And here they are, whole fam damily:
They’re the wedding cake rather-nots for faith’s sake, in case you don’t remember.
(As to that rather-not, see Melville’s story, where Bartleby the Scrivener says, inexplicably, he’d “prefer not to” do the work assigned to him. These bakers, on the other hand, are explicable.)
Two kinds of activists are gearing up.
In the 12 days since the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling, the Left’s army is already marching on its next target: the First Amendment. At least two movements are finding more common ground in the wake of the decision — secular and LGBT activists. The pair are becoming fast allies against what they view as a common enemy: religious freedom.
Maybe there are well-intentioned gay-marriage supporters who will decide the movement is going too far. Not many, is my bet. Keep in mind the steamroller that we know about so far.
A week after the Julian meeting, the senator announced another, this one of his own devising, about fixing the Eisenhower expressway. It was to be held at another middle school, Gwendolyn Brooks, a few blocks down Washington Boulevard from Julian.
Chief among state officials to be on hand — and with others, held up for admiration — was to be the state’s secretary of transportation and as such director of the Illinois Department of Transportation, the formidable IDOT, the senator announced in a release.
This was Ann Schneider, who was to resign under a cloud a scant nine months later, thanked tersely by the governor for “years of hard work and dedication.”
He did not thank her for drawing down on him accusations of “perpetuating [Gov.] Blagojevich-era practices” by hiring and promoting without apparent cause her stepdaughter and hundreds of others, as charged by the Better Government Association, thus “tainting” her leadership.
He introduced her replacement as…
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Yesterday I wrote a piece about how Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) acted as investigator, prosecutor, judge, and jury as it pursued Aaron and Melissa Klein for refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding (though they would happily serve gay customers for other requests.) Now, the same agency is donning its “enforcer” hat and is giving the Kleins until July 13 to pay the $135,000 damage award or face a potential lien on their house. BOLI’s spokesperson has the details:
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420930/oregon-christian-bakers-pay-135000-monday-or-face-potential-lien-your-home-david
Many the same-sex marriage supporters are delighted with this?
So what’s new at the city by the lake with its long line of Dimmycrat mayors?
Chicago has a controversial new tax, expected to generate some $12 million a year, but the City Council never voted on it.
Chicago don’t need no stinkin’ city council. C’mon, what you thinkin’?
30 years with the Sun-Times, and he sums up the plague that has hit the U.S.A.
In usual calm, well-reasoned final regular column
A church to remember here, per its web site.
Mere blocks from Bryn Mawr red line stop, arguably more Catholic than the Pope.
Play that “Hail, holy Queen,” a.k.a Salve Regina, on this page, and be returned, all ye Romans of a certain age, to the religious experience of your youth.
And be introduced, you others of any past experience, to classical beauty in a sacred place.
Makes you wanna keep reading, right?
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
G. K. Chesterton, first line from The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Superfluous to comment . . .
Yes, he could (and get away it), and yes, he did.
Note also this at end of story:
Meanwhile, a Catholic school in Macon, Ga., is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit from a former teacher whose employment was terminated in 2014 after the school found that he would be legally marrying his same-sex partner, the Cardinal Newman Society reported.
When gummint comes knocking, don’t open your door. Maybe you’ll get away with it, but probably not.
. . . at a press conference on June 18, when the encyclical was announced.
This is a watershed moment for the church, for humanity and for the planet, which Pope Francis calls our common home. It’s time for the church to be bold — to speak about major issues — and to achieve a new level of relevance in people’s lives.
Missed this at the time, but wow. Second only to the coming Day of the Lord.
That “new level of relevance” too. Higher and higher with our relevance factor.
— Note: It’s how public people talk that gets me, as in my coming book, Illinois Blues: How Oak Park-based state office-holders talk to people. —
Blithe Spirit 