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June 2017

June 06, 2017

Pope Benedict was on to the scam of the Party of Trump in 2010

"If we wish to build true peace, how can we separate, or even set at...

May 2017

May 04, 2017

The Real Eugenicists

Last week's Panic du Jour was about Bill Nye's stupid commentary on "extra children". Don't...

March 2017

March 03, 2017

Trump Administration Wants to Separate Mothers from their Children at the Border

Tell me, Christian, "Prolife", "Pro-family" Trump Defender: How do you look yourself in the mirror...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

Trump reduces non-negotiables to four

...and gives himself an eventual out for betraying the desecrate-an-altar-for-Trump crowd: The President-elect said that...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

How Not to Be Pro-life

The Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, self-identifies as a "prolife" Republican. Thing is, when you...

August 03, 2016

Had an interesting conversation with a friend about prolife utopianism

It started with a comment from a reader who said: And do any of you...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Feel free to discuss

Just as contemporary conservative soteriology boils down to "Opposition to abortion taketh away the sins...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

The Party of Life Now Measures Itself by How Many Children it is Willing to Kill

The toxicity of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife party on full display: "We're talking about ruthless things tonight,"...

December 15, 2015

Catholic Prolifers for Trump…

= World's Biggest Suckers. No, seriously, if you support Trump and imagine for one second...

December 02, 2015

The Leader of the GOP Field Calls for the Cold-Blooded Murder of Women and Children

This man is the most popular candidate in the GOP: “And the other thing is...

December 01, 2015

If you sport a pro-life bumper sticker when you drive up to the store

...then don't be offering commentary on how a harrassed mother inside the store needs to...

November 2015

November 04, 2015

Why the “Catholic Prolife” Case for the Bomb Fails

The Public Discourse is forced to say "2+2=4" to a subculture of lies. The real...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Mass Shootings…

...are an Exceptionally American Problem. Yup. And a so-called "prolife" movement brimming with people laboring...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Prolife Christians for Torture

Carly Fiorina plays to the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife base that, as with the death penalty, spent vastly...

September 28, 2015

People are mysteriously baffled…

...about my point concerning the falsehood of so-called conservatives calling "prudential judgements" what are, in...

September 17, 2015

How To Completely Discredit the Claim that the Five Non-Negotiables are Non-Negotiable

I think it is actually true that the the "Five Non-Negotiables" (abortion, euthanasia, gay "marriage",...

September 16, 2015

Be *More* Prolife

Anti-abortion-but-not-prolife conservative: Hear this crie de coeur from a mother who chose life about why...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Jeb Bush Throws a Bit of Red Meat to the Torture-Loving GOP Base

Sends a clear signal that he's open to reviving the Chamber of Horrors his brother's...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Cognitive Dissonance

A reader writes: Is it just me or does it seem to everyone else that...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Pushback Against the Anti-Abortion-But-Not-Prolife Mentality

There have been a number of pre-emptive strikes against Francis and his imminent encyclical. So......

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! to the Great State of Nebraska…

...for outlawing the death penalty and then overriding the veto of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Catholic governor...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

“Prolifers” for Eugenics

Meet Arkansas GOP representative Kim Hammer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical...

March 17, 2015

When Lefties Recommend Compelling the Poor to have Abortions

prolife conservatives rightly protest. When anti-abortion-but-not-prolife conservatives compel the poor to have abortions, "prolife" conservatives...

March 11, 2015

Only one demographic rejects the Church’s teaching about the death penalty

...but it's totally not about race or anything and if you notice that it is...

March 10, 2015

St. Augustine Once Again Shows He was Not a Real American Catholic

Not only did he reject lying for a good cause, he also was not nearly...

March 09, 2015

The Story of Jesus and the Moneychangers…

...is one of the most beloved texts in the Bible for those seeking to rationalize...

March 07, 2015

Death Penalty Red Herring

"The death penalty is not intrinsically immoral like abortion, therefore the state has no business...

March 06, 2015

Some Remarks on Pro Death Penalty Arguments

..are the subject of today's ruminations over at the Register.

February 2015

February 21, 2015

Doctor won’t treat child of lesbians

Punishing children for the sins of their parents is very very smart and will both...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

One of the Real Non-Negotiables for the Anti-Abortion-but-Not-Prolife Sect

For Catholics, commitment to the dignity of human life is a core value. Full stop....

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