A couple of months ago, Inside Higher Ed published an article by Joshua Wolff making a passionate case that many Christian colleges, in adhering to the traditions of faith and Scripture on sexual morality, do harm to their homosexual students. Wolff concluded that “accrediting bodies . . . . Continue Reading »
Suicide has become an obsession in certain quarters, and for a few suicide pushers, the basis for a personal cult. Australia’s Phillip Nitschke is one such cult leader. Nitschke is a blatant death-on-demander, who has for years pushed suicide machines, the “peaceful . . . . Continue Reading »
(Note: This is fifth and final entry in a series on the suicides of three detainees at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. The other entries are listed at the bottom of this post.) For over a year I’ve written about Harper’s Magazine and their “Guantanamo Murders” conspiracy , most . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second On the Square feature, Matthew Hennessey explains what’s wrong with Texas’ new law requiring women seeking an abortion to view a sonogram image: Unfortunately, however, the Texas law reinforces what I consider a morally repellent notion—that pregnant women . . . . Continue Reading »
The headline caught my eye, “Prescribing Jesus Gets Doctor Censured.” I turned to the story fully expecting to write a post that “prescribing” Jesus or any religion was not their job, that doctors should only prescribe medically. But then when I read the story, I saw that it . . . . Continue Reading »
Are children born to and raised by lesbians more likely to engage in same-sex sexual activity? Law professor Eugene Volokh reports on an interesting study that address that question: There’s long been something of a debate about this question, and I thought I’d note an interesting and . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: In keeping with an annual tradition here on First Thoughts, I’m reposting this speech for recent graduates.] While it could be argued that youth is wasted on the young, it is indisputable that commencement addresses are wasted on young graduates. Sitting in a stuffy auditorium waiting to . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . allegedly is the candidate who benefits most from Daniels’ untimely withdrawal. I admit he’s surely better than Pawlenty—who called Mitch is an “intellectual heavyweight” yesterday (in comparison, he should have added, to himself). Isn’t Huntsman, as USA . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square, David Mills reflects on how false prophets hurt families : It is not easy for children to be Christians and to have dogmatically and morally rigorous parents, even when their parents are perfectly normal mainstream Christians, because that normal expression of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the Nuremberg Code, protecting human subjects has always been thought more important than the speed in which research could be successfully brought into clinical application. But the world of medicine is growing increasingly utilitarian, and I have wondered how long that ethos would . . . . Continue Reading »
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