Ms. Feminist, how’s it workin’ for ya?

The single-mother revolution has been an economic catastrophe for women. Poverty remains relatively rare among married couples with children; the U.S. census puts only 8.8% of them in that category, up from 6.7% since the start of the Great Recession. But more than 40% of single-mother families are poor, up from 37% before the downturn. In the bottom quintile of earnings, most households are single people, many of them elderly. But of the two-fifths of bottom-quintile households that are families, 83% are headed by single mothers. The Brookings Institution’s Isabel Sawhill calculates that virtually all the increase in child poverty in the United States since the 1970s would vanish if parents still married at 1970 rates.

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Women and their children weren’t the only ones to suffer the economic consequences of the single-mother revolution; low-earning men have lost ground too. Knowing that women are now expected to be able to raise children on their own, unskilled men lose much of the incentive to work, especially at the sometimes disagreeable jobs that tend to be the ones they can get. Scholars consistently find that unmarried men work fewer hours, make less money and get fewer promotions than do married men.

Experts have come to believe that these are not just selection effects — that is, they don’t just reflect the fact that productive men are likelier to marry. Marriage itself, it seems, encourages male productivity. One study by Donna Ginther and Madeline Zavodny examined men who’d had shotgun marriages and thus probably hadn’t been planning to tie the knot. The shotgun husbands nevertheless earned more than their single peers did.

Details here.

Bill 13 is controversial only because it enforces the acceptance of school clubs that would be largely unaccountable to school values, authorities and the parents who delegate their authority to the schools.

So in the next week or so, Bill 13 will become law.  Of course, there will be legal and constitutional appeals and it will be caught up in the courts for years to come. Read the rest of this entry »

 ”Today’s manner of receiving Communion spread throughout the world is a great wound.”

Make this man the Pope.

Check this out from the same article…very inspiring…and someone who really gets the whole “bureacratization” of the Church.  He should be invited to give the key-note address at the CCCB’s Plenary Assembly.  Fat chance of that happening under the current regime, however….

After the completion of construction there was no Bishop far and wide who could have blessed the church. Actually the parish priest — he was called Pater Alexander Chira by everyone — promised the faithful that God would send a Bishop. On the day of the blessing he appeared himself with a mitre and shepherd’s staff in the church. He was a secret Bishop. According to a woman who witnessed the event, there were even more tears flowing than holy water.  The church blessing is an example for Msgr Schneider “of true reform of the Church without a lot of commissions and discussions.”

When bishops were real men, they didn’t need consensus or committees.  They just said, “this is the way we’re going to do it”, and that was that.  Like or lump it.  And you know what? If they ruffled other bishops’ feathers, they didn’t get too upset about it.  Oh well. Tough. They weren’t into the whole cumbaya – let’s-all-agree-on-the-lowest-common-denominator-approach – way of interacting with one another, subjugating their own authority to the National Borg.

I don’t even have to guess what opinion Bishop Schneider’ has of National Bishops’ Conferences and their Committees.  I think we all know.  And God Bless him for it.

Exactly.  Heads are exploding in the secular media over some stupid internal spat and rivalries.  Who gives a frig?  There’s nothing there in terms of teaching error or real scandal.  Just a few Cardinals who need to get their priorities straight.

Really.  Like get a life. 

The Media have just latched on to anything they can use to attack the Pope, even though nothing of this is going to stick. It just shows how pathetic they are and how, once again, we are reminded that journalists have the lowest place in Hell. And there’s no getting out of there, either - ever.

“….What next? If one student says the communion wafer and wine aren’t really the body and blood of Christ, then the school has to adjust its theology accordingly? This is the educational equivalent of the inmates taking over the asylum…” (Source)

Right on, Christina.  Blizzard has become more conservative in the last few years.  It’s an encouraging sign that maybe hippiedom is growing up.

Story here and here.

This is all about normalization of being pro-life and the denormalization of abortion. Once we can reclaim the normalization turf, the abortion game will shift dramatically.  But there is no free lunch in getting there.  Public figures like this tenor might have to pay the price for this normalization…but there is no other way around it.  We must stand up and not fear any backlash.  And if we have to suffer, so be it. Amen.  For God’s greater glory and the emancipation of the Unborn Child, we have no choice. We must stand firm. Be courageous. And Fight. 

No victory of any substance in any war was ever fought by cowards or without casualties. Read the rest of this entry »

Your position must be really strong when you legislate away your opponents — even if there is a medical basis for their beliefs.

Gay money talks.

Courtesy of Big Blue Wave.

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A rally protesting Bill 13- the Liberal’s controversial anti-bullying legislation- brought hundreds of people out to Dundas Square in Toronto on Thursday, filling the entire city block. News coverage from City TV, Omni News, Toronto Sun, and others showed the protest as it proceeded West from Yonge and Dundas to Queen’s Park. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone knows that Harper, to his credit, is big on preventing maternal deaths in the developing world.  But we also know where he stands on abortion too.

Well, here’s a little gem that should cause him to rethink his position.

What is more important to Stephen Harper?  Lowering Maternal Deaths or Supporting Abortion?

Which is it, Mr. Harper?

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This is a first in a series of special edition beINSPIRED pieces.  As part of The New Abortion Caravan, the individuals who we feature over the next few weeks will be the old guard of the pro-life movement who have fought so tirelessly and sacrificially to be a voice for pre-born children.  We are here now because they were here first.  Their fight in the early days was the end of the beginning, and we will proudly carry the torch with them at this critical juncture of the beginning of the end.

A 12-year-old girl is alive today because of my friend—and hero—Cecilia (Sissy) Von Dehn.

When a killing centre (abortion clinic) was set up in Vancouver, Sissy took it upon herself to go to the costly personal expense of purchasing a home for the express purpose of saving lives from the horror house next door.  Within Sissy’s home was a chapel whose window was only feet away from the wall in which the silent screams of children were released on a daily basis.  Within Sissy’s home were signs and messages that pro-life activists would come and gather up in order to witness outdoors to rescue those being dragged away to the slaughter. As pro-life leader John Hof has said, “Sissy, through her home, was a gravitational force that pulled together the dedicated activists in the pro-life movement.”

Sissy didn’t buy that home so she could live in it, but rather, so that others could simply live. And so came a fateful day, in 1999, when a scared, unmarried, pregnant woman, with two born children, in debt and finishing school, arrived at Everywoman’s abortion clinic.  The woman recalls,

“As my boyfriend and I parked down the street and I walked up to the abortion clinic, I saw a house with pictures of babies and information about why abortion is wrong, which I knew in my heart.  I ran out of the clinic, crying, down the street. I left my boyfriend standing there.”  She was convinced she could not kill her child.

In January 2000, a baby girl was born.

I am convinced that one day, in another world to come, Sissy will meet a long line of many more beautiful faces who will warmly embrace her and tell of the long lives they enjoyed on earth because of her life-saving witness.

Indeed, Sissy works tirelessly and sacrificially to be a voice for pre-born children, yet never wishes any acclaim.  She has been arrested and jailed for peacefully challenging the unconstitutional “bubble zone” laws which prevent free expression near abortion clinics.

She has welcomed pregnant women and single mothers of born children into her home as a safe haven.

She and her supportive husband adopted a beautiful young girl with developmental difficulties, Nettie, and showered her in love until she passed away in 2002. And now they care for their disabled nephew.

When the abortion clinic eventually moved (I would say, because of the influence Sissy’s pro-life home was having next door by deterring women from killing their children) Sissy allowed the home to be used by The Talitha Koum Society, which accepts women who would be rejected by other halfway houses on the basis of their being “too difficult to handle.”

And, when I and my courageous student colleagues faced violence and censorship from pro-abortion students at UBC back in 1999, it was Sissy who opened her personal home to our team for countless strategy sessions.  She fed us, rallied us, stood with us, and loved us.  And now, as I write this piece 13 years later, I am sitting on her familiar couch, in her homey living room, with my CCBR colleagues, as we use her house as our command centre for the launch of The New Abortion Caravan.  All the while, Sissy spoils us with food and tea and coffee and goes from room to room snapping photos of our youthful team on her camera, with a look of pure delight and hope on her face that change, indeed, is coming, that abortion will end in Canada.

As she admires us, however, what she doesn’t realize is how much we admire her.  It has been a joy to introduce my colleagues to this warrior woman named Sissy Von Dehn, who has a strong mind and a soft heart.  She’ll be embarrassed to receive this public praise, but the words in Matthew 5:16 are most fitting here:

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

Thank you, Sissy, for letting your light shine.

(Source)

McGuinty is setting new records of defiance in imposing his gay agenda on Catholic schools.

Reacting to criticism from Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto, McGuinty insisted the publicly-funded Catholic schools will not be able to refuse a student’s request to launch a gay-straight alliance if his government’s newly-amended “anti-bullying” bill passes. Ontario has “fundamental values that transcend any one faith,” he told reporters. (Source)

The Premier not only demands that GSAs be implemented in Catholic schools, but they also have to use the name “gay-straight alliance” if the students request it. Honestly, I don’t really care what they call the clubs. As long as they portray homosexual behaviour as normal, we have a problem, Houston.

But since the Premier is so big on the use of specific words, Cardinal Collins should finally take the step of explaining to him what Catholic means. It’s time to excommunicate Dalton McGuinty. Read the rest of this entry »