Links: Denying Communion to same-sex couples, and Bush talks immigration reform

Links: Denying Communion to same-sex couples, and Bush talks immigration reform 

Note to NCR graphics department. Quit using photos of the Blessed Sacrament in news stories. It is profane to do so.

You cannot have it both ways on Catholic sexual ethics. It is either perfectly fine, which means that gays should Church shop, or horribly anachronistic and sexist, based in Hellenism and the glorification of asexuality. Catholic natural law is either correct or dependent on the fallacy of reference to authority. Homosexuals are either intrinsically flawed or wonderfully made. Here is the test: are non-gay priests heroic heterosexuals or a mix of well integrated asexuals, with other asexuals closeted to themselves (and dangerous to children). Michael Sean needs to quit trying to have it both ways.

George W. Bush is the voice of sanity in the Republican Party. It would be viable, and would have had no room for Trump, if James Sensenbrenner had not blocked Bush's immigration reforms. His endorsement for a non-Trumpian is the only thing that will keep the Party alive (and keep the Democrats from splitting into Wall Street and Sanders camps. I should send him my book.

The first two years of college or tech school should be absolutely free (including Catholic college or "gasp" Catholic tech school). Indeed, students should be paid to go. After that, students should find a job for either full-time work or as full-time students with a service requirement. Student loans need only be used if the work arrangement does not work out. Should student loans be forgiven? There should be no set amount. Simply cancel all capitalized interest and apply payments to date to outstanding principal. 

For some, that will wipe out debt. For others, payments should be made on a schedule that will pay off the loan (with any principal balance for the first two years forgiven as well. This part will be a huge relief for those who started school without the capacity to finish it. Using students as cash cows to pay for Affordable Care Act baseline costs when they cannot afford the premiums is unjust (and even cruel).

Judges and Justices are allowed to write books. Any law that says otherwise would be ruled, justifiably, unconstitutional.  Being on the Court is actually less work than serving as an appellate judge (or a law school professor).

Puerto Rico shares the same issues that ever Central American and Caribbean nation face. They need to unite and face down the United States together. The radical elites will cancel each other out.

In Nevada, the line between the state and the Mormon Church is fuzzy enough to make covering religion essential. On a national basis, the biggest offender in filling landfills is paper, especially newsprint. It is time to move on (and incinerate).

Secularism is not the problem with the Democratic Party. Just the opposite. The President needs to expand the narrative on why Roe can never be overturned nor abortion outlawed, while at the same time calling out the Office of Pro-Life Activities as a Republican Fifth Column in the Church. 

There are plenty of ethnic conservatives who will never leave the Democratic Party - both Black and Hispanic. 43% of the Catholic vote still votes for the Dems, no matter what. If the Sanders wing of the Democratic Party does split off without making peace with people of faith, it will not last long.

My guess is that the robbery victim in Pittsburgh is not a Democrat.

When I was four years old in San Antonio, I once steered an airplane for my father while he took a picture of the Hemisfair Tower, then under construction. Space needles never go out of style.