Comments for Durable Goods, Durable Evils at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 08:38:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/durable-goods-durable-evils.html#comment-4578 Pat Fagan's article: http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-power-of-the-third-commandment.html describes what government surveys show and that those data have been corroborated by other researchers. - Brad Miner Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:33:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/durable-goods-durable-evils.html#comment-4576 Excellent article. It is sad, but not surprising that prof. Howell was fired. I read the email (link that you provided) and as I expected, nothing sounded like a "hate speech." Rather, it was a well-formed argument that allowed dialogue to take place. I think it's very important for prof. Howell to mention the physical and health implication of homosexual acts because rarely do we hear people speak about it. What is always missed in these discussions is the recognition that homosexual acts lead to dangerous games (both psychological and physical). "But I know gay couples, they are nice people, so clean, and orderly..."--being "nice" has nothing to do with the act itself. The question has to be asked: is the act (any act!) contributing to the order of things? Or are we faced with further chaos that wills a destruction of nature? - Emina Melonic Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:55:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/durable-goods-durable-evils.html#comment-4575 "massive evidence shows that children do best in households where a mother and father are married" Whenever I defend marriage against redefinition, I allude to the evidence, but my interlocutors often dismiss it out of hand. Can you or anyone point me to studies done by explicitly non-Catholics which support the same conclusion drawn by Christian social science institutes? I figure, since it's a true truth, there must be secular sources who discover this truth as well. Skeptics somehow justify ignoring the results if the institute sponsoring the study is a Christian one; it's a lot harder to ignore the same results when they appear from multiple different research bodies. Thank you in advance! - Chris Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:21:03 +0100