In April 2010, Newsweek had an article titled “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” with the subtitle “The cause of the Catholic clergy’s sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things. So why not break up the all-male club?” The article was strongly against the male officials of the [...]
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It looks to me that President Obama has decided that it is now “safer” to be a true advocate for same-sex marriage. How else to explain his flip-flop of now telling the Department of Justice to not defend the Defense of Marriage Act when it was only one month ago when the Department had vowed [...]
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Until I read a recent article by Monica Hesse in the Washington Post, I had never heard of Allison Pearson. But I learned then that she is a British author who wrote the novel “I Don’t Know How She Does It” about ten years ago and that the book “became the millennium’s first mommy [...]
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I have written a number of posts about the draconian laws against sex offenders that make it extremely difficult for many of the offenders to ever be rehabilitated. For example, see this about a teenager in Iowa who was put on the sex offender registry because, at age 16, he had sex with a girl [...]
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