As a religious moderate (and a Buddhist) I like to keep tabs on what the religious right is doing.
Here's a sampling of Focus on the Family's News items:
GOP Convention Protests Unruly
Gotta love that headline...did you know that "most" of the protesters appeared to be " anarchists, communists and homosexual activists?"
400,000 of 'em on Sunday alone! Heck the Communist Party USA must be having a banner year!
And for "balance," they quote a Repub delegate:
"The demonstrators, she added, need to show respect for the democratic process "because once they lose that respect and they create chaos, then we have problems with our elections and it's very disruptive."
Geez, I thought that that thing in Florida with protesters being disruptive had to do with Freepers!
Here's another special tidbit from them:
Bai Macfarlane says she and her husband had a legally binding agreement to seek help before they ended their marriage.
When Catholic couples get married, they make a verbal agreement to follow the laws of the church before getting a divorce. When Macfarlane's husband left, she said, he broke that agreement....
"It resulted in this defense that essentially there's a de facto prenuptial agreement when two people marry within the church," said Macfarlane's friend, Judy Parejko, a marriage advocate.
Macfarlane is asking the judge to remand the case to the Catholic Church for counseling. In the process, she's hoping to make it harder for any couple to divorce, according to her attorney, Robert Lynch.
"In theory, it applies to every marriage where you promise," Lynch said. "A promise is a promise."
Uh, somebody who's actually a lawyer needs to tell this woman the fundamental point of contract law: a broken contract is null and void.
Of course, FOTF's not above leaving out uncomfortable truths.
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