by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 18, 2015 | Election, Politics
Completely off the cuff and with full expectation that I’ll be wrong… Joe Biden will throw his hat into the ring for the Dem nomination. He’ll have put on a show of reluctance and careful contemplation. A groundswell of clamoring from his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 7, 2015 | Culture, Politics
[Kim Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_(county_clerk), a county clerk in Kentucky, recently grabbed national headlines because she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that made gay marriage legal...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 24, 2015 | Culture, Politics
About three years ago, Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in Colorado, refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple on the grounds that it violated the owners’ religious beliefs. The couple, rather than find another baker to hire, decided to file a complaint...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 5, 2015 | Culture, Politics
George Takei, actor and political activist, ignited a furor recently when he excoriated Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over segments of the latter’s dissent in the recent Obergefell v Hodges case that recognized gay marriage as a right. Takei, who is gay...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 3, 2015 | Culture, Economics, Politics
The recent ruling by the Supreme Court that affirms gay marriage nationwide has been met with jubilation by many and trepidation by many others. Amid many of the latter’s reasons (some of which are slippery-slope fallacies, some of which are laments about...
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