Seven Dumb Arguments Cluttering Up the Same-Sex Marriage Discourse
[Photo Credit] We should be having a national dialogue about whether or not same-sex marriage is good public policy. We’re not. Instead we’ve got groups of like-minded people circled like wagons on...
View ArticleOn Rand Paul, Private Property, and What it Means to be a U.S. Senator
Some thoughts on property rights in response to Rand Paul's comments about the 1964 Civil Right Act.
View ArticleOn Rand Paul, Private Property, and What it Means to be a U.S. Senator (Short)
Some thoughts on property rights in response to Rand Paul's comments about the 1964 Civil Right Act.
View ArticleAn Unbiased, Informative Post on the Federal Budget, the Deficit, and the...
A good list of information sources on the 2011 federal budget and the national debt.
View ArticleGallup on Gay Marriage
Fourteen years of survey data broken down by political and ideological subgroups: http://www.gallup.com/poll/128291/Americans-Opposition-Gay-Marriage-Eases-Slightly.aspx. We’ve come a long way. Share...
View ArticleAmerica Speaking Out?
Winston Churchill said that “the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” If you spend a few minutes on the site linked below, you may decide Churchill...
View ArticleShort Fiction and Public Policy
I’ll think about why I like this story later. Right now I just want to recommend it (and the magazine it was published in: American Short Fiction). The story is “Carry Me Home, Sisters of Saint...
View ArticleWLS Short Story Workshops
A Wisdom Like a Stone (WLS) workshop lasts four months (17 weeks). Each workshop has a designated workshop leader (who is also a full participant in the workshop). It is designed for part-time...
View ArticleProtected: Knowledge Like Snow on a Rooftop
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View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage: Calling BS on the Religious Freedom Argument
A thoughtful deconstruction of a statement made by a representative of the Mormon church against same-sex marriage.
View ArticleProtected: July 12, 2010 Workshop – Schedule
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View ArticleUniversal Profile Picture
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a central database somewhere in cyberspace that would allow you to associate a little picture–an small profile picture or “avatar”–with your email address so that...
View ArticleProtected: July 12, 2010 Workshop – Introductions
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View ArticleProtected: July 12, 2010 Workshop – Getting Started
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View ArticleA Love Story?
I read because of short stories like “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly,” by Jonathan Safran Foer. It’s from the June 14/21, 2010 issue of The New Yorker–the “20 under 40″ issue (20 stories by 20 of the best...
View ArticleProp 8 Overturned: Quick Comments
Quick comments on Judge Vaughn Walker's Prop 8 decision.
View ArticleA Modest Immigration Proposal
Meet Mr. Jorge Salinas. Let's pay him what we owe him before we export him.
View ArticleElder Packer and the Tilt of the Earth’s Axis
A thoughtful to response to Boyd K. Packer's address in the Sunday morning session of the 180th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, October, 2010).
View ArticleWhy All Mormon Women Should Wear Pants to Church
A few thoughts on the silly notion that good Mormon women shouldn't wear pantsuits to church.
View ArticleHeroic Aspirations, Gay Marriage, and the Mormon Church
My name is Brent Beal, I’ve been married for eighteen years, my wife and I have three beautiful kids, we are both university professors, we’re Mormon, and we support gay marriage.
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