Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Undoing Earmark Reform

  Published: July 23, 2007, 4:54 am

  Tags: Ethics

  planning on eviscerating the ethics/earmark reforms passed just six months ago. It appears as though Sen. Reid is intent on driving his JA rating so low as to rival the most despicable villains in history. That Reid's action had this effect was mere coincidence. He knew that Sen. Carl Levin's amendment to the defense bill mandating a troop

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• Stuart Rennie on HIV Prevention

  Published: June 11, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Mandatory Hiv Testing, Stuart Rennie, Hiv Prevention, Reproductive Health Ethics

  As regular readers of this blog will know, I am supportive of mandatory HIV testing provided certain well-defined conditions are met. Stuart Rennie seems to disagree. Here I reproduce his take on the issue. It's well worth reading. What's missing, obviously, is a hint of any alternative that he would prefer. It's fair enough to be against coercion

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• Sins of the mothers

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Sexual Ethics

  Chuck Colson talks in today's BreakPoint commentary about Wendy Shalit's excellent Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good. As the title suggests, the book examines the way many members of the younger generations have found that the sexual libertinism preached by their elders leaves only emptiness in his

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• What Would Luther Do?

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  Would Luther have supported same-sex unions? Mark Tooley looks at what we know of Luther's beliefs to see on which side of the debate this Reformation hero would have fallen. Read more at the American Spectator.

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• Re: Representing the constituency

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:13 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  Commenters Sy and Beth have been debating what my point was in this post -- specifically, whether I thought John Edwards came off looking good or bad -- and have asked me to weigh in. Glad to oblige. :-) In fact, my point had very little to do with Edwards, unless he was the one that chose the questions that were asked of him. (I'm not very clear

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• Anti-Choice College Applications

  Published: July 25, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Sexual Ethics, Trends

  I just downloaded a college application for a master's degree in fine arts in writing and literature from a New England college -- and became annoyed on the very first page. Under "Name," applicants are told to circle "Mr.," "Ms," or "Dr." There was plenty of room to include "Miss" and

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• If this is our new guide, were lost

  Published: July 24, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Sexual Ethics

  Have sexual conservatives and liberals (for lack of better terms) finally found some common ground? Michael O'Brien thinks so, writing in National Review Online:For several years now, IWF has brought [Dr. Drew] Pinsky to Capitol Hill for an annual Sex and Dating Conference. The event is marketed specifically towards the summer influx of

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• Shooting the messenger

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Life Issues, Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  ASSIST News Service reports on that German theologian who received a one-year jail sentence for drawing a comparison between abortion and the Holocaust. As you may remember, Johannes Lerle asserts that infanticide in the womb--which takes place 200,000 times a year in Germany--is comparable to the murder of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Lerle

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• What a 35-year-old virgin should look like

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Sexual Ethics

  Note to self: Invest in a pair of glasses. (I've got a little over three years to go, though, so I guess I won't have to do it right away.)

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• Harmony in Flux

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Criminal Justice, Education, Sexual Ethics, Trends

  Over at Reason's Hit & Run, the Agitator, Radley Balko, proclaims "Childhood Now A Sex Crime." What? From The Oregonian:  The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran -- what some kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is against

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• The Authentic Man

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  What does it mean to be a man? How does a guy know when he's crossed from boyhood to manhood? Is it when he leaves home or when he's old enough to drink, vote or die for his country? Homer and Paul teach us some important lessons about "The True Measure of Manhood" one that's a kingdom apart from "Men in the Muddle" mired in

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• Representing the constituency

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:24 pm

  Tags: Marriage Family, Sexual Ethics

  Three-quarters of African-American Protestants oppose same-sex marriage. So naturally, we wind up with an African-American pastor asking John Edwards how he, Edwards, can possibly "use religion to deny gay Americans their full and equal rights," in tonight's Democratic debate. (Note: Profanity in the comment section.) That's

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• Here's a picture of Tony Fratto. In case a stranger walks up to you offering brand new Rolexes for twenty bucks

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:51 am

  Tags: Around America, Ethics, Politics

  From Friday's New York Times: WASHINGTON, July 26 The director of the F.B.I. offered testimony Thursday that sharply conflicted with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's sworn statements about a 2004 confrontation in which top Justice Department officials threatened to resign over a secret intelligence operation. From White House spokesman

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• Dear Sy,

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:34 pm

  Tags: Life Issues, Marriage Family, Politics Government, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  I think Gina's point is about demographics and Reverend Longcrier seemingly representing most voices of a certain voting bloc instead of a minority (used in the broader sense of the word). You seem to have a problem with most arguments made on this blog regarding abortion and homosexuality -- do you suggest these behaviors are compatible with a

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• The Kosher Fad is Sure to Fade

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Food, Halakha, Ethics, Opinion

  When I was growing up as one of the only Jews in most of the places I lived, including college at a Catholic university, I would frequently attract as friends converts-to-be who wanted to ask me all about my faith. Why these people wanted to convert was always a mystery to me. Jewish culture inherits so much baggage, I felt, and so many

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