Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Frenchdoc has a post below on religious fundamentalism in France. Personally, although I respect the right of people to practice whatever religion they choose, I don’t like when religious leaders get all up in our politics as they have in recent years.
In a nutshell, I’m a separation of church and state sort of person. I [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
From Le Nouvel Observateur, we get this appalling story. Here is how it goes, a man sues a hospital because his baby is born handicapped due to neurological problems during labor. Pretty straightforward, huh? Not so: the child is now disabled because when problems arose during labor, the father physically prevented male ob-gyns and other [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Everybody should read Tony Karon’s blog, Rootless Cosmopolitan , as a general rule. But I want to point out one item:
“Converted to Catholicism, ‘e did. And now he’s out to save the world . The problem with the idea of a global conversation between Muslims and Christians refereed by Tony [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
About two weeks ago, I posted about this story of an honor killing in Iraq of a girl who had fallen in love with a British soldier. There is now an update from the Guardian, and it’s not good:
“Five weeks ago Leila Hussein told The Observer the chilling story of how her husband had killed [...]
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