Showing posts with label social moral mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social moral mind. Show all posts
Monday, June 7, 2010

More Reflections on Parallels Between Discussion of Slavery and of Homosexuality: The Persistent Obstructionist Tendency of Churches

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I’ve been involved in two blog threads this weekend, both of which had strong toxins flowing through them.  And it suddenly hits me: the to...

Still Looking for Abraham: Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas on the Morality of Slavery (with Implications for the Debate about Homosexuality in American Today)

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*I mentioned a few days ago that I’ve been reading Daniel Mark Epstein’s Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (NY:...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Bearing Witness: On the Weakness of "Self-Evident" Arguments Against Full Social Inclusion of LGBT Citizens

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To continue my discussion of the need for LGBT believers to bear witness, and of what the silence of opponents of same-sex marriage in the N...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Mr. Clinton Changes His Mind: Knowing Gay People and Rejecting Homophobic Discrimination

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There’s an aspect of what former President Clinton said the other day about gay marriage that keeps sticking in my mind, like a small pebbl...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Poor Rowan Williams: The Moral Conundrum Facing the Churches Today, Through Gay Lives

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Two days ago, I challenged the poor-Rowan Williams meme now developing in centrist Catholic circles (and in centrist Christian circles in g...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Faith Communities in Support of Health Care for All: A Catholic Perspective

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The latest editorial in the national publication National Catholic Reporter calls for health care reform now, noting that the president pr...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Way Forward as the Way Backward: The Effects of a Leadership Vacuum as Societies Change Their Moral Minds

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I'd like to add a brief autobiographical gloss to what I wrote earlier today. What may not be apparent in my analysis of how societies...

When Pragmatic Calculation Overrides Moral Imperatives: The Demise of Fierce Activism (and Fraying of the Moral Claims on Which It Rests)

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Reports indicate that, in an attempt to address discontent among progressive supporters due to its inaction on its promises to address gay ...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Shifting Moral Minds in a Society as Unfinished Task: New Year's Reflections on Women'

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Talking about the changing moral mind of social groups and the shifting moral consensus of a society may cause some who hear this theologica...