It pains me when I encounter the stories now too often being told by parents who are dealing with a child who has “come out” as transgendered. I can’t imagine the extreme anguish this tragedy must create for their families and other loved ones. And I sympathize with responsible legislators and policy-makers at every level […]
Book Review
In continuation of my recent deep dive into the nature of man, I just finished What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics, by O. Carter Snead, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. The thesis of the book is Snead’s opinion that the […]
Our Posthuman Future
Early in The Texas Pilgrim’s life, almost twenty years ago, I wrote an essay entitled “The Post-Human Century?” in which I said this: “As the issues of war and peace and the defeat of totalitarianism were the dominant global themes of the century just past, there is a good chance that the war on terrorism, […]
America is Not Racist: A Statement from the Claremont Institute
Like many, I have been searching for the right note to sound in response to what has transpired in the streets of our country over the past couple of weeks, not so much about the heinous crime that sparked the protests, which probably fully 95% of Americans agree was a despicable act of murder, but […]
More on “Stakeholder Capitalism”
It didn’t take long for the notion of stakeholder capitalism as introduced last year by the Business Roundtable to spill over into political correctness and social justice politics. In an op/ed entitled “The Stakeholder vs. the People” last month, Vivek Ramaswamy made the claim that stakeholder capitalism empowers capitalist leaders to “play a larger role […]
The LGBT Lobby is on the March
In one of the discussions spawned by my commentary on the same-sex marriage issue that is resulting in a split in the United Methodist Church, one of my friends and regular readers suggested that the LGBT “rights” activists would not stop there and his prediction is that the next demand of the Church by that […]
“The Autocracy of Feelings”
In revisiting Richard Weaver it occurred to me that a significant by-product of the relativism sparked by the evolution of the philosophy of nominalism that he explains is a pervasive subjectivism that colors every issue in the public realm. As a society it seems we have dumped objectivism and adopted an attitude totally driven by […]
New Genetic Discovery: Is It the “Gay Gene”?
Just in the past few days there has come the announcement in the journal Science of a large study by an international research team and the discovery of five genetic markers linked to whether someone has ever had sex with a person of the same sex. This team conducted a genome-wide association study using genomic […]
Planned Parenthood Retreats
As parts of the Trump administration’s Protect Life rules have gone into effect, particularly one that prohibits recipients of Title X family-planning funds from performing abortions or referring for abortions, the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, has announced that it will not comply with the new rules and will forfeit federal funding of about […]
Methodism at the Tipping Point
My church, the United Methodist, has just completed the latest convocation of its General Conference, the top governing body of the Church, in St. Louis. And while it is never without controversy, according to all reports this one might have been the tipping point for the world-wide denomination’s unity over a sticking point that has […]
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