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Insanity & Doom Update XIV
Regular readers will notice the weekly Doom pieces are becoming slightly dated. This is because there is so much doom in any week I can't fit all of the week's…
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Insanity & Doom Update XII
Item Is Homosexual Practice No Worse Than Any Other Sin? Why, then, do so many insist on an 'egalitarian view of sin'? There may be several reasons working together. First,…
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Insanity & Doom Update IX
Item University looks to add diversity rating to faculty evals Ball State University's Faculty Council plans to allow students to rate the inclusiveness of classroom environments on end-of-semester evaluations... While…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part II
Read Part I first. On the subject of Islamic violence (see the picture leading the article), Pew says: While overall public views have shifted only modestly, the partisan gap on…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part I
Pew has a survey out which measures, sort of, our increasing political and cultural apartness (a.k.a. apartheid). The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger…
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The Apoplectic Reaction to the Nashville Statement
Liberty Conservative: The Apoplectic Reaction to the Nashville Statement Apoplectic, nearly universal condemnation was the reaction to the Nashville Statement, the dry reminder that, to Christians, homosexual acts are sinful,…
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Fr James Martin and the Nashville Statement
Which term best describes the reaction from non-orthodox Christians (in practice, if not in name) to being reminded, via the Nashville Statement, that sodomy is a sin that cannot in…
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Bad Sex
Only one from the mailbag today, because of the length and importance. From Jay, who points us to the New Atlantic's major study on sexuality. Bookmark this one, folks. You'll…