Your Mom (or, um, Other)

More tragedy has hit the sun-shine state with the signing of a bill that apparently bans your mom.

Worldnetdaily.com reports,

"Mom and Dad" as well as "husband and wife" effectively have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose."

This is just weird.

The article also points out,

"Analysts have warned that schools across the nation will be impacted by the decision, since textbook publishers must cater to their largest purchaser, which often is California, and they will be unlikely to go to the expense of having a separate edition for other states."

I can tell you that this is true. Textbooks are big time political business. Actually, education is a big business. It just is. I'm sorry if you are in shock and awe over this notion. Don't hate the messenger!

And let's face it, California is a big state. They buy a lot of textbooks. And textbooks cost money.

This will impact the nation.

Toddislove.com

Toddislove.com

You should go there.

Cardinal Urges Religious to Get Blogging

In a ZENIT article, titled, "Cardinal Urges Religious to Get Blogging" it is stated that,

"Benedict XVI's vicar for the Diocese of Rome expressed his hopes that religious men and women increase their use of information technology, and thus take advantage of what he called a new form of apostolate."

Further along in the article it states,

"The 76-year-old prelate admitted, "I don’t understand the Internet, but especially young religious ought to enter blogs and correct the opinions of the youth, showing them the true Jesus.”

So if you start a blog and someone asks you 'why?' just tell them that the Vatican told you to.

The Chastity Crusader

Gotta post this stuff just because... it's so bad it's good.

Bella Opens Today!

I saw this movie in a prescreening a few months ago and it was exceptional! Go see it!

NFP Youtube!!!

Be Friendly. It's Free.

Seriously.

It's free.

If faced with the choice of being friendly or not being friendly, why not choose friendly?

The Maine Problem

"The age of consent for sex in the state of Maine is 16, so how can this school in good conscience give birth control to girls who are 11?"

"I can't get my daughter to be able to take cupcakes to school on a birthday because of the fear of peanuts or glutens of whatever, but they'll give her progesterone shots? Hey public schools, give her the cupcake."

"This is an assault on my relationship with my children."

"Oh but by the way, you can't send a tylenol to school for a headache without our permission. This is craziness."

The "Ultimate Gift"

A while back I mentioned that ya'll should entire a contest to win a copy of The Ultimate Gift.

Well, I won it. : )

I watched it this weekend and I must say I have bit of a mixed review.

First of all, it wasn't a totally bad movie.

It's just that...it was a bit slow.

You could have a conversation, look at a photo-album, paint your nails...and watch the movie all at the same time. I know this, because that is what I did.

This is not to say that I didn't enjoy it.

There was a meditative quality about it that doesn't come across in many other movies. Each scene focused on the specific emotion that each character was experiencing. Great care was taken to show the nuances of transformation as they occured.

So should you watch it? Yeah, I think you should. I was expecting something slightly faster paced, but regardless of that draw back, I'd say it was a satisfying movie.

The King's Men

Win $10,000!

You can't win if you don't buy a ticket!

Live Long and Prosper

Foxnews article Why Males Die Before Females gives men one more reason to live a monogomous lifestyle.

The article states, "In humans and many other animals, males age faster and die earlier than females. New research suggests this might happen because of intense competition over sex."

Apparently the University of Cambridge in England has found that, "the more polygynous a species was, the more likely their males were to age faster and die earlier than females."

And now you know!

Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity

The New View on Sex

The New View on Sex blog is pretty great.

Check out their latest posting on The Nature of Birth Control.

To the Lady on the Train...

To the lady on the train...

I'm really sorry I spilled icecream on your leg.

Future Depends on Love

Future Depends on Love Weekend Conference, tonight!

Clarity.

First thing in the morning, sometimes I have clarity.

All I can think is...

my gosh, how can we be so blind?

How can abortion be legal?

Why do we argue about the philosophy of this and the history of that?

Why must we need to have fetal models and sonograms to prove visually what is so self-evident?

Is it not obvious that before birth, one must truly...exist?

How can a baby be born without first being?

"And what of population?" some ask.

We cannot kill people who are already here.

"And what of rape?" some demand.

We cannot kill people just because of how someone arrived here.

"And what of choice?" some wonder.

No legal choice should result in death. It just doesn't make sense.

How did we get into this mess? Why are we still in the mess?

Stand Up for Life

Blogger wouldn't let me publish for a few days...but here we go...

Picture is from this weekend's "Stand Up for Life" event. My friend Laura and I stuck around for awhile afterwards- that's why it doesn't look like anyone else is there!

"Faith is so much bigger than we are..."

"Faith is so much bigger than we are that it can only come as a gift from God. There's no explaining it. If I could talk you into faith, someone else would come along and talk you out of it. But having faith changes everything."

- Arms of Love, by Carmen Marcoux

Che-Che-Che Check It Out

Purefashion.com has a pretty comprehensive yet totally realistic "Guidelines for Modesty. "

Not In My House: TV

So I moved into a new place...

and I don't have a TV...

nor do I plan on getting one.

The past two months of my life have been great.

Crude, violent, hyper-sexual, commercial, rude, vulgar, and idiotic imagery and sounds have ceased to be part of what I allow to go into my brain.

Okay so I'm missing out of the good stuff like EWTN, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the weird news/entertainment/proud venting from Fox News.

Number Nine on my Ten Ways to Lead a Chaste Life in and Un-Chaste World list is "Be careful of your influences."

In coming up with a "chastity" talk I couldn't help but confront the fact that pursuing the virtue of chastity in any serious way would be laughable if one drank from the dirty water that flows from television.

Now I am perfectly aware that there is NOTHING inherently wrong with the medium of television.

The problem is, this tele-vision medium has been taken over in such a way that one cannot surf from channel to channel without being exposed to stuff that personally, I just don't want in my brain.

The phrase "garbage in, garbage out" fits well.

If you let garbage into your brain, what do you think will manifest in your thoughts? In your life?

How am I to see the beautiful and inherent dignity in others and myself when my brain in being bombarded by the "perfectly" proportioned bodies of actors and actresses on TV?

How am I to have sincere respect for life and death when the bodies of the deceased are shown so gratuitously on TV?

I love not having the influence of TV so much that I'm seriously thinking of giving up the radio.

Except for the Spanish station.

I don't really know what they're saying anyway.