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noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:32:00 +0000

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After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?
- Alberto Giubilini,
- Francesca Minerva
J Med Ethics 2013;39:261-263 Published Online First: 23 February 2012 doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100411
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Clarifications on the moral status of newborns and the normative implications
- Alberto Giubilini,
- Francesca Minerva
J Med Ethics 2013;39:264-265 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101036
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In defence of academic freedom: bioethics journals under siege
- Udo Schüklenk
J Med Ethics 2013;39:303-306 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100801
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Paper: Life in the cloud and freedom of speech
- John Harris
J Med Ethics 2013;39:307-311 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100862
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Should policy ethics come in two colours: green or white?
- Malcolm Oswald
J Med Ethics 2013;39:312-315 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101191
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The fragility of freedom of speech
- Nicholas Shackel
J Med Ethics 2013;39:316 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100628
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Paper: The Italian reaction to the Giubilini and Minerva paper
- Maurizio Mori
J Med Ethics 2013;39:317-322 doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101403
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Personhood, harm and interest: a reply to Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
- Matthew Beard,
- Sandra Lynch
J Med Ethics 2013;39:e1-e4 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100692
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After-birth abortion: the intuition argument
- Zohar Lederman
J Med Ethics 2013;39:e5 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100688
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Why should the baby live? Human right to life and the precautionary principle
1. Benedetto Rocchi
1. Correspondence to Dr Benedetto Rocchi, Department of Economics and Management, Vua delle Pandette, 32, 50127 Florence, Italy; benedetto.rocchi@unifi.it
- Received 16 April 2012
- Revised 29 December 2012
- Accepted 31 January 2013
Abstract

This paper discusses the issue of ‘post-birth abortion’ from an applied perspective. Three hypothetical situations where a newborn considered as a ‘potential person’ is at risk of being killed are proposed to highlight the potential controversial outcomes of post-birth abortion. The internal consistency of the argument proposed by Giubilini and Minerva to morally justify newborn killing is contested as well. Finally, an alternative moral strategy based on the precautionary principle and excluding any distinction between potential and actual persons is proposed as rational.
Paper: Why should the baby live? Human right to life and the precautionary principle
- Benedetto Rocchi
J Med Ethics 2013;39:e6-e10 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100735
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The basic human experience of the atrocities in the first half of the 20th century has significantly strengthened the recognition of human dignity and human rights for all born people at the political level. Therefore, the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, Article 1 affirms: ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’. This article provides an ethical justification of why we in this political consensus should not waver, and why we should grant the right to life to all born human infants. Moreover, there is an ethical justification to granting the right to life even to unborn human beings, who already bear a human face.
Paper: After-birth and before-birth personhood: why the baby should live
- Nikolaus Johannes Knoepffler,
- Martin J O'Malley
J Med Ethics 2013;39:e11-e14 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101031
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Two notable limitations exist on the use of personhood arguments in establishing moral status. Firstly, although the attribution of personhood may give us sufficient reason to grant something moral status, it is not a necessary condition. Secondly, even if a person is that which has the ‘highest’ moral status, this does not mean that any interests of a person are justifiable grounds to kill something that has a ‘lower’ moral status. Additional justification is needed to overcome a basic wrongness associated with killing something possessing moral status. There are clear arguments already available in this regard in the case of a foetus that are not available in the case of a newborn infant. Hence, there is scope to consistently hold that abortion may be permissible but that after-birth abortion may not be permissible.
Limitations on personhood arguments for abortion and ‘after-birth abortion’
- Anthony Wrigley
J Med Ethics 2013;39:e15-e18 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100958
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Killing fetuses and killing newborns
- Ezio Di Nucci
J Med Ethics 2013;39:e19-e20 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100621
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  Killing fetuses and killing newborns
  1. Ezio Di Nucci
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ezio Di Nucci, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Philosophie, Essen 45117, Germany; ezio.dinucci@uni-due.de
  - Received 4 March 2012
  - Revised 28 May 2012
  - Accepted 4 February 2013
  Abstract
  
  The argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns is a challenge to liberal positions on abortion because it can be considered a reductio of their defence of abortion. Here I defend the liberal stance on abortion by arguing that the argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns on ground of the social, psychological and economic burden on the parents recently put forward by Giubilini and Minerva is not valid; this is because they fail to show that newborns cannot be harmed and because there are morally relevant differences between fetuses and newborns.

Sex selection

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:22:00 +0000

interview at Freakonomics

Amazon link

Chinese newspaper interview

septic abortion in India after sex selection

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:14:00 +0000

From the Times of India:

HYDERABAD: When India was busy celebrating International Women's Day, a group of women activists were protesting the death of a woman who was forced by her family to undergo an abortion to get rid of her five-month-old female fetus, which eventually led to her death. The activists, armed with a fact finding report, revealed the gory details of how 28-year-old M Vijayalakshmi died after a botched-up abortion which was carried out in a private nursing home in Nalgonda.
Vijayalakshmi's death has once again put the spotlight on thriving sex selective abortions and the grim girl child sex ratio in the state, they said. Nalgonda in fact has the third lowest girl child sex ratio in AP with 921 girls per 1,000 boys, with high preferences for boys.

boston cardinal is non pc

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:52:00 +0000

I just read a book about sex selection.
It seems that the US, under the elite "country club" republicans and later the feminist democrats, were behind the push for birth control and abortion in India and China, and that the ultimate result was the acceptance of sex selection to get the "right" baby, especially among the upper middle classes.

So in the "death" from medical malpractice,

CNN article with all the superficial pro death talking points says:

Savita Halappanavar died in Ireland after being denied an abortion

I have written before about this, including a differential diagnosis.

But two things always puzzled me:

One, she had "severe back pain".

two: she developed premature ruptured membranes at 17 weeks, and later got infected.

Now, the ultrasound for sex selection is usually done at 16 weeks, when the penis can be identified.

and the "first thing" this lady and her husband did, when she was treated for "severe back pain" was not to ask if their much wanted baby could live, but demand the docs perform an abortion.

If the PROM was spontaneous, it is painless.

If PROM occurs at 17 weeks, the treatment is watchful waiting, since sometimes the membranes will reseal, and at other times the fetus will pass spontaneously. Removing the fetus at that time alas can result in fetal parts perforating the uterus or having fetal parts left behind. (I've seen both things happen).

Just wondering...

Baby Boomer death cult

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:11:00 +0000

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in a land where everyone is productive workers, a man who has rejected tradition to do his own thing ends up flat on the ground for hours because no one is there to help him.

So when he decides to end it all, his children applaud his "decision".

But his decision is the result of a lifetime of rejecting family,children etc. and being at the forefront of modern culture:

His heroes were Malthus and Paul Ehrlich; his villain was the oppressive and obsessive Catholic Church (even though he was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences). His solutions were anything which would defuse the population bomb: homosexuality, contraception, sterilisation, abortion, taxing children. ‘Given the urgency of the problem, political authorities should, with the support of as many moral authorities as possible, take active positions in favor of limiting births’, he wrote.
De Duve’s philosophy was that we will all perish unless we take responsibility for directing our own evolution. He even thought that hatcheries of cloned infants in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World were a better idea than the randomness of natural procreation. ‘Substituting reasoned choice for such a blind game could be seen as desirable’, he wrote. Man’s inability to fix the lottery of life seems to have driven him to a deep pessimism.
Like a snowball of angst, de Duve rolled through the last years of his life, adding more and more existential threats to the continued existence of humanity until he became a miserabilist snowman with a scarf emblazoned ‘Après nous le Déluge’.

and the article notes the link between this modern thinking and the surge of suicides in the baby boomer population...

feeling nasty again today

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:04:00 +0000

The pope tells the comfortable to get off their tushies and work with the poor.

Good. But when one third of Americans are "caretakers" for their friends and family, wouldn't it be nice to tell people that such work is also a way to serve the Lord?

St Therese (the "little flower") was popular before Vatican II because she pointed out that doing such things as holding her tongue when a fellow nun accidentally splashed her with water doing the dishes could be offered to God as a prayer.

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This one is a "ditto" subject: Making a life, making a living, making a difference.

My problem? It assumes that everyone will have an exciting career that will make a difference in the world.

Hello: That is not true.

And there is no discussion that maybe it is important to be rather than to do.

And what about family?

Hugging a child may make a difference, changing diapers, caring for one's family, doesn't even get into the discussion...

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abusers try to re write the past

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:29:00 +0000

Das Spiegel and others try not to remember how the Green party in germany once saw pedophilia as normal.

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It took a full seven years after the Green Party was founded before the pedophiles lost their influence. One reason was the women’s movement, which could never understand why the Greens became involved with men who want to act out their power fantasies on children. Gays in the party had also had enough of being lumped in with the pedophiles. In early 1987, the SchwuP was dissolved, ending the pedophiles’ involvement with the Greens. From then on, there was only the National Working Group on Gays, chaired by Volker Beck.

Sigh

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:13:00 +0000

Yes, children, the ever trendier than thou New England journal of medicine backs selling embryos.

ah, but the designer babies will probably be clones, not ordinary kids: buy an egg from a poverty stricken woman, insert DNA, and then have another poverty stricken woman carry it to term, and abort it if imperfections occur.

From my piece:

But designing the embryo product line will not be easy. Fertilization is an inexact process. Sure, some desired attributes–sex or certain genetic defects–could be obtained through using specifically selected or altered eggs or sperm and genetic testing of embryos to find those that possess the desired characteristics. But made-to-order embryos would be hit and miss, limiting the industry’s growth potential.
The real money would come from human cloning, which would permit the manufacture of tailor-made, genome-specific embryos–and in theoretically virtually unlimited numbers. Indeed, the authors give away the game when they write, ‘It is not clear how the sale of made-to-order embryos differs from the sale of oocytes [eggs] for the manufacture of embryos by somatic-cell nuclear transfer”–SCNT being the cloning process used to make Dolly the sheep. In other words, an egg is a fertilized embryo is a cloned embryo, with each presenting distinct mercantile potential.
Meanwhile, A.B. 926 — which has passed the California Legislature — would permit biotech companies to buy eggs from (poor) women — eggs being the essential ingredient for human cloning. The bill would allow the companies to also pay even more to IVF companies for eggs and embryos they obtained and created in excess of need.
The commodification of human life presents an acute threat to societal morality. And it is coming faster than many think.

Filed for later reference: Orthodoxy in central america

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:43:00 +0000

Large schismatic church in central America has switched to Orthodoxy.

LINK

hmm...we have a similar offshoot here that could join the universal church by doing this...

and StrategyPage notices Christian converts in Iran
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and in Algeria.

strategypage on history of Muslim persecutions.

Remembering the pedophilia chic of the 1970's

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:11:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:17:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:54:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:45:00 +0000

LINK

read the whole thing.

Family news

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:56:00 +0000

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

sigh

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:33:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:19:00 +0000

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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

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:02:00 +0000

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.

LINK3

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.

bookmarked for later reading

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:27:00 +0000

A reuters article headline blares the fall of Christianity in Spain.

Spain’s Holy Week parades thrive despite falling Catholic faith

Yet deep in the story we read this:

But nowhere is the fervor as intense as in Seville, a city of 700,000 in the Andalusia region of southern Spain.
And the crowds of both onlookers and participants have been growing despite a decline in Catholicism that has led to fewer than half of Spaniards attending church regularly. Some 72 percent described themselves as Catholic in a 2011 survey compared to 82 percent a decade earlier.

I read a similar story in the UK and in the US: both of which blared the collapse of faith, whereas the statistics show the drop is there, but the majority still believe.

This is especially true in the US, where the elites loathe christianity and it is hard to find a Christian character or theme, even in dramas that purport to show reality.

So no, I don't expect Jersey shore to go to church, but you know, their parents, or grandparents, probably do, and they probably would attend christenings and first communion parties with their families...but then we don't see their families either (which always makes me wonder where these characters find money to live these lifestyles, but never mind)...

hating parents

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000

LINK

from boing boing: Complaining that when folks have kids, they don't want to come out and play with the writer.

It's all about me me me.

and the comments are worse.

Narcisissm and evil

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:05:00 +0000

Instapundit, a libertarian blog, is against traditional laws, although I suspect like a good Randian, those blogging there chose to live reponsible lives.

So today he has guest bloggers, but look at the trends, and then I'll put the problem with them.

HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE. He who controls the present controls the past.

Posted at 7:15 pm by Ed Driscoll

It is discussing the war in Iraq, where the meme is that it was a disaster (which it is not: Imagine a sanctions from Saddam running the place today, with the MSM ignoring his atrocities).

Yet the same thing can be said about America's loss of a moral sense, and even the moral vocabulary to express such things.

“CONGRESS DECIDED… TO EXPRESS MORAL DISAPPROVAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY.” Justice Kagan quotes from the legislative history of DOMA at today’s oral argument in United States v. Windsor. And Paul Clement reels out a fine response.

yes, but since the elites have normalized promiscuity, deconstructed marriage by various policies including no fault divorce, and blurred the distinction between the personality trait toward same sex attraction and the reality of the "gay lifestyle", which of course is not embraced by all gays, we have a communication problem

and I disagree with this:

MEGAN MCARDLE: Why Gay Marriage Will Win, And Sexual Freedom Will Lose. “In the future, gay marriage will not only be legal, but practically mandatory.”

Posted at 1:51 pm by Glenn Reynolds,

actually, it won't, because the argument that it will stablize gay relationships is bogus and hasn't been argued a lot, except by conservative blogs. The dirty little secret it that men and women have different ways of expressing sex, so lesbians tend to have long term monogamous relationships (which women do in marriage) yet men, released from the societal pressures to remain faithful, are promiscuous.

And gay men are even more promiscuous than heterosexual men: Not because they are morally worse, but because even female sluts have some morals. There are not that many women who will go to a bar/bathhouse with a man and then let him have sex with four other people anonymously and then go home with him. And most women require at least a hint of romance before they have a one night stand.

Letting the sociopaths "win" the gay sex arguments means that gays who do want a long term relationship will be seduced into the gay lifestyle, which can be very lonely and dehumanizing (which is why many bisexuals who are predominantly gay prefer to marry women and just have an occassional affair on the side).

Yet the real problem isn't gay sex or marriage: the real problem is that this will be used to demonize/marginalize the Catholics and other churches who continue to hold the line.

the real problem is that promoting the traditional Christian/Jewish/Confucian ethic of marriage will soon be seen as a thought crime.

Also at Time, “Joe Klein ‘Mystified Anyone Would Oppose Same-sex Marriage.’”
So Joe’s not going to ponder why someone would oppose the notion, and then offer counter-arguments in favor it; his brain simply won’t allow him to commit such Thoughtcrime. I just “can’t understand” that…
Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

Paranoia alert

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:03:00 +0000

Right wing paranoia? Or prophetic?

Nolte is even more paranoid than I am that the Gay marriage argument is about destroying Christian churches that don't go along with the deconstruction of marriage and gender.

OF course, Catholics are already in deep doodoo for not going along with abortion or agreeing to pay for it.

Culture of death update

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:32:00 +0000

Wesley Smith article on terminal sedation and those trying to redefine death.
Terminal sedation is ethical when the alternative is severe pain and the person is dying of their disease

In the UK, however, the Liverpool pathway has been used on injured or elderly patients who were not in pain, and were not dying.

and the idea to redefine death to mean "higher brain functioning" is a real danger.

bookmarked for later reading

Sigh

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:14:00 +0000

LesFemmes is worried that the new emphasis on gays being equal will make marriage a gender neutral institution.

Actually, this is merely the last step in destroying marriage in the name of feminist ideology.

The first step was easy divorce, that meant a woman could not rely on not being abandoned, and made men leery of loving their wife and children, since she could boot him out at any time for any reason

The second step was birth control, that made it her fault if she got pregnant, so the man no longer was required to marry her and/or support his children.

The third was abortion that also made a child part of the mom's life, but denied any male input into that decision, even by a husband.

The 4th part was welfare, that let moms have kids without a husband: indeed, marrying would lower her income

5th problem? The export of blue collar jobs overseas, meaning that a man could no longer find a job that would let him support his family (and forced wives to work to make ends meet).

6th: The idea of government nanny state: one only has to see the Julia ad of the Democrats to see that government programs have replaced the family as the source of welbeing and care>

but the gay agenda is especially subtle.

Most of us feel that civil unions would help:

And that many lesbians have stable relationships.

But no one wants to admits that over half the males with gay partners are in an "open marriage", where the relationship does not necessarily lower their promiscuity.

And so far not mentioned: That this will allow those hating religion to try to use the law to destroy churches, institutions, and individuals who hold traditional values.

Orson Scott Card, one of the leading sci fi writers of today, is one example (his classic book, Ender's Game, is to be released as a movie this summer)

: When given a job at a comics company, the gay agenda threatened a boycott. Why? Because he is a devout Mormon and once wrote an article defending marriage. Ironically, there are gay relationships/characters in at least one of his stories, so one cannot claim homophobia, but never mind. First they come for the Mormons, then they come for the Catholics...

And this worries me.Another problem: The gay and abortion agenda is already being pushed on third world countries by the US State Department. This will not make the US friends in Africa or Asia...

bye bye Christ hello we are god

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:34:00 +0000

Constance gives a good summary of the new age nuns.

Keynoter Barbara Marx Hubbard tells these theologically renegade nuns "you are the best seed bed for evolving the Church and the world in the 21st Century."

I'm happy I've had the privilege of meeting so very many fine Cathoic nuns who definitely do not share their opinions and would recoil at the prospect of Barbara Marx Hubbard advocating at their meetings.

I note for the record, as I did in my past NewswithViews series that Barbara Marx Hubbard performed similar “honors” for a conference held with Evangelical leaders at Gold Lake, Colorado on October 23-26, 1987. She co-chaired that meeting with none other than Doug Coe. The event was underwritten by Fellowship Founder core group member Paul N. Temple, his daughter and his son in law. Paul Temple is also known as the co-Founder and President Emeritus of the decidedly New Age “Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).The theme of that meeting was “Bridging through Christ.” I note cynically that they failed to tell the Christian participants, “which 'Christ”. You may review that equally sorry situation by visiting my old NewswithViews archives on “The Hi-Jacking of Evangelicalism.”

Well, since 60 Minutes raised the subject of "Inquisition," I thought we might explore what Barbara Marx Hubbard whom they sponsored and endorsed had in mind as inquisition punishments for those not accepting her own "New Gospel."

she then dares to actually quote from the new age gospel

the vatican's take is HERE.

Father Mitch Pacwa has a good series "Who do you say I am" that analyzes it.

But in some ways my favorite evaluation is a secular take : Magic Science and Religion.

when the French enlightenment decided to make "Religion" the enemy, the magic came back in...

what bothers me as a scientist is that this is magical thinking: Delusions of grandeur.

And what really makes me shudder is that, although 90 percent of these magical things are psychological delusions or self hypnosis, leading to a break with reality....
but about ten percent are demonic in origin, and that really worries me.

Doesn't matter if I believe or not: There is enough parallels with the nazi occult ideas to be afraid.

the sisters are playing with fire.

Don't tell the NYTimes

noreply@blogger.com (boinky) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:37:00 +0000

The NYTimes has gone crazy with allegations about Pope Francis helping the right wing gov't during the civil war in Argentina. It is part of a disinformation campaign by the present gov't of Argentina because he has condemned their anti Catholic agenda and pointed out their corruption.

Now AFP has actually bothered to ask someone who might actually know about it and guess what? It's not true.

Father Jose Caravias, currently based in Paraguay, said the pope -- then known as Jorge Bergoglio -- warned him and a fellow priest that a rightwing militia called Triple A intended to kill them.

"I had been expelled from Paraguay in 1972. I knew the ferocity of the dictatorship" and left the country, he told AFP. At the time of the threat, he was working with other priests in the slums of Buenos Aires.

He said the other priest, Francisco Jalics, "was brave and stayed in Buenos Aires, and it nearly cost him his life. He would not go and he had a terrible time. He was severely tortured," he said.

"Bergoglio saved him. He insisted on finding out where he was being held. If he had not been claimed he would have died," he said, adding that Bergoglio had saved another priest, Orlando Yorio, in the same way.

"Thanks to Bergoglio, I am alive and talking with you today," Caravias said, dismissing as "terrible slander" allegations that Bergoglio turned a blind eye to the abuses of the military.

Argentina's 1976-83 "dirty war" -- in which some 30,000 people were killed or disappeared by a rightwing military junta -- has come under a spotlight since Cardinal Bergoglio's election as pope this month.

The Vatican has vehemently denied charges by an Argentine journalist that Bergoglio was complicit in the 1976 kidnapping and torture of Yorio and Jalics, who were released five months later.

The Argentine judge hearing the case of the two priests, German Castelli, has also rejected the charges, telling a newspaper it is "totally false" to suggest that Bergoglio was implicated in their arrest and torture.

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After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?

Clarifications on the moral status of newborns and the normative implications

The arguments

Philosophy, critical thinking and ‘after-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’

Infanticide and moral consistency

Capacity, harm and experience in the life of persons as equals

Paper: The common premise for uncommon conclusions

Infanticide, moral status and moral reasons: the importance of context

Paper: The Groningen Protocol for newborn euthanasia; which way did the slippery slope tilt?

Concern for our vulnerable prenatal and neonatal children: a brief reply to Giubilini and Minerva

Infanticide and madness

Is the pro-choice position for infanticide ‘madness’?

Response to: Is the pro-choice position for infanticide ‘madness’?

Public policies

In defence of academic freedom: bioethics journals under siege

Paper: Life in the cloud and freedom of speech

Should policy ethics come in two colours: green or white?

The fragility of freedom of speech

Paper: The Italian reaction to the Giubilini and Minerva paper

Responses

Mini-symposium on after-birth abortion

Introduction

Public distress as a moral consideration in after-birth abortion

Some comments on the paper ‘After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’

Moral uncertainty and the moral status of early human life

‘After-birth abortion’ and arguments from potential

The performativity of personhood

Paper: The moral significance of being born

Yes, the baby should live: a pro-choice response to Giubilini and Minerva

Paper: Infanticide: a reply to Giubilini and Minerva

Potentials and burdens: a reply to Giubilini and Minerva

The moral status of babies

Paper: Abortion, infanticide and moral context

Paper: Of course the baby should live: against ‘after-birth abortion’

Electronic pages: Responses

Personhood, harm and interest: a reply to Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva

After-birth abortion: the intuition argument

Why should the baby live? Human right to life and the precautionary principle

Abstract

Paper: Why should the baby live? Human right to life and the precautionary principle

Paper: After-birth and before-birth personhood: why the baby should live

Limitations on personhood arguments for abortion and ‘after-birth abortion’

Killing fetuses and killing newborns

Killing fetuses and killing newborns

Abstract

Sex selection

septic abortion in India after sex selection

boston cardinal is non pc

Baby Boomer death cult

feeling nasty again today

abusers try to re write the past

Sigh

Filed for later reference: Orthodoxy in central america

Remembering the pedophilia chic of the 1970's

Resurrection anyone?

why polls lie

Before Gosnell there was Tiller

Family news

sigh

Nope No free speech take two

Freedom of speech? Freedom of Religion? Nah

bookmarked for later reading

hating parents

Narcisissm and evil

Paranoia alert

Culture of death update

Sigh

bye bye Christ hello we are god

Don't tell the NYTimes