This post is number seven of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. In the last two posts, I was focusing on what kind of data would make us think that gay marriage was a bad idea, but I think there’s a different question... Read more
This post is number six of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. Ah, but in my pleasure in quoting Waugh to make a mathematical point in the last Blogathon post, I skipped answering the actual question the commenters had asked. “If the... Read more
This post is number five of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. This point came up a couple of times during the thread, so there’s not any specific comment I want to link back to. Some of the Christians wanted to know if... Read more
This post is number four of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. And now to disagree with someone who’s technically on my side (kind of). Smrda wrote: I find utilitarian ethics perfectly satisfying – if an action doesn’t produce a victim, then it isn’t... Read more
This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. I’ve done two posts of comments I disagreed with. Now here’s one from Jerry I quite liked. To paraphrase (butcher?) a common phrase: we know where great sex is; we... Read more
This post is number two of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious) here. At some point in the long discussion of homosexuality, I asked why the Catholic church puts erotic same sex relationships and acts in the same category as erotic male-female acts in the... Read more
This post is number one of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I’m responding to comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread all day. You can read an explanation of the Blogathon and a pitch for donations (even if you’re religious). Nolan wrote: An objection I’ve heard often relates to health. Critics will point to health disparities between gay and straight people (higher depression, suicides, std’s among gay people), and say this is... Read more
Tomorrow, I’m going to be participating in the Blogathon for Secular Student Alliance Week. This means that you’re going to get twelve posts from me -one every hour from 9am to 9pm. (Yikes). They’re all going to be short responses or reflections prompted by your comments in the “Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality” thread, which has reached a terrifying one hundred and fifty comments. I really appreciated everyone offering their thoughts/reading recommendations, but the thread got so... Read more
In my Catholic blog folder, I found a link to an Telegraph article that said LGBT activists have done what the sky-is-falling conservatives have always claimed: they’re won the “right” to force churches to conduct gay weddings. Here’s the Telegraph‘s writeup: The country’s parliament voted through the new law on same-sex marriage by a large majority, making it mandatory for all churches to conduct gay marriages. Denmark’s church minister, Manu Sareen, called the vote “historic”. “I think it’s very important... Read more
— 1 — All the entries in the Ideological Turing Test are up, and I could really use your help bumping up the sample size. Voting in the atheist round ends Saturday night and polls for the Christian round close Wednesday night. Which means all will be revealed on Thursday morning. If you’re visiting from Jen’s blog and aren’t quite sure what I’m talking about, let me explain in the next Take. (Regular readers, skip to #3). — 2 —... Read more
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