“Jesus, what are we doing?”
No one survives an abortion encounter unscathed. Even though he’d been raised in a family that was “thoroughly pro-abortion” and believed that abortion was “always the best option,” after his wife’s...
View ArticleGetting Religion and Getting Informed (today, related to women, and men too.)
Happy Friday, Salvo Blog Readers. Put on some fresh afternoon coffee before you read any farther, because you’ve got yourself a few rabbit trails to follow and it may be a while before you surface. Get...
View Article“This is What Title IX is All About”
President Obama’s recent statements on Title IX: “In fact, more women as a whole now graduate from college than men,”Obama wrote. “This is a great accomplishment—not just for one sport or one college...
View ArticleSome Girls, Part 1: Use Your Words
(In which Intern 2 raises the major moral implications of a minor rhetorical imprecision.) The first time I heard the problematic phrasing was in a high school class. We were being educated about date...
View ArticleSome Girls, Part 2: What Words Mean
Continuing from Part 1, Intern 2 extrapolates on the consequences of vagueness in rhetoric It is a little alarming that the following assertion should need to be made. It would be a relief it turned...
View Article‘Choice’ Writ Large
The Genocide Awareness Project The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform On a couple of sunny fall days last September, in the very week hundreds of pseudo-courageous ‘occupiers’ were gearing up to protest a...
View ArticleGirls and Guys, Getting [It] Together; Some Observations on Double Standards
(Surprise, surprise, Intern 2 has a bone to pick with cultural attitudes on sexuality and the sexes) Recently my friend Barnabas mentioned that another (male) acquaintance of ours had once written a...
View ArticleShould the State be Involved in Marriage?
In my various writings on the topic of same-sex ‘marriage’ (for a complete list, click here) I have argued that government has a duty to recognize marriage as being between a man and a woman. But...
View ArticleIs It Cheating or Discrimination?
Dutee Chand (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images) Sprinter Dutee Chand has been banned from competing in track-and-field because her body produces abnormally high levels of testosterone as reported in The...
View ArticleWhere Do Babies Come From? Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells…Sort of
Recent headlines tout that it may be possible for same-sex couples to have biological children thanks to stem cell technology. Using skin stem cells, scientists from the University of Cambridge and the...
View ArticleIdentifying the Person as the Problem: Euthanasia for Mental Illness
It was a practice that is foreign to most us today: The victim was executed for a crime committed against her. In the case of sexual defilement in which the woman was the victim, the woman was stoned...
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