Posted in Current Events, Democracy, Ethics, Politics, Tyranny, tagged civil disobedience, Duchy Trachtenberg, feminism, gender, gender identity, identity, law, lobby, locker room, montgomery county, not my shower, queer politics, restroom, Trachtenberg, transgender, Tyranny, women's health, women's rights, women's safety on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to County Councilmember Duchy Trachtenberg and the unanimous vote of our County Council, my county now has a law that will go into effect soon, allowing transgendered males to use any women’s restroom facilities that are open to the public. So a man with alternate “gender identity” can use the women’s locker room at [...]
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Posted in Ethics, political theory on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The humanitarian denies the existence of sin, declaring that what we call “sins” are not moral matters at all, resulting instead from circumstance, faulty rearing, or social oppression. In the view of the humanitarian, sins–and crimes, too–are the work of “society”; and sinners and criminals are victims, rather than unjust offenders. Such reasoning is the [...]
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Uncle Sam (or his Pennsylvanian cousin) wants to force this farmer to pasteurize his proven safe raw milk product. Read:
Civil Disobedience in Pennsylvania: “Tyrants Will Rule If No One Stands Up for the Truth,” Says Raw Milk Combatant
They’re trying to tell us how to eat our food…
[Full disclosure: My family purchased their milk from the [...]
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Posted in Ethics, music, technology on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I don’t steal music.
I bought this CD, but learned that it had copy-protection software installed on it–a “root kit” which would attempt to infect my computer and install a device driver to prevent me from copying the music to my hard drive.
The idea is so that people can’t rip mp3s and pirate them all over [...]
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From Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (Mansfield trans.):
“I do not know any country where, in general, less independence of mind and genuine freedom of discussion reign than in America.” (244)
“In America the majority draws a formidable circle around thought. Inside those limits the writer is free; but unhappiness awaits him if he dares to [...]
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When sex is “free,” it is valued less; the sense of wonder that it ought to create is diminished; it does not provoke the kind of soul-searching and development that ought to accompany a young person’s rise to adulthood. A young person ought to struggle until love, reason, sex, faith, and virtue are brought together in an understanding of what it truly means to be human. Humanity means not only being the greatest of the animals, but being as far superior to them as they are to the inanimate things.
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Driving back to school I was listening to this opening paragraph from Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and it stuck in my mind, as it seemed to show, not only an insight for paradox, but a keen and perceptive understanding of the nature of the French Revolution and its adversaries.
IT WAS the best [...]
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From Abraham Kuyper: A Christian Worldview.
1. The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
2. Christians confess the relevance of God’s Word even for politics, rejecting a vague concept of natural law or human [...]
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Posted in Democracy, Ethics on July 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
“Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in judical validity.”
“A civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding law . . . [...]
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Posted in Ethics on July 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“You can just see how unwanted pregnancy will join obesity and smoking as unacceptable behavior in polite society.”
I suppose I could just see that. This quote gets my award for being at once sickening and hilarious. What kind of brainwashed person would even think something like that? It used to be that people supported abortion [...]
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