…is the end of legal marriage, argues Stanley Kurtz.
Month: November 2003
‘News’ from Massachusetts
ScrappleFace is on the job.
Gay marriage gets the go-ahead in godless north
The population of Massachusetts is half Catholic. Now they’re the first significant state to legalize gay marriage. Granted, this is judge-imposed legislation, but I find it shameful that Catholics have succumbed to the Culture of Death to such an extent. What are Catholics doing up there? Or in the rest of the godless north, which is the one of the prime nurturers for the CoD? Seems like many, if not most of them are complicit.
I’m sure Richard is going to comment on this, so maybe he can chime in with some hopeful news.
Those “Dutch by radio” shortwave lessons come in handy sometimes
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The idea of a “Lord Of The Rings mass” over in Holland made Kathy Shaidle flinch and made Mark Shea‘s eyes roll back into his head, but fortunately De Telegraaf describes the place as a gereformeerde church — that’s Reformed, y’all. Whew: it’s not one of ours. |
I guess the combination of being Dutch and Reformed doesn’t mean the same thing there as it does here, given that they also held a “Harry Potter service”.
Running out of bad words
Sage words from the U.K. Loony Left:
[Mayor of London] Livingstone says Bush is ‘greatest threat to life on planet’
ONE IN THREE BRITONS THINK BUSH IS STUPID – POLL
In other news, one in five Britons said Bush had “cooties,” while one in eight called him “Mr. Poo-Poo Head.”
The Left, on both sides of the Atlantic, has chosen screaming hyperbole as its normative mode of expression. Practically every leftist movement — feminism, environmentalism, trade unionism, and the rest — is shot through with Marxist historicism, the belief that History-with-a-capital-H is moving inevitably in the direction they intuited. In the last two decades, especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has been harder to argue that state socialism is the wave of the future. Since Sept. 11, 2001, it has been rather more difficult to say we live in a world “beyond good and evil.”
If you’ve been caught up in the fantasies of the Left for your whole life, as Red Ken Livingstone has, it must be a difficult existence. A rational mind would adjust his theories to fit reality, but the committed leftist drinks deeply from the wellspring of irrational faith: that lo stato can solve every problem without resorting to force, and that human ingenuity can father a perfect world without God’s assistance. The first and foremost reason the Hard Left hates Bush is because he’s a committed Christian who believes in God’s providence. They thought his type was on the way out, what with modern science and all; it enrages them to think that not only do committed Christians still exist, but they seem to be making a comeback.
The same wounded roars come from Catholic liberals, too, as they watch their “Spirit of Vatican II” novelties dissipate like a puff of smoke in a strong breeze. Younger Catholics, and especially younger priests, aren’t “progressing” in the way they had hoped. A faithful man who sees things going amiss can say o tempora! o mores!, but ultimately lay the matters in God’s hands. The secular man cannot abide any setbacks, as the real, ultimate battleground is in the here-and-now; thus the impatience and rage when things don’t go his way.