This website reaches out to the curious and fair-minded willing to consider at least two sides of a controversy. I do this in book form as well, including my most recent book, Abortion Rights as the Free Exercise of Religion: The Constitutional Case for Choice. The book explores the Supreme Court's understanding of the nature and prerogatives of religious beliefs and finds that its prerogatives include religiously-motivated abortions before viability.
Click on the image of the book cover to access the book on Amazon.com, and on the link just below to access the book from the publisher.
The blog posts explore intriguing questions and controversial issues from two perspectives, stimulating the mind and illustrating flexible, fact-based thinking that promotes respect among people who disagree.
What Do We Owe to Future Generations?
The intriguing questions include such matters as human immortality, the beginning of time, and the probability of communication with extra-terrestrials.
The controversial issues include the participation of transgender girls in high school sports, religious objections to providing wedding cakes for same-sex marriages, and the embrace of religious faith.
Is Telling the Whole Truth Always Best?
Is the Earth a Living Individual?
Do Animals Have Reason?
Is Israel held to a higher moral standard than its adversaries? Should wealthy people be taxed more to reduced budget deficits while providing health care and education to poorer people? Should student loan debt be forgiven?
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