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...political “wedge.” He had very little to say about the deeper philosophical or moral case against same-sex marriage, but rather bemoaned that it was an issue at all. This is the cheapest sort of intellectual cop-out, and just another symbol of the increasing poverty of our public discourse. In reality the “wedge issues” are important enough that attempts to limit their discussion are opportunistic and short-sighted at best, and negligent and irresponsible at their worst...
...think that a constructive solution should not, and need not, rely on privatization. President Bush said that Social Security is a “symbol of the trust between generations,” and in this we agree with him. Social Security maintains absolute trust because Americans know that only collectively can we guarantee that working America will not starve in its senescence. Social Security certainly needs to fix its balance sheets, but there are many ways to achieve this. Benefits could be reallocated, the tax burden of Social Security could be shifted, or the age at which benefits commence...
Eight years ago, a handful of Roman Catholic families in Huntersville, a suburb of Charlotte, N.C., started a new parish. The home of their church, St. Mark, was a bowling alley. Our Lady of the Lanes, as they jokingly called it, was an apt symbol of the scarcity--and supple ingenuity--of Catholics in a region known as the buckle of the Protestant Bible Belt. Soon St. Mark was gaining a family a day. Now its almost 2,800 families hear Mass in a cavernous gymnasium as they await completion of a new church. Among the newcomers is Ben Liuzzo...
...Catholic university in 40 years, Ave Maria, is under construction in Naples, Fla. Pizza billionaire and Michigan native Tom Monaghan, a conservative Catholic, is bankrolling the $200 million campus, along with a scholarship program for the children of Florida migrant laborers, and many regard the project as a potent symbol of Southern Catholicism's growing theological and political clout. All told, Catholics still make up only about 12% of the South's population, vs. 22% of the total U.S. population, according to the Glenmary Research Center in Nashville, Tenn. But Southern Catholics saw growth of almost 30% in the 1990s...
...DIED. MAX SCHMELING, 99, world heavyweight-boxing champion who became a reluctant symbol of Nazi might in the years leading up to World War II; in Hollenstedt, Germany. Schmeling became the first European to win the world title in 1930, and launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out American challenger Joe Louis in 1936; his loss in a 1938 rematch in Yankee Stadium became emblematic of the coming struggle with Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero. He refused to join the Nazi Party and after the war, it was disclosed he had saved...