Life of the Party

A Sexual Revolution

...of a new kind.

More Pro-Life Activism and Conservative Values

Suzanne Gallus, who has been featured here before, has announced her greatest accomplishment this year.  Aside from getting ready to give birth to her 5th baby girl (all within 7 years), she has managed to do the impossible:  Comply with Washington State car seat law without having to buy a 12 passenger van.  Read about how it's done by a pro. 

The Intellegence of the Electorate

I wonder if these people will actually make the effort to vote. 

Hope for the Pro-Life Movement

UPDATE:  It was lots of fun!  What a neat group! 

I'm very pleased to have been invited to speak to Youth for Life tomorrow night.  "Youth for Life is a Catholic, pro-life youth group begun in November of 2001 in an effort to involve and educate youth in their particular role in the pro-life movement."  Their group has 100 members in the state of Washington.  Many of them are of voting age and some attended their first precinct caucus this year and have become very interested in learning more about the caucus and convention process.  So I'll be speaking about that and how pro-lifers can better advance the pro-life agenda through the political process. 

Here is the mission statement of Youth for Life:

As the youth of our generation, we are committed to living the Holy Father's call to live the Gospel of Life with courage and conviction. We consider it our duty and great honor to serve our unborn brothers and sisters in a manner that is both uncompromising and compassionate. We endeavor to show the truth about abortion, reach out with charity to the women and men whose lives have been affected by abortion, and to show forth the inherent beauty and dignity of every human person from the moment of conception until natural death.

I think I'll feel right at home, regardless of my age ;0). 

Fun Flick Looks Worthwhile

Check out Leticia's review of "Juno".   

From what I've heard, it sounds like anyone who participated in 40 Days for Life will be able to relate.

Choose What's Right, Come What May

I made brief mention the other day about a new film coming out in the Spring.  It was buried way down in the bottom of this article full of big news.  But really, it's deserving of an entire post, and I must give a hat tip to Colleen Hammond (one of my favorite Catholic bloggers and authors) for first alerting me to it. 

After briefly mentioning it, I received a thank you from the Founder and Executive Director of Advent Film Group, who produced the film.  Along with his thanks, he gave a further description of the film Come What May:

It is a movie that takes place at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA. I believe it will be the first narrative feature film in cinema history that will actually show how to overturn Roe v. Wade as presented by two college debaters who are competing at the National Moot Court Championship. Our lead character's mother is a feminist constitutional lawyer who goes before the U.S. Supreme Court to oppose a parent's right to be notified if their daughter is seeking an abortion. Her son, Caleb, ends up going for the jungular (overturning Roe) at the risk of losing the championship and his finances to stay in school. Near the end of the movie, we show mother and son battling worldviews and the legal and scientific arguments around Roe v Wade: She before the Supreme Court justices and Caleb before the Moot Court judges. The movie intercuts between them during the heat of their case.

We made the film to help encourage and stir up the public that it is indeed possible and inevitable to overturn Roe. That its current standing is not fait accompli. Dr. Michael Farris, a well-known constitutional lawyer and founder of HSLDA and PHC, wrote the legal briefs for our movie.

I'm very intrigued with the subject matter, and heartened that a new generation of pro-lifers is utilizing the media to get their message through. 

Please keep your eyes and ears open for this new film, and visit and support the Advent Film Group.   

Now THIS is Pro-Life...

Activism!  Congratulations Suzanne and Pete! 

Previous Suzanne story: Preserving Our Most Endangered Species

You'd Think It'd Be a No-Brainer...

...that children are a BLESSING!  Yet, a vocal minority finds it outrageous that a family going about their own business, open to the blessings of children--as many as God chooses to give them--in fact, 17 and counting, not taking any handouts from government.  Who is this controversial family? The Duggar Family.  But leave it to a "regular guy" to make some sense, and then capture the attention of The Washington Times for it.  From Thoughts of a Regular Guy:

Some people love the Duggars. Most of these either want or have children, and they're impressed that anyone can seem to do such a difficult job as childrearing so successfully on such a large scale. They're impressed that anyone can place such trust in God, and that anyone could have so much selfless love.

Others viscerally hate the Duggars. The comments on my several posts (approaching 200 comments total) about the Duggars betray an appalling contempt for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar personally, and also for children, families, homeschooling and Christians in general, but most of all outrage at the idea that there might be someone out there not using artificial contraception.

I've had people make nearly obscene speculations about the effect of repeated childbirth on parts of Michelle's anatomy (people, God made women resilient. Look it up).

I've had people insist that's it horrid that the older children help watch the younger children, and otherwise help out around the house. They must not have children, because children raised in a loving home cannot be stopped from helping out with all manner of tasks, including the care of their younger siblings.

People who think nothing of the millions of children in this country left in daycare for 10 or 12 hours a day worry that the Duggar kids don't get enough time with their parents.

People who are happy to have 20 million Mexicans come here illegally are offended that an American family might have "too many" children.

It offends people who wear very little that the Duggar girls wear dresses.

Time was, being counter-cultural was trendy and approved of. But now that the counter-culture has become the dominant culture, it seems that its proponents will brook no alternatives.

The Duggars are the wave of the future. To the liberals who read this, let me ask you, how many grandchildren and great-grandchildren will Jim Bob and Michelle have by the end of this century? And how many will you have?

I highly doubt that this is the largest family in America. I strongly suspect that there is a subculture out there of families of 10-20 -- or more -- children, possibly thousands, or tens of thousands of such families. They just don't get media coverage.

But the children of large families are a growing demographic in America. I expect they're largely conservative and Christian, and they will be a dominant force in elections in the coming decade.

Here's a challenge to liberals:  If you're so worried about conservatives outnumbering  you, why don't you have more babies?  Go ahead.  Make my day.

What You Do in the Bedroom Has Impact on the Enviroment...

...and the fish, and the frogs, and the rest of us.  Check out this story from World Net Daily.

While environmentalists are usually vocal about perceived threats ranging from pesticides to global warming, there is a silence when it comes to one threat already harming the water supply: hormones from birth-control pills.

According to the National Catholic Register, EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a mountain stream near Boulder, Colo., two years ago.

When they netted 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city's sewer plant, they found 101 were female, 12 were male, and 10 were strange "intersex" fish with male and female features.

It's "the first thing that I've seen as a scientist that really scared me," university biologist John Woodling told the Denver Post.

The main culprits were found to be estrogens and other steroid hormones from birth-control pills and patches that ultimately (read the rest of the story)

The Best Gift To Give Your Children: Another Sibling

Those were the words of advice from the beloved Pope John Paul II, as Regular Guy, Paul reminds us.  Here, the sentiment is echoed by a boy in a candy bar commercial?!  Let's hope this is the start of a new trend, not only in commercials, but in the creativity of our kids.