On the Square Today

Leroy Huizenga on the White House’s contraceptive Kulturkampf :

Franciscan University of Steubenville just dropped health insurance for its undergraduates, thus becoming one of the most prominent early victims of the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring all health plans to cover contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs. Today the Catholic Church has found itself engaged in a new Kulturkampf , a cultural struggle initiated by State aggression against the libertas ecclesiae , the freedom of the Church to manage her own affairs so that her members might flourish in virtue and serve their fellow citizens freely.

Also today, Joshua Gonnerman says that Dan Savage was right :

But recall Savage’s original point. It was not “the Bible is wrong;” his incendiary remarks were meant to build up the over-arching concern of Christian non-response to the gay community. He recounts a hypothetical Christian who claims, “I’m sorry, we can’t do anything about bullying, because it says right there in Leviticus, in Timothy, in Romans that being gay is wrong.” Christians have appealed far too quickly to their traditional moral views to avoid offering support to gay people. Here, if nowhere else, Dan Savage has a point.