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August 9, 2010
The Unique Quality Of "Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy"
Ross is at his most Catholic today in his column on marriage equality, and I'd like to start a response by saying that he has conceded many secular points: that the life-long, monogamous heterosexual nuclear family is not natural and it is not the default definition of marriage in world history. Abandoning these defunct arguments - defunct because they are transparently untrue - is a helpful throat-clearing for which I'm most grateful.
Ross' core argument is that "lifelong heterosexual...
George W. Bush On The Toleration Of Islam
Jefferson On The Toleration Of Islam
From his autobiography, talking of his seminal Virginia Statute For Religious Freedom:
Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word 'Jesus Christ,' so that it should read 'a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion.' The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and...
Yes, Palin Was Belittling Teachers
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Nagasaki - 65 Years Later
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the United States dropping an atom bomb on Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people and precipitating the end of World War II. James Poulos reacts to a Japanese gentleman who wants an apology:
I confess the purpose escapes me of an official apology for the atom bombing of Japan. "We're sorry we didn't follow through with plans for a massively bloody and protracted invasion of Japan, accompanied, as no doubt it would be, by conventional carpet bombings and...
De-Personalizing Weddings
Funerals are so formulaic; it's time weddings were as well. Enough of this solipsism and self-love, thunders Andrew Brown, echoing a splendid creed from Giles Fraser (at the 1 hr 48 minute mark here):
The great point about completely impersonal ceremonies, whose form is the same for everyone, whether these are religious or entirely civil, is that they remind us that the problems and difficulties of marriage are universal. They come from being human. They can't be dodged just by being our...
Who Let The Dogs Out? Ctd
The battle over the ground-zero mosque is more than another battle in the heated culture wars. It is a watershed moment: the point at which liberal multiculturalism capitulated to the relentless march of political Islam. Muslim radicals around the world rightly will view it as a triumph over the feckless American infidel: Even the site...
The Museum Of Intolerance
In what could be a South Park parody but sadly isn't, the Wiesenthal Center behind the Museum of Tolerance - which opened in Manhattan last week - slams the Cordoba center for insensitivity. Meanwhile ... :
In Jerusalem, Israel - where the Wiesenthal Centerplans to open its next Museum of Tolerance - construction of the proposedtolerance museum has "resulted in digging up the remains of people whohad been buried in a Muslim cemetery for generations," [professor Marnia:] Lazreg said. "I am not...
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