Fair & Biased … Love, Truth and Justice … 2008 – 1960 – 1776 Timeline to America’s Catastrophe – 2006–1776
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2006 – (10-06-06) – Oprah Celebrates Homosexuality, Again, as Audience Applauds - Sonja Dalton and Peter LaBarbera, Americans for Truth - ”According to Oprah, they are now living [their] best life. According to God, however, they are deluded, deceived – given over to sexual impurity and degrading of their bodies, given up to dishonorable passions, abandoned to a debased, depraved mind (see Romans 1 in the New Testament) … So much for the broken homes, broken hearts – and broken promises before God. Oprah, we ask: where is your compassion for the children whose families are shattered, and the husband who said he cried every day, with anguish over the destruction of his marriage and family that, he said, almost killed him?”
2006 – (09-25-06) – Culture Warrior – Bill O’Reilly - The O’Reilly Factor - “O’Reilly condemns the erosion of societal discipline flowing from an alleged S-P [secular-progressive] agenda of drug legalization, teenagers’ rights, moral relativism, church-state separation, therapy instead of punishment for criminals and, above all, the communist freeloader’s doctrine that the government should tax the rich to fund housing, health care and early-childhood education for the poor.”
2006 – (07-21-06) – No-Fault Divorce: A National Catastrophe - Constitutional and family law attorney, J. Shelby Sharpe - ”No-fault is national catastrophe. Anything which overturns the order or systems of things whereby families are destroyed and the whole of society adversely affected is by definition a catastrophe.” … “Attorney Sharpe was confident that if a case involving No-fault divorce was ever brought before the U.S. Supreme Court it would no doubt be ruled unconstitutional and No-fault divorce abolished.” … S. Michael Craven, Center for Christ & Culture - ”No-fault divorce is both a social and legal atrocity that needs to be abolished for the sake of families and children that have, for too long, been subjected to the tyrannical actions of family courts and has encouraged, through law, radical selfishness on the part of narcissistic spouses and parents.”
2006 – (07-01-06) – Oprah, and why her last show angered me - Katsuhiko Jinnai – WhistleStopper - ”Now, before this episode, I generally found Oprah to be an excellent role model for young women, and black women in particular.” … “Needless to say, swinging cheapens marriage. It debases marriage. It renders marriage nothing more than a convenient friendship relative to all your other sexual unions.”
2006 – (06-16-06) – Fired for speaking the truth - Barbara Kralis – Renew America – “Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired Smith on June 15 because he spoke against sodomy during a local cable television round-table discussion. During a taped June 9 weekly-televised show, Smith told the program’s discussion panel that same-sex marriage was wrong and homosexuality was a deviancy.”
2006 - (02-16-06) – Bishops to oppose adoption by gays – Exemption bid seen from antibias laws – Patricia Wen and Frank Phillips, The Boston Globe - ”The decision follows a three-month study of the theological and practical impact of having Catholic Charities of Boston, the Boston Archdiocese’s social service arm, place children with gay couples, given the Vatican’s teaching that describes such adoptions are gravely immoral.”
2006 – (06-03-06) – Marriage Amendment Could Soothe Angry Right – Kelley Beaucar Vlahos – Fox News – “On May 19, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Federal Marriage Amendment. And the Associated Press reported Thursday that Bush will lend support to the amendment in an announcement Monday.”
2005 – (11-30-05) – Knights of Columbus Forced to Pay Damages to Lesbians for Refusing to Rent Hall for “Wedding” Reception – Terry Vanderheyden, LifeSiteNews – “When the Knights became aware that it was to be for a homosexual couple, they cancelled the booking.”
2005 – (11-25-05) – “Pornography” TV’s New Taboo Word - Dr. Judith Reisman, President of the Institute for Media Education – “I had discussed its role as producing impotence, robbing men of their manhood. I had addressed its psychopharmacology as an erototoxin. I had documented its presence in adultery, divorce, rape, child sex abuse and incest.”
2005 - (11-15-05) – Educating Dr. Phil On Sexual Orientation Issues - Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D. President, NARTH - “Dr. Phil claims that lesbians are ‘hard wired’ for their behavior … NARTH is a professional organization of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, licensed counselors, educators, and others who believe in freedom of choice in therapy and are convinced that sexual orientation is fluid, not fixed.”
2005 – (08-30-05) – Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy – Author – “Ariel Levy’s debut book is a bold, piercing examination of how twenty-first century American society perceives sex and women.” … “Levy cleverly leads us to explore the role models women aspire to emulate. We are not pursuing the confident, self-determined, powerful, free ideal the women’s liberation movement would have dreamed for its daughters.”
2005 – (08-14-05) – Sordid Science: The Sex Research of Alfred C. Kinsey (The Catholic Standard & Times – Part 5 of 7) – Susan Brinkmann, CS&T – “In her book, Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences, Dr. Judith Reisman contains actual transcripts of testimony by Alfred Kinsey to the California Legislature where he uses his false data to argue for paroling rapists and even child sex offenders. Unfortunately, he was convincing enough to bring about devastating changes in the law” … “It should come as no surprise then that by 1973 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had removed pedophilia, as well as sadism and homosexuality, from its list of disorders” … “Another major area where Kinsey data negatively influenced the law and society was in the decriminalization of adultery, cohabitation and fornication, which lead to an overall weakening in the institution of marriage …. It was an erosion that would eventually bring about no-fault divorce” … “But no member of society has suffered more than our innocent children. Not only for the reasons stated above, but because Alfred Kinsey’s distorted studies about women lead to one of the most disastrous Supreme Court decisions ever made – Roe v. Wade”
2005 – (07-04-05) – It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good - Senator Rick Santorum – “Throughout this book … I will be discussing different types of ‘captial’ and how family breakdown – out-of-wedlock births, divorce, cohabitation, and absentee parenthood – has depleted that capital in recent decades.”
2005 – (06-17-05) – Judicial Review – PBS NOW - Juju Chang: And who gets to define which laws are good and which laws are bad? Who gets to define what judicial activism is? Dr. Scarborough: Finally, the American people. And that’s why I’m engaged in this. My first love, Juju, is preaching the Gospel and I never, for the first 20 years of my ministry, envisioned that I’d be sitting here today talking about national political issues. But I finally concluded that while we were winning elections and mobilizing Christians to the polls we were still losing the cultural war because judges are striking down every effort we put forth to bring civility to the public place.”
2005 – (05-31-05) – Christians no different from the world - Chuck Baldwin, Founder-Pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church - ”Recently, pollster George Barna released his research regarding the beliefs and conduct of today’s Christians. The results are shocking! According to Barna, only 9% of America’s born again Christians have a Biblical worldview. Only 9%! … Barna’s research gets even more disturbing. His survey reveals that only 3% of Christian parents include the salvation of their children in the list of critical parental emphasis. What?? Does this mean that 97% of America’s Christian parents really don’t think it ‘critical’ that their own children go to heaven? At the same time, 39% of America’s Christian parents believe it is ‘critical’ that their children get a good education. Compare these sentiments with those of President Theodore Roosevelt who said, “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
2005 – (05-19-05) – Interview With Joyce Meyer - CNN Larry King Live – “Tonight, Joyce Meyer. She overcame being sexually abused as a child and depression and drug use after a disastrous first marriage, to become one of America’s most influential evangelicals, but preaching the word of Jesus and the gospel of prosperity has brought her millions of dollars and some controversy.”
2005 - (05-03-05) – Can An Adulterer Receive Alimony? – Joanna Grossman, Hofstra Law Professor - ”The New Jersey Supreme Court Says Yes, But Marital Misconduct Can Lower the Award In Egregious Circumstances.“
2005 - (04-12-05) – Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture that’s Gone Stark Raving Mad - Rebecca Hagelin, Social Commentator & Author - ”In Home Invasion, Rebecca Hagelin proves that in today’s all-consuming culture of corruption there is nowhere left to hide-American homes have already been invaded by this insidious enemy that seeks to twist our minds and poison our hearts through the unmonitored Internet, television, magazines, and music that our families ingest on a daily basis.”
2005 – (02-18-05) – Restoring a Culture of Strong Marriages - Bridget E. Maher, Family Research Council - ”Marriage confers many social and economic benefits on children, adults, and society, but it has been severely weakened by feminism, the sexual revolution, and the population-control campaign. The breakdown of marriage over the past four decades has resulted in low rates of marriage, high rates of divorce, out-of-wedlock childbearing, and cohabitation … America needs to restore a culture in which monogamous, lifelong marriages are the norm and marriage between and a man and a woman is treasured as the safest and best haven for children.”
2005 - (2-16-05) YES—ONCE AND FOR ALL— AMERICA IS A CHRISTIAN NATION - Don Feder, 2005, Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation … 1997-2009, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights - ”America was founded on the moral patrimony of the West—that Bible-based code called the Judeo-Christian ethic. Whether they do so out of malice or ignorance, those who attack the idea of a Christian America are really attacking this … Finally, we must ask if America is a Christian nation—in the sense that our laws still are shaped by Christianity. Alas, no. A Christian (or Judeo-Christian) America would not have legalized abortion. It would not be inching toward euthanasia. It would not be on the verge of homosexual marriage. It would not have no-fault divorce, rampant promiscuity, state-sponsored illegitimacy, government-condoned pornography or any of the other myriad delights of a post-Christian culture … The choice isn’t Christian America or nothing, but Christian America or a neo-pagan, hedonistic, rights-without-responsibilities, anti-family, culture-of-death America.”
2005 – (02-13-05) – When Sexuality Undercuts A Family’s Ties - Marc Fisher – The Washington Post – “Now Maya Keyes — liberal, lesbian and a little lost — finds herself out on her own. She says her parents — conservative commentator and perennial candidate Alan Keyes and his wife, Jocelyn — threw her out of their house, refused to pay her college tuition and stopped speaking to her.”
2004 – (11-19-04) - Secret Sex in the Suburbs – The Oprah Show - ”Tina and Sam have been married for more than 20 years and have three children together. They’re basically your next door neighbors—they go to church every week, both have their Ph.D.s, and they also say they are kind of ‘boring’ people. Except for one small detail—Tina and Sam are swingers, often having intercourse with other couples.”
2004 - (06-17-04) - Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed – By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank – Washington Post – “The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday that it has found no ‘collaborative relationship’ between Iraq and al Qaeda, challenging one of the Bush administration’s main justifications for the war in Iraq.”
2004 – (04-06-04) – Can Pharmacists Withhold Birth Control? - Jake Tapper and Jack Date - ”The Food and Drug Administration and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology have defined pregnancy as beginning at the moment a fertilized egg is implanted in the uterine wall. But many conservatives believe pregnancy — and therefore life — begins at the moment of fertilization, up to a week before implantation. Since the pill, the so-called morning-after pill, and other hormonal contraceptives can take effect after fertilization, they see these medications as ending human life … Currently, only two states — Arkansas and South Dakota — have laws protecting pharmacists from having to dispense medications they oppose, which supporters call “conscience clauses” and opponents call refusal laws. Ten other states — Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin — are considering such legislation.”
2004 – (05-10-04) - Ovaries and Rosaries – Godspy Magazine – Mary Beth Newkumet – Vice President of Lumen Catechetical Consultants, Inc. – “When I watched C-SPAN’s coverage of the recent pro-choice movement’s March for Women’s Lives in Washington, D.C., as I listened to the speakers, I was struck by the vision of motherhood-on-our-own-terms that so dominates our cultural landscape. Wrapped in the mantle of freedom, speakers took turns coming up to the podium to encourage the crowd in the fight for unlimited access to contraception and legal abortion. To prove how important this agenda was to the future of women in America, many of the speakers brought their own daughters up to the podium with them, to remind the audience of what’s at stake for young people. … As the camera scanned the crowd, I was particularly struck by one woman’s sign which read: Keep your rosaries off my ovaries.“
2004 – (02-25-04) – The Passion of the Christ – Mel Gibson, Icon - ”A profound story of courage and sacrifice depicting the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.”
2004 – (02-09-04) – The Marriage Debate: More than a Gay Issue - Michael J. McManus – America - Bishop J. Kevin Boland - “Marriage is in crisis, and its value will be eroded unless we are willing to point out that same-sex unions are not equivalent to marriage … We should do everything we can to support stable marriages. Marriage is in a very real crisis situation in our nation. .I agree there must be change of civil law. The states make it easy to divorce, which is a tragedy, creating conflict for the children and a whole quagmire of fights by the couple over property and custody.”
2004 – Letter to the Other Woman - David Padfield, Church of Christ – “Several weeks ago Tonya E-mailed me and told me of her husband’s marital infidelity, and how her family’s life had been turned upside down. After nineteen years of marriage she discovered a secret mailbox full of romantic E-mails from you. She told me how he supposedly met you online, and presented himself as a single man, even though Mike now says you knew he was married all along. Tonya found it hard to believe that any woman calling herself a Christian would be involved with a married man. She said you have no clue as to how you hurt her family, including her extended family, and their spouses and children. I could almost hear her sobs and tears as she wrote about how her family had been torn apart by your illicit relationship with her husband … How can you be involved with a man who has so little regard for his own children? Is your need for male companionship so strong that you are willing to destroy innocent young lives to get what you need? How could you be in love with a man who is willing to allow his children to suffer so he can spend time with you?”
2003 – (10-25-03) – Shut Up & Sing - Laura Ingraham – Conservative Book Club Review – “Meet the elites. They think you’re stupid. They think all freedom loving Americans are stupid. They think patriotism is stupid. They think churchgoing is stupid. They think flag-flying is stupid. They despise families with more than two children. They are sure that where we live — anywhere but near or in a few major cities — is an insipid cultural wasteland.”
2003 – (11-03-03) – Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite - PFOX Book Review – Bernard Goldberg – Author, Journalist & Political Commentator - ”Somewhere along the line too many otherwise smart liberals became entirely too illiberal. And that goes for liberal journalists, too. On gay issues, for example, they now revert to name-calling at the drop of a hat in order to shore up their own close-mindness and orthodoxy … Why should it always take turning the tables this way to see how obvious and how blatant the bias is? … Or maybe Diane and Barbara should just tell it like it is and say, We live in Manhattan. All of our friends are sophisticated and just about all of them are liberal, to one degree or another. And here in Manhattan – crossroads of the universe – we don’t think this subject of gay adoptions is all that controversial. So we’re going to put on a program with pretty much only one side. Sit back and enjoy the show. At least it would be honest.”
2003 - (01-30-03) – Supreme Court Has Been Contributing to Social Decay - Virginia Law – Judge Edith Jones - ”Since the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court has been issuing decisions contrary to the generally held values of Americans, imposing a modish, untested philosophical notions and extreme libertarianism that would have left the [Constitution's] Framers aghast, Edith Jones, a judge on the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, told a packed room Jan. 28 in a speech sponsored by The Federalist Society.”
2002 – (10-01-02) – The Purpose Driven Life – Dr. Rick Warren – Saddleback Valley Community Church – “The most basic question everyone faces in life is Why am I here? What is my purpose?”
2002 – (05-2002) - Priestly Celibacy and Its Roots in Christ … Interview with Fr. McGovern – Christendom – “Father Thomas McGovern, a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei in Dublin, is the author of Priestly Celibacy Today. He was interviewed recently by Register staff writer John Burger on issues about celibacy raised by the current sex abuse crisis.”
2002 – (02-25-02) – Why is it in the Government’s Interest to Save Marriages? - The Heritage Foundation – Michael J. McManus, Marriage Savers - ”As President of Marriage Savers, a national non-profit organization whose goal is to reduce the divorce rate, strengthen marriages and restore hope to children in distressed marriages I enthusiastically endorse House Bill 1301 Sponsored by Rep. Gary Hopper and Reps. Hills, Gillman, Graf, Stohl, Coos, Boyce, Roberge, Johnson and Matthew Quandt … This bill would permit no-fault divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences for couples without minor children. However, if there are minor children, the person who wants a divorce would have to prove the other person is at fault having committed adultery, been arrested for a felony or been physically abusive. New Hampshire could lead America in reforming unilateral divorce.”
2002 – (01-30-02) – Pope John Paul’s Anti-Divorce Appeal to Attorney’s Won’t Change Legal Profession, Analysts Say – Richard N. Ostling – AP Religion Writer - ”Pope John Paul II is talking tough on divorce, urging lawyers and judges to oppose it and calling the end of marriage a ‘festering wound’ that is devastating society.”
2002 – (01-29-02) – Pope Tells Lawyers to Boycott Divorce - BBC News – Pope John Paul (Annual Meeting with Vatican magistrates): “A marriage must be for life, the Pope says … The indissolubility of marriage was not a ’simple private choice’, but one of the fundamentals of all society, he added … Roman Catholic lawyers should refuse to handle divorce cases … He said divorce was ’spreading like a plague’ through society, and lawyers should refuse to be part of the ‘evil’ … Lawyers, who work freely, should always decline to use their professions for an end that is contrary to justice, like divorce … Marriage is indissoluble… it doesn’t make any sense to talk about the ‘imposition’ of human law, because it should reflect and protect natural and divine law.”
2002 – (01-2002) – Is No-Fault Divorce Unconstitutional? - Judge Darrell White (retired) – “To your characterization of no-fault divorce laws as both ‘ungodly’ and ‘inhumane,’ I would add ‘unconstitutional’ as well. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution guarantee citizens the right to ‘due process’ in respect to safeguards against violation of life, liberty, and property.”
2001 – (09-11-01) – September 11, 2001 - ”This website is dedicated to the memory of those lost in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Washington DC and Somerset County, Pennsylvania … Our hope is that this site will be a resource to those who visit as well as a place to mourn the terrible loss of life, a starting point to heal and a memorial to those great Americans lost in this senseless tragedy.”
2000 – (06-05-00) – The Effects of Divorce on America - The Heritage Foundation – Patrick F. Fagan and Robert E. Rector - ”The divorce of parents, even if it is amicable, tears apart the fundamental unit of American Society … Mounting evidence in social science journals demonstrates that the devastating physical, emotional, and financial effects that divorce is having on these children will last well into adulthood and affect future generations.”
2000 – (05-26-00) – Choose liberalism – JWR – Ann Coulter, Author, Social and Political Commentator - “I, for example, stopped listening to that cretinous sex addict Dr. Ruth Westheimer after hearing only one of her shows back in 1985 … If you want the advice of a woman who treats human sexuality like animal husbandry (and can be depended on to advise you to masturbate more), call Dr. Ruth. If you want the advice of someone whose counsel is based on the Scriptures and who will harangue you to be a better person, to stop living with the guy who’s never going to marry you, to stick with your wife, or to put your children before the handyman on the side — call Dr. Laura.”
2000 - (2001) Dr. Laura - Dr. Schlessinger v the American Psychological Association and gay activists … Although Dr. Laura’s feud began in 1977, her TV talk show began in 2000 and ended in 2001. “Nevertheless the Juggernaut Continues” - Dr. Andrew Corbett - “Gay” (Same-Sex) Marriage? - ”But who will dare oppose the Gay and lesbian movement? In the USA, a prominent TV personality, Dr Laura Schlessinger, also the second highest rated radio talkback host in the USA, publicly stated that homosexuality was deviant and immoral. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, angered by Schlessinger, declared war on the TV show’s producer, Paramount … Another group StopDrLaura.com took its protests in front of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. They pressured a list of companies from advertising on both her radio and television show, including Procter & Gamble Co., Kraft Foods, Xerox Corp., American Express Corp., AT&T, and Sears. Dr Laura remarked that she was merely upholding the teachings of her Jewish faith. This seems to be a typical reaction from the Gay and Lesbian lobby to anyone who dares challenges them or their agenda. It is also ironic that the Gay lobby claims that those holding to Judeo-Christian values are intolerant, and should not be tolerated(!)”
2000 – (11-06-00) - Does Hollywood get it right? A stripping story – Jodi Ross – CNN – “In Hollywood, male strippers are hot stuff. The hit movie, The Full Monty (1997), was recently reborn as a Broadway musical. And this week, USA Network is offering a sexy TV movie called, The Chippendales Murder, the story of how lust for power led the founder of Chippendales into a downward spiral of blackmail, arson and murder.”
2000 – (1952) – DSM – Wikipedia – “The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides diagnostic criteria for mental disorders … 1974 decision, however, is still challenged by many conservative and religious groups who maintain that homosexuality is in fact a mental disorder … Indeed, even Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist), a leading proponent of continued inclusion, conceded that a significant reason that certain diagnoses are not removed from the DSM is because it would be a public relations disaster for psychiatry.“
1999 - (07-03-99) - How Therapy Can be Hazardous to Your Marital Health - William J. Doherty, PhD (Smart Marriages Conference July 3, 1999) - ”I take no joy in being a whistle blower, but it’s time … I am a committed marriage and family therapist, having practiced this form of therapy since 1977. I train marriage and family therapists. I believe that marriage therapy can be very helpful in the hands of therapists who committed to the profession and the practice. But there are a lot of problems out there with the practice of therapy – a lot of problems.”
1998 – (07-19-98) – Military Weighing Changes In Policy Toward Adultery – Steven Lee Myers – New York Times – “Officials at the Pentagon have proposed downgrading the crime of adultery in the military’s justice system, a recognition that, in at least some ways, the military world should not really be so different from the civilian, officials said.” … Geocities … “What better way to destroy the faith of a nation then by legislating and legalizing immorality. The CFR controls the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial systems. Encouraging witnesses to lie under oath encourages people to take the Lords name in vain; condones bearing false witness against ones neighbors; and allows the guilty to go free while encouraging people to steal and murder. Legalizing divorce legalizes and encourages adultery and promiscuity. Legalizing abortion legalizes and encourages murder. What better way to attack a people’s faith then to confuse them about the ethics and morals that guide that faith?”
1998 - (01-1998) – Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism - ”F. Carolyn Graglia, a lawyer before she became a homemaker, makes an unassailable case against feminism…. Graglia indicts feminism for the demise of the traditional family, the degradation of the homemaker, the spread of venereal disease, the growth of income disparity, and the defeat of the United States in Vietnam (no kidding) … She recommends a movement to reform ‘no-fault’ divorce laws to ensure financial security for full-time homemakers (although the old laws were notoriously ineffective).”
1998 – (06-1998) - Catholic Divorce Mills? Annulment Stance of Diocesan Canonist Assailed - Tom Barbarie, San Diego News Notes - ”How is it possible, some might wonder, that entertainer Frank Sinatra – who divorced first wife Nancy to marry Ava Gardner and, after a brief stopover as Mia Farrow’s spouse, took Barbara Marx as wife number four — could die a Catholic? Why was Henry VIII treated so differently by a church whose official teaching is that marriage is indissoluble, and which furthermore insists that time does not alter its stance on matters of morals?”
1998 - (04-16-98) – What God Has Joined Together: The Annulment Crisis in American Catholicism - Robert H. Vasoli - ”The real scandal, though, is not simply in numbers, but that church marriage courts annul thousands of marriages that are actually valid according to Catholic teaching … But Rome has not smiled on the performance of U.S. Tribunals: of those psychological annulments appealed to Roman Rota (the Vatican’s highest marriage tribunal), more than 90% are overturned.”
1997 – (04-15-97) – Shattered Faith - Sheila Kennedy – June 21, 2007 – Vatican reverses Kennedy ruling – Ex-congressman’s annulment voided – Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe – “Sheila Rauch Kennedy fought the annulment for 10 years.” … “The [annulment] process was very dishonest and it was a process in which I was being bullied, said Rauch Kennedy, referring to her treatment by the church. But I was very lucky. I had help from outside of the Archdiocese. Otherwise I wouldn’t have known about appealing to Rome and how to do it. I feel for the people who don’t get help.“ Shattered Faith
1996 - (May-June 1996) – Drumbeats for divorce reform – Lighting the Match - Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Hoover Institution - On September 5, 1969, with a stroke of his pen, California governor Ronald Reagan wiped out the moral basis for marriage in America” … Repairing the Damage .. “As the moral consequences of America’s soaring divorce rate have become clear, even leading Democrats are voicing their support for stricter divorce laws. In her syndicated newspaper column, for instance, First Lady Hillary Clinton recently wrote, I think getting a divorce should be much harder when children are involved. . . . Divorce has become too easy because of our permissive laws and attitudes. She goes on to say, ‘The good news is that attitudes about marriage and divorce seem to be changing. Some states are beginning to examine whether their divorce laws are too lax. Grass-roots campaigns to help preserve marriage are flourishing around the country.“
1992 – (06-13-92) – Prevalence of Adultery – Catholic Doctrine – Fr. Paul A. Wickens - ”In our watered-down Christian society, adultery is not so socially scandalous as it once was. The liberal media regularly portray infidelity as some kind of romantic adventure—and often attempt to justify, and even encourage it. The sin of adultery is euphemistically called having an affair. In the civil law, divorce has become simplified and easy to attain. The notoriety of public figures who flaunt their adulterous behavior tends to break down respect for the institution of marriage and the virtue of purity. Scandal and bad example can be found everywhere, often even in the best of families. A wedding ring placed on the hand of a bride should send out a signal, loud and clear: She belongs exclusively to one man. So also the wedding band worn by the groom: He is no longer fair game. He belongs to one woman only. A respectable married man not only does not commit adultery, but also does not engage in looks, words and actions which may lead in that direction … A prudent married person does not bestow any type of affection on or give more than passing attention to members of the opposite sex which may ultimately lead to fatal consequences. Little by little, imprudent behavior can weaken one’s resolve to observe faithfully the marriage vows made before God. Adultery remains always a mortal sin. It is a direct violation of the Sixth Commandment. Even if this sin becomes prevalent in the world, its culpability is not thereby diminished. Anyone who dies having committed this sin—and dies unrepentant—will be subjected to eternal punishment in Hell.”
1988 – (11-1988) – The Battle for the Family – The Forerunner - Attorney Shelby Sharpe: ”The greatest war ever waged in this country is currently under way against the American family and is increasing in intensity. So far, more families have been destroyed as a result of this war than all of the military conflicts in which this nation has been engaged. All indications are that the casualty rate will increase over the balance of this century. This is a strange war because the number one battleground giving rise to the greatest number of casualties is largely uncontested territory … No-fault divorce is the number one destroyer of families. No-fault divorce statues are present in all fifty states and none is currently being seriously contested within the court system. Tragically, the Church in America is virtually silent concerning this issue. None of the major denominations has targeted this matter with a view to pressuring legislators to remedy it.”
1986 – (Revised) - Instructions in the Catholic Faith – Parish Priests - ”Divorce and remarriage is a mortal sin because it is clearly against the law of God. A divorced person is not even permitted to keep company with another … Here we are speaking only of valid marriages, not invalid marriages.”
1977 – Save Our Children, Inc. - Anita Bryant – Conservapedia – “Save Our Children, Inc. was a political coalition formed in 1977 in Miami, Florida to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation. The coalition was publicly headed by celebrity singer Anita Bryant, who claimed the ordinance discriminated against her right to teach her children biblical morality.”
1973 - (01-22-73) – Roe v. Wade - Landmark Cases – “We … acknowledge our awareness of the sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion controversy, of the vigorous opposing views, even among physicians, and of the deep and seemingly absolute convictions that the subject inspires.” – Justice Blackmun (1973), majority opinion in Roe v. Wade
1969 – (Signed) – Effective January 1, 1970 - No-Fault Divorce Laws - Law Library – American Law and Legal Information - “In 1969, California became the first state to completely revise its divorce laws … In 1970, the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws prepared a Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, which provides for no-fault divorce if a court finds that the marriage is irretrievably broken (U.L.A., Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act §§ 101 et seq.). Such a finding requires little more than the desire of one spouse to end the marriage. Many state legislatures adopted the law, and by the end of the 1970s, nearly every state legislature had enacted laws allowing no-fault divorce, or divorce after a specified period of separation. Some states replaced all traditional grounds with a single no-fault provision. Other states added the ground of irreconcilable differences to existing statutes. In such states, a divorce petitioner remains free to file for divorce under traditional grounds.”
1960 - (05-11-60) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves the Pill - PBS – “Eventually, the FDA avoided the question of long-term safety by approving contraceptive usage of Enovid for no more than two years at a time, and on May 11, 1960, the FDA officially announced its approval of the contraceptive pill. The famous journalist and playwright Clare Boothe Luce echoed the thoughts of many when she declared, Modern woman is at last free as a man is free to dispose of her own body.”
1796 - President Washington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United States – September 26, 1796 - ”Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
1776 – We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (The United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776)
No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Mt 6:24
“Common Sense lived a long life but died in the United States from heart failure on the brink of the new millennium … Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by two stepbrothers and a stepsister: My Rights, Only Me and Ima Whiner.” … The Death of Common Sense by Lori Borgman
