Some Christians are all hot and bothered about homosexuals. I follow their reasoning as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. It always begins with Leviticus 18:22,
You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
Anyone can cite biblical passages in support of the [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by pwyll
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This post arose directly from comments on an earlier post. Reading that post and perhaps this one might make the discussion below more intelligible. A reader asked some questions I thought worth answering on the front page, so here is my reply.
I”m going to answer your several questions directly. In return, I hope to get [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by pwyll
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The election is over, and the candidate from Hope won. The most hopeful analysis I have seen is this one from Perry de Havilland:
Unlike many, well, most of my compatriots, I am not filled with a deep sense of gloom and foreboding at the prospect of the most left wing president since FDR [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by pwyll
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Mark Steyn:
I had lunch with Ken Whyte, my publisher at Maclean’s, the other day, and mentioned en passant that one consequence of a year’s worth of thought-police investigations was that it was no longer possible to avoid the painful truth that, for a profession that congratulates itself incessantly on its courage, bravery, fearlessness, etc [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by pwyll
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What I ask my country to do for me, broadly speaking, is to stay out of my life. The fundamental human right is the right to be left alone, the right to live free of coercion, so long as one forgoes the use of coercion. I believe the purpose of government is to secure that [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by pwyll
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