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Catholic morality may seem patronizing to those who have not studied it. It shouldn't. I pointed out in my Peninsula article that what makes all human beings worthy of respect is that "they are all rational beings capable of love and able to reach perfection in God." The corrolary...
Peninsula believes that what is most important about human beings is that they can be rational, that they are capable of reason, and that therefore they are deserving of respect by other human beings.
When I peeked into the copy of Peninsula that was distributed to my door, I was quite pleasantly surprised to see rational, logical treatments of a controversial subject in a magazine from which I had come to expect nothing but mind-numbing propagandist talk.
The issue on homosexuality is filled with arguments that take sociological, religious or biological standpoints, all certainly more rational and logical than the overwhelmingly political arguments one sees in the liberal press.
There is a current proposition to merge South Hadley's school district with the one in Granby, the town next door. You wouldn't believe how people have reacted to this. Sure, there's been a little rational discussion, but there have been arguments you'd never see at the...