Commenter Jaime A. Headden writes: So, Jason, let’s try and consider what taking “marriage� off the books and simply replacing that term with another less loaded one? What do you think would happen, as a thought experiment? I hate to do this, but I feel like I have to restate the question in a...

There is an interesting article by Thomas S. Szasz in the current issue of Liberty on mental illness. Some highlights: Deirdre McCloskey — the Tinbergen Distinguished Professor at Erasmus University in Rotterdam — is an internationally recognized economic historian, teacher, and writer. In addit...

Who knows? But according to convention AND (as far as I understand it) traditional morality, no. I have never heard of X-Games gold medalist Jeremy Lusk, who tragically died at 24 doing what he did best — freestyle motocross racing. My prediction is that not one moralizing pundit will condemn ...

Remember, the guy writing this blog post is an Evangelical… It’s only February, but our colleague Ed Brayton might’ve written his most important “cultural” blog post of the year on his big blog. A very thorough Gallup Poll (350,000 Americans surveyed) shows what percent...

An anonymous creep mails letters to eleven Seattle gay bars, threatening to kill people at each of them with ricin, an extraordinarily toxic biological agent: The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative weekly, also gets a letter. They blog it. The gay community organizes a pub crawl in defiance of th...

Because someone has to stand up for them: They were neighbors, aged 13 and 10, who played together in a toy fort at the older boy’s home. But one summer afternoon, the teen began talking about masturbation, then performed oral sex on the younger boy. He said they should do it again the next da...

The problem with the recent wave of anti-Prop 8 protests taking place today and over the past week is that they are all fire but no direction. Legally they have almost nowhere to go: Thirty state constitutions already forbid same-sex marriage, and several of them go even further, refusing to allow d...

K. Daniel Glover of Culture11 writes, I’ve been a Christian for about three decades now and have been a party to many chats about persecution. I have broached the subject myself in Bible classes and short talks. Two themes have been consistent in all such discussions: 1) how blessed we are to live...

This guy: A gay man is suing two heavyweight Christian publishers, claiming their versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability. Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Mich., is seeking $60 million fr...

Most folks understand that homosexually oriented people are more likely to be depressed at some point in their lives. Different sides in the culture war interpret the phenomenon differently (obviously). Gays and their allies say it’s because of societal mistreatment. The religious right and th...