FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: "Natural" law and our sexuality

[Robert Tapp (rtapp4]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: January 3, 2010 9:12:43 AM EST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> Nathaniel Frank does a good job dissecting Robert George's sloppy arguments 
> for old and <new> natural law theories as condemnatory of homosexual 
> behaviors (as well as many other normal sexual behaviors!).
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathaniel-frank/gay-rights-and-the-natura_b_399322.html
> 
> One might add to this argument the fact that failure is almost as frequent a 
> result of human conceptions as eventual birth -- and argument that I made in 
> a posting last year.
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> http://web.me.com/rtapp4/Main/General_files/Is%20God%20the%20Supreme%20Abortionist-all.pdf
> 
> Given the state of US education and public discourse, alas, we can expect 
> heavy conservative bloviation along such fuzzy but well-financed paths.
> 
> Bob