Over at OSV’s Daily Take, John Norton points to the perfect antidote to such depressing news as our Speaker of the House’s insistence that ” we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Only this antidote isn’t a thing; it’s a person — Dr. Raymond Leo Dennehy, Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics, and Epistemology at the University of San Francisco:
Dennehy has been going to Berkeley for this debate for 46 consecutive semesters, invited by students who knew he was a high-profile abortion foe. Before Potts arrived a decade ago, Dennehy faced off with the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women. One time, no opponent showed up, so he sparred with a video.
Orthodox. Faithful. Free.
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Dennehy, a Roman Catholic son of Irish immigrants and a father of four, began publicly arguing against abortion in 1969. Two years earlier, California Gov. Ronald Reagan had signed a law legalizing limited abortion. Dennehy became active in a local antiabortion group and was invited to make his case on a local radio station. After that, his debating career took off.
Each time he makes the trek across the Bay Bridge to debate Potts, he steels himself a little; he knows that, generally speaking, he is entering enemy territory.
Wow. And in Ms. Pelosi’s backyard, no less. I feel better already.
God bless Professor Dennehy for his courage.