Greatness

Today's paper honored two of our greatest, one from each party. Thomas S. Foley and Senator John McCain.

McCain's 36 years in government,  six terms in the senate, from Arizona. He was a war hero, not because he was captured, but because he withstood tremendous abuse after he refused to accept early release if he were the only one let go.

He then served in the senate, a man owned by nobody. He will be missed.

Tom Foley, a congressman from Eastern Washington, rose to speaker of the house. Highway 395 in Washington State, was renamed after him.

Both were giants, head and shoulders above the pack.

Sometimes you just gotta

Mostly, I stay away from both religion and politics, but sometimes yah just gotta. This is one of those times.

The tragedy in the Catholic priesthood may end up destroying the church. I have some theories here and am going to share them. If you are offended, so be it.

When you examine the premise that priests have to be single and not mate, automatically a certain sector will be willing because they didn't prefer women to begin with. This gives a disproportional nod to those that have abnormal appetites.

In the ancient church, many priests were married. When the church crashed it was rebuilt by Monks who passed on their dogma of abstinence.

Allowing priests to marry should be the first step. That doesn't mean child molestation will stop, but the priesthood would attract more normal people. So I'm not politically correct? I never claimed to be.

Clean out the bad priests and train new ones. Get rid of outmoded and largely ignored birth control prohibition. Allow divorced persons to remarry in the church. If they don't the divorcee will move on to another church.