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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...

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Protected: Just in Time

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On 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.

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On 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.

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An 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.

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Gallup 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...

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America 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...

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Short 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...

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WLS 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...

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Protected: Knowledge Like Snow on a Rooftop

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Same-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.

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Protected: July 12, 2010 Workshop – Schedule

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Universal 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...

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Protected: July 12, 2010 Workshop – Introductions

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Protected: July 12, 2010 Workshop – Getting Started

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A 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...

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Protected: How to Post

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Prop 8 Overturned: Quick Comments

Quick comments on Judge Vaughn Walker's Prop 8 decision.

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A Modest Immigration Proposal

Meet Mr. Jorge Salinas. Let's pay him what we owe him before we export him.

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Protected: For My Children

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Elder 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).

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The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon

A poem by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000).

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Adam Speaks to God

A poem by the blogger "Bored In Vernal."

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Protected: Letters

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Protected: Solid Ground

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Protected: Dishes To Do

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Protected: This Is Different

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Why 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.

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Heroic 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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