Tag: Politics
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Piero A. Tozzi: The New Global Morality: DADT Repeal and Secretary Clinton’s embrace of “Universal Standards”
Apart from from the health care rationing that Obamacare would foster on American citizens, I argue too that the questionable morality of the self-selected administrators of the project would drive policy decisions in directions that violate traditional norms. “Do you really want people like Hillary Clinton or Barbara Boxer making your health care decisions?” I…
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Michael Barone on the recent election
Occasionally I get emails from readers taking me to task for discussing politics on a “religious” forum. It should not be allowed they argue but obviously I don’t agree. Politics, culture, religion, values, ideas and so forth overlap in critical ways and ignoring this is, at a minimum, a prescription for ignorance. It’s true that…
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Space crew with the next expedition takes Gospels to ISS
My first thought was no political correctness there. My second thought I’d want something like this if I were at the top of a rocket shooting into space. Moscow, December 1, Interfax – The crew of Soyuz TMA-20 piloted spaceship that starts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 5, will take Gospels to the International…
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Is Europe waking up from its multi-cultural inebriation?
Austrian MP Ewald Stadler speaks to the position of the Turkish Ambassador and tells off some of his colleagues. During this, he addresses the lack of outrage when Catholic Archbishop Luigi Padovese was killed in Turkey and mentions the priests who have been killed. Stadler is certainly not an indifferent Catholic!
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Patsourakos: Clergy Must Abide by America’s Tradition of Church-State Separation
George Patsourakos, occasional commentator on the AOI Observer, posted a commentary on his blog “Theology and Society” sure to elicit some strong responses. I agree with his overall conclusion (keep candidate endorsements away from the pulpit) but I disagree with his interpretation of the separation of church and state clause in the Constitution. What do…