Sean Curnyn and David Goldman both note the perils of a speech directed to “the Muslim world.” But at Public Discourse, Jennifer S. Bryson , director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Islam and Civil Society Project, notes that despite the characterization of the press, Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
The foundational premise of Islam is that other peoples distorted and perverted the true message of God, which Mohammed presented in its pure and final form in the Koran. The Koran does not “fulfill” Christian or Jewish scripture, as Christianity claims to do for the Jewish Scriptures it . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not wrong for animals. Unlike us, animals aren’t moral . . . . Continue Reading »
From the front page of FoxNews.com : . . . . Continue Reading »
All of the attention paid to President Barack Obama’s speech to Cairo—including to an extent the negative criticism—has played into the rather strange concept behind it all; that is, that the speech is in itself some kind of real act that will effect a sought-after real-world . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Catholic World Report , Philip F. Lawler reports that Caritas Christi, the healthcare arm of the archdiocese of Boston, has bid on a contract from the state of Massachusetts that “explicitly stipulated that coverage must include provisions for abortion, contraception, and . . . . Continue Reading »
James Poulos offers an insightful twist on the slippery-slope argument re: same-sex marriage in this webcast at Postmodern Conservative : It’s not that considering same-sex marriage is causing us to slip as a culture to a depreciated state of marriage; it’s the other way around. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is a new article written by our own Peter Lawler lucidly summarizing the reflections on dignity issued in a recent report by the President’s Council on Bioethics. The very notion of dignity is philosophically suspect today partly because it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
when you argue that the female birth-control pill “helps to keep the birth rate up.” . . . . Continue Reading »
The FBI has reported an increase in animal rights terrorist activities. I discuss it over at . . . . Continue Reading »
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