Glad other people are speaking up about the immorality of torture. As politicians argue, and our pragmatist-in-chief tries to find an angle, we can agree that not all moral dilemmas can be reduced to a cost-benefit analysis of pleasure and pain. There are some kinds of pain a morally serious person ought never to inflict. [From Is Torture Utilitarian?]
“To God We belong, and to Him is our return” [2:156] Trans. Yusuf Ali For those unaware, the new numbers for the Iran quake are close to 50,000 dead. I won’t belabor the point, as Muslim Wakeup! has already compiled a list of agencies to which you can donate. Please give as much as you can.
Orrin Hatch Supports Building Of Park51: ‘I’d Be The First To Stand Up For Their Rights’. Hatch went on to add that as a legal scholar, “I have the tendency, when it comes to religious liberty issues, to always uphold the rights of legitimate churches… I just think that what’s made this country great is we have religious freedom. That’s not the only thing, but it’s one of the most important things in the Constitution.”
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