thoughts in and out of season
If Commonweal, The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, and a consultant on sex abuse all agree on something, there must be something to it: Taking the Schiltz Challenge. Church officials who claim the recent pederasty scandals were a creation of the anti-Catholic media are wrong, since the outrageous … More ...
Here’s what happens to government “pro-marriage” initiatives: Stop wasting marriage money!. Funds allocated by the British government to “strengthen the institution of marriage” are being given to gay and lesbian groups, organizations that provide contraception and abortion referrals for teenagers, and organizations for the divorced and separated. Not, one supposes, what the proponents had … More ...
Why so much bad religious art, architecture, music, ceremony and whatnot? Iconoclasm has always rested on theological error, and a Florentine scholar tells us that the same is true today: The New Iconoclasts Have Theology Degrees. The problem the article points to, in its Italian philosophical way, is the modern view that reduces the … More ...
How to recognize a society in terminal decline: read what Juergen Habermas says in his call for renewal. According to the philosopher, whom many consider the leading German public intellectual, the renewal would be based on
… More ...“five attributes … Europeans share: the neutrality of authority, embodied in the separation of church and state, trust
This is bloody, sordid and freakish, but it suggests the logic of the principles now accepted: transvestite murder treated as hate crime. A man paid a prostitute for services and killed the prostitute when he found out it was a man. A representative of something called the “gay and lesbian liaison unit” at the … More ...
This looks bad: New York Times radio station fires announcer over off-air remark. Gregg Whiteside had worked for WQXR 25 years and was their main classical music announcer. He made a comment (reportedly antisemitic) in a private conversation with a colleague and friend. Someone overheard the comment and reported it, and they fired him … More ...
The ever-useful Keith Windshuttle has collected a remarkable collection of stupid, wrong-headed, and sometimes downright evil responses from intellectuals to September 11. To my mind the most outrageous case he recounts (pointed out by PC Watch) is the following:
… More ...There were some academics who, in the heat of the moment, overlooked the prevailing politically correct
The march of equal opportunity: Firms plan gay audit to avoid discrimination claims. Some big English companies are rushing to find how which employees are homosexual before laws go into effect that could expose them to huge liabilities if it they are found to have discriminated.
The problem, of course, is that employers can’t … More ...
List-keepers are one thing that makes Freerepublic sometimes useful. Here, for example, is a list of links relating to the homosexual agenda. It should always be possible to find the most recent version of the list through “scripter,” the member who maintains it.
The Bush adminstration has warned colleges about campus speech codes, and David Limbaugh says “hurrah!”
What ever happened to the conservative ideal of self-governing institutions? The speech codes I know about are bad, but they wouldn’t be such a problem if the civil rights laws hadn’t imposed affirmative action and so forced a regime of … More ...