Margaret Sanger vs. The Catholic Church

Those familiar with the abortion movement know that an early strategy was to create an enemy. Bernard Nathanson, abortionist turned pro-life champion, tells how he and Lawrence Lader, founder of NARAL, made up "facts" about millions of illegal abortions and deliberately targeted the Catholic Church as the enemy of women. It was effective.

But Nathanson and Lader were simply following the lead of an earlier anti-life liar, Margaret Sanger. Sanger was a brilliant strategist and used lies to further her evil purposes. Early on she decided to target the Church, the greatest bulwark standing against her message of promiscuity and free sex.

Touchstone has a great article:

Women in Combat: It's Immoral!

Remember when Congress was debating the issue of women in combat? Remember when they voted to allow women in and near combat zones? No?

Neither do I. The debate never took place except to some degree during the Equal Rights Amendment battle. So how did we end up in the situation where women are dying and have been taken prisoner during wars on foreign shores?

It's the morphing principle. If you can't get what you want through legitimate debate, use the courts or authority figures or anything else to morph your position into the mainstream.

The debate on women in the military needs to happen for the sake of the children. (The left is always using "the children" to promote what they want, but seldom seem to care about the real interests of children.)

Touchstone Magazine has a great article, Mothers in the Line of Fire in the January/February 2010 issue. Andrew Sicree examines the issue from Catholic morality and concludes that, "Not only is it immoral to conscript women of child-bearing age, but it is also immoral to permit them to volunteer to serve in combat positions, except in strictly defensive situations such as might be found in 'home front' scenarios wherein there is no longer any safe place to retreat."

Check out the article and enter the debate.

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Divorced from Reality

“We’re from the Government, and We’re Here to End Your Marriage.”

by Stephen Baskerville

The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches virtually every family and every American. It is not only the major source of social instability in the Western world today but also seriously threatens civic freedom and constitutional government.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family and the state would confront one another. That day has arrived.

Chesterton was writing about divorce, and despite extensive public attention to almost every other threat to the family, divorce remains the most direct and serious. Michael McManus of Marriage Savers writes that “divorce is a far more grievous blow to marriage than today’s challenge by gays.”

Most Americans would be deeply shocked if they knew what goes on today under the name of divorce. Indeed, many are devastated to discover that they can be forced into divorce by procedures entirely beyond their control. Divorce licenses unprecedented government intrusion into family life, including the power to sunder families, seize children, loot family wealth, and incarcerate parents without trial. Comprised of family courts and vast, federally funded social services bureaucracies that wield what amount to police powers, the divorce machinery has become the most predatory and repressive sector of government ever created in the United States and is today’s greatest threat to constitutional freedom. (Read the rest.)