Our own Pete Vere at Envoy Encore on Canada's destruction of the institution of Marriage.
Amy Welborn at her joint on lay ministry and Rome's perspective on our country's bishops' sticky wicket.
Fr. Rob on marriage prep, cohabitation, and extra-marital sexual relations - known to everyone in the whole wide, fallen world as just plain "sex" though that is only one meaning of the word. I'll post my take on this later today.
In other news, I ate way too much for breakfast. I'm going to pop.
I commented in another entry earlier in the week on my displeasure (to put it mildly) about the Canadian government's moves on same-sex marriage, but Pete Vere's commentary truly hits the nail on the head. Well said, Pete! Not only is this the moral equivalent of 9/11/01 for Canadians, but it also is their equivalent of Roe v. Wade. I shudder to think of the divisiveness that is about to begin.
We Americans are going to be helplessly watching a slow-motion train wreck to the north of the border unless the good people of Canada get motivated and tell their leaders that this is NOT okay. As a democracy, the Canadian people have the final say, and though the process of overturning this may be a difficult and at times painful one, possibly even requiring a Constitutional amendment, it is a cause worth fighting for, I believe.
If a legitimate, rational organization representing various faiths and cultures can take the lead in opposing the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada, I'm sure American dollars will start to flow in to support them. As non-citizens, money and prayers are all we have to offer. Such an organization would have to keep the extremist rednecks and other such haters out, while still being as broad-based as possible, with a respected, well-spoken leader.