The most disturbing prospect...

Brought to my attention by Professor Beckwith over at The Catholic Thing:

"So, here is the future: if the state can declare the Johns unfit to be foster parents, and thus deny them foster children, because they may teach these children the Christian understanding of human sexuality, then the state, armed with Judge Walker’s premises, can declare any married couple unfit to be parents, and thus remove their natural children from their home, because these parents, in fact, teach their children the same lesson the Johns were forbidden from teaching. For it is a lesson that is irrational and harms others, and thus to impart it to one’s children is a form of child abuse."

The possibility of a future in which my family might be desecrated by the abduction of my own children may be the single most infuriating result of this controversy yet. 

Thomas Storck of the Distributist Review...

...posts a spectacular column on how the left/right spectrum locks Catholics into operating under a philosophical framework alien to that of the Church.

But what does one do with something like the prolife movement? Is it of the Right or the Left? Since it defends the most elemental rights of a defenseless part of the population, the unborn, a grave issue of social justice, one would think that it was a cause 6f the Left. But it is linked in the perceptions of many with the Right because it opposes something considered necessary for sexual freedom by those on the libertine Left. So it looks for allies and spokesmen among those on the Right and unwittingly becomes even more linked with the entire right-wing program. But the prolife movement cannot really be classed on the American/Lockean spectrum, because it is not Lockean. It is not really interested in obtaining material benefits for anyone, as if it supported the right to life only of those who would grow up to be successful. Its concerns arise from an elemental recognition of injustice.

Portentuous news from Germany

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, (now once again a predominantly Catholic nation, albeit by the relatively slim margin of 0.5 million adherents, as I recently learned) has stated in no uncertain terms that multiculturalism has failed in Germany:

"'We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don't accept them don't have a place here,' said the chancellor." 

The Catholic Thing...

...comments on the possible outcome of the November elections in relation to sanctity-of-life issues.

An interesting contrast

Consider the differences in the following two articles on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Professor Robert Edwards, one of the developers of in-vitro fertilization: the first from the Associated Press, the second from the Catholic News Agency.

Consider also the marked difference in tone and erudition present in the comment sections of the two articles.

Food for thought.