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My modest proposal on gay marriage has elicited some fascinating reaction. (I suggested religious conservatives should endorse gay marriage if gays back an agenda to reduce the divorce rate) Religious conservatives have been uncharacteristically quiet. Crickets. Stay tuned. The reaction from gay marriage advocates has been varied. The majority said they would support the idea,…

Last year I visited the Hall of Presidents at Disney World, home of the walking, talking animatronic presidents. In the anteroom where they hold you before the show starts, they had paintings of all the important early presidents. There was Washington. Then John Adams, the second president. Then Thomas Jefferson, the third president, Then the…

Earlier this week I watched Irena’s Vow, a powerful play based on the true story of a Polish woman, Irena Gut, who hid a dozen Jews during the war, including six in the basement of a high-level German officer. A pious Catholic, Gut had seen a mother and baby murdered by the Nazis and made…

Afghanistan sentenced a journalist to 20 years in prison for posting an article about women and Islam. In Virginia, the crime for blasphemy: plunging a hot iron through the tongue of the offender. (For more: Founding Faith) Of course the difference is that Virginia tooks this approach in 1606 and Afghanistan is doing it right…
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