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.