We have discussed gay marriage in terms of theology and morality. Now let us consider it in political terms. What kind of government is it that takes to itself the power and the authority to make such a radical change in the institution of marriage?
We have discussed gay marriage in terms of theology and morality. Now let us consider it in political terms. What kind of government is it that takes to itself the power and the authority to make such a radical change in the institution of marriage?
In Sweden, a government-run pre-school is refusing all gender categories in their dealings with children, to the point of avoiding personal pronouns: On the surface, the school in Sodermalm – a well-to-do district of the Swedish capital – seems like any other. But listen carefully
Alexander Heffner in the Washington Post raises something that I have long called for: When President Obama ponders tough decisions at the White House, he may join the cadre of presidents who have sought inspiration in the Truman Balcony’s stunning vista, gazing at the Washington
A Toronto couple is raising their baby to be genderless, refusing to identify the child either as a boy or a girl, so that he or she can choose his or her own sexual identity. The baby, named Storm, is now 4 months old. This
It’s not the students who cheated in Atlanta. It’s the teachers. And the principals: Prosecutors are weighing whether to file any criminal charges against 178 Atlanta teachers and principals who state investigators said had cheated on standardized tests to inflate student scores. The cheating in
The line that gave us most of the Holy Roman Emperors–including Charles V, before whom Luther confessed his faith at the Diet of Worms, who was presented the Augsburg Confession, and who battled the Reformation with the sword–is now extinct. The eldest son of the
Denver bishop James D. Conley offers a potentially useful new word: In our day, those “decrying the Christian religion” have seized the captain’s seat in America—in the academy, the media, the government and courts. The result is a kind of publicly enforced religious indifferentism, or
Liberals are afflicted with tea party envy. According to leftist political theory, populist movements–grassroot uprisings of the masses–are supposed to advance the agenda of the left. But in America most populist movements lean right. So Democrats are trying to organize a tea party of their
Climate scientists–the established ones, not the renegades–have found that global surface temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, despite heightened carbon emissions, and they have been trying to figure out why. Now they are saying the temperature drop is anthropogenic, the result (like they
Gay marriage is not the only revolution in the works. The lead article in the last New York Times Magazine makes the case for consensual adultery as a way to keep marriages together: [Rep. Anthony Weiner’s] visage was insisting, night after night, that we think
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