Columnists
Alcorn: No lie in marriage amendment
The illogical arguments for same-sex “marriage” (especially the non sequitur and circular) have begged for correction, and the constant propaganda has forced me to write ...
Wallace Alcorn, Author at Austin Daily Herald - Page 3 of 10
gay marriage
Alcorn: ‘Choice’ to be gay may affect others
The woman very angrily attacked the human rights commission, “Do you think I would choose to live the way I am having to live?”
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, October 29, 2012 11:17 am
presidential race
The president needed not on the ballot
Somewhere out there is the man or woman I would like to become our president. I do not know who this person might be, but ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, October 22, 2012 10:44 am
Columnists
Taking the whole Bible as the Bible
Having written here about the inappropriateness and even invalidity of picking and choosing from the Bible what pleases oneself or serves ones own purpose, I ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:37 am
Columnists
Picking and choosing can be harmful
American freedom is precious and wonderful, including that of thought, speech, religion, and association. We are free, for instance, to take the Bible or not ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, October 8, 2012 11:50 am
gay marriage
Pope speaking to nuns on gays
A recent political cartoon in one of the Cities’ newspapers shows a severely-cartooned pope saying to favorably-cartooned “U.S. Nuns”: “I’m very upset with you
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, October 1, 2012 11:35 am
Alcorn
Alcorn: Same-sex marriage is a philosophical impossibility
You can indeed put a square peg into a round hole—if the peg is small enough that its corners get in even when its straight ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, September 24, 2012 11:06 am
Columnists
Opinion: New ‘Holton School’ would provide history lesson
If the Austin School Board makes a final decision to name the new school for I.J. Holton — which I very much encourage it to ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, September 17, 2012 10:29 am
Archive
The feeling of an old jalopy heading home
As I recently prepared to attend the 60th reunion of my college class, I did some reflection.
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, September 10, 2012 10:35 am
corporate responsibility
Labor, management need each other
Listening to a group of corporate executives, I heard loud complaints that “you can’t get workers like we used to.” Everyone agreed and attributed problems ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, September 3, 2012 10:24 am
art
Alcorn: Austin’s soul to be shown in artworks festival
There are people who suppose Austin is a town without a soul. Like any small rural town in the Midwest, it just happened and there ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Friday, August 24, 2012 10:04 am
Columnists
Austin’s soul to be shown in artworks
There are people who suppose Austin is a town without a soul. Like any small rural town in the Midwest, it just happened and there ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, August 20, 2012 12:00 pm
bullying
Preventing bullying first requires definition
We are much in need of an authoritative, clear definition of “bullying.”
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, August 13, 2012 10:33 am
molestation
Alcorn: Put focus on victims of sexual abuse
Two names from Pennsylvania in recent news coverage should shamefully remind us of the same lesson, which is terribly important to learn and use. The ...
by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, August 6, 2012 11:50 am
Columnists
Alcorn: Chick-fil-A misspeaks on same-sex marriage
Chick-fil-A president and chief operating officer, Dan Cathy, made a mistake, I feel, when he opined: “I think we are inviting God’s judgment upon our ...