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MassResistance files six strong bills in Legislature to protect parents and citizens!
We have filed six badly needed bills to give back rights to parents and citizens, and to stop the increasingly militant homosexual and transgender movement targeting vulnerable children in the public schools (while parents helplessly watch from the sidelines). Unlike other “pro-family” groups, we are not filing “moderate” bills that compromise your rights as citizens and Americans. You’ll hear plenty of political “experts” say we should only attempt to get what the liberals might allow us (if we’re polite). That never works. What works is focusing on what’s right and demanding it tirelessly.
Georgetown U ignores bishops’ directive, gives platform to HRC’s anti-Catholic Pres – CatholicVote.org
The event with HRC is dubbed “Beyond DADT Repeal: The Future of the LGBTQ Rights Movement.” The page describes the HRC as ”America’s largest lesbian & gay advocacy organization.”
Joe Solmonese has got one thing right: if you want to win, dismantle the opposition. The Catholic Church’s teaching stands squarely in the way of Joe’s goals, and Georgetown University has now made itself complicit in his efforts to sow confusion and dissent among Catholic ranks.
Cowardice in Halton re: gay-straight alliances by Michael Coren
Nobody has to teach at or attend a Catholic school. If you’re no longer Catholic, teach in the public system. If your family pretty much left the Church years ago, send the kids to the public school. For 40 years now, too many teachers driven by an agenda or by sheer indifference have failed to do their job as Catholic educators. Throw in lapsed Catholic politicians and the Halton debacle was inevitable
What will Apostolic Visitation of Ireland re: sex abuse accomplish? – Fr. Raymond DeSouza
When the visitors were announced last spring, I was disappointed. The archbishops chosen are fine men, most of whom I know personally and admire greatly. But choosing five Irish bishops from the diaspora to conduct visitations in “mother Ireland” struck me as more of a family reunion than an ecclesiastical reform. My own preference would have been to send visitors from Africa and India, men of different colours and different accents. Some black and brown faces in the Emerald Isle would have dramatically underscored that it was no longer business as usual.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM
Global Warming Hysteria: Unleashing the Lawyer Pack! – Wesley Smith
So, now the weather is going to be blamed on industries thought to contribute to global warming. And if the weather causes damage, the industries will be made to pay! From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.
This tactic needs to be stopped in its tracks by the force of law prohibiting such cases!
EPA Administrator Won’t Say If She Agrees With Climate Scientist Who Says There’s Been No Statistically Significant Global Warming Since 1995
Climate Scientist: It’s ‘Reasonable’ to Believe Global Warming Is Causing Snowy Winters in Eastern U.S. and Europe. But stresses that this is only a hypothesis that has yet to be definitively demonstrated.
Confessions of a Greenpeace dropout – Mercator
A new book tells how a founding member of the radical group became a sensible environmentalist. I became a sensible environmentalist; Greenpeace became increasingly senseless as it adopted an agenda that is antiscience, antibusiness, and downright antihuman.
To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anticapitalism and antiglobalization than with science or ecology. I remember visiting our Toronto office in 1985 and being surprised at how many of the new recruits were sporting army fatigues and red berets in support of the Sandinistas.
The celebrated Canadian author Farley Mowat has described humans as a “fatally flawed species.” This kind of pessimism may be politically correct today, but it is terribly self-defeating. Short of mass suicide there doesn’t seem to be an appropriate response.
There is no cause for alarm about climate change. The climate is always changing. Some of the proposed “solutions” would be far worse than any imaginable consequence of global warming, which will likely be mostly positive. Cooling is what we should fear.
MISCELLANEOUS
The rot in values that is causing America’s decline – The Jerusalem Post
Thrift, hard work, close-knit families, a pioneering spirit, a love of adventure, a rejection of indolence, faith-based ethics, a God-centric society, a belief in spreading freedom and democracy – where did that all go?
The reason we don’t excel in education is not because our schools focus on philosophy and the humanities to the exclusion of science and math, but rather because we are becoming a pack of ignoramuses watching inane TV shows, following the lives of mostly decadent celebrities, and engaging in an endless orgy of consumption. Our problem is not that we read too much Nietzsche and too little astrophysics, but rather that our character is becoming corrupt.
China’s fragile success – Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post ·
The Chinese economy today parallels that of the latter-day Soviet Union—immense accomplishments co-existing with immense failures. In some ways, China’s stability today is more precarious than was the Soviet Union’s before its fall. China’s poor are poorer than the Soviet Union’s poor, and they are much more numerous—about one billion in a country of 1.3 billion.
Year by year, the number of demonstrations increases. Last year alone saw 100,000 such protests across the county, directly involving tens and indirectly perhaps hundreds of millions of protesters. The Soviet regime, when it fell, went out with a whimper. China’s will more likely go out with a bang. No regime can contain the grievances of a billion people for long.
Seeing red, PAC is down on Scott Brown – Washington Times
The National Republican Trust spent nearly $100,000 last year to help Scott Brown win the U.S. Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, but now the conservative political group wishes it had that money back to help kick Mr. Brown out of office. Saying the Republican senator is no different from a Democrat, the head of the group is calling for Mr. Brown to donate to charity or disgorge campaign money equal to how much the trust spent supporting him during the 2010 campaign.
Super Bowl – The Untold Story By Michael Reagan
There has been a lot of media buzz about the thousands of prostitutes, strippers and pole dancers streaming into the Dallas area for the Super Bowl weekend. But what rarely gets reported is the alarming fact that hiding behind the push-up bras, false eyelashes and stilettos are children, some as young as 12 years of age, who are victims of human sex trafficking.
Ways out of the Christian ghetto – Mercator
A Jewish scholar reflects on what can reverse the retreat of Christians before militant secularism.
Why is the Minnesota Catholic Conference opposed to a Voter ID bill? – CatholicVote.org