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Marriage Is a Matter of Definition
November 18 marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts which resulted in that state becoming the first to issue civil...
Why Science Doesn’t Support Orientation-Change Bans
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recently signed Assembly Bill 3371 , which forbids licensed professional counselors in the state to “engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a person...
Robert Drinan, Infanticide, and the “Unthinkable”
On February 1, I joined perhaps a thousand other mourners in St. Aloysius Church in Washington for the funeral of the Reverend Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Among those eulogizing...