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May 2014

May 10, 2014

The Unexpected Consequences of Laws and Lies

Two of my recent posts at The American Conservative turned out to be about unintended consequences....

March 2014

March 27, 2014

World Vision, Bad Science, and Living Death Sentences

Here's the round-up of the posts I've done this week at The American Conservative, starting with...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Legal Shortcuts So Sharp You’ll Cut Yourself

Sorry for the absence, readers! We've been short-staffed due to plague at work. This week...

August 07, 2012

What would someone have to say to you to get you to break up your family?

For your own good at that. This isn't a hypothetical question. There are plenty of...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

And Speaking of Sample Size Problems…

Remember that study contrasting outcomes for children of gay parents with children in other kinds...

June 12, 2012

2012 Queer Blogathon [Index Post]

In June of 2012, I took one leg of the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon, promising...

June 11, 2012

Data! Data! Data! [Blogathon 12/12]

This post is number twelve of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

Are Civil Rights Asymmetrical? [Blogathon 7/12]

This post is number seven of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

Let’s assume gay marriages were really worse, ctd… [Blogathon 6/12]

This post is number six of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

Let’s assume gay marriages were really worse… [Blogathon 5/12]

This post is number five of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

“We know where great sex is; we don’t know where great sex isn’t” [Blogathon 3/12]

This post is number three of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 08, 2012

Is there something rotten in the state of Denmark?

In my Catholic blog folder, I found a link to an Telegraph article that said...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

My Radical Homosexual Agenda for the Military

Mark Shea is in agreement with Rod Dreher that Obama and the Dems are mounting...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Is Civil Marriage a Right?

Last week the European Court of Human Rights ruled that same-sex marriage is not a...

March 04, 2012

Prop 8 Play Lets the Lack-of-Facts Shine Through (mostly)

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

October 2011

October 11, 2011

Coming Out (and at ’em)

(UPDATE: It looks like some of you have questions about bisexuality. Feel free to ask...

July 2011

July 18, 2011

What about other Others?

Voting for the Christian round of the Turing Test is ongoing! Get thee there...

July 01, 2011

Natural vs Normative

I appreciate the Christians weighing in on why they oppose gay marriage and trying to...

June 2011

June 29, 2011

Put Your Money Where Your Marriage Is

After New York legalized gay marriage Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler posted the...

October 2010

October 08, 2010

7 Quick Takes (10/8/10)

--1-- Sorry for the delay in keeping up with my posts on sin and human...

September 2010

September 21, 2010

Don’t Let Social Science Raise Your Children (debating Justin Martytr)

It's finally time to return to my argument with Justin Martyr over procreation policy. [Quick...

September 09, 2010

Quick Update on Justin Martyr and Gay Marriage

I quite appreciate how quickly he responded to the questions I raised in my last...

September 08, 2010

Poking my nose into Justin Martyr’s gay marriage debate

Reading over Justin Martyr’s debate over the morality of gay marriage with Larry of Rust...

August 2010

August 13, 2010

Do we care too much about marriage?

This post is the last in a series on gay marriage. Check out all posts...

August 12, 2010

Do we care too little about marriage?

This post is part of a series about gay marriage. You can browse all posts...

August 10, 2010

Restricting Rhetoric, Mosques, and Gays

This post is part of a series on the politics and philosophy that underlie the...

August 09, 2010

Gay Marriage Index

In August 2010, in the wake of Judge Walker's decision to strike down California's Proposition...