The founders, if we read the Constitution and other founding documents (and arguments that led up to those documents, like the Federalist Papers), carefully set up a system of government unfettered by religion, but infused with their own religious ...

First of all, props for using a word I thought only my mother still uses.  And on Paltrow's insistence that "physicalizing New York Jewish half" means looking frumpy, I wonder what she would make of this: During the ...

I will ignore the uncalled-for name-calling.  But I do want to comment on the notion of a person's level of religious observance changing over time. We take a risk, any time we commit to another person, that he or ...

Did you do the apologies so tongue-in-cheeck?  No wonder you got so few responses.

I admit it: I'm going to cop out on addressing the comments in this thread.  But I do have a question: has anyone considered the gender aspect hinted at in the Jerusalem Post article (linked at the top of the page)?  Can we address how it is ...

Going to Mexico or Canada won't (necessarily) solve the problem.  DOMA remains law in the US.  Same-sex couples, even those married in MA, cannot file joint tax returns or receive any federal benefits offered to heterosexual married ...