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 …
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“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 …
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreStarbucks 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.
Read MoreThe “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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The politics of revulsion
The public doesn’t like Democrats. They like Republicans even less.
All of this revulsion doesn’t bode well for Republicans in the latest round of “continuing resolution” discussions to fund the government at sequester-spending levels …
Read MoreThe dignity of man
The great movements of our time have been driven by the dignity of man.
Here’s what I mean: dignity is all about being worthy of honor or respect. The civil rights movement, in the words of Martin Luther King, JR, called for white America to judge, not by the color of a person’s skin, but by the content of a person’s character …
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