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What marriage is.(Conservative Policy Dilemmas)
COMMON sense suggests it is better for homosexually oriented persons to settle into permanent relationships than to have multiple partners. But can such relationships become marriages? I do not believe that they can. Jonathan Rauch makes the affirmative case, and puts forth the best argument I've seen in its favor. But even granting the scientific and philosophical assumptions that undergird his recent book on the subject, the argument cannot stand. His key assumptions--that homosexuals have a fixed nature that inclines them toward same-sex relationships; that this nature is involuntary and unchangeable; that it prevents homosexuals from being other than homosexual; and ...
- 10 myths about secular humanism.
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Cherry, Matt Matsumura, Mollen December 22, 1997 700+ words
...pamphlet they are. Have you been told secular humanism is a conspiracy by the filthy rich...religious leaders claim. They portray secular humanism as an insidious cancer eating away...everything good and decent. Think this "secular humanism" sounds too bad to be true? You...
- Who Are Secular Humanism's Clergy? How Are They Ordained?
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post March 28, 1987 700+ words
...ed column March 14. The fact is: secular humanism (whatever that is) isn't a religion...religion by calling it one. True, secular humanism was once described by one Supreme...to suggest, as some have, that "secular humanism has been declared to be a religion...
- Scopes Revisited // Is secular humanism a religion?
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Charles Krauthammer October 13, 1986 700+ words
...Are we descended from apes? Is secular humanism a religion? Only the first of these...A trial on the third question, secular humanism, is today's entertainment. Scopes...teaching religion, a religion called secular humanism. Now, it is true that school textbooks...
- Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality.
- Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report Kurtz, Paul July 1, 1992 700+ words
...s powerful book, Bioethics and Secular Humanism, attempts to break new ground by...compromise. Engelhardt believes that secular humanism can provide some rational basis for...a distinction, however, between Secular Humanism, with a capital S and H, which refers...
- The religion of secular humanism.(Defining Humanism: The Battle Continues)
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Noebel, David A. September 22, 1996 700+ words
...Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others." - U.S. Supreme Court...from the world." - James (1:27) Secular Humanism is a religion. It is a religion because...Day and the Search for Truth that secular humanism is a comprehensive worldview that...
- Federal appeals court hears "secular humanism" appeal.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 23, 1987 700+ words
...FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HEARS "SECULAR HUMANISM" APPEAL Judges Asked To Throw...court ruling in the Alabama "secular humanism" case. Under his March 4...would revisit the issue of secular humanism that was raised but not addressed...
- People for the American Way hails 'secular humanism' ruling, calls decision...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 26, 1987 700+ words
...PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY HAILS 'SECULAR HUMANISM' RULING, CALLS DECISION 'SETBACK...court ruling striking down the Alabama secular humanism decision, calling the ruling "a...what he called "the religion" of "secular humanism." Today's ruling reinstates the...
- Secular humanists go to Washington. (The Humanist Activist).(includes other...
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Grothe, D.J. December 22, 2002 700+ words
...organizations, including the Council for Secular Humanism. The Council, an early and enthusiastic...endorsed or sponsored by the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry include...advance the aims of the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry See www...