Here are key passages from Supreme Court Justice Alito’s opinion in the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade: “Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to […]
The Abortion Moral/Political Dilemma for the GOP
“What do you do when your movement is on the right side of an issue morally, but seems to be losing politically? That’s the question the pro-life movement needs to answer, and fast.”–Ryan Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of a recent op/ed in The Wall Street Journal entitled “Republicans […]
Transgenderism vs. Reality and Common Sense
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 […]
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