Tag Archives: abortion
the abortion/death penalty fallacy
Let’s suspend our beliefs about abortion and the death penalty for a minute, and let’s think about a single question. Is it hypocritical for those who believe in prohibiting abortion to also advocate the death penalty? Or is it hypocritical for those who prohibit the death penalty to allow abortion? My answer to both questions [...]
john mark hicks on unjust wages
John Mark Hicks has the following to say on being “pro-life”: Last Tuesday, many within Churches of Christ voted for Obama, especially those who have come to see that voting for social justice is just as important as voting against abortion–both are pro-life orientations. Deuteronomy, for example, is just as concerned about just wages, fair [...]
Posted in justice, passage interpretation Also tagged churches of christ, john mark hicks, low wages, murder, obama, voting 4 Comments
i told you so
Remember how the Democrats refused to add an amendment to the health bill that would prevent it from providing direct taxpayer funding of abortions? They said the bill didn’t have any abortion in it, so the amendment was just a stalling tactic. They said the Republicans were just being paranoid. And Obama even signed a [...]
Posted in abortion Also tagged democratic party, elective abortion, executive order, obama, republican party 2 Comments
supreme court voids labor board decisions — good, but only a band-aid
It is immoral for government to stand between a willing employer and a willing employee by dictating the terms of employment. It is likewise immoral for government to compel employers to keep employees who are refusing to show up for work, that is, striking. And it is a denial of basic freedoms of political behavior [...]
Posted in in the news Also tagged carol katter, national labor relations board, roman catholicism, supreme court, unions Leave a comment
libertarians and libertines
I consider myself libertarian. And as such, it is my firm belief that in general, the government ought to leave people alone unless they are harming others. Sadly, the libertarian movement has all-too-often become a haven for anti-moralists of all sorts, and this has resulted in the bizarre situation where we find a party (the [...]
On the recent house bill, socialism, etc.
As most likely all of you know, there was a very significant healthcare bill passed yesterday. A friend of mine went so far as to say (via facebook), Hurray, the United States government just declared the Church is officially off the hook in regards to the care of the sick and infirm. Now all we [...]
Posted in bloated government, economics Also tagged executive order, gdp, government spending, gross domestic product, healthcare, kim jung il, medicine, national debt, obama, obamacare, overregulation, poverty, socialism, united states, warren buffet, welfare state 1 Comment
an illustration of the futility of the anti-slippery-slope argument
Sometimes Christians say that allowing abortion and euthanasia for the terminally ill will lead to a further erosion of the sanctity of life and horrific treatment of the most vulnerable members of society. If we cannot view life as sacred for the very young and very sick, how can we have any life-based morality at [...]
again, i find it difficult to understand the moral reasoning of our so-called justice system
This is the story. A woman in Florida was smoking and six months pregnant when she had a premature-labor “false alarm.” When her doctor found out she was smoking, he concluded that this was dangerous for the baby, and went and got a judge to rule that the woman had to stay in the hospital [...]
orwell, abortion, and the catholic church