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A Great Day for Liberty for All
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today is a good day for freedom. It has been to long coming. The Supreme Court, citing the Fourteenth Amendment ruled in favor of Marriage Equality for Gays Lesbians and...
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Liberty & Those who Oppose It: the Aftermath of Obergfell v. Hodges
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I rejoiced yesterday when majority of the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality throughout the country. I believe that this was an important continuation in...
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The Religious Right Unhinged: The Aftermath of Obergfell v. Hodges
Friends of Padre Steve’s World In the past coupled of days since the Supreme Court ruling legalizing Gay marriage and Marriage Equality for all, many conservative Christian leaders, especially those...
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Deny the Liberty of the Enemies of God: Christian Politics
padresteve:Friends of Padre Steve’s World In the past couple of days I have had a number of comments from Christian opponents of my stand on Gay marriage on this site. One commentator was quite polite...
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Racism & the Failure of Reconstruction
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Some events and attitudes are timeless, one of these is racism. Being white myself, I know that many whites are loath to admit that the scourge of racism still exists,...
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Tragic Heroes of Little Round Top
Friends of Padre Steve’s World As I mentioned I am going to be publishIng some of my revised sections of my Gettysburg text this week. I am focusing some of the men who fought at Little Round Top on...
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Racism and the Lost Cause
Friends of Padre Steve’s World During the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg I tend to focus on that battle, and the actions of the men who fought it. I anticipate that I will add another article...
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Hell at the Peach Orchard
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today is another visitation of the Battle of Gettysburg. This too is part of my Gettysburg text, and in the next couple of months I plan on revising, editing and adding...
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We Hold These Truths
Last night I re-read the Declaration of Independence as I do about this time of year and as I do so I reflect upon the profoundly revolutionary nature of that document. It is not a long read, but...
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A New Birth of Freedom
Friends of Padre Steve’s World. Yesterday we celebrated the 239th anniversary of American independence and the revolutionary document we know as the Declaration of Independence. I wrote about that...
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Primordial Hatred: Insurgency in the Civil War
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Sometime we look aghast at atrocities committed by people in other nations fighting civil wars or nations fighting various insurgents. Sadly, we usually fail to...
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Strike Down the Sinners: The Politics of the Christian Right
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is a topic that sadly I am again forced to return to in light of the incredibly vocal and strident calls of leaders of the Christian Right in response to the...
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Early American Military Theorists: Mahan & Halleck
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Something a bit different. Again this is a part of one of the chapters of my Gettysburg and Civil War text, but this time dealing with two men who were the first American...
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Confederate Sunset in South Carolina
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Historian George Santayana said “Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes.” Today it appears that at least one legislature and governor has...
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My Faith: A Journey and Mission
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today I am writing because a couple of days ago I celebrated the nineteenth anniversary of my ordination to the Priesthood. Likewise, I have a lot of new readers and...
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Embracing the “L” Word
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Another little introduction to me for those who may be new to my writings and this site. Somewhere along the path from being a lifelong conservatism to a moderate I got...
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Truth and Un-sanitized History
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have spent the last couple of days introducing to new readers to things that I have come to believe. Since I am a historian I will continue to do that today. I have a...
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Brilliant Soldiers & Evil Causes: Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I have been writing about the need to be as transparent and honest about history as possible. I have resorted to calling that un-sanitized history. I will be coming back...
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Midsummer Dreaming: The MLB All-Star Game
“Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.” Saul Steinberg Friends of Padre...
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Not to Be Alone: Why Gay Marriage Matters
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I have been thinking about the profound legal and moral implications of the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equity, the Obergfell v. Hodges case. One of those impacts in...
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