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The Death Penalty and Liberty
By
Jack Kerwick
Connecticut just became the 17th state in the union to outlaw capital punishment. It now joins the company of such illustrious former colonies as my own home state,New Jersey. This is a tragic turn of affairs. Call me quaint, but among those figures from the past that I would love to see resurrected, and with…
“Gay Marriage,” Marriage, and Individualism
By
Jack Kerwick
One can only hope that all of this talk over the controversial issue of “the liberty” of homosexuals to “marry” will get us to thinking a little harder about marriage and liberty. Marriage is a more vulnerable institution today than it has ever been in the past, it is true. Yet I don’t think that…
Thoughts on Gay Marriage II
By
Jack Kerwick
The partisan weighing in on the issue of so-called “gay marriage” has one simple choice to make. On the one hand, he can choose to either join the consensus of the vast majority of people who have ever lived by choosing to preserve the exclusively heterosexual character of marriage. On the other hand, he can…
Thoughts on “Gay Marriage”
By
Jack Kerwick
Joe Biden and Barack Obama have finally expressed what many of us, friend and foe alike, have long known is their real position on the contentious issue of “same sex marriage”: President and Vice President alike favor it. All that matters, Biden says, is that two people love one another. Notice, from the perspective of…
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