Playboy’s Not So Virgin Mary
Is the Catholic Church upset at the depiction of the Virgin or just at its association with sex?
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Would Obama Have Chosen a Racist for Inauguration?
Commentators maintain that the selection of Rick Warren was a shrewd political calculation. But what of the moral center?
Read MorePope Says No To In Vitro
The Vatican condemns assisted reproductive technology, everything from surrogacy to in vitro pregnancy, but says nothing about the thousands of children who have been born as a result of it.
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Gay Marriage: Can We Get a Little Respect?
Is it really about morality? And if so, should only “moral” people be allowed to wed? Think harder, people.
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A Method to Obama’s Madness?
There’s not only strategic value to Obama’s selection of Warren, there’s a desire to reach out to all people and not to become what liberals and progressives hate.
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A Marriage Manifesto… Of Sorts
A gay man experiments with language, love and law.
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RDBook: A City Too Busy To Hate
A new guidebook to the city of Atlanta, Sacred Places, focuses on civil rights sites, from churches to restaurants, and shows how the history of the struggle for freedom still permeates the urban landscape.
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Missing the Anger for the Shoes
In the wake of the Bush/Shoe incident, much has been said about the shoe in the Muslim world. The important thing is that a man sought to express anger.
Read MoreA Deferential Court?
A scholar of law argues that the courts should defer to the states, even if a new law might be unconstitutional. But we don’t need a deferential court; we need a court that will administer justice.
Read MoreUN Res to Decriminalize LGBT is a Paper Tiger
There are better ways to educate on LGBT rights than to pass a toothless resolution that isolates conservative leaders.
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