No Warrant Necessary to Seize Your Laptop | Freedom to Tinker
“The U.S. Customs may search your laptop and copy your hard drive when you cross the border, according to their policy. They may do this even if they have no particularized suspicion of wrongdoing on your part.” (via No Warrant Necessary to Seize Your Laptop | Freedom to Tinker.)
Ick Factor
Boing Boing: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence trike drag (queen) race, SF I’m linking to this particular article for only one reason. I’ve considered writing about this for a little while now, but this quote was the catalyst: Scenes like this make me proud to be American. Popular sentiment, this one. And I suppose that’s ok. [...]
Gay Adoptions
Sometimes, finding consistency and balance in various aspects of my personal worldview isn’t easy. For instance, I believe that homosexuality is wrong, that it is sin, and that it should be avoided and abstained from by even the most blatant of homosexual-leaning individuals. Yet, I believe in the freedoms espoused by our country’s laws and [...]
Tension
There is a tension inherent in holding the belief that morals are absolute but in recognizing that one cannot force once’s value system on everyone else. Specifically, I hold to the notion that moral standards are absolute—they do not change over time. The same moral standards that were right and good yesterday are still right [...]
im·pol·i·tic » Guns, Guns Everywhere
im•pol•i•tic » Guns, Guns Everywhere I guess I’m really just that uncomfortable around guns. I think this demonstrates the difference between being raised around guns and not. Having been raised with guns in my home, I have a healthy respect for such weapons. I know the kind of damage they can do, and so careless [...]
In the Background
Christianity is a faith, I believe, that functions in the background. Or at least it should. The Christian faith is a personal one. It functions as the relationship of individual to Deity, but it is also a function of individual to individual. The most effective dissemination of the Gospel has always been on a one-to-one [...]
Should Christians Take Legal Action Against Homosexuality and Gay Marriage?
I’ve had quite a bit of discussion with a number of individuals over this issue in recent months, and as a result I’ve had to think quite bit about the Christian stance on the legalization of gay marriage. I’ve heard it said that the government has the right and the duty to make homosexuality illegal, [...]
Christianity Gone Political
Here’s another definition: fundamentalism [fəndəmentəlɪzəm, fəndəmenəlɪzəm]Anoun 1fundamentalism the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth Category Tree:psychological_feature╚cognition; knowledge; noesis╚content; cognitive_content; mental_object╚belief╚religion; faith; religious_belief╚Christianity; Christian_religion╚Protestantism╚fundamentalism I mentioned in my previous post how the word ‘evangelical’ gets thrown around by the general populace as something of a curse word (and again, here, based [...]
Rights vs. Morality
I read an editorial in the Ball State student-published newspaper this morning. The author of the column basically said that George W. Bush wants to add an amendment to the Constitution that will permanently fix homosexuals as second-class citizens by limiting their rights and freedoms. This, again, is an example of the fact that the [...]
Christians and Politics
So, some Christians (I don’t really know how many) think it’s better to not get involved in the political arena because we have a more important work, that being to win souls to Christ. Yet, I have to disagree with the notion of non-involvment. It seems to me that part of our responsibility as stewards [...]
