Does Marriage Equality Mean Divorce Equality? LGBTQ Rights after Same-Sex Marriage
Humanists have long been allies of the LGBTQ community. Since the 1970s and long before favoring marriage equality was popular, the American Humanist Association... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Unintended Consequences
Sociologist Robert Merton first popularized the concept of “The Law of Unintended Consequences” back in the 1930s—the idea that purposeful intervention in a complex... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Do the Ends Justify Supernaturalist Means?
Two recent news items highlight a troublesome tendency in political discourse to grab whatever allies one can get, without regard to the ultimate damage... Read More
What Next for Gay Marriage?
Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a... Read More
Chipping Away at the Bench How we failed the judiciary in Iowa
Voter anger took a new form as the results of Iowa’s November 2010 midterm elections were revealed. In a real-life twist that would make... Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear held October 30 here in Washington, DC, sure was a lot of fun. The weather was gorgeous,... Read More
Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question
Humanity has a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it—there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output... Read More