by Leslie Sholly | Nov 8, 2012 | Deep Thoughts, Politics
The last few days before Election Day, my Facebook newsfeed was jammed with posts and memes indicating how tired everyone was of the campaign. One little girl was famously moved to tears over the whole thing, and I think I know how she felt. Constant negativity IS...
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. 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. There’s going to be a long and complicated explanation before I get to...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 8, 2012 | Catholicism, Life Issues, Politics
A couple of people posted on my last entry that the reaction to what I had written showed the power of my words. It was nice to think of it that way. But the fact that the reaction was the exact OPPOSITE of what I was looking for when I wrote the original...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 6, 2012 | Abortion, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Life Issues, Politics, War
This is Part 2 of a story which begins here. 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. I thought I had expressed...