Ari Kohen on an Althouse/Loury bloggingheads discussion of opposition to SSM on religious grounds: Religions aren’t monolithic; if people really are involved in deep spiritual reflection on the matter of homosexuality, then they will surely be able to find an interpretation of their religious texts...
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Speaking as someone who teaches at a university with a comparatively conservative and religious student body, this post by Rachel Held Evers rings very true to my ears. I was.
File under "I can't believe this actually made it through peer review". If you've been wondering what Thomas Hobbes really had to say about Beethoven, your wait is over. Adrian.
Elevating a comment from the Erik's post: The scholarship on sex trafficking portrays a much more complex picture of the sex industry. Pointing to this complexity is not a rationalization of human rights abuses. But it is necessary both for understanding what the problem...
This theme has certainly cropped up here at LGM from time to time, generally with reference to aesthetic affairs. It applies to politics, too, as this excellent post from Rich.
Yesterday Dalia Lithwick had an excellent column on the lack of actual arguments from the anti-marriage equality forces. This was certainly in evidence to anyone watching the debate in the.
Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My favorite line: In Maine, the Tea Party-backed Republican governor canceled a project to ease congestion...
Haugen makes 25. Unless someone backs out, the votes are there. It's very, very likely an initiative to repeal this will be on the ballot in November. One recent poll.
Kastama's on board, now only one vote away. And Microsoft is publicly supporting the effort, which will hopefully give Andy Hill the push he needs to get Washington on the.
After the tragic about-face that killed it at the last minute in Maryland, it's hard to be optimistic. Still, chances are now looking respectable. That the votes are there in the House seems clear; the Senate is where the challenge lies. As of now there...
This post, in which Andrew Cohen attempts to make a libertarian case for requiring licences to raise children, is apparently not meant as a parody. This argument pairs nicely, I.
For years, Crooked Timber and Bitch PhD were two of the only blogs I pretty much never missed, so I'm obviously pretty thrilled about this development. Congrats to Tedra and.