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The Politics of Family Creation
Modern methods of family creation – from marriage, to procreation, to fertility drugs, to adoption and surrogacy – present a number of ethical dilemmas that incite passionate political and cultural...
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Religious Freedom vs. Healthcare Freedom
In the name of religious liberty, 43 Roman Catholic institutions recently filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration, contending that their rights are violated by the health care mandate...
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Biological Fantasies
Indelicate as it was, Todd Akin’s remark that a woman cannot physically become pregnant by rape underscores the conservative notion that the capacity to bear children imposes upon women a moral...
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The Religion of Capitalism
It was many years ago, early one Monday morning. It felt like Monday too, with all that entails. I was making the commute in from suburban Atlanta through stop and go traffic. Just out of the corner of...
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The Christian War on Mithrasmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for rational people to enjoy a good laugh over fundamentalist Christians such as Sarah Palin and right wing Catholics such as Bill-O’Reilly hysterically...
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The U.S. March to Theocracy
[I]t does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. – Thomas Jefferson When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular...
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The Pope’s War on Climate Change
For many years the debate over climate change has raged unabated. Now that the reality of human-influenced contributions to global warming has been overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community,...
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Hijacking Jesus
At one time in our lives we are going to have to decide what we think about how this all came to be. How was this all created and why am I alive? That is a pretty simple question. If we are thinking...
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The American Dance
In the early 1900s the tobacco industry came to Edward Bernays, the father of modern public relations, with a problem. American women were not smoking cigarettes. Women represented a huge potential...
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When the Pope Visited America
Pope Francis visited the United States from Tuesday, September 22nd to Sunday, September 27th. Not only did he meet with the powerful and politically connected, but he also mingled with the public...
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