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...hospital visitation rights, child custody, and retirement benefits—the stakes for gay and lesbian couples are clear. But we fail to see what the state, or for that matter those opposed to same-sex marriage, would gain in return by such a ban—besides moral edification. Since same-sex marriage was legalized following the SJC’s 2004 ruling, over 8,000 same-sex couples have married in the Commonwealth. We have yet to see any evidence that the sky is falling.Referenda have several important functions, but the dissolution of civil rights...
Harvard “had access to public information disclosing the companies that make up the fund. This is either an unfortunate lapse in oversight or an abandonment of the Harvard Corporation’s moral stand against the genocide and the military-oil nexus that fuels it,” added Bhatnagar...
...awaiting trial. Then it would airlift all of those in custody out of the Green Zone and stick them in a secure facilities outside Iraq - perhaps in some of those "black sites" the CIA says it has vac ated. The Iraqis would howl, of course, but they lost their moral credibility with last week's lynching. The Bush Administration may try to avoid responsibility for what happened last Saturday. But it's time they take some...
...bulk of his fortune (about $37 billion) to save the least among us and did not even garner a nod in your People Who Mattered profiles, but I get top honors for watching viral videos on YouTube and reading self-important diary entries on MySpace? I suppose the moral relativism that rationalizes genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world now includes something we could call footprint relativism--everyone impacts humankind differently, but all contributions are equal. In a year when you tried to recognize everyone as special, you made sure no one was. PATRICK PUGH Wilmington...
...courses from across Harvard that address ultimate questions of truth, meaning, and purpose. Faith traditions like Christianity have much to teach us in this regard, and should not be neglected in this new proposed component. Many Harvard classes, like Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris’ Moral Reasoning 54: “If There Is No God, All Is Permitted,” already take on these concerns. They are perennially oversubscribed, showing that these sorts of classes are precisely what students are asking for yet seldom receive...