Mollie Hemingway appeared on Fox News today to discuss the media blackout of the mass murder trial of Kermit Gosnell. (See the earlier piece on Esgetology here.) The video cannot be embedded, but you can watch it here.
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Mollie Hemingway has been quite right to expose the religious fervor behind the modern eugenics movement by referring to “The Church of Planned Parenthood.” G.K. Chesterton was on to this long ago. In his Eugenics and Other Evils, he fought against the strict dogmatism of the high priests who were the spiritual forbears of today’s Planned Parenthood: Our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are. The imposition of such dogmas constitutes a State Church—in an older and stronger sense than any that can be applied to any supernatural Church to-day. There are still places where the religious minority is forbidden to assemble or to teach in this way or that; and yet more where it is excluded from this or that public…
In the aftermath of the Obama administration’s assault on religious liberty, the media have presented doctored statistics and deflected the issue into a general spin of “women’s health” (as if chemicals designed to alter the natural functioning of a woman’s body, or the outright murder of little girls, is somehow in the interest of women’s “health”). Here’s a sample of Mollie Hemingway’s analysis (“Media ignore women, for women”) at GetReligion: My church body never engages in politics, for doctrinal reasons. But here even when we are compelled to speak out, the words that our elected President spoke aren’t important because he’s male? By falling for partisan spin about gender inequality, reporters have completely marginalized me and the millions of women who were being represented…
Komen’s race to the bottom has continued apace; parishioner Mollie Ziegler Hemingway chronicles the utter failure of the media to address this story in a fine piece at CNN. Here’s a snippet: This is part of a disturbing pattern where the media downplay stories of importance and interest to pro-lifers, such as their annual March for Life in Washington or the Obama administration’s recent mandate that religious organizations provide insurance coverage for abortifacients. The way the media presented the views of women and breast cancer survivors in particular was even worse, as if they unilaterally supported Planned Parenthood when about half of American women identify as pro-life. Charmaine Yoest, the head of Americans United for Life, had called on Komen to stop working with…
Mollie Hemingway has a post on Ricochet with a provocative question: “Why Do We Lie about Female Fertility?” Reading through the comments reminded me how thoroughly the language of choice permeates all discussion of conception. Sex is a given, but children are a choice. This is true even among many (probably most) practicing Lutherans. Most Lutherans are pro-choice. They would (rightly) recoil at choosing to abort an unborn baby. But they think nothing of choosing whether or not to allow sexual intercourse to be open to the conception of children. One aspect of God’s gift of sexual intimacy between husband and wife is pleasure (or, as the marriage liturgy has it, “[that they] may find delight in one another”). But the chief end, which is not…
Two more good pieces to add to our Bachmann Antichrist Overdrive list: Our own Mollie Hemingway addresses the matter in the Wall Street Journal’s “Houses of Worship” column; here’s a sample: Reporters also missed the distinction between individual popes and the papacy. The Protestant Reformers certainly weren’t fans of Pope Leo X or other individual popes who abused the office’s power. But the Lutheran opposition was and is mainly to the papacy’s claim to speak with authority equal to or surpassing the word of God, and to its claim that membership in the Catholic Church is a condition for salvation. Read the whole thing here. And at Touchstone, Lars Walker asserts that what lies behind the attacks on Bachmann is a hatred of doctrine.…
Another quick Bachmann & the Great Antichrist Smear roundup. CBN’s David Brody clarifies that Michele Bachmann left WELS over preference issues, which makes complete sense. Bachmann never sounded like a Lutheran; her spiritual vocabulary sounded far more like an American pop-Evangelical. Brody then writes a fairly decent summary of the Antichrist issue: There are two common views of the antichrist. Some Christians believe that the antichrist is a particular, Satan-driven end-times person. This is not the view of the Wisconsin Synod Lutherans. They hold to Luther’s 500-year-old view that when the office of the papacy functions in the place of Christ (speaking for God or acting as a mediator that only Christ can be), then it is against Christ. It’s more of a theological…
While it’s simply smear tactics against a Christian candidate for president, that would be the logical take-away from the latest attacks on Michele Bachmann, erstwhile Lutheran (WELS). Our own Mollie Hemingway has been all over the poorly-crafted hit pieces: Are you now or have you ever been a Lutheran? (GetReligion) Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been … a Lutheran? (Ricochet) Is Bachmann the media’s anti-Christ? (GetReligion) Other interesting takes: Michele Bachmann’s No-Popery Campaign (Anthony Sacramone at First Things) The Left Once Again Races to Defend the Papacy! (Joe Escalante at Ricochet) Catholics shouldn’t fear Michele Bachmann (John Gerardi at The Daily Caller) So what of the matter of the papacy as antichrist? There’s a helpful LCMS FAQ that delves into…
Immanuel member Mollie Hemingway over at Mommyish highlighted the bizarre case of “Storm,” the child who is being raised “genderless.” I was awestruck to read in the comments the opinion that “gender is a social construct.” Some additional reading led me to a 2004 article for First Things by Paul McHugh, M.D. (Dr. McHugh is Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital.) McHugh argues against the idea that sexual identity is a matter of choice or something that can be changed. After he became head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, McHugh decided to study two things: First, I wanted to test the claim that men who had undergone sex-change surgery found resolution for their many general psychological problems. Second (and…
The centerpiece of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Synodical Structure and Governance, the consolidation of the entire synodical structure into two program boards that report to the president, passed on Monday. You can listen to a report from the convention site by parishioner Mollie Ziegler Hemingway by clicking here.