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Yellin's critique of an invitation to Jeffries is right on target. There is simply no valid intellectual or pedagogical reason for BSA to bring Jeffries here. While God knows that Black Americans--after a couple of centuries of American slavery and another century-plus of modern racism--have a...
/ "Give me a child when he is seven," Michael Apted might say, "and he's mine for life." In 1963 Apted, later a movie director (Gorillas in the Mist) but then a researcher for Granada TV, helped corral 10 British seven-year-olds and expose their elfin dreams and class...
Perpetual Virginity. A Catholic and Orthodox tradition 15 centuries old holds that Mary was ever virgin, meaning that she and Joseph never had sex and that the "brothers" of Jesus mentioned in the Bible were cousins. This idea consolidated the tradition of celibacy for priests and nuns. Protestants reject the...
A hardened, sinewy blond who is almost succeeding in fighting off the encroachments of middle age tells her unstylish, homebody sister how sorry she is that the homebody threw away her life caring for their bedridden father and addled aunt. The care giver insists she has no regrets: "I can...
2. Naturalistic Fallacies. From cover to cover, Peninsula offers observation after observation about homosexuality in the real world. Some of these observations are absolutely unsupported, not to mention profoundly ignorant: homosexuals can't be happy, homosexuals have identity problems, homosexuals can't experience true love. Others are based on carefully...