Comments for Secular Servility at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 02:51:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10638 Are you mocking people who dare to disagree with you? Are you reducing them to walking jokes? I thought human beings were human beings. The sad fact is that the Church is routinely accused of being the Tsar throughout history. - Brian A. Cook Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:39:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10214 Prof. Esolen--I wish you'd take on Bill Mahr in one of these columns! - peter wilson Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10171 Humor is the best revenge. - Robert reilly Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:45:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10169 A friend and I were conversing over dinner and it came up that one of us has recourse to St. Thomas a Becket. Back in the day, Thomas was a deeply sinful man who came to his senses and attained the holiness of martyrdom, because as Archbishop of Canterbury he resisted the King Henry II's notion that the Church was in service to the State and should do exactly as told. 100 bishops -- 100! -- all the ordinaries of the dioceses of the United States -- are also saying no to the mandate. This unity of the episcopacy should give us both pause and courage. We are far away from turning back the tide. But let us hope that it has begun. - Dave Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:38:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10166 Gian, you are playing with words. It is a matter of biology and physiology that two men may not couple as if married. It is a biological fact that heroin can cause death. Still, many people choose to go against biological facts and are attracted to and abuse drugs for a lifetime, usually a shortened one. That the absurdity that “same sex” couples can “marry” is only the fruit of the efforts to normalize perversion in a relativistic world. When you say “derive pleasure and life long companionship” it is in a very qualified sense, certainly not in any comparable way to a monogamous, faithful loving male/female couple with children. The very idea is an orc to an Elf. - Achilles Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:11:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10162 Gian - I'm sure you know marriage is about much more than "pleasure and lifelong companionship" even on a natural level. If not, why would any State have an interest in protecting and promoting this sort of private arrangement between citizens? Thank you Dr. Esolen, for another glimpse of sanity amidst the storm that surrounds us. - BobW Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:32:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10160 One cries out from our deepest and most savage wilderness, the university! This shines a light on the tameness of Brave New World. Baby Huxley couldn’t imagine this little civilization in his dystopia. I think Chesterton could have. A fantastic article Professor Esolen! Thank you very much - Achilles Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:41:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10158 Mr Esolen, well put. You remind me of Mark Steyn in this column. How the absurdity of the situations you describe is not face smacking obvious to some people is beyond me. - Randall Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:31:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/secular-servility.html#comment-10155 "That a male cannot marry a male, as a matter of obvious biological fact" Not exactly a matter of biology. In fact, biology allows males to be attracted to males and derive pleasure and lifelong companionship. It is the question of what marriage is: a supernatural or at least super-biological thing. - Gian Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:26:45 +0100