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The Rob Portman effect and proximate casualties
Polling last week revealed increasing public support for same-sex marriage. CNN affixed a sleek label, the “Rob Portman effect,” to the positive correlation between 1) personally knowing someone close...
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Equal protection? Piece of cake!
The week after Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s vetoed “anti-gay” bill SB 1062, The Atlantic ran this headline on its story feed: “How Religious-Freedom Laws Could Come Back to Hurt the Faithful.”...
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(In)tolerance at Mozilla
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -The Friends of Voltaire (1906) Tolerance in the face of disagreement, even incredibly odious disagreement, has been a...
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Are rights invented or discovered?
Writing for The National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston pinpoints the crux of the nation’s protracted same-sex marriage legal battle: [it] will come down to a debate about granting a new right to...
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Should a Christian baker bake two cakes instead?
“And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.” Matthew 5:41 (ESV) The above passage has recently been used to suggest that Christian bakers, if asked to bake a gay wedding cake,...
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I would like to congratulate you . . .
dbking / Foter / CC BY I would like to sincerely congratulate my friends and family who see a moral victory in the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage. But I am prevented by two...
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DOMA decision: judge not, unless you’re liberal
Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision on Windsor v US is remarkable on a number of levels. It’s an exceedingly rare instance where liberals celebrate an old, rich white person getting huge tax break. In...
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Top 10 uncogitated posts of 2013, part II
Here are the final five posts that should have been in 2013. 5. Neuroscience and the Soul. This year I mentioned a peer-reviewed philosophical journal put out out by the Evangelical Philosophical...
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