This Mother’s Day, Think of the Kids

Mother’s day is around the corner. For too many children whose families are restructuring all they want for the day to be happy is their father. They want their dream back. They want to be able to love both parents equally without guilt. We owe it to our...

The Right to Die and to Kill

  Joseph Fletcher wrote in The Ethics of Genetic Control 1988, “The world no longer needs all the individuals we are capable of bringing into it—especially those who are unable to compete and are an unhappy burden to others. If the size of our families must be...

A Question of Evil

We do not see that the evil committed by sins of omission is no less than the evil of sins of commission. Apropos of no particular reason, I decided to write about evil. Not that it’s difficult to find. No deep-throat type of investigation. But, from whence does...

Do inebriated men have the right to consent for sex?

Can men ever be too drunk to consent?       I am the mother of three and grandmother of nine. I fear more for my grandsons than my granddaughters. I consider myself to be a feminist-one who acknowledges that we can be equal but different. Today’s...

The True Meaning of Ethical Monotheism

There are two stories about the revelation at Mount Sinai. God sent a friend request and the Jews accepted. The second story: God sent a friend request and the Jews waited, looked into the ramifications of the contract, the commitments-rights and responsibilities, the...