OUTLAW CHRISTIANITY! DEATH TO ALL CHRISTIANS! The above does not reflect the intention of OVO, and in fact stands opposite to it. The above is provided to feed the presuppositions of those who will not actually read this issue of OVO. Any review of this issue that quotes the words above is likely to have [...]
This essay makes the case against tax exemption for religious organizations in Oregon. The amount of revenue lost as well as the harm caused by religious organizations is not compensated for by the social good they are alleged to provide (this alleged social good being the justification for their tax exempt status). Tax exemption for [...]
A friend recently asked me for recommended reading on the subject of ethics. Here’s my reply, along with… “Note well that these are sometimes at odds with each other. That conflict will help you ask the right questions, which counts more than having the right answers. I’ve ordered the links from shortest to longest, from [...]
Radley Balko, How to Get Ahead in Law: Last June, District Attorney David Capeless of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, announced that he was dropping all charges against 44-year-old Bernard Baran, a man who has spent half his life behind bars on child molestation charges that the state no longer has the confidence to retry. Baran was [...]
Nick Squires, Vatican condemns Hallowe’en as anti-Christian: The Holy See has warned that parents should not allow their children to dress up as ghosts and ghouls on Saturday, calling Hallowe’en a pagan celebration of “terror, fear and death”. The Roman Catholic Church has become alarmed in recent years by the spread of Hallowe’en traditions from [...]
