I have taken repeated berating on the comment threads associated with my weekly column AND one of my most recent "Punch" video commentaries - both dealing with the double standard of violent massacres and partial birth abortion.
I expected about as much. Over 340 angry YouTubers used language not safe for work. Plus there are many angry liberals who stalk TownHall trying to do their best to knock clear headed conservatives off their game. They are lousy at it - but I give them credit for at least coming here and trying than to lob bombs from safe, all be they entirely insane, bunkers over at DailyKos or DemocratUnderground.
One place that agrees with me strongly is the Vatican. An unusual place if it were related to doctrinal agreement - but not unusual at all on the relevance of moral issues on our world today.
In an address to chaplains, Archbishop Angelo Amato said newspapers andtelevision bulletins often seemed like "a perverse film aboutevil." He denounced "evils that remain almost invisible"because the media presented them as "expression of humanprogress."
He listed these as abortion clinics, which he called"slaughterhouses of human beings," euthanasia, and "parliamentsof so-called civilized nations where laws contrary to thenature of the human being are being promulgated, such as theapproval of marriage between people of the same sex ..."
Amato spoke at a time when the Vatican and Italy's powerfulRoman Catholic Church are at loggerheads over plans for ahighly controversial law that would give unmarried heterosexualand homosexual couples some form of legal recognition.
It's not just Roman Catholics that are at loggerheads.
People of faith, conscience, and sobriety need to stand up, speak out, and not let this era of moral and sexual confusion go undefined. Everyone loses from doing nothing...