Progressive again

For sheer, unadulterated pap, you just can’t beat good, old-fashioned normally progressive lines.

Progressivism

They believed in that vague kind of middle-American progressivism that expressed itself in Scandinavian furniture, subscriptions to the New Yorker, and “educational playthings.”

Ancient sex

In antiquity, and throughout the heathen world, the gods indulged in sex. Not so the God of Israel.

Church & poverty

A report in Zenit shows what truly obsesses the Church: "Some 27% of health care centers that attend AIDS patients around the world are administered by the Church; 44% are run by governments, 18% by nongovernmental organizations, 11% by other religious institutions, and 8% by other groups."

M. L. King's loose women

In the early '60s, Robert Kennedy authorized Hoover to bug and tap Dr. Martin Luther King. When the FBI turned up film of King with loose women, LBJ's White House moved the photos to the Washington press.

Hypocrisy

There is a story floating around cyberspace about a church service that was allegedly interrupted by a squad of armed men dressed in black with black ski masks covering their faces. They burst into the full church and fired into the ceiling. The leader stepped forward and announced, "If you're not willing to take a bullet for God leave now." There was a stampede of parishioners for the exits. The minister was left standing at the pulpit with a mere dozen remaining in the congregation. The masked leader announced, "OK, preacher, we got rid of the hypocrites. You can continue with your service." The masked gunmen left.

Giving blood

"If liberals and moderates gave blood as often as conservatives, Mr. Brooks said, the American blood supply would increase by 45 percent." But then again we'd have to ask ourselves, do we want liberal blood coursing through the veins of otherwise innocent people?