thoughts in and out of season
The new religion is that claims of victimization trump everything. Here’s more evidence: Judge Declines To Sentence 3 Catholic Gay Activists. Three members of an activist group protesting at the annual Conference of Catholic Bishops were denied communion at one of the masses there. The next day they went to the conference site, made … More ...
A correspondent translated the short introductory essay to my Anti-Feminism Page and tried to get it published in a large Finnish newspaper. Not surprisingly, they rejected it. Their objections were that it didn’t explain what feminism is and it set forth a conspiracy theory. I was impressed that they hit on two of the three … More ...
A Christian activist who became HIV positive after his wife was infected by a blood transfusion is withdrawing from the presidential AIDS advisory panel under pressure because it came out that he had called AIDS the “gay plague” and homosexuality a “death style” that could be cured by Christianity. As Ari Fleischer said, “The views … More ...
What planet is the Pope on? What kind of people and what sort of movement does he think he’s been dealing with all these years? And what did he think the result of his enthusiasm for immigration would be? Pope wants EU to call itself Christian.
Some people find there are things that take precedence over even observing the MLK holiday. Take for example the Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend that just finished, which annually brings thousands of homosexual leather fetishists to the streets and hotels of the nation’s capital. Not all was perfect. Major hotel chains offered the usual concessionary rates, but … More ...
Religious tolerance in America: Honor guardsman at military cemetery fired for blessings. He apparently followed written policy by mentioning God when the mourners were religious, but his superior thought it violated the First Amendment and New Jersey anti-harassment policy.
The emerging rule seems to be that any act in any public setting that gives … More ...
I’ve revised the text of my recent draft essay on tradition and conservatism in response to comments. Any further comments would be very welcome.
No surprise: Internet in schools fails to improve results. However, it did provide a way to avoid thinking about educational problems.
Feminism necessarily means the abolition of common sense. Common sense presumes the correctness of ordinary human reactions. Feminism can’t live with that, because it can’t live with the sexual differentiation that is basic to human life. Even the most moderate and mainstream feminism turns the radical transformation of human nature into a requirement of basic … More ...
Shocking events like September 11 provoke new variations on human weirdness: German faces jail for ‘ironic’ remark . Apparently, someone on an Internet message board said “Yay for killing Taleban POWs” and one Holger Voss answered “Yay 9/11 murderers.” The consequence was that the German police arrested poor Holger, and now he’s on trial for … More ...