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The impact of ruling on , the California ban on Same Sex Marriage continues to, though with surpirsing questions from the heart of the matter San Francisco. On Monday there were two very provocative arguments by two very different types of Catholics. the openly gay, defiantly Catholic columnist at Atlantic and the keeper of the most popular blog in America, , riffs off of a column by , the former Atlantic Monthly editor and 'conservative' Catholic Op-Ed columnist with the New York Times. Douthat's on Monday is a defence of the ideal of the life long monogamous heterosexual marriage. It is nuanced, thoughtful and as Sullivan, in his, puts it 'Douthat at his most Catholic'. Both pieces are truly well worth reading and are stirring up .
Anne Rice's continues to roil , as you'll note on her own webpage. She includes all the commentary that comes her way, both supportive and dismissive. There is a quite reflective piece by Lily Burana in Magazine which tries to frame the argument in a slightly different way, asking whether disagreeing with others in the Church forces you out or keeps you in. Reflecting on Anne Rice leads to refelctions on Proposition * and vice versa.
And whenever Anne Rice or Same Sex marriage is being discussed you can win easy money by betting that the issue of sexual abuse is also going to arise. , former editor of the Catholic Herald in Britain, takes on the issue of clerical sexual abuse with athat examines the idea of media bias and news that doesn't make the front page: in this case yet of whether sex abuse is greater within the Church or outside it.