Herald removes biased statement – did they read our blog post?
Last Friday we reported about the blatant, and completely ludicrous, partisan politics that the NZ Herald had engaged in when reporting on the March for Democracy protest. It seems that someone at the Herald may have read our blog commentary challenging their very unabashed bias in renaming the March for Democracy the “DEMANDING THE RIGHT TO HIT” event in their story (oh, and yes, the bold capitals were theirs, not mine!) because the offending title has now been completely removed from their website version of the story. Meanwhile, Stuff.

For all her courage under fire, Carrie Prejean was never the right choice to front family values
Poor Carrie Prejean. The dethroned Miss California USA, who won the admiration of family values America for defending marriage in front of the nation, is sinking in the mire of a sex scandal. Not the sort that has dragged greater stars from the public firmament — the marital infidelities of an Eliot Spitzer, a Mark Sanford or a Mel Gibson. No. What the 22-year-old did a few years ago was something much less, but also something utterly incongruous with the Christian identity that she has owned in public. In essence, she made a pornographic video of herself and sent it to her boyfriend. This is very sad. She made, as she admits, a big mistake, of a type

An attack on a flawed philosopher shows the deficiencies of political correctness
Steady on. Are these politically-correct writers serious? Do they really believe that German and English skinheads will stop tattooing their noggins with swastikas because they can’t read Heidegger? The likelihood of a youth who reads Heidegger joining a neo-Nazi outfit is near zero. If Heidegger was a Nazi, he is a defanged Nazi. Ideas do have consequences, admittedly. But the real question — which the New York Times fears to ask — is this: whose ideas should we fear nowadays? Which philosopher’s ideas justify destruction, violence and murder in our own society? Well, actually, there are lots of them. Where do you want me to start?

Reluctance among Clergy to speak about the Catholic Sexual Ethic
Some informative reading… In 1976 the Catholic Theological Society of America endorsed the publication of a book on Catholic sexual ethics, entitled HUMAN SEXUALITY: New Directions in American Catholic Thought. It was authored by Fr. Anthony Kosnik and several others. Many seminaries used this as a text for sexual ethics during the 1980s and 1990s. You still find copies of it in rectory libraries. Notice that it received the endorsement of the CTSA, and that was taken as sufficient justification for using it in major seminaries. It helps us understand why there is such a reluctance among many of the clergy today to preach on God’s plan for marriage a

What the heck is wrong with the NZ Herald?!!
I was reading the NZ Herald this morning (their online version) and I came across this article about the March for Democracy, which is happening in Auckland tomorrow. The main body of the article wasn’t too bad, and I think that it actually provided some good balance, especially to the ridiculous comments made by the Children’s Commissioner. But then I got to the final page of the article, which included the details for the