It's reactive of me I know

Hungary’s constitutional undermining of internationally protected human rights | Amnesty's global human rights blog:

But if the EU is against these changes to the Hungarian constitution --which they already dislike-- they are probably pretty good ideas.

My favorite part:

The amendment also contains other elements that could permit the incarceration of the homeless.
As one homeless activist said in his speech at a weekend demonstration, as a consequence of the amendment, cities can literally become prisons for many people who are unfortunate enough to have no roof over their heads, and for whom simply sleeping, eating and spending time with friends on the street can bring the threat of heavy penalties or imprisonment.
The government claims this is the only solution for reducing homelessness. NGOs and UN experts are, however, of the opinion that (a better solution is) ensuring the right to adequate housing for all, including the most vulnerable, 

Hey, fix a problem by inventing a right!


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Projecting Pontiff

Within 24 hours of his election, I am finding that I do not like this Pope Francis.

For the very reasons that so many people find him so attractive.

Taking account of the fact that I am projecting, I read him as a devotional moralist, two qualities that do not appeal to me. And his "simplicity and humility" feel ostentatious and theatrical, like a king going around asking everyone to call him Harry. It may make him feel better, but it's actually extra work for everyone else. But that, in my two decades experience in the Church, is how pious people roll.

PS. From Fr Z. on humbly making yourself the center of attention...

Back when I resisted the liturgical kissing of my hand when being handed a chain, spoon or chalice (in the ancient Mass), I had made the mistake of imagining myself to be more humble by that resistance.  That was a mistake.  Ironically, my resistance to those gestures turned the gestures into being about me.  Submission to the gestures, on the other hand, erases the priest’s own person and helps him to be what he needs to be in that moment: priest, victim, alter Christus.   The trappings, the rubrics, the gestures erase the priest’s poor person.  Resisting these things runs the risk of making them all about the priest again.

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Did u know

that the new Pope's homeland of Argentina is Whiter than the United States? The local Indian population is 1 percent, with about 8 percent mestizo and almost no Blacks. The European-descended population in this country of 40 million is 86 percent. At home we are 75 percent.

I certainly hope we get to hear more about their obvious decimation of the Native People and their problem with racism...

Why their economy has been such a mess for so long is beyond my knowledge.

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Victim privilege, the liberal religion

That would be like so cool, dude.

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You read it here

Rule of Law » Yes, Justice Scalia: Section 5 Is a Racial Entitlement. Even DOJ Says So:

"Minority" has nothing to do with numbers, but with "disadvantage."

That's why, when Whites become a numerical minority in our own country, we will continue to be treated as the Bad Guys.  As long as Blacks and Latinos do less well than Whites, it will always be our fault. Forever.

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The other Ex Cathedra

has just been elected. Francis. A first. He was, they say, the runner-up in 2005.

Italian blood but Argentine. A Jesuit. First time for one of them to be White Pope. Very orthodox fella --surprise!--and very pious, lowkey and big on "the poor."

Well, the world's a big place. He has his cathedra,

I have mine.



PS. The quality of the media people on TV was as you would expect. Really out of their element. Even some of their experts were very unexpert.

A Notre Dame history professor said that choosing Francis of Assisi's name was important: "That's not a power name, that's not a dogma name." Right on part one, Professor. Excruciatingly and predictably stupid on part two: As his latest biographer points out, St Francis was indeed obsessed with not using power over others, but he was totally orthodox in a very medieval way. Absolutely straight up and down Roman Catholic, with a special reverence for priests and for the Eucharist. He went to see the Saracens not to learn about their fascinating faith, but to convert them to the true religion, Catholicism. So a dogma name, yes. (And he's the professor of history...)

And the comments sections of all the websites allow us to see the continuous stream of stupidity that the human race creates from moment to moment.
I used to have a theory that if God did indeed know all the thoughts of every heart, then He was long ago driven to madness or suicide.

Oh brave new world

A new non-profit therapy program for the LGBT folks, QueerSpace, points out that it is "a non-smoking, drug and alcohol free, scent aware, sex-positive and sex-free space."

What more couldja ask? Noam Sayin?

Plus, shocker. The Examiner described an attempted rape suspect by race. And he isn't White. Could the Second Coming be far off?

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LXV

That's all I'm sayin'.

Or, to continue in the spirit of the title, Praeter illud non loquor.

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Gay marriage

I know this is a matter of logic, what I am about to write, but, well.

Once you unhinge marriage from its constitutive gender opposition, so that it is no longer about a male and female, you effectively make gender irrelevant to it. Marriage, that most gendered of institutions, becomes gender-free.

And once that happens, it is essentially a genderless contract between adults. 

So, in addition to making it indefensible to limiting it to two such adults, what reason is there to prevent any adults from making such a genderless contract. Why, indeed, should you not be able to marry your brother, or your uncle?

The fear of genetic damage only exists when there is conception. Without that, no barrier. And even if a man wants to marry his sister, a genetically damaged child can be aborted. No problem.

And how do you annul a genderless marriage? What, in the state's eyes, constitutes the sexual act that makes annulment impossible?

Yikes.

Huh?

After about a 100 young Blacks in Brooklyn turned a vigil into a riot, over the police shooting of another little Trayvon (with a history of arrests), we have this sage comment:

New York City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, who represents the area of Flatbush, has been tweeting live updates, and said: ‘I’m in the middle of the riot action at Church and Snyder in my district. Right now, things are tense. Young people have expressed anger.’ 

Mr Williams later described the scene of chaos in Flatbush, saying that garbage cans had been overturned and people smashed out windows. He added that one person had been attacked outside of a local Rite Aid. 

‘Tonight was a peaceful vigil that devolved into a riot,’ he wrote. ‘The youth in this community have no outlets for their anger, no community.’

Jumaane?

‘The youth in this community have no outlets for their anger, no community.’

What does that even mean?

One thing they also don't have is fathers who can keep them in line.

The same ole same ole continues.