This surely won’t please everyone. In fact, I personally know some who will take serious umbrage–and let me know it. But someone has to say it:
* My guess is that the Catholic furor over the proposed birth-control mandate under President Obama’s 2010 health-care law has some ironic twists to it. While mandatory birth-control and sterilization coverage was assuredly not welcomed, it arguably was at least well-timed. Pretty much pushes the whole Catholic Church-pedophilia issue out of the news cycle.
And Rick Santorum, Marco Rubio & Co. may yet find their religious-freedom political manna ultimately undercut with lots of female voters.
* Who knows how this whole state prayer-disguised-as-student-based-“inspirational” messages proposal will shake out? Candidly, I’d settle for the end of public invocations at football games. Unless one side happens to be card-carrying infidels, I don’t know that the “Heavenly Father” needs to be referenced. More to the point, it’s less an outward expression of meaningful faith than it is a trivialization of religion.