Selwyn, here in Missouri there is Amendment IIII on the ballot which a. bans transgendering children and b. restores the ban on abortion which was overturned in a low-attended off-year election by a referendum.

There has been shock-and-awe campaigning against 3; every commercial break on almost every station is a commercial against it and often twice in one break.

So what is the Archdiocese doing about it? Well, from what I've seen nothing at all. I passed Mary Magdalen church the other day and there was one sad little sign saying "vote yes prop 3" and that appears to be the long and short of it. Someone with vast resources is waging the war here and nobody - especially the Catholic Church - is countering it. It probably won't pass.

There is a huge amount of money going into it.

And all the Church can muster is one sad sign. I've not even seen them anywhere else.

The same holds true on other issues too. For instance, most commercial breaks feature an ad telling people to vote against the state redistricting plan, calling it "out of Washington" even though the state legislature is overwhelmingly Republican and the only seat the Democrats will lose is Emmanuel Cleaver's, which exists only because of the old rules that said you had to have minority-majority districts. But there is money flowing into that too, and a lot of it. Nothing hitting the airwaves answering it.

The point is that the Church is not bothering with this. Oh, they are gung-ho on supporting illegal aliens, in recruiting them and moving them around the country. But they are largely silent on Prop. 3, which is something they should dump vast resources into. Why, it's almost as if they can live with the mass murder of children.

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