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...accused support for Ugandan politician David Bahati, who is proposing a bill containing the death penalty for HIV-infected people who have sex with someone of the same gender. Although The Family has since distanced itself from this scandal, one of its members could very easily follow its logic to support this bill...
...analogized to a vicious “hunt.” Children are socialized to believe that the sexes are at odds: a fact testified to by the timeworn mantra “girls rule, boys drool.” When women win, men must lose, or so the logic goes; hence, feminism necessarily threatens both manhood and manliness. Only when we treat gender-based violence as a crime rather than a spectacle can we accept that sexual relations are not a zero-sum game—and restore our cultural sanity in the process...
...Despite the fact that so many died in their homes last year following this logic, Handmer's study, in which he and his colleague Josh Whittaker interviewed 1,300 survivors from last year's fires, found that 80% of those who stayed would do it again. "It's really difficult to make a conclusion on 'stay or go,'" said Handmer. "It's supported by history but new building styles, building locations [close to the bush], reliance on fire agencies and perhaps increased fire weather risk, make effective implementation very difficult. There's no point staying and defending a house that...
...midst of an unprecedented, televised "Question Time" session, that he was open to any good ideas they might have. "It doesn't make sense," he continued, that if they told him, " 'You could do this cheaper and get increased results,' that I wouldn't say, 'Great.' " But the logic of this seemed to slip past the assembled legislators - and the "I am not an ideologue" bite became a derisive staple on Fox News. And therein lies the crisis of democracy that our country faces: a moderate-liberal President, willing to make judicious compromises, confronted by a Republican Party paralyzed...
Proponents of such initiatives may find it satisfying to rest on the anodyne logic that any aid is good aid. Others note that while it is easy to argue for critical analysis of health care delivery methods, people are dying all around the world. Both of these arguments are a disservice to the seriousness and complexity of the issues. Organizational approaches to global health are not always ideal, but at the very least they benefit from heterogeneous influences and collective input from individuals who all share equal standing. Gates’ authority does not benefit from this kind of democratic...