When the government went after tobacco companies, I was all for it. The companies had lied about the deleterious health impact of smoking for years. As for warnings by some that once Big Tobacco was swallowed, the fast food industry and other areas of eating deemed to be less than . . . . Continue Reading »
The U.S. Senate, in a pure party line vote, turned down an amendment that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act by 51-47. No Democrats voted to repeal, and every Republican voted to repeal.Some are saying that more legislative votes have been cast to repeal Obamacare than enact it. . . . . Continue Reading »
About ten years ago, Peter Singer praised a pornographic book about bestiality, and he was widely condemned. Now, a new novel is out that contains graphic depictions of sexual intercourse between a woman and a chimpanzee, and it is receiving positive reviews in mainstream newspapers. . . . . Continue Reading »
It is a sign of the times. A novel is out with apparent transhumanist tendencies, in which a chimp is engineered to exhibit human characteristics. And it has graphic scenes of human/chimpanzee sex.First, based on the SF Chronicle book review, it would appear that the The Evolution of . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted yesterday about a complaint filed by Planned Parenthood against a pharmacist who had refused to dispense anti bleeding medication, allegedly because she thought it followed an abortion. I wrote that based on the criteria I have proposed—not Idaho law—the refusal would not be a . . . . Continue Reading »
“On The Square” today, Joe Carter points to the alarming double standard on sexual assault he finds in our culture: A deep disdain for rape, vicious crime that it is, but a cavalier attitude toward the epidemic of prison rape: In 2004 the corrections industry estimated that t 12,000 . . . . Continue Reading »
Father Thomas Hopko, the former Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, relates an unusual anecdote. He describes sitting in on the Lesbian Christology session at the American Academy of Religion, where he heard a scholar severely criticize the notion that God the Father . . . . Continue Reading »
We are already seeing fallout from the momentous (at least for now) decision by Judge Vinson throwing the entire Obamacare law out as unconstitutional. The administration has not yet (as far as I know) requested a stay or filed an appeal (as part of their apparent go slow strategy to draw out . . . . Continue Reading »
The Los Angeles Times has a feature called The Envelope in which it examines films in contest, either at film festivals or at the uber-awards, the Oscars. A recent contribution to this feature, “Sundance Film Festival: Movies look at faith in all its forms,” was struck by how many entries . . . . Continue Reading »
The Rev. Tullian Tchividjian effectively skewers the popular “left behind” theology in this article in The Worldview Church: Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different.Matthew 24:37-41 is a key passage some Christians use to justify an escapist theology, . . . . Continue Reading »
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