First Links – 7.22.11

How Divorce Lost Its Groove , The New York Times (Pamela Paul)

Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy , Public Discourse (Samuel Gregg)

Church of England To Approve First Openly Gay Bishop , The Telegraph (Jonathan Wynne-Jones)

Some Methodist Clergy Defy Gay Marriage Ban , USA Today (Associated Press)

Pawlenty’s Pastor Stays Politically Neutral , USA Today (G. Jeffrey MacDonald)

Homeschoolers Are Getting In On The Cap and Gown Fun , Time (Sonia Van Gilder Cooke)

The Truth About Graduate School Geekosystem

Can Buddhists Teach Christians? Evangel (Gayle Trotter)

Obamacare: Bad Writing Qualifies Middle Class for Free Health Care Secondhand Smoke (Wesley J. Smith)

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