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This kind of stuff is going to lose the Democrats a lot of supporters. Even the  LGBTQXYZ community does not benefit from intolerance towar...

While we often discuss moral questions where there seem to be plenty of shades of gray,  there are lots of  moral concerns where most of us ...

When it comes to adultery, we have some people who think that God, (who presumably knows what is right or wrong) has told us not to do it in...

Shouldn't we be making legal immigration less prohibitive, so that fewer people want to cross illegally. Trump wants to make it more pro...

Is there a single shred of evidence in the text that consensual gay activity was ever committed in Sodom? Raping an outside visitor could ea...

People sometimes say that they support legal immigration, but not illegal immigration. What do we mean when we say we support legal immigrat...

Trump in the 2016 campaign said he was very greedy , and implied that his greed is a good thing.  Biblical Christ...

Has there been an increase in illegal immigration? Is this the crisis our government is shutting down over?  The report from the NY Tim...

In teaching philosophy, I have from time to time been asked whether the enterprise am teaching is a matter of fact or opinion. Or, when stu...

Not necessarily.   And should we be tolerant of, say, female genital mutilation? China's one-child policy? The Hindu caste system? The u...

Here. 

Here.   Is this a middle path between "anything goes" liberalism and Scalia-style originalism, if we make the mistake of applying ...

It is fascinating four of the five justices who are supposed to deliver this "strict constructionist" interpretation of the Consti...

Most of us familiar with the abortion debate are familiar with what I call the "coathanger argument," that abortions are being don...

The fact that Christians have not lived up to the Christian standards of conduct is not surprising, in fact it is a central teaching of Ch...

You don't  have to believe in God in order to behave.  However, you might not have a very strong rebuttal to a rational challenge to th...

From Graham Veale :  Can’t the atheist posit a Platonic realm of moral facts? Couldn’t moral values just exist, independently, as abstract...

Supporters of assisted suicide say they support death with dignity. What conception of dignity are they using?

What if they raped and tortured their victims. Do we let them off easy with lethal injection?

Are Christian permitted to say “Well, God put (or allowed to be put) this commandment into the Bible because circumstances in Bible times ...