Tag Archives: Ave Maria

What does it say about our society when even our priests are proudly declaring that they’re prepared to dispense lethal force?

By Mark | April 22, 2015

Ann Arbor Catholic priest Ed Fride is in the news today for encouraging his parishioners at Christ the King Catholic Church to arm themselves. In a letter sent out this past weekend to his flock, Fride explained why he carried a weapon, and why the church would likely be hosting more CPL classes on their […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged "cling to guns or religion", anti-Muslim violence, Ave Maria College, Catholicism, Christ the King, Citizens Alliance for Life and Liberty, Columbine, CPL, Dearborn, druggies, Ed Fride, Father Gabriel Richard High School, Floyd Dent, gun rights, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, Inkster, Jay McNally, Josh Wade, Joshua Wade, Mayberry, mixed metaphors, Muslim, pacifism, paranoia, police violence, priests, pro-life, racism, rape, rape fantasy, religion, threats, threats of violence, Tom Monaghan, toto, Vietnam, Word of God | 38 Comments

Checking in with Ypsi’s least favorite son, Tom Monaghan

By Mark | July 9, 2014

The new issue of Businessweek has an interesting piece comparing and contrasting Michigan’s aging pizza barons, Tom Monaghan and Mike Ilitch. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed Monaghan, who started Domino’s here in Ypsilanti in 1960, I thought that I’d share a bit. Tom Monaghan was once a billionaire. He owned 244 […]

Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-abortion, anti-gay people who are most likely gay, anti-homosexual nonsense, baseball, birth control, burgers, Catholicism, Detroit Tigers, Domino's, Gyrene Burger, Harry Bennett, homophobia, Jim Towey, John Norman Collins, Joseph Fessio, Little Caesar's, Mike Ilitch, pizza, pro-life, religious fundamentalism, Tom Monaghan | 20 Comments

Tiny ripples of intolerance and hate begin to make their way through society in the wake of yesterday’s Hobby Lobby decision

By Mark | July 2, 2014

On Monday, when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned that the high court’s Hobby Lobby decision would send our country careening into a “minefield” of complicated legal issues, she was absolutely right. Less than 24 hours after the ruling, which established both that corporations could profess religion, and that U.S. laws couldn’t compel them […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-homosexual nonsense, Autocam Corporation, Barron Industries, contraception, Domino's Farms, Eden Foods, gay rights, Hobby Lobby, homophobia, Mersino Dewatering, Mersino Management, Midwest Fastener Corp, MK Chambers Company, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, Trijicon, Weingartz | 11 Comments

No Rubbers at Domino’s Farms: Tom Monaghan granted another temporary injunction against Obamacare contraception mandate by Judge Lawrence Zaktoff

By Mark | March 17, 2013

Finding common cause with the freedom fighters of the adult film industry, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan won a big legal victory late last week, ensuring, at least for the time being, that he’d be able to keep his Michigan workplace condom-free. On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff ruled in Tom Monaghan’s favor, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Boogie Down Productions, Catholicism, Christian dominionists, College Republicans, contraception, discrimination, Domino's Farms, Domino's Pizza, family planning, fundamentalist religion, hypocrisy, injunction, jimmy hat, Justin Zatkoff, Lawrence Paul Zatkoff, legal discrimination, Obamacare, religion, rewriting history, Scientology, separation of church and state, Texas, Tom Monaghan, University of Detroit Mercy | 23 Comments

As Ysilantians set out to rewrite their City’s quarter century old Master Plan, they assess what’s working, what’s not, and their shared vision for the future

By Mark | March 14, 2013

The people of Ypsilanti are currently going through the process of rewriting the City’s Master Plan. The exhaustive undertaking, which has been constructed in such a way as to incorporate the input from as many community members as possible, is already well under way, but, over the coming months, there will still be ample opportunities […]