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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Picking and choosing can be harmful
American freedom is precious and wonderful, including that of thought, speech, religion, and association. We are free, for ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 — ...
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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.
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Labor, management need each other
Listening to a group of corporate executives, I heard loud complaints that “you can’t get workers like we ...
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College freer, not safer
Rules at the University of Oregon in the 1960s required women students to have written permission from home ...
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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 ...
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Preventing bullying first requires definition
We are much in need of an authoritative, clear definition of “bullying.”
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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 ...
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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 ...
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‘Getting a life’ means defining your own
When a person dismisses another with that facile expression “get a life,” he supposes he knows the meaning ...