JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

Sometimes headlines jump off the page and you wonder whether or not they are designed to suck you into a story that has nothing whatsoever to do with the headline!

Thursday was a day full to the brim with everything you ever wanted to know about Catholics, courage and cowardice.

Calls for disciplinary action against Bill Maher from prominent Catholic organizations grew stronger as American Life League demands that HBO fire Maher for his hate-speech directed at Pope Benedict XVI on April 11.

A recent news item from Vancouver, British Columbia arrived in my inbox, sent by a fellow pro-lifer who has been battling the culture of death in Canada for many years.

Remember the flap over Don Imus when he made a crude comment about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team?

It is with the deepest admiration that I come to you with a story that makes me wish there were more heroic people like Susan Crump and Javier Negrete in our world.

Just when I thought there might not be anything worthy of a blog post, two news items came to my attention within the short span of five hours; In each case I was appalled at what the facts exposed.

There was a comment in the Argus Leader, a South Dakota newspaper, that deeply troubles me. In the article we are told, “South Dakota is joined by other states trying to either rein in abortion with stringent requirements or to creatively outflank it.”

Every political season we get around to the same old arguments, don’t we! The one I heard today is typical.

Do you remember the first time you heard about the newest in automobiles? They are called “hybrids” and the idea behind them is that they run on a combination of two or more sources of energy.

I have just been in Colorado speaking for the Colorado for Equal Rights campaign for personhood. The wonderfully committed people involved with this effort need to collect at least 76,000 signatures by the first week of May.

The pro-abortion forces in the state of Florida have sunk to a new low. The Florida House passed legislation that would require expectant mothers to undergo ultrasound exams before going through with the abortion.