Roe v. Wade: Personhood gives the game away
You can abort a fetus, terminate a pregnancy, even “evacuate a pregnancy,” but everybody knows you can’t just kill anyone you wish didn’t exist! Killing a person is homicide. So, is a fetus not a person…?
F. LaGard Smith
Voices Contributor
F. LaGard Smith is a retired law school professor (principally at Pepperdine University), and is the author of some 35 books, touching on law, faith, and social issues. He is the compiler and narrator of The Daily Bible (the NIV and NLT arranged in chronological order).
We all know a Putin
As we bid them adieu, Ruth, the sleuth, thought Lyudmila looked familiar, and did a quick Google search. Sure enough, we had just been talking to the former Lyudmila Putin, Vladimir’s ex-wife!
Faith-based education and the Sewanee syndrome
Given the laudable goal of rectifying past racial inequities, one couldn’t help being struck by the irony of replacing “Otey” with “St. Paul,” who, critics have argued, was an apologist for slavery, instructing slaves to obey their masters, and making no explicit call for liberation when declaring that we are one in Christ, whether slave or free.
Equality, equity, and the coming persecution
Equality was God’s idea, as in “created equal.” Yet, it was never about guaranteed outcomes, only equality of opportunity, as in the “golden text”.
Not all kids in cages are at the border
Little surprise, the second coming of Sodom has landed squarely in the faith community, now willing to sacrifice innocent children on the altar of political correctness.
The new 8th commandment: Cultural appropriation
If you can’t identify with the cultural experience of an oppressed minority, so it goes, it’s off-limits to use anything reflecting that culture. Should whites, then, be banned from performing jazz, or the blues? What about gay actors playing straight roles; or blacks playing white roles (as in Broadway’s “Hamilton”)?
The multiplication of nonsense causing division
It’s nuts! Oregon’s Department of Education has developed a teaching resource entitled, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” aimed at removing racism from 6th-8th-grade math. Seems that math + traditional teaching methods = white supremacy!
The New McCarthyism and God
Guilt by association — a prominent feature of McCarthyism — is all it takes for someone to lose a job or be refused a job.
'Follow the science? Reasons to rethink the mantra.
A wider frame raises yet another question: Which science should we be following? The science that has produced horrific nuclear weapons? Or untold tons of plastic polluting our oceans? Or the opioids that have devastated so many lives?
Weaponizing word games with no winners
Apart from changing language to rectify some perceived social injustice, weaponizing words is the easiest shortcut to changing culture, from which official action quickly follows.
