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Designer Babies — Gender Selection Experiment at Baylor College of Medicine

Doctors at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine are set to begin a "sex selection" study that will allow parents to choose the gender of their baby. Up to 200 couples are to be given the opportunity to choose either a male or female embryo to be pla ...

November 2, 2005

How Very Open-minded

The Los Angeles Times reports that an Irvine, California church has pushed its commitment to theological inclusivity to include opening its facility to a Jewish synagogue and an Muslim mosque. From the paper's report: There's an Irvine house of wors ...

November 2, 2005

United Methodist Court Defrocks Openly Lesbian Minister

On October 29, the Judicial Council of The United Methodist Church--the denomination's highest church court--removed an openly-homosexual woman from service as an ordained minister. The council defrocked Irene Elizabeth Stroud, who had in 2003 announ ...

November 1, 2005

Sex Equals Free Speech in Oregon

Unnoticed by much of the country, the Oregon Supreme Court issued two rulings on September 29 declaring that live sex shows represent a constitutionally-protected form of "speech." The Court ruled that the Oregon Constitution protects live sex acts a ...

November 1, 2005

A Nominee of Consequence — Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

President George W. Bush announced the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a nomination of historic significance and a nominee of true stature. Judge Alito brings a lifetime of legal scho ...

October 31, 2005

Texas Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism

Kyle Lake, pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, died Sunday after being electrocuted while performing a baptism. According to the Associated Press, UniversityBaptistChurch Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water up to his shoulder in ...

October 30, 2005

Gambling Fever — Now Just Entertainment?

Jonathan V. Last of The Weekly Standard writes of the incredible expansion of gambling in American culture -- and suggests that gambling is becoming just another form of entertainment [See "Losers' Poker," posted October 28, 2005]. According to Last ...

October 28, 2005

Harriet Miers Withdraws — The Big Lesson

The withdrawal of Harriet Miers as a nominee to the United States Supreme Court brings an end to one of the most awkward and confusing chapters in the history of the high court. Furthermore, it avoids a nasty confrontation and the possibility of emba ...

October 27, 2005

Rosa Parks and the Burden of History

In his massive work, A History of the American People, British historian Paul Johnson observed that American history raises some of the most fundamental questions of meaning and morality. The first question Johnson identified was whether a nation can ...

October 26, 2005

Why “Spirituality” Isn’t Enough — Take Two

My commentary published yesterday, "Why Isn't 'Spirituality' Enough," included a look at what professor Leigh E. Schmidt of Princeton University now proposes -- an affirmation of "spirituality" as an antidote of sorts to what he sees as overly-dogmat ...

October 25, 2005