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“I want to lose my virginity”
“I am a 19-year-old freshman in college. I have decided to lose my virginity soon, obviously in a safe way while using protection. Is it okay to not tell the guy I’m a virgin? It’s come up before and it seems to bother guys. I also hate the idea of someone knowing they were my first; I (irrationally, I know) feel like it gives them power over me. I sort of want to get this over with in a sort of one-night-stand kind of way.”
Read MorePeople are our hope, not the disease
As long as people are free, we will not run out of food and natural resources, including renewables. Only a pessimist sees such limits to human creativity and ingenuity.
Read MoreFake Muslims?
A Muslim is mad.
She didn’t like the cartoon I posted on this blog.
“Yes, there are bad Muslims.
Yes, there are also bad Christians.
Yes, there are also bad Jews.”
You see the direction this is going in. Moral equivalency. Muslims, Christians, and Jews are all bad…
Read MoreThis is Down Syndrome Awareness Month
The operating principle, according to the USA editorial board, is that imperfection is an especially good reason to end a human life, that human life is disposable if he or she is unwanted because of physical flaws.
The Democratic Party supports the principle. Texas Democratic candidate for Governor, Wendy Davis, is leading the charge in the Lone Star state to keep the genocidal practice of late term abortion alive.
Genocidal? Yes, genocidal…
Read MorePorn vs faith-based art: which will you support?
Let me direct: I need your help.
Will you support my Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign? I am trying to raise $15,000 by October 26th to fund my new musical, “The Wedding at Cana.” There are only 19 days left to hit our goal.
Read MoreWhat is the sex act?
Flannery O’Connor was a great American writer and essayist who died 50 years ago.images
The never-married Ms. O’Connor was also a staunch Catholic…
Des Moines Register publishes Quiner!
[This piece appeared in the Des Moines Register this morning.] THE DAY THE POPE CAME TO IOWA By Tom Quiner “Look at all those people down there!” said Pope John II from his helicopter. He saw long, winding rows of people in the fields at Living History Farms below. “They must be standing in line for…
Read MoreThe battle of football prayers
“The penalty is another example of America’s religious bias.” “Freedom of expression and religion are important tenets of American life. But in an age when corporations have the right to impose what they call Christian values on their secular work force, we should wonder if a Muslim boss would be granted the same permission. Considering the move of some states to ‘ban’ shariah law, we can probably guess the answer to that.” — Erika Stutzman, Daily Camera, Oct. 1, 2014.
Read MoreDismiss the Catholic Church at your own risk
A guy sent me a Youtube link reporting on priest abuse.
I had posted an essay on the challenge of Catholic evangelization. The smug video was his response meant to say “conversation over.”
Catholic bashing is a blood sport amongst atheists, the political Left, media, academia, and Hollywood. Their attacks have grown increasingly uncharitable, doing tremendous damage to the Catholic “brand.”
Read MoreThe challenge of Catholic evangelization
“Hey, would you like to go to church with me?”
What a nice, friendly way to be hospitable and evangelize your faith.
Protestants are much better at this than Catholics. Here’s the rub for Catholics: once they get their non-Catholic friends to Mass, they can’t let them go up for Communion. You have to be Catholic.
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