Outside The Asylum

An African Woman's Open Letter to Melinda Gates : T he real reason contraception is evil- is because it is First World Myopia.

I was about to make a very political post about "The First Epistle of Geoffery to the Americans" - a good read and a good reminder to not pour too much time and treasure into either ending abortion or whatever seems to have replaced helping the poor on the left. And I accidentally posted it to Our Peaceful Place- a Christian pro-life organization that actually follows the advice in that epistle. So in this season of hyper-politics, if you use "BlogThis" plugin for Chrome, remember to set your blog to the right place!

The New Sexual Predators « Public Discourse : They said I was mad to equate sex without procreation with rape.  Well, here's the reverse- procreation without sex is indeed rape- the victimization of our fertile female population.  And who is at the forefront of this new form of rape?  Homosexuals and women! Somehow I can't think of this as the sort of "radical orthodoxy" that Dorothy Day Promoted in this interview , where she actively labeled contraception and abortion as they are used in America today as a genocide, one of the first people to do so.

Fr. Dwight Longnecker has started A new e-newsletter called Faith Works. You can read the initial issues here . From my initial reading, it appears that it is to be an attempt to give a Benedictine approach to the joining of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. Most of us are good at one or the other of these- but few are good at both, and those who are, often get labeled Saints by the people around them. Back in the 1970s when I was growing up, the Catholic Church was not so good at teaching either of these; the more formal spiritual works of mercy were being suppressed, the corporal works of mercy were being limited to charity for the poor for the most part. Well, there's more to life than just working in soup kitchens. But I fear we're beginning to be headed the other way now.

In Portland, Oregon, a pro-life teacher was forced to distribute permission forms from Planned Parenthood's TOP program. The second page of these forms was a release allowing them to use the children in videos and pictures, and to conduct medical procedures on them. If TOP is truly about sex education (bad enough from a Catholic perspective, I've seen the porn they think is educational- it's close to Hentai and child porn as is), then why do they need permission for medical procedures as well as *video* and *pictures*? Do you know that your pro-choice dollars are going to fund child porn?

They claim that male sexuality is different, that men don't want to be fathers. They lie. The entire point in life is reproduction. That's as true for an amoeba as it is a man. ALL life on Earth has this in common- the drive to reproduce. Frustrating that drive is going to have repercussions. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday you are going to regret, as a Man, contraception and abortion that you participated in. It will happen if you give yourself time to think. There is no choice in this. Only the ability to choose to do the wrong thing.

A message for those attempting to escape the Obama Epistemic Closure Bubble : W hy Obama is NOT pro-woman.