Remembering the pedophilia chic of the 1970's

I am old enough to remember when our psychiatry professors in medical school told us that schizophrenia would disappear as soon as we allowed abortion (so girls could be promiscuous) and destroyed the taboo against gay sex.

But I also remember there were arguments that sex with children would "liberate" them from their "hangups".

So now TurtleBayBlog, which monitors the international community, has a report of a VIP politician who bragged of sexual touching  with preschoolers (if not more). Was it just made up to promote this agenda, or did molestation occur?

Is there any country in the world where a prominent politician could publicly boast his sexual experiences with children aged 6 years and less, and still stay in office? Probably not – but the European Parliament seems to have rules of its own.
The politician is Daniel Cohn-Bendit, once upon a time a protagonist of the 1968 student revolt and the Cultural Revolution that ensued, and today the leader of the “Greens/European Free Alliance” in the European Parliament.

but there is one voice that remembered what he stands for:

The left-liberal Theodor-Heuss-Foundation (named after a former President of Germany) had decided to award a prize to him for his political achievements – but the President of the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), Andreas Vosskuhle declined the invitation to deliver a speech in Mr. Cohn-Bendit’s honour, saying that he did not want to create the impression that the Constitutional Court approved of Mr. Cohn-Bendit’s utterances regarding paedophilia. 

her objections are in a German news article, and my German is too rusty to translate...

Resurrection anyone?

 DonaldSensing puts on his pastor's hat and analyzes the resurrection

Actually, just assume everyone lied, and problem solved. Indeed, the "new theologians" do that, interpreting the "historical" Jesus as if it were written by academics and everyone back then thought like progressive Americans.


But after living in third world villages and towns, I find the gospel surprisingly realistic, even the miracles. 



The good reverend includes this quote:

Scientific integrity requires that scientists and non-scientists alike recognize that there are limits to scientific knowledge. Failing this is the main error of the so-called New Atheist movement, whose advocates insist that 

• only science reveals the Real, 
• only science can discover truth 
• scientific knowledge is exhaustive and inherently unlimited. 

But these claims are themselves not testable with the scientific method. They are not scientific claims, but claims of faith in science, or scientism.

yes, that is the problem I have with the new atheists who unlike old atheists who are mad at god for the suffering of the world, instead chose to hate God and believers of all ilks to feel superior. But their literal interpretation of science is almost aspergian, with concrete thought processes being assumed to be the onluy way to look at something (a pathological way of thinking):

as Wilde put it: They know the price of everything but the value of nothing...and their worldview has no place for love, self sacrifice or poetry.


rant off.

why polls lie

Old lefty bishop Cruz has this comment about a recent poll of Filipinos that said 81 percent of people were satisfied with their life:

 Magna Carta for the Poor”: This is a very evident and distinct need in the country, considering the persisting poverty among millions of Filipinos, notwithstanding all loud claims to the opposite, courtesy of Malacañang plus repeated suspect surveys supposedly saying the contrary – such as 81% of poor Filipinos are “satisfied” with their poverty! Such a claim is not simply suspect but markedly incredible. This is precisely why the matter of health needs, the requirement of education, the issue of housing, the concern for the availability of work – all these are pervasive, distinct, and evident needs of the huge number of poor people in the Philippines.

Before Gosnell there was Tiller

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read the whole thing.

Family news

My brother died and I have to fly back to the US for his funeral. Keep him and his family in your prayers.

sigh

If the KKK killed dozens of live born black children, it would be all over the news.
But when it is done under the guise of post term abortion, the press ignores it in the USA, (points out GetReligion).

The UK Mail, however, has coverage: Read it and weep.

When a woman from India died from sepsis, maybe because she had ruptured membranes but the doctors followed the normal protocol of "watchful waiting", it was a world headline insisting that Ireland should allow abortion. 

But when Karnamaya Mongar died at Dr Gosnell's clinic from an "accidental" overdose of a narcotic given by untrained and unlicensed staff, there is silence in the national media...
local coverage:

• 5th Gosnell defendant pleads guilty
  November 9, 2011
• Hired to clean, she then administered anesthesia
  November 10, 2011
• Clinic worker: I killed 10 infants during abortions
  March 20, 2013
• Gosnell trial mystery: Why were fetus feet in specimen jars?
  March 21, 2013

GR also notes that the Planned parenthood spokesman who recently spoke in favor of "post birth abortion" in Florida once worked as a lobbyist forCatholic charities: see this Catholic site.
Yes: The "peace and justice" wing of Catholicism has been infiltrated with many wolves in sheep's clothing....
and, of course, post birth abortion was supported by a certain gentleman now working in Washington.(but you have to dig into the long article to find that it is true)..

Nope No free speech take two

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On the side bar of this blog I have a feed for the Cardinal Newman Society.  They posted a story…

Gonzaga Denies Knights of Columbus Student Group Because it’s Catholic
Spokane’s Gonzaga University [Jesuit run Catholic school] has denied a Knights of Columbus group application to be recognized as an official student organization. Those seeking the status were notified of the University’s decision at a meeting on March 7.
The group was notified of the decision by Dean of Students Kassi Kain and Assistant Director for Student Activities Dave Rovick.
“The Knights of Columbus, by their very nature, is a men’s organization in which only Catholics may participate via membership,” says a letter obtained by The Cardinal Newman Society written by Sue Weitz, Vice President for Student Life. “These criteria are inconsistent with the policy and practice of student organization recognition at Gonzaga University, as well as the University’s commitment to non-discrimination based on certain characteristics, one of which is religion.”
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Let me get this straight.  Because the Knights of Columbus is a Catholic group for Catholics, the Catholic university won’t let them be on their Catholic campus for the Catholics who want to join?

Freedom of speech? Freedom of Religion? Nah

for later reading

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the student government at Johns Hopkins University shamefully voted to deny official club status to Voice for Life, a student group, because they are supposedly akin to “white supremacists” whose sidewalk counseling constitutes “harassment.” Such a designation would prevent the group from using campus resources for meetings and from obtaining any financing, clearly an attempt to suppress heterodox views. Par for the course.
JHU’s administration has intervened, declaring that sidewalk counseling is free speech, not harassment. Good for them. That should help Voices for Life in appealing its unjust blackballing. (Remember when universities were havens for heterodox speech?)

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According to the GW Hatchet, two homoerotically-inclined seniors at George Washington University have launched a campaign to drive the university's Catholic chaplain from the hallowed halls of GW.

of course, such things should never happen in the Philippines...
uh oh: not only do we have a strict libel law that is used to protect politicians but the new RH bill also has a priviso you can't criticize it.

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4. It violates freedom of expression.
The bill’s criminalization of speech that “maliciously engages in disinformation” (an undefined category) about the substance or even potential motives behind the RH bill violates the constitutional right to free speech and expression. The provision should be eliminated in its entirety.

 but of course the RH bill is about wasting money.

and thanks to the libel law, we will never find out who was given gifts to vote for the bill, whose family has dibs on importing condoms and pills made elsewhere, or how the OBAMA administration blackmailed the Philippines to pass the bill (no RH bill, goodbye Spratlys?). And of course,just like the US has had a year of pro homosexual marriage propaganda, keeping other voices silent, so too have most of the newspapers here marched lockstep with the propaganda, often printing "editorials" by American activists without pointing out that they were paid activists.