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Gay Rights Debate: Being Gay Is a Choice, But It Is Your Choice

Gay Rights Debate: Being Gay Is a Choice, But It Is Your Choice

People on all sides of this discussion will claim the facts, but the bottom line is we have a choice, and it is only ours to make.

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After Susan Komen Pulls Funding for Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice Supporters Misunderstand the Pro-Life Position

After Susan Komen Pulls Funding for Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice Supporters Misunderstand the Pro-Life Position

Pro-choice people often fundamentally misunderstand the pro-life perspective. If we try to imagine a world in which abortion is murder, then most of our arguments stop making sense.

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How '50 Shades of Grey' and Violent Porn Might be Perverting Women's Sexual Identity

How '50 Shades of Grey' and Violent Porn Might be Perverting Women's Sexual Identity

With the surge in book sales for '50 Shades of Grey', and the online prevalence of violent pornography, how much are the psyches and sexual identities of America's young girls being affected?

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Rebecca Martinson: Sorority Girl Who Wrote Viral Email Leaves Delta Gamma

Rebecca Martinson: Sorority Girl Who Wrote Viral Email Leaves Delta Gamma

Her email was inexcusable and appalling, but she shouldn't be punished forever for this, at least if she shows some remorse once the interwebs is finished chucking stones at her.

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A Modest Proposal to Stop Tipping Bartenders

A Modest Proposal to Stop Tipping Bartenders

Why not encourage entrepreneurs to disrupt the bar scene dominated by the overpaid few?

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The 5 Most Inspiring Women of 2012

The 5 Most Inspiring Women of 2012

From education activists to women's health advocates, these 5 women inspired and awed us in 2012.

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Spanking is the Wrong Way for Parents to Discipline Children

Spanking is the Wrong Way for Parents to Discipline Children

Parents that I have interviewed in the course of 15 years as a child therapist believe rightfully that spanking is not an effective way to discipline children.

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Carnival Triumph: Stranded Cruise the Epitome Of #FirstWorldProblems

Carnival Triumph: Stranded Cruise the Epitome Of #FirstWorldProblems

The deplorable conditions experienced by passengers of the Triumph highlight the huge disconnect between the problems of “first world” and the “third world.”

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