Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…
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homosexuality
Religious and sexual freedoms are not opposed
July 22, 2009
On June 1st, President Barack Obama proclaimed June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month and called "upon the…
The ruse of “secular humanism”
September 22, 2008
Discussions of the secular can often be peculiarly remote. Whenever secularism is imagined as unbelief, or political neutrality, or an…
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
January 9, 2008
Why is it that sex is such a central part of American political life anyway? Why, when The New York…
Marriage plots
January 8, 2008
Despite the putative separation of church and state, one of the major places in the U.S. where religion and the…
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
December 13, 2007
So what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the…