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Marriage Minus Monogamy III

In Christianity Today , Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discusses the fact that many of those who want marriage equality do not want fidelity : Same-sex marriage advocates frequently ask, “How would gay marriage affect your marriage?” The question is posed rhetorically, as if marriage is a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Epidemic of Sexual Obesity

In the latest issue of First Things , Mary Eberstadt examines the gluttony of pornographic consumption in America: As the impressively depressing cover story “America the Obese” in the May issue of The Atlantic serves to remind us all, the weight-gain epidemic in the United States and the . . . . Continue Reading »

Miss Culture War 2010

What do you do if you’re a third-rate beauty pageant desperate for attention? If you’re the Donald Trump owned Miss USA contest you stick with a winning formula: ask beautiful woman culture war questions : Rima Fakih (Miss Michigan), a Lebanese immigrant who told pageant organizers her . . . . Continue Reading »

“Other Responsibilities”

One of the junior fellows passed on the link to a Republican congressional candidate’s comments on  her primary opponent’s six children : With little to distinguish her on issues or experince with her opponent, lawyer Keith Rothfus, she has settled on making the case that he has . . . . Continue Reading »

A Matter of Life and Death

HBO tells us “You Don’t Know Jack,” referring to Jack Kevorkian, played by Al Pacino in HBO’s recent movie of the same name, or as some might call it, a hagiography of Dr. Death.  Kevorkian came to notoriety in the 1990’s as a leading advocate of assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare: The Attack of the Bureaucrats

I warned and warned—here at SHS, on radio talk shows, in speeches—that the real dirty work of Obamacare would be done quietly, behind the scenes, by an army of faceless bureaucrats who will be directed to add the devil in the details of the bill.  Moreover, I prophesied, the bad . . . . Continue Reading »

The Many Worlds Adiaphora or Heresy?

Two well known strands of Protestant theology are the Calvinist and Arminian. There are a number of differences between these two schools but one of them keys on soteriology (salvation). Calvinists would hold that once a person is saved, he is always saved. Arminians dispute this idea. Consider the . . . . Continue Reading »

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