Web Round-up: Sedating Children, Defending Creationism, Separating Ethics from Sexuality

by Clay Burell · 2009-05-05 19:50:00 UTC
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Interesting reads beyond the mainstream round-ups:

The War for (Prescription) Drugs: "Eight million kids today have been diagnosed with mental disorders, and most receive some form of medication. Is this child abuse?" Idea for inner-city drug dealers: open a pharmacy, and suddenly you're legal, but still rolling in the dough.

Will the Courts Defend Young Astrology Believers Next? A California court ruled that a teacher's "statement calling creationism 'superstitious nonsense' did violate the First Amendment clause against establishing a religion." The teacher may have gone about it unwisely, but how is his statement wrong?

Is a "Virginity Fetish" Hurting Young Women? "It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active." Careful, now: the author is not advocating a libertine pedagogy. She's calling for a moral discourse for girls that transcends "sexually active = immoral slut," "chastity = moral paragon." A good topic for the wall-flowers at the next local Purity Ball.

Spring has sprung! I hope it's as good for you as it is for me. Goodness knows it's been a rough winter for most of us.

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