A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics and Religion
by Tom Quiner
A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion
by Tom Quiner
Liberals acknowledge the Pope's moral authority
The mainstream media breathlessly reported the Pope’s pronouncement on moral matters.
They took his words last week and turned them upside down in an attempt to make them mesh with their own liberal world view. Their headlines were sensational and misleading. Their reporting essentially acknowledged the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Pope, Pope Francis.
Why else spend so much time on the Pope’s words? Because the Pope is THE moral authority of the world.
Their gleeful (mis) reporting of his interview with American Magazine has come back to bite them …
"The right to life is the first among human rights."
My rhetoric can be biting on the subject of Life.
Readers of this blog know how important the Right to Life is to me. You know how utterly abhorrent and discriminatory I find human abortion.
By the same token, I take my lead from my Catholic faith in feeling compassion for the victims of human abortion, which includes the aborted person in the womb; her mother; and her father.
Taking a lead from my Church, I even feel compassion for the misguided souls who work for human abortion factories like Planned Parenthood. This Saturday, I will spend two hours praying in front of Planned Parenthood here in Des Moines …
Elton John and the celebration of gayness
“Elton kicks my ass on piano.”
These are the words of another legendary rock and roll piano player, Billy Joel. That’s quite a compliment coming from someone with the chops of a Billy Joel. Billy literally gushes talking about his buddy, Elton …
Dollars and sense
“If you like your insurance you can keep it.” Tell that to the employees of Walgreen’s, the retirees at IBM and any number of present and past employees of some of America’s largest companies who are being thrown out of their present policies and on to the government exchanges.
The salvation of man
“You Catholics never talk about salvation.”
Those were the words from a buddy of mine. Dave was an evangelical Christian. He died earlier this year. I think about his comments often, because they represent the typical misunderstanding many Protestants have about Catholicism …
Pope Francis accentuates the beauty of Christianity
“Enjoy.”
This was the smug e-mail I received from a liberal Catholic. He sent me a link to the New York Time’s article on Pope Francis’ interview that appeared in the Jesuit publication, La Civiltà Cattolica.
I haven’t talked to this guy in years. I always liked him, even if we disagreed politically on issues. So his e-mail out of the blue took me by surprise …
Job losses in porn industry hurt jobs report
Are you in the mood to laugh or cry?
If the answer is laugh, keep reading …
“God help us all.”
“It was Reagan’s fault.”
This was the expected response to my essay, “The Politics of Mental Health”:
“Ronald Reagan pursued a policy toward the treatment of mental illness that satisfied special interest groups and the demands of the business community, but failed to address the issue: the treatment of mental illness.”
How did he do this?
“Conventional wisdom suggests that the reduction of funding for social welfare policies during the 1980s is the result of a conservative backlash against the welfare state.”
The only problem is that Reagan didn’t cut funding for social welfare …
The politics of mental health
Joe needed his meds or bad things would happen.
I met him several times. Nice guy.
A buddy of mine employed him in his little restaurant in a food court downtown, kind of an act of Christian charity. Here’s the thing: Joe could do the job when he was on his meds.
But he lived at the YMCA and had no one to monitor whether or not he took the pills that kept him sane. You see, Joe had some sort of severe mental illness.
One day, Joe didn’t show up for work. He was never heard from again. Ever.
Starbucks asks customers to leave their guns at home
You’re sipping on a cup of coffee at the coffee shop with friends.
You look up. A guy just walked in with a shot gun to buy a cup of coffee. Does this make you feel comfortable or uncomfortable?
Be honest.
The “ghoulish glee” of the gun grabbers
“I’m not a gun guy.
You don’t see me writing a whole lot about the Second Amendment. I react like most every American when I hear about the latest gun violence in the Navy Yard in Washington D.C.. I am sickened beyond words …
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