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• Paradise lost for LA Times religion reporter

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:43 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Grief, Theodicy, God, Christianity, Media

  change how they handled sexual abuse allegations, including a promise to kick out any priest with a credible molestation allegation in his past. It emerged that both dioceses had many known molesters on duty. Los Angeles had two convicted pedophiles still working as priests.While reporting the Harris story, I learned from court records

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• Cardinal Mahony as the serpent and the mayor as Adam

  Published: July 23, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Roger Mahony, Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Christianity, Media

  I'm been writing of late about Cardinal Roger Mahony and the LA Archdiocese's massive settlement with 508 alleged victims of clergy sex abuse and about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's philandering ways.Well, the LA Daily News put the two together in this cover for the Sunday Viewpoint section. That's Mahony as the serpent and the mayor chasing his

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• LA Archdiocese to sell headquarters

  Published: July 19, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Roger Mahony, Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Christianity

  settlement with alleged sexual abuse victims (insurers and religious order pick up the rest). From the LA Times:Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and others have said the archdiocese, which drained its litigation reserve fund in payouts for a partial clergy-abuse settlement in December, will try to avoid harming "essential ministries" and does not

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• Sins of the mothers

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Sexual Ethics

  have found that the sexual libertinism preached by their elders leaves only emptiness in his wake, and are choosing something better for themselves. For instance: I knew that my arguments [in my first book] . . . might be challenged, Shalit recalls now, but nothing prepared me for the tongue-lashings I would receive from my

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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

  to accept somebody else's sexual politics. In this case, the college believes that it's inappropriate for women to identify themselves with their husbands (Mrs.) or reveal their marital status (Miss) in a way men don't have to. If we use these titles, it just proves we're living in a false reality; we need more enlightened people to help us

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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

  issues as abortion and homosexuality--two issues about which, increasingly, critics are told to keep their mouths shut or face punishment: The Bible and natural law teachings tell us that God's law is written upon our hearts and are known to all. As Christian philosopher J. Budziszewski writes in his book, The Revenge of Conscience, those who

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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

  towards the increased sexual precocity of our children. We're caught between not wanting to "repress" them and the intuition that human sexuality isn't a harmless pastime -- it's closer to a loaded gun that can go off. So, rather than confront the problem directly, we try to make it "safe," which includes going to

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• The Authentic Man

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Marriage Family, Religion Society, Sexual Ethics

  of the alpha male, metrosexual and ubersexual.

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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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• Dear Sy,

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:34 pm

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

  regarding abortion and homosexuality -- do you suggest these behaviors are compatible with a Christian worldview, or simply that the arguments themselves are

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• Prostate drug, finasteride, does not cause sexual dysfunction, says study

  Published: July 28, 2007, 5:03 am

  Tags: Finasteride, Prostate Cancer, Prostatecancer, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexualdysfunction

  cancer, need not worry about sexual dysfunction side effects, according to a study from the Southwest Oncology Group. Physicians usually warn patients that sexual dysfunction is a possible side effect when discussing finasteride.This study came out of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, a large National Cancer Institute-funded study which found

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