Pinocchio’s conscience was a cricket. Do you remember that part of the story? Apparently, the Virginia legislature doesn’t need crickets because it’s got it own little “conscience clause” chirping away on a piece of legislation concerning adoptions that would allow religious organizations to disqualify potential parents they find to be “morally objectionable.” Specifically, “same...
Tag: orthodoxy
The Contraception Question and Escape from Orthodoxy {LISTEN}
To co-pay or not to co-pay? That was the question for a couple of weeks as new legislation was offered by the Obama administration regarding employers being required to offer full coverage for contraception to their employees. Was the resulting compromise? And, of course, the broader question, is access to contraception a basic right?...
{LISTEN} The National Defense Authorization Act and Orthodoxy in Israel
We’re baaaaack. Hope you had a great (insert appropriate holiday here), but time to get back to work! Or not! Now, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the cool thing to do this year was watch a Big Bang Theory marathon on TBS. The uncool thing to do was actually go out and...
Girls on the Bus and Boys in the Club {{LISTEN}}
In this episode, we discuss gender in two very different contexts. From the New York World: On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide...