An all-too-typical case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. Under the guise of “setting the record straight,” we are offered this letter to the editor: Friday, June 26, 2009 It’s over, Republicans You are not the party of family values, the moral majority, the party of God or any other silly title [...]
I have to say that I’m not really that interested in Mark Sanford and his Argentinian lover. Yes, I understand that politics and sex is always a wonderful story. Beyond that, there is the mysterious disappearance, the possibility of public funds being used for his trip, and the hypocrisy of Sanford’s past (calling on Bill [...]
Call it the other side of the stupid Palin-Letterman fracas. Rusty DePass made a racist comment about Michelle Obama – and he has paid for it through the loss of his job and has become the public face of stupid racism. But DePass isn’t a public official. He was a private person making an offensive [...]
Martin Marty does a decent job of glossing over the issue of same-sex marriage. He writes: Since the Protestant Reformation — blame Luther and company and the elaboration of marriage law in the United States — no American cleric, unless he or she is also a civic official, e.g., a county clerk, ever marries anyone [...]
David Letterman was an ass to joke about Sarah Palin‘s daughter getting pregnant at a Yankees game. It isn’t about the family of politicians being off-limit, it’s just about having a total lack of taste. But Letterman was at least enough of a man to apologize and offer a spot for Palin to come so [...]
Debra Haffner has it right: Let’s stop talking about reducing the number of abortions as a goal in itself. Such talk obscures what should be our principal objective—reducing unintended pregnancies—and leads to anti-women and anti-teen measures that would place restrictions on abortion access. Let’s keep talking about reducing unintended pregnancies. This is not only the [...]
There really isn’t that much difference between Scott Roeder and Abdulhakim Muhammid. Roeder walked into a church in Kansas and shot a man dead. Muhammid took the same action in a US military recruiting center in a strip mall in Arkansas. There is, however, a drastic difference in how the stories since their actions are [...]
