Orthodixie

“I’m not really Dumbledore, but I play one on the big screen.”

Stolen from Southern Appeal

Only in the late nineteenth century, when physicians began discussing sexual perversion as a medical rather than a moral problem in Latin treatises intended only for the learned and required a neutral, clinical term, was there a perceived need to refer to “homosexuality.” Moreover, it is not at all clear that the originators of the term had precisely in mind what is usually meant by “homosexuality” in contemporary parlance.

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The Feast of St Andrew, November 30th, is a big one in the Huneycutt house, primarily because it’s my wife’s birthday. BUT … there’s more. This past Monday, the 28th, we celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary which also involves St Andrew.

She was Baptist, I was a convert to Anglicanism. The first time we attended church together was in Valle Crucis. This beautiful village & Mission Center was a “home away from dorm” while in college. My friend, Jim, was the caretaker of the old Mission House for a couple years and I always loved the hilly splendour.

It so happened that the Sunday we visited church together, back in 1986, was St Andrew’s Day. The priest, who later participated in our wedding, preached on St Andrew and how the town, Valle Crucis, got its name because the valley was shaped like an “X” … like St Andrew’s Cross.

A year later, two days prior to St Andrew’s feast, we were married at the Church of the Holy Cross in the Valley of the Cross. This explains why his icon is tops in our family icon corner.

To all celebrating their name day today: Many Years!

He calls himself an “abortionist” and says, “I am destroying life.”

But he also feels he’s giving life: He calls his patients “born again.”

“When you end what the woman considers a disastrous pregnancy, she has literally been given her life back,” he says.

Before giving up obstetrics in 1991, Harrison delivered 6,000 babies. Childbirth, he says, should be joyous; a woman should never consider it a punishment or an obligation.

“We try to make sure she doesn’t ever feel guilty,” he says, “for what she feels she has to do.”

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Dr. William F. Harrison has forgotten how many children the woman had. He remembers she was poor and, most vividly, he remembers her response when a physician diagnosed her distended stomach as pregnancy.

“Oh, God, doctor,” the woman said. “I was hoping it was cancer.”

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H/T Drudge