Category Archives: politics

Back to the Paleolithic

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Bradlaugh

Thanks to Mr. Stuttaford & Mr. Hume for their responses. A few points at random. •  (1) Is conservatism coextensive with libertarianism? You’d think so from reading the exchanges here. However, it seems to me there ought to be political room … Continue reading →

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Pakistan is already an Islamic State

Posted on April 30, 2009 by David Hume

So claims Ali Eteraz: Most people in the world, including some Pakistanis, live under the illusion that the country is secular and just happens to have been overrun by extremists. This is false. Pakistan became an Islamic state in 1973 … Continue reading →

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Religious Left

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Bradlaugh

Why do we need a secular right blog? Well for one thing, because institutional religion, and religious institutions, are all too often cheerleaders for the multicultural Left. Case in point: Providence College. From a friend: Congressman Tom Tancredo will be making … Continue reading →

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Gay marriage attitudes by the numbers

Posted on April 29, 2009 by David Hume

I know there are plenty of polls in regards to gay marriage, but I don’t ever see them broken out by religious attitudes. So I looked at the GSS at the MARHOMO, “Homosexuals should have right to marry,” variable for … Continue reading →

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A Secular Case Against Gay Marriage?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Bradlaugh

New York Governor Dave Paterson made some curious remarks on the gay marriage issue yesterday. The gist of them, so far as I can understand it, was that (a) opponents of gay marriage are motivated by their religion, and (b) the present … Continue reading →

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Which nations support open borders?

Posted on April 21, 2009 by David Hume

I review the World Values Survey on this question at ScienceBlogs.

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Nikkei go home!

Posted on April 19, 2009 by David Hume

Japan to Unemployed Immigrants: Thanks, You Can Go Home Now: Japan’s offer to minority communities in need has spawned the ire of those whom it intends to help. It is one thing to be laid off in an economic crisis. … Continue reading →

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Romania to decriminalize incest

Posted on April 12, 2009 by David Hume

Romania weighs decriminalizing consensual incest: Three European Union nations — France, Spain and Portugal — do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit. … Laws exempting parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters from prosecution for incestuous … Continue reading →

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Biblical literalism correlates with thinking extramarital sex is wrong

Posted on April 6, 2009 by David Hume

The Audacious Epigone has a post up where the title says it all, Extramarital sex wrong? Gays and supporters of same sex marriage less likely to think so. But I was curious how MARHOMO, attitudes toward gay marriage, stacked up … Continue reading →

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Attitudes toward homosexuality

Posted on April 1, 2009 by David Hume

In a follow up to my previous post, I decided to use the GSS’s logit regression feature to probe the relationship between a set of variables and attitudes toward homosexuality. The columns are the dependent variables, while the rows are … Continue reading →

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