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I am glad that Rob called attention to the recent debate between John McGinnis and Robert George regarding John Adams' famous proposition that our Constitution is designed for a moral and religious people and wholly inadequate for the governance of any other. Helpfully, both professors have published written versions
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The Respectful Conversations project is an effort to bring together those who disagree about the most controversial issues, to state disagreements civilly and with mutual respect, and to achieve as much mutual understanding as possible. This month's discussion concerns how marriage should be defined in law. Perhaps no
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As the NewBostonPost reported late last week, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled that Fontbonne Academy, a Catholic preparatory school, now has a legal duty to employ a man who identifies another man as his husband for employment purposes. The Roman Catholic Church, like nearly all Protestant denominations, orthodox
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Earlier I commented on the recent ruling by a Massachusetts Superior Court coercing the Sisters of Saint Joseph, who run Fontbonne Academy, to hire a man who identifies another man as his husband. This action would contravene the Sisters' well-formed conscience which, consistent with Roman Catholic teaching, biological facts,
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It has become an annual tradition for Christians to observe during Advent and Christmastide that "the Holidays" have become secularized. And our secular neighbors are equally eager to amuse themselves each year by imagining that Christians are up in arms about this trend. (I still haven't
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Over at the Arc of the Universe blog, my friend Daniel Mark ponders why Indonesia is not perceived to represent the Islamic world, and what could be done to make its peaceful, pluralistic version of Islam more prominent. The most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia is nevertheless not an assertive player
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Imagine that graffiti were found painted on a mosque or Islamic community center. Imagine that the graffiti contained various biblical references and other phrases indicating that the vandals were evangelical Protestant Christians. Imagine that the Obama administration's Department of Justice investigated, prosecuted, and obtained a guilty plea from
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In my last post I commented on an attempt by the Justice Department to conceal the pro-sexual-identity message of vandals who put graffiti on an Islamic center. Others have speculated that the Department's motivations were political. I speculated that the motives were more straight-forwardly grounded in a principled