“Hate the sin and not the sinner” is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.—Mohandas Gandhi. So, did the Republicans rush to judgment of Sen. Craig in the recent “men’s room” sting operation? Sure they did, but the GOP […]

Let’s talk about two issues that no one wants to discuss in Presidential politics, particularly in the Republican Party—abortion and religion. First, abortion. Rudy Giuliani says that “abortion is morally wrong, but a woman should have the right to choose”, and that he would appoint strict constructionist judges, presumably to render decisions that would ultimately […]

“I think modern science is a religion for many of its practitioners, by which I mean they have utter faith in the sufficiency of their concepts to give full account of life. But science cannot be a source of wisdom. By design it is morally neutral and indifferent to the pursuit of wisdom about human […]

This summer, the folks in Dayton, Tennessee are no doubt at least recognizing, if not celebrating, the eightieth anniversary of the Scopes Trial, sometimes popularly dubbed the “monkey trial”, which, largely because of the mythology that has been built around it by Hollywood and the larger than life personalities who were involved, has become the […]

From the Institute for American Values comes word that its leadership is considering a major conference on the crisis of parenthood and related issues. It couldn’t come too soon or at a more critical juncture. The Institute also reports that Canada is seeking to erase the term “natural parent” from federal law, replacing it with […]

In the tragedy that has played out over the past month in the Terri Schiavo case, one has to look very hard to find any redeeming legacy. However, there is one possible legacy that may assure that this woman will not have died in vain, and that is a heightened sense that there is something […]

Two huge domestic policy battles are now underway that will transform the social contract in ways that will have enormous consequences for the American experiment far into this and probably the next century. One, the President’s push to repair the Social Security system, has been given high visibility and top domestic priority in his second […]

In the battle over the definition of marriage, there are many confusing currents, but, as usual, we can depend on Thomas Sowell to sort through them and cut to the heart of the matter, as follows: “Love affairs are personal relations. Marriage is a legal relation. Sexual relations are between consenting adults, but now the […]

I have often noted my view that the ill-decided Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade in 1973 will have been our generation’s version of the 1857 decision in the Dred Scot slavery case in terms of its divisiveness for our social fabric. Now pending is another invitation to further ideological warfare—the case of Lawrence […]

Two recent events involving public standards of morality were instructive to me. In one, the director and cast of a Conroe, Texas production of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” resigned because of the censorship of parts of the script involving curse words and the portrayal of teenage actresses as prostitutes. The other was the […]