Is Health Care a Right and Should It Be?
Why should health care be a right? After all, it is not written in our Constitution that it is an inalienable right; it is not contained in the Bill of Rights either.
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The fact is, not one but three different factions want to get polygamy legalized. Each is basing its claim to religious freedom on its sacred book.
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Unearthing Common Ground: Why Reducing Abortions is Not the Goal
The call to reduce unintended pregnancies is the right one. What we must focus on now are the means: sex education (not abstinence-only) and universal access to contraceptive services.
Congratulations United Church of Christ on Gay Rights
Sociologically and spiritually, marriage just keeps changing. I would think of all people the Mormons might understand!
The Exploitation of Children By The "Pro-Family" Agenda In Arkansas
How is keeping youth out of loving homes pro-family or pro-child? And, what sort of message does this send to GLBT youth in foster care?
Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype
I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.
What Harvey Milk Tells Us About Proposition 8
Although Prop 8 wasn't exactly a remake of Prop 6, it's the same disaster movie storyline pitch: any recognition of constitutional rights for gay and lesbian citizens will somehow destroy the natural order.
Should Adopted Children be Allowed to Say "Mommy" and "Daddy?"
After all, if anybody can throw around words like "son" or "daughter" to describe someone they share absolutely no DNA with, where does it end?
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In his final debate with John McCain, President-elect Barack Obama made it clear why he opposed passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) - b...
Does Obama Play Video Games?
Games let players interact with a story, rather than passively consume it. This keeps them engaged.
Bowoto v. Chevron: Approaching the Arguments
Why do police negotiators generally refuse to pay ransom for hostages? To do so would actually encourage more kidnappings by providing an incentive to would-be kidnappers.
Humanity in a Time of Inhumanity
Tonight a friend and I had the honor of seeing a Holocaust survivor and her rescuer reunited after 63 years. The rescuer, Wiktoria Sozanska, was hono...
Milk, The Biopic and The Lesson
Milk manages to balance the needs of two very different films in its running time. It is, first of all, a superb biopic, as well as a meditation on the responsibility activists have to the people.
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