Links for 8/7/18

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MGB: The Federalist article shows that conservatism is the province of angy old men and their baby boomer children - the kind of guys who, if they went to Vietnam were shot by their own men. They will not last long as a movement.

The Church is suffering from a crisis in sexuality, from asexuals who are not fully formed sexually and therefore likely to abuse and who idealize heterosexuality and from it develop unworkable sexual teaching with a strong current of misogyny.

The pressence of these four cardinals on an EWTN stage shows exactly what is wrong with the Church: collegiality over truth.

Democrats for Life has a place in the party as long as they renounce criminalizing abortion except when the fetus is recongized as a person, in which case the crime is infanticide. If their entire agenda is a greatly expanded refundable child tax credit, distributed with pay, then they are welcome.

Cupich is in line with the Church, however the answer to capital punishment is in the Catechim and in the political theories of Locke and Hobbes. The issue is danger, not justice. Black young men in Chicago will grow out of their gang activity, especially if drugs are legalized. Sociopaths will not.

LifeSiteNews is partisan, so they don't like anything Francis does.  I hate to think I agree with them on anything, although they likely justify a death penalty on punishment. Mine is danger and more like euthanasia, which they would run screaming from.

Conservatives will deny climate change until the moment their beach front property washes into the sea, at which point they will demand government help.

In the long run, if not the short run, the Koch brothers will be dead. We have not heard whether there is another generation to keep their activities going.  Liberty is not a bad thing except when it is used to cloak economic power. Then it is horrid. Otherwise, it limits the power of the government to act upon the demands of a self-righteous majority against a vulnerable minority. There are a great many things that are none of the majority's or the Church's business.