Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Notes: Wednesday, August 17-Tuesday, August 23, 2011

1. "53 per cent of Australian Christians support same-sex marriage"

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/a-year-older-but-no-wiser-as-mps-sign-on-again-20110816-1iwao.html?skin=text-only

http://www.australianmarriageequality.com/wp/a-majority-of-christians-support-marriage-equality/

http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/08/18/rebellion-deception-and-the-hallmarks-of-our-condition/

Labels: G.L.B.T., marriage

2. "A man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple will have his name stripped from their child's birth certificate after a successful legal bid by the birth mother's ex-partner"

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/fathers-name-stripped-from-birth-certificate-20110817-1ix2m.html?skin=text-only

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sperm-donors-who-helped-lesbian-couple-has-name-stripped-from-birth-certificate/story-e6frg6nf-1226116649813

http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/08/17/on-learning-how-to-think-perhaps-for-the-very-first-time/

http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/jacobs-lesson-act-now-to-fix-our-hospitals-20110818-1j0b9.html?skin=text-only
(under the heading "Birth certificates must include biological detail")

http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/socialise-dogs-thats-the-key-to-living-together-20110819-1j2n9.html?skin=text-only
(under the heading "Birth certificates")

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/editorial/the-best-interests-of-no-one-at-all-20110818-1j00s.html?skin=text-only

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/birth-certificates-fail-to-tell-us-the-whole-story-20110818-1izjr.html?skin=text-only

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-birth-certificate-is-a-factual-document-not-a-rewrite-of-history-20110818-1izq4.html?skin=text-only

Labels: birth certificates, G.L.B.T.

3. "Why the Gender [pay] Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever."

http://city-journal.org/2011/21_3_gender-gap.html

Labels: economics, gender differences, work

4. "in 2004 the Howard government amended the 1961 Marriage Act to ensure legally married same-sex couples overseas would not receive legal recognition here in Australia"

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/gays-denied-human-rights/story-e6frg6zo-1226118404188

Labels: G.L.B.T., law, marriage

5. "General Superior of the SSPX Called to Rome"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38614

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38619
(note: In the third-last paragraph (counting "Kyrie eleison" as a paragraph) of Msgr. Williamson's column, the words "on the SSPX's own" were underlined in the e-mailed version (or at least, they were in the one which I received) but have not been in the version to which I link above this parenthesis.)

Labels: Roman Curia, S.S.P.X.

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Philip Benizi, Confessor, A.D. 2011