Have a great Labor Day weekend. I intend to use part of it reviewing a case on appeal involving the Boy Scouts and the People's Republic of Berkeley.

I just learned an interesting fact about my native Los Angeles. The city was actually named after the Blessed Mother and the title she holds as the Queen of Angels. As a relatively recent Catholic convert (about 4 years), this was quite a pleasant discovery. However, as a product of the public school system in California, I'm pretty steamed that this kind of information was withheld from me.

The new NFL season is approaching and, alas, another year will go by without my native Los Angeles having a team. Having a grown up a die-hard Rams fan, I was crushed when they left for St. Louis in the early nineties. I just wish the ownership of the Rams would show some class and change the name of team, like the Browns and Oilers did when they left for Baltimore and Tennessee.

I'm thinking of adopting the New Orleans Saints as my new favorite team, because, well, of the reference to saints. I don't know. Maybe I just won't pay much attention to pro football again like I have for the past 7-8 years.

Ha! In relation to the post below, Bob Jones III apparently quotes a hymn written by a Catholic priest (Frederick Faber) to defend his proposed substitution of the word "fundamentalist" with "preservationist". The hymn, Faith of Our Fathers, was also apparently inspired in part by the awful persecution of Catholics by Henry VIII. Thanks to Kathy C. for the 411.

I've often wondered how to best distinguish a Protestant fundamentalist from a Protestant evangelical. Thanks to some people I know who see themselves as the latter, now I know. A Protestant evangelical is basically a fundamentalist with a college degree.

Speaking of fundamentalists and college, the folks at good 'ol Bob Jones University have apparently been considering adopting a new description of themselves. How does Protestant "preservationist" strike you?

Beam me up! A couple of interesting links from the folks at The Corner. The Democrat Party candidate for governor in Ohio is married to Kate "Captain Janeway" Mulgrew, who is pro-life.

You know, I'm getting pretty sick of some of these ignorant Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists who ascribe committee documents coming out of the USCCB as a teaching of the Catholic Church. It's obvious that guys like Jim Sibley will jump on any chance they get to slam an institution they have deep seeded contempt for.

Granted, the "reflections" on the evangelization of Jews was sloppy and subject to misinterpretation. But even if it wasn't, unless the document is affirmed by the entire USCCB and by Rome, it amounts to nothing more than a theological opinion piece.

Link picked up from Amy Welborn's blog: Comic book heroes and their religious faith. The Thing from the Fantastic Four is Jewish. Who knew?

Ah, Canada. The fascist euro-trash of the Americas.

Information that the goose-stepping pink mafia doesn't want you to know or see. Long live the Internet!

It's great that the FCC is considering yanking this radio station's license, but how much do you want to bet that the two moron DJs who encouraged the disrespectful and criminal act at St. Patrick's are going to be hired by some other unscrupulous, money-obsessed station manager.

The push to indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality as normal has gotten more aggressive. For reasons known only to it, the Visalia Unified School District in California has agreed to a settlement with the ACLU whereby VUSD will mandate homosexual sensitivity training for all teachers and students from the 8th grade through the 12th grade.

The alleged purpose, of course, for these re-education camps is to help prevent acts of hostility and violence toward "outed" teens and effeminate teen males. Think there will be any assurances that devout Christian students and teachers who believe homosexuality is a sin won't be targeted for hostile treatment? Probably not, which is what makes this settlement so ironic, stupid and dangerous.

Link from Relapsedcatholic.com: Luther bobble head dolls. Interesting. You would think Protestants would believe this leads to the kind of "idol worshipping" that we bad 'ol Catholics like to do.

An act of perversion, disrespect and INTOLERANCE.

Pilgrimage to Graceland. Someone pass me that deep fried 'nana sandwich...

So what exactly do judges wear under their robes?

The decision by Cardinal Law to allow sexually abusive priests to continue with their duties after receiving "medical intervention" raises some interesting issues. First and foremost, who medically intervened, and what are their credentials? While the scandal in the Church is certainly, well, scandalous, the situation appears to offer a great opportunity to legally attack the credibility of most human sexuality research and studies. It is such research, of course, which has led to the increasingly widespread belief that homosexuality is, at the very least, the equivalent of race and ethnicity. However, once it is shown that the entire basis of this research was formed out of unethical and criminal conduct (e.g., sexually molestation of children), the whole house of cards that is human sexuality studies will tumble. The trick now, of course, is to get the Church to sue those people whom they foolishly relied upon for advice in dealing with sexaully aberrant (i.e., homosexual) priests.

Looks like the baby killers in the California Legislature are getting close to passing a bill that would essentially require all doctors in residency in this state to learn how to perform abortions. Jerks...

The more I read about this garbage occurring in the University of California system, the more I rue the day I ever attended and graduated from one of its schools.

Convicted sex offender faces 60 molestation counts while acting as a Little League Coach.

To reiterate: it's a values/cultural problem, not a problem with the Church and its positions on sexual morality.

God will not be saving...at Costco.

Despite its feeble attempt to spin a federal judge's order as not particularly significant, the city of Cypress was dealt a crushing blow on Tuesday in its effort to use eminent domain to take a church's property so that it can build a tax-generating Costco retail center instead.
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The city said that denying Cottonwood the right to build a church would not impose a "substantial burden" on it. But the judge said that "Preventing a church from building a worship site fundamentally inhibits its ability to practice its religion."

God again prevails in Minnesota as the reprimand of two state employees who broght Bibles to a mandatory "diversity training" seminar was found to be unlawfully discriminatory.

A very sad day for L.A. Sports fans as the legendary voice of the Lakers, Chick Hearn, has passed away. (LA Times requires registration, blah, blah, blah...)

Sacramento Kings fans: Feel the anxiety.

Here's an interesting website that offers a weekly Catechism study. The program officially starts on August 19.

There should not be one complaint about these billboards from "gay marriage" advocates.

When you crunch the numbers, the ratio between the number of boys who have been sexually abused by the age of 18 and the number of adult bi/homosexual males is around 4 to 1. By stark comparison, the ratio between the number of girls who have been sexually abused by the age of 18 and the number of adult heterosexual males is around 1 to 11.

The numbers don't lie: Every "gay" male IS A POTENTIAL PEDERAST. So why is there even any question about banning homosexually inclined males from the priesthood?

My opinion of Voice of the Faithful: A bunch of hypocritical, power hungry crackheads.

More revelations from the seminar I attended featuring Dr. Reisman: The widespread notion that people with homosexual tendencies are "normal" because they are born that way can be directly traced to the false and criminal "research" on human sexuality done by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. Contemporary purveyors of Kinsey's junk science include Dr. John Money, who helped found the Johns Hopkins Center for Sexual Disorders, and Dr. Fred Berlin, who had apparently advised Cardinal Law on the handeling of pederast priests.

Message to pro-homosexual bloggers in and outside of the Catholic Church (e.g., Andrew Sullivan and Mark Hardy): Unless you are willing to defend the willful raping of children in the name of science, you have absolutley no leg to stand on in defending homosexuality. Every person, particularly a male, who is afflicted with homosexual desires IS A POTENTIAL PEDERAST (see stats below on ratio between number of sexually abused boys and number of bi-homosexual males). Much praise should thus be given to those who recognize the disorderliness of their condition and commit themselves to a life of chastity.

Governor of Louisiana advises women in state to pack "heat".

Wow. According to data collected byDr. Reisman in 1991, there were approximately 1-2 million practicing bi/homosexual males in the United States and approximately 6-8 million boys in the United States who had been sexually abused. Conceding the fact that some of these boys were probably sexually abused by females, it is highly unlikely that the number of female on boy abuse is very significant (perhaps less than 1/2 of 1 percent). From Dr. Reisman's findings, which are based on census figures, police and social services reports, the intimate link between homosexuality and pederasty seems undeniably clear.

I learned something very interesting today from Dr. Judith Reisman. Prior to 1948, when the Kinsey studies on human sexuality were published, there was no such thing as a "sex specialist". As such, every so-called professional in the area of human sexuality today may rightly be called an Alfred Kinsey disciple. The problem with this, however, is that much of the data that Kinsey and his cohorts collected was derived from illegal (and immoral) conduct that they themselves directly engaged in -- e.g., pedarasty (sp?). This being the case, one can only come to the logical conclusion that every professional sex specialist since 1948 is an outright fraud.

Governor "religion is for losers" Ventura inadvertantly proclaims "Christian Heritage Week". God is amazing, isn't He?