority). If Rosanne had a guess whose coming to dinner moment where a character brings over a gay or ethnic paramour, then you would see how that question really plays out.  Of course, that show has been done other places and the Heartland does not watch it. Is there a way out? Occupy Capitalism so that working class America and ethnic America finally see the common interest that the Capitalists are trying to disrupt. That will take jobs, not television.