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If thin-skinned Ray hadn't blocked me from his post about the reports that he would have us believe show that Christians have nothing to fear from the new hate crimes law, I would have asked if it's true that the Lavender Mafia is out to break some D.C. priests' kneecaps as Catholic League's Bill Donohue tells us: http://www.catholicleague.c...

The most telling quote:

The Catholic League is prepared to assist any priest in the Archdiocese of Washington who is the victim of harassment, intimidation or stalking. Whatever resources the priest needs, we will see to it that he is served. If radical gay activists want a showdown with the Catholic League, we will not disappoint them.

WOOOOOOOOOO! That's talkin' smack, man! Reminds me of last night's valley championship match in volleyball between Frontier and Garces. But rather than root for the Catholic girls, I was cheering on my niece's Frontier squad, which stormed back to win in five sets, with the final play a vicious kill off the face of a Garces player.

Anyway, it's edifying that the U.S. Catholic bishops in their fall meeting this week resoundingly voted in favor of a pastoral letter that calls out same-sex marriage as a "multifaceted threat to the very fabric of society": http://www.calcatholic.com/...

That is especially heartening in light of TBC columnist Valerie Schulz's recent column in which she betrayed the Catholic Church's teachings in calling for legalizing gay marriage so that she could not feel so guilty about her daughter getting hitched with a same-sex partner in Oregon. To solve a problem like Schulz, I am going to do the charitable thing and send a letter to the diocese's bishop and ask that he do the right thing and remove her from teaching catchecism (assuming she is still doing that as she mentioned in a previous column). After all, a lay minister in Maine recently was removed from her post when she wrote a letter to the editor in support of gay marriage.

Lastly, I wish to share the latest email that I received from the guy who looks gay but is a happily married straight man with kids:

The great victories in Maine and New York-23 for pro-marriage forces continue to reverberate up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

NJ.com reported on Nov. 18 ("Gay Marriage... Now!"): "The word on the street is that the gay marriage initiative in the New Jersey State House is in big trouble. Apparently, the Democrats can't get enough votes to pass it, even though outgoing Governor Jon Corzine is prepared to sign it."

Praise God!  And pray harder--this fight is not finished yet.

No wonder even New Jersey Democrats are having second thoughts. Jon Corzine ran on a pro-gay-marriage platform and he lost.  Dede Scozzafava voted for gay marriage twice in New York--and she was trounced by an unknown third party candidate.  Do these New Jersey politicians want to follow Jon Corzine over the political cliff?

If we can hold off this juggernaut over the next six weeks, we can prevent the New Jersey legislature from imposing gay marriage on voters whether they like it or not!  I promised you, when I asked you to join with NOM, that we would fight for marriage wherever and whenever we needed.  We knew that after Maine we would have to pivot and turn to New Jersey, where gay marriage advocates has promised their supporters they would push a bill through the lame duck session.  NOM is different from most organizations--we go where the fight needs to be, to make sure that your voice and your values are heard.

In D.C. the city councilmembers appear to be men with hardened hearts.  We suspect they will not listen to reason or to their constituents and will instead push a gay marriage bill through the council.  But the fight will not end there.  Not with Bishop Harry Jackson and others leading the charge to fight through the legal fog and the media spin to give the people of D.C. the power to take control of the future of marriage.  Sitting in the council chambers watching liberal politicians condescend and lecture to these brave black pastors about civil rights would give anyone with any sense of history an odd feeling.  Still, the room burst out in wild applause when these leaders of the black church stood up for their--for our--right to vote for marriage.

Why do we fight so hard? This week the Catholic bishops released a statement, "Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan." It's a document worth reading by any person of faith, or anyone who cares about the future of marriage.

On same-sex marriage the Catholic bishops remind us that we hold these truths to be self-evident: "Marriage, this clinging together of husband and wife as one flesh, is based on the fact that
man and woman are both different and the same. They are different as male and female, but the
same as human persons who are uniquely suited to be partners or helpmates for each other." 

I've included a link below if you want to read more.  (I've also included NOM president Maggie Gallagher's statement in her column on Carrie Prejean--keep her in your prayers.)

What do we have on our side in this fight?  Nothing but truth, justice, and the majority of the American people!  And a God who watches over each and every one of us.

You are the reason NOM can do all that we do. Thank you.

Faithfully,

Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242

*Twas the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,*

*Not a Christian was praying*

*Nor taking a stand.*

*See the PC Police had taken away,*

*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*

*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*

*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*

* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*

*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*

*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*

*Something was changing, something quite odd! *

*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*

*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*

*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*

* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*

*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*

*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*

*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*

*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*

*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*

*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*

*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*

*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*

* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*

*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*

*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*

*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*

*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*

*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,

not Happy Holiday!*

Please, all Christians join together and

wish everyone you meet during the holidays a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!

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Freedom of speech is still in the Constitution, is it not? http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Furthermore, the same document requires the president to be a natural-born citizen instead of a native-born citizen, does it not? http://www.therightsideofli...

Joseph Farah of World Net Daily slaps down the pseudo-news organization:

As for Sarah Palin, keep on doing what you're doing, baby! You got 'em on the run. You scare them to death! When they have to lie about what you say and do to make their point, you know you're saying and doing something right.

http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...

Ouch.

The Obama administration is more dangerous to America in many ways than any terrorist organization. What this cabal is doing to the country in stripping it of its most cherished values, its basic morality, its foundation on the rule of law, its liberties and its economy is more devastating than anything Mohammed and his zealots could have ever imagined.

Let's hear it for Joseph Farah: http://www.wnd.com/index.ph...