Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Well, things have begun to slow from an insane pace to simply crazy busy so I have time to post something quickly that Shelray’s wife passed along.  I am hoping that once things slow further to just plain busy, I will have a chance to do more posting.  As with the previous School of Theology, this is the way of life with a new start up school.

You can read more about the movie over at LifeSiteNews, but take a look at the trailer.  I hope that it does find a distributor:

Last month Shelray posted some of his original analyses here.  These analyses focused on the relationship between states accepting/not accepting abstinence only education funds and the rate of abortion in those states.  He obtained this information from the CDC and found some very surprising results.  The results were so startling that many have picked it up, including LifeNews. com.  Good job Shelray!

Last Tuesday the County Commissioners for Bexar County, Tejas met to consider Judge John Longoria for a new position in the County Courts.  Judge Longoria had every reason to expect that this would be a simple formality.  Judge Longoria had served the San Antonio community since 1968. His impressive resume included serving as County Commissioner for Bexar County, serving in Commissioners Court for 9 years, serving multiple years as County Judge, and serving for 10 years as the State Representative of District 117 in San Antonio.  One week before the interview which was this past Tuesday, he had heard back informally from four of the five commissioners that he had their support.

Then, just before the weekend the following e-mail kicked off a flurry of similar e-mails:

From: Tracy Joseph Bogert

Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:41:56 -0700 (PDT)

To: <tadkisson@bexar.org>; <kwolff@bexar.org>; <mdflores@bexar.org>; <pjsmothers@aol.com>; <almallopez@hughes.net>; <amadeo2008@yahoo.com>; <arios3@sanantonio.gov>; <artahall@artah.com>; <barbaranellermoe@hotmail.com>; <carlos@carlosuresti.com>; <email@judgecathy.com>; <cmstone99@yahoo.com>; <dist1field@sanantonio.gov>; <chritian@thearchergroup.org>; <cwwalker99@hotmail.com>; <christina.bazaldua@sanantonio.gov>; <cyanas@aol.com>; <danpozza@yahoo.com>; <david.leibowitz@house.state.tx.us>; <plylar@cirodrodriguez.com>; <district6@sanantonio.gov>; <lukinforcongress@aol.com>; <drodriguez24@prodigy.net>; <district7@sanantonio.gov>; <erika@cirodrodriguez.com>; <gina@cirodrodriguez.com>; <gino12395@hotmail.com>; <glorys2u@aol.com>; <campaign@henrycuellar.com>; <hpaulcanales@juno.com>; <joaquincastro125@hotmail.com>; <jgfarias@sbcglobal.net>; <gabe@joefarias.com>; <jmenende@stewart.com>; <jose.menendez@house.state.tx.us>; <judith.zaffirini@senate.state.tx.us>; <judy.peterson@house.state.tx.us>; <julian@castroformayor.com>; <justin@jrrlawoffice.com>; <kpozza@swbell.net>; <katie.floyd@radnofsky.com>; <lsalinas925@sbcglobal.net>; <lcantu8@yahoo.com>; <leticia.vandeputte@senate.state.tx.us>; <leticiavandeputte@hotmail.com>; <leticiavandeputte@sbcglobal.net>; <lcantu2@sanantonio.gov>; <district5@sanantonio.gov>; <lukintjr@worldnet.att.net>; <mario48n07@yahoo.com>; <mrobles2@sanantonio.gov>; <mapcisne@aol.com>; <maryroman@justice.com>; <mcastro@castro-killen.com>; <michael.villarreal@house.state.tx.us>; <mreyes9927@yahoo.com>; <nicmar78@hotmail.com>; <norma.Rivera@sanantonio.gov>; <norman.garza@carlosuresti.com>; <olivarrilaw@aol.com>; <pelizondo@co.bexar.tx.us>; <petersakai4judge@yahoo.com>; <meyerlaw@swbell.net>; <rachel.kahn.johnston@gmail.com>; <raquelsakai@yahoo.com>; <richardandradem@msn.com>; <rochelleacevedo@hotmail.com>; <district1@sanantonio.gov>; <district4@sanantonio.gov>; <Roger@joefarias.com>; <district3@sanantonio.gov>; <roseann.maldonado@mail.house.gov>; <ruth.mcclendon@house.state.tx.us>; <DanGraney@stonewallsanantonio.org>; <shanti4alwais@gmail.com>; <district2@sanantonio.gov>; <support@tommyadkisson.com>; <sybil@leibowitz4legislature.com>; <syromo@aol.com>; <tessa@instructors.net>; <tessaherr@att.net>; <tim.salas@sanantonio.gov>; <vsalazar@sanantonio.gov>; <jbolds@sanantonio.gov>; <cc7bogert@yahoo.com>; <misterbalconesheights@yahoo.com>; <david@texas-patriot.com>; <MIRELES1@aol.com>; <annacaballerofordistrict6@yahoo.com>; <mcwatts@wattslawfirm.com>; <ginnysmcdavid@yahoo.com>; <gabequintanilla@yahoo.com>; <Yolanda.Byington@sanantonio.gov>; <glorisaldana@att.net>; <rosalbasaenz@hotmail.com>; <aidarojas46@gmail.com>; <luckythea@aol.com>; <tinactorres@aol.com>; <rebeca@rebeca4judge.com>; <info@voteforbarbie.com>

Subject: Open letter to Commissioner’s Court

Dear Commissioners

I would like to let it be known that I would have an objection to any appointment involving John Longoria to a County Court at Law bench. I completely respect Mr. Longoria as a person and agree with many of his ideas and opinions. However I have known Mr. Longoria to be at odds with a woman’s right to choose and other issues that have federal legal precedent. There are many qualified candidates for these benches who would much less controversial than Mr. Longoria.

Again thank you for the excellent work you do for the County of Bexar.

If I were a journalist I would suspect that this group had been organized by an “astro-turf” anti-life mob.  Quite frankly, it is not a very strongly worded e-mail.  Unless I were already an ideologue I, or very much afraid of them, I would probably ignore even a hundred like e-mails.

In general, the e-mail appears to say that Judge Longoria  is acknowledged to be qualified except that because he is a pro-life (he is a Catholic and a Democrat).  Being pro-life makes him “controversial” and therefore, unfit to serve.

I suppose that we have a bunch of brain dead commissioners here in San Antonio because this is all it took to cause those previously supporting him to drop their support.  The die has been cast.  In Bexar County, if you are known to be a faithful Catholic you need not apply to any bench position with the County Courts.  I suppose that this is not much different from what is happening elsewhere.

San Antonio has been transformed recently into a very “blue” town.  The purveyors of death have become sufficiently organized and aware that they are working to eliminate anyone from the judicial branch that might interfere with the march toward ubiquitous abortion.

There was a late response by the pro-life community.  It is not clear how many e-mails were generated in support of Judge Longoria but it clearly was insufficient to turn the tide.  Our Lady of Guadalupe, Ora pro nobis.

American Papist is reporting that the E.E.O.C. has found Belmont Abbey College discriminatory toward women in removing coverage for oral contraception from its health care package. This is a troubling story on a couple of levels. On the surface, it is just one more example of the socialist desire to eliminate religious freedom, and free association in general, in favor of statist programs of eugenics, and so forth. It exemplifies as well the fight that the Church has now in this country against the political regime of death, which is just going to worsen over time as long as the Democrats are in power.

But on another level, it would be inappropriate to think of Belmont Abbey College as an innocent victim in this. The discrimination complaint against the college was brought to the E.E.O.C. by faculty members, including a prominent, stupid, out-and-proud atheist psychologist — the head of the psychology department! She’s a mind-numbed feminist, of course (whom I won’t name), who thinks of the human person as just another biological system, and she teaches her students to think likewise. And she is representative of much of the faculty that they’ve hired in the past few decades!

For 3 decades or so, Belmont Abbey College did not care a wit for Catholic identity, when it came to the rubber hitting the road in its faculty hiring decisions. In recent years, they’ve put a new administration in place to try and clean things up, but it is questionable whether such ships as these can ever be brought back into port once they’ve gone past a certain point: as the new E.E.O.C. decision makes clear. They are going to have to make a tough decision. Keep going, and violate Church teachings, or close the doors of the college. Of course, the monastery, itself dwindling drastically and aging in numbers, has its share of monks who are perfectly aligned with the recalcitrant faculty. Rahner’s theology is never far from the lips of these people, and the liturgy there is like a fly stuck in 1970s amber.

The Abbot once told the community of the college that if push came to shove, he would close the doors of the college. Well, his own monastic community is responsible for letting things get to this point.

I suppose I shouldn’t be so hard on the psychology professor whom I just mentioned. After all, she is only doing what it is in her nature to do. If you don’t want to want to be eaten by a lion, don’t let one into your home!

For fans of Fr. Don Calloway, you will be interested in knowing that he has a new website.  Go take a look.