by Leslie Sholly | Nov 6, 2012 | Abortion, Deep Thoughts, Parenting, Politics, teenagers
I just saw a tweet from an online acquaintance who was upset because her little kindergartner came home with the news that her classmates had told her that “Obama kills babies.” Now that is all kinds of wrong for all kinds of reasons. Â Number one,...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 5, 2012 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Politics
So, feeling like you do about both Romney and Obama, who ARE you going to vote for? That’s more or less what I was asked by a friend recently, and I promised I would be answering here. Â There’s going to be a long and complicated explanation before I get to...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 6, 2012 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Life Issues, Politics, War
This is Part 2 of a story which begins here. Â It chronicles the unforeseen results of my having had the temerity to publish a column on voting in the local Catholic press just before the 2004 elections. I felt good about what I had written. Â I thought I had expressed...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 1, 2012 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Life Issues, Politics, Reprints, War
This is an edited version of a column I wrote in the fall of 2004.  At the time I was extremely disturbed by the vitriol surrounding the Presidential campaign, particularly that directed by Catholics toward other Catholics, presuming to assert that there was only one...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 23, 2012 | Abortion, Babies, Deep Thoughts, law, Life Issues, Politics, pregnancy
In the wake of Todd Akin’s stupid (really, I could think of a fancier word but I think that one covers it) remarks about rape and abortion, and then VP-hopeful Paul Ryan’s follow-up distancing himself from Akin and downplaying his own oft-stated...
by Leslie Sholly | Jan 6, 2012 | Abortion, Life Issues, Politics
Let’s get this straight from the very beginning. I’m not planning to vote for Rick Santorum. I disagree profoundly with most of his positions. So the defense that follows has nothing to do with my personal political leanings. It has to do instead with...