A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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A good point from Ross Douthat here:
One of the clearer markers of de-Christianization (with the allowances made for it by many Christian churches representing their collaboration in that process): https://t.co/f8xdaNZUS0
The state of California is taking steps to permanently enshrine same-sex “marriage” in case the Supreme Court ever overturns Obergefell v. Hodges. In 2008, the people of California voted to uphold natural marriage; the then-mayor of San Francisco and now-governor Gavin Newsom simply ignored the result and began issuing marriage licenses anyhow. The will of the people is only respected when convenient.
From the Washington Post: “Italy passes anti-surrogacy law that effectively bars gay couples from becoming parents.” I’ve written about this before—even the European Court of Human Rights considers surrogacy a form of human trafficking. But notice the headline here—it isn’t a law that “effectively bars gay couples from becoming parents.” It is nature. This law just bars them from renting women and buying children. The law bans couples from going abroad to procure a woman in which to gestate a child.
