August 10, 2011Posted by Amy Hall One common misconception in the same-sex marriage debate is the idea that the traditional legal definition of marriage is a violation of equal rights. Since this is an extremely emotionally charged accusation, it’s difficult to get past it into a real discussion of the issue. Here’s the approach I usually take: 1. Nearly everyone who [...]
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August 9, 2011Posted by Amy Hall Behold, the fruit of class warfare rhetoric. This is what happens when you teach that “rich people” became rich at your expense and they owe you their property. The end of respect for private property and a person’s right to have what he’s earned is the end of civilization. Please go read Money, Greed, and [...]
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March 22, 2010Posted by Amy Hall Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; and they said to him…”Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.” So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of him a king. He said, “This will be [...]
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August 29, 2009Posted by Amy Hall Obama’s health advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, explains his philosophy on the kind of rules that ought to be created for health care rationing: True reform, he argues, must include redefining doctors’ ethical obligations…. Dr. Emanuel argues that to make such [rationing] decisions, the focus cannot be only on the worth of the individual. He proposes adding [...]
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August 14, 2009Posted by Amy Hall Earlier this week, I guest blogged over at Caffeinated Thoughts on this question: [P]redictions [from the Left] of resource depletion leading to disaster have still not come true. The question is, why do they continue to wrongly predict these things? What is behind this mistake? What are they missing? The gist of my answer (which [...]
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July 8, 2009Posted by Roger Overton I’m now taking pre-orders for my latest book, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue and Statesmanship. Apparently Amazon will not have it in stock for another 1-2 months, but if you order from me, you should have it by the end of July. Retail is $18. I’m selling them at $12, plus $3 shipping. [...]
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June 2, 2009Posted by Amy Hall If abortion is the killing of an innocent human being as pro-lifers say, is it right to kill an abortion doctor–a guilty human being who has been and will be involved in these killings? I think most pro-lifers intuitively have a strong, negative reaction to this question, even if they can’t articulate precisely why such [...]
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May 26, 2009Posted by Amy Hall The idea that some are more wealthy–sometimes much more wealthy–than others is very disturbing to the Left. They believe they hold the moral position with their policies because they are working toward equality. The problem is that it is not fair or just to enforce an equality of outcome because, by necessity, you will need [...]
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April 17, 2009Posted by Roger Overton Things have been a bit quite here of late. One of the reasons for that is that I’ve been editing another book. We’re finally to the point where I make the details public, so here it is! God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue and Statesmanship Abortion. Poverty. Pornography. More than thirty years ago religious [...]
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November 26, 2008Posted by David N Themed Bibles are generally a bad idea. For one thing, every part of God's Word is meant to speak to every Christian. Themed Bibles tend to emphasize only the parts of the Bible that speak about the particular theme, leaving other potentially important aspects of Scripture under-emphasized or ignored (and here I'm thinking primarily within [...]
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