Category: Politics
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A Workable Alternative to Government-Run Healthcare
Deal W. Hudson August 16, 2009 The newly launched USCCB Web site on health care tackles the question: “Are the bishops promoting socialized medicine by advocating for universal access?” That’s a good question since the prospect of a government takeover of health care has created a growing chorus of complaints about the present bills before the Congress.…
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Why Are the Bishops Forcing the Issue of Healthcare?
Deal W. Hudson August 13, 2009 If ever there were a time when Catholics should not trust the United States government, it is now. The president, his administration, and the congressional leadership are removing all the abortion restrictions put in place since Roe v. Wade. And yet, the bishops are backing a proposal to give the federal government…
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Bill Donohue Takes Aim at the Secular Left
Deal W. Hudson August 31, 2009 In 1978, a young scholar in his early 30s named Bill Donohue, working on a book about the ACLU, went to New York City to interview its founder, Roger Baldwin. Donohue asked him why the ACLU was opposed to a moment of silent “meditation” in the classroom. Baldwin responded, “I suppose…
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The Problems with Government-Run Healthcare
Deal W. Hudson September 3, 2009 As the White House backs away from the so-called public option in health-care reform, Catholic experts are hopeful that the proposed government control of the nation’s medical care will be put aside. They argue that rejecting the public option will better serve a culture of life, maintain the present high quality…
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When Should Catholics “Call a Spade a Spade”?
Deal W. Hudson September 7, 2009 “To call a spade a spade,” a phrase whose origin can be traced back to Plutarch, is defined by Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable as to be “outspoken, blunt, even to the point of rudeness.” The question of when Catholics should be outspoken, in this sense, has arisen over the heated…
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Charity, Civility, and Speaking the Truth
Deal W. Hudson September 21, 2009 The funeral of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy provoked a highly charged debate among Catholics about civility. In the midst of this discussion, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, came to Washington, D.C., to be honored by InsideCatholic.com at its 14th…
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A University of Dallas Alumnus Sets His Sights on Congress
Deal W. Hudson September 24, 2009 At age 37 and married only a month, Kevin Calvey volunteered for deployment in Iraq. When he returned to his wife, Toni, in Oklahoma City a year later – 2008 – he restarted his private law practice but was soon alarmed by the “dire situation” of our nation. It…
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Obama’s Nominee for EEOC Promotes Polygamy and Homosexuality
Deal W. Hudson October 20, 2009 President Barack Obama has nominated a Georgetown University law professor, Chai R. Feldblum, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Council. Feldblum, a lesbian activist lawyer, formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and in the mid-1980s clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of Roe v.…
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USCCB Partners an Effort to Investigate Rush Limbaugh’s “Hate Speech”
Deal W. Hudson October 26, 2009 In an important article for the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord describes the effort of “So We Might See” – “a national inter-faith coalition for media justice,” according to its Web site – to force a Federal Communications Commission investigation of conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. The organization’s petition to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski…
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USCCB Clarifies Its Position on the Regulation of Hate Speech
Deal W. Hudson October 29, 2009 This past Monday I reported that the USCCB Department of Communications is listed as a “principal partner” on the “So We Might See” Web site. So We Might See is a coalition of religious groups that are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to investigate “hate speech.” Since the page on the…
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