bad arguments
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Catholics Come Home?
Why the church of their birth doesn’t feel like home to many Catholics Continue reading
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Obama, Birth Control, and the Body of Christ: Thoughts on the HHS Ruling
As many of you know, a few weeks ago, President Obama mandated that Catholic hospitals would have to begin providing birth control inclusive health care coverage for their employees. Opponents of this decision claim that, in making the Catholic church… Continue reading
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Homosexuality Is Not Like Alcoholism
Apparently, the most popular way to argue against homosexuality these days is to compare it to alcoholism. Seriously. I have been hearing this a lot lately. A representative version of this argument goes something like this: “just as we wouldn’t… Continue reading
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Is Affirmative Action ‘Reverse Racism’?
UC Berkeley’s College Republicans are putting on a “pay-by-race bake sale” in order to demonstrate what they consider to be the straightforwardly and obviously unjust nature of affirmative action, especially when used in the college admissions process. Their pricing menu… Continue reading
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Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?
In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading
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What Are We Doing In Libya?
If your 8 year old daughter’s principal announced that she was implementing a bold new anti-bullying policy aimed at protecting her students from being victims of harassment and violence, you would probably be happy, wouldn’t you? But what if the… Continue reading