Dead Seriously.

Time* for another installment of Answers to Mormon Questions.**

Are Mormons really worried about the California Supreme Court overturning Prop 8? Or, having fought the good fight, are they satisfied with their effort and just content to let the chips fall where they may?

This question was raised (sort of) in the comment section of an earlier post, although I have actually been thinking about it for a long time. It’s a fantastic question, and I, as a California Mormon and resident know-it-all, am clearly qualified to opine on the matter. Unfortunately, like so many interesting questions in life, the answer is the ever-unsatisfying, “Well, it depends.” Read more…

Moses had his Aaron, and I have a Gay, Ex-Catholic Atheist. Guest author Dan Weston (See here for an introduction to Dan) offered to address the first question in my series “Answers to Mormon Questions” for me. The question came from commenter MM:

What do you think is the Mormon take on “natural rights?” Are individuals born with natural rights? Are they an inherent part of creation or can they be taken away? In what sense? Or are natural rights really an illusion, i.e., “non-sense upon stilts” as Bentham refered to them? More of a way for us to describe basic respect for one another than anything else? Or are you a consquentialist libertarian not a deontic libertarian and wouldn’t necessarily have a strong opinion about natural rights per se?

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