Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2650
August 11, 2010
Dissent Of The Day
A reader writes;
Like many people, I found your piece on the unique quality of heterosexual marriage very thorough and moving. But I wanted to draw your attention to a perhaps unintended consequence of your words. As a birth mother whose biological daughter was adopted three years ago, I felt stung by the phrase "we...look after our own biological children (and also those abandoned by their biological parents)."
I don't think you intended your words as a slight toward those who become pregnant...
Born In The USA, Ctd
Drum is not persuaded by Wilkinson's pro-immigration case against birthright citizenship:
I remember back in the thumbsucking years of the blogosphere we hada similar argument about gun control. The argument went like this: gunnuts are all afraid that the government is going to come and take awaytheir guns. Sure, this is crazy, but it's what they...
Could The GOP Take The Senate?
Republican - United States Senate - United States - Senate - Politics
Extra Punishment, Ctd
A reader writes:
I may be exposing my ignorance, but my first reaction to the separation of HIV+ inmates from the general population is that it's a misguided attempt to deal with a particular long-term effect of rape and infection. I'd be very interested in debating how to stop rape from being an ipso facto part of many people's sentences in this country.
Sara Mayeux of the Prison Law Blog addresses such concerns:
This is not at all to deny that HIV transmission among prisoners is a real and...
Prop 8 Motherlode
Judge Walker's court posts all the videos and documents used as evidence. Karen Ocamb focuses on the testimony of defense witness William Tam:
[T:]he juxtaposition between
Dettmer reads into the record about Tam's references to Satan and
way he was clearly coached to reply to expected question is
extraordinary. The most striking portion of thedeposition, which was shown at trial, is Tam acknowledging theaforementioned letter he had written urging a vote for Prop 8 in whichhe...
At The Hour Of Our Death, Ctd
A reader writes:
It is precisely when you are losing that denying the existence of God makes life make sense. I have had an illness for a number of years - it is a neurological illness, which is the existential equivalent of having your eye scraped or being kicked in the testicles. It gets you right where it hurts the most - in this case, in the white matter tracts of my brain. My torture from this illness only makes sense, is *only* meaningful to me if there is no God, or if the God which...
The Worst Is Yet To Come?
Oil spill - BP - Environment - Mother Jones - Energy
The Unique Quality Of "Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy" Ctd
A reader writes:
Ross is just rationalizing a desire to hold on to an emotional image. He's made a cup out of string and wonders why it doesn't hold water.
Even old-school Catholics don't think marriage is about HAVING children. They think it's about RAISING children. Except for those that are so hardcore that they don't believe in adoption (they exist, but the rest of us ignore them). And when was the last time the Church ordered a divorce for a couple who found they couldn't get pregnant...
Face Of The Day
An Afghan boy visits a market during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
on August 11, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Muslims all over the world
are supposed to go without food, drink, smoking and sex from sunrise to
sunset during the month of Ramadan in order to purify themselves and
concentrate their mind on Islamic teachings. By Majid
Saeedi/Getty Images.
Ramadan - Islam - Kabul - Afghanistan - Religion and Spirituality
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