1. "[In N.S.W. State school 'ethics classes', children] are now critically thinking about ethical concepts and moral issues within a secular framework", writes one of the "volunteer ethics teacher[s]"
http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/even-a-child-could-work-this-one-out-mr-nile-20110719-1hncd.html?skin=text-only
Labels: education, morality, secularism, St James Ethics Centre
2. A couple of recent items regarding polyamory
2.1 Research findings on Muslim polygynous and otherwise irregular marriages
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/sharia-law-at-work-in-australia/story-fn59niix-1226097889992
Labels: Islam, marriage, polyamory
2.2 Fr. Zuhlsdorf's fisking of an article on "[t]he slippery slope: from decriminalization to social acceptance"
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/07/the-slippery-slope-from-decriminalization-to-social-acceptance/
(It's the article itself, rather than the fisking, for which I've logged that web-page.)
Labels: G.L.B.T., marriage, polyamory
3. "The [Russian Orthodox] Moscow Patriarchate has undertaken a real campaign of expansion at home and abroad"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38209
Labels: R.O.C.
4. On planned or desired State attacks on the Sacrament of Penance
4.1 More on Ireland's planned attack on the Sacrament of Penance
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/07/ireland-priests-will-refuse-to-break-seal-of-confession-if-proposal-becomes-law/
(In that post's combox, good points are made by the commenters markomalley, PostCatholic, and albizzi here, here, and here, respectively.)
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38221
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=27315
Labels: Ireland, Sacraments, sexual abuse
4.2 On Sen. Xenophon's desire for Australian States to attack the Sacrament of Penance
http://www.smh.com.au/national/call-to-end-confessional-confidentiality-20110721-1hr0d.html?skin=text-only
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/unforgiveable-sin-confessing-to-child-abuse/
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=27331
Labels: Nick Xenophon, Sacraments, sexual abuse
5. Mr. Skinner on the U.K.'s Office for National Statistics's findings on the size of the homosexual and bisexual proportion of the population
The comment of 20.7.11 / 5pm in the combox here:
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/07/17/pushing-agendas-ignoring-facts/
The interesting thing about those findings is that it seems that even if you count all non-answers and answers other than heterosexual/straight as 'queer' (or whatever catch-all you prefer) then that would still give a mere 5.2%.
Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.
6. "Obama's [latest] gay rights push"
http://www.smh.com.au/world/obamas-gay-rights-push-20110720-1houe.html?skin=text-only
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38225
Labels: Barack Obama, G.L.B.T., marriage, U.S.A.
Feast of St. James the Greater, Apostle, and of St. Christopher, Martyr, A.D. 2011
http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/even-a-child-could-work-this-one-out-mr-nile-20110719-1hncd.html?skin=text-only
Labels: education, morality, secularism, St James Ethics Centre
2. A couple of recent items regarding polyamory
2.1 Research findings on Muslim polygynous and otherwise irregular marriages
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/sharia-law-at-work-in-australia/story-fn59niix-1226097889992
Labels: Islam, marriage, polyamory
2.2 Fr. Zuhlsdorf's fisking of an article on "[t]he slippery slope: from decriminalization to social acceptance"
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/07/the-slippery-slope-from-decriminalization-to-social-acceptance/
(It's the article itself, rather than the fisking, for which I've logged that web-page.)
Labels: G.L.B.T., marriage, polyamory
3. "The [Russian Orthodox] Moscow Patriarchate has undertaken a real campaign of expansion at home and abroad"
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38209
Labels: R.O.C.
4. On planned or desired State attacks on the Sacrament of Penance
4.1 More on Ireland's planned attack on the Sacrament of Penance
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/07/ireland-priests-will-refuse-to-break-seal-of-confession-if-proposal-becomes-law/
(In that post's combox, good points are made by the commenters markomalley, PostCatholic, and albizzi here, here, and here, respectively.)
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38221
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=27315
Labels: Ireland, Sacraments, sexual abuse
4.2 On Sen. Xenophon's desire for Australian States to attack the Sacrament of Penance
http://www.smh.com.au/national/call-to-end-confessional-confidentiality-20110721-1hr0d.html?skin=text-only
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/unforgiveable-sin-confessing-to-child-abuse/
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=27331
Labels: Nick Xenophon, Sacraments, sexual abuse
5. Mr. Skinner on the U.K.'s Office for National Statistics's findings on the size of the homosexual and bisexual proportion of the population
The comment of 20.7.11 / 5pm in the combox here:
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/07/17/pushing-agendas-ignoring-facts/
The interesting thing about those findings is that it seems that even if you count all non-answers and answers other than heterosexual/straight as 'queer' (or whatever catch-all you prefer) then that would still give a mere 5.2%.
Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.
6. "Obama's [latest] gay rights push"
http://www.smh.com.au/world/obamas-gay-rights-push-20110720-1houe.html?skin=text-only
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38225
Labels: Barack Obama, G.L.B.T., marriage, U.S.A.
Feast of St. James the Greater, Apostle, and of St. Christopher, Martyr, A.D. 2011
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