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Gays and professional sports: Charles Barkley stands up for what’s right. Again.

By Sam Smith On May 18, 2011  

A few days ago, Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts revealed that he is gay. And the whole sporting world exploded yawned.

Okay, that’s not precisely true. There has been a bit of comment and analysis. But so far, no controversy. No homophobic ranting, no athletes stepping up to say that Jesus [...]

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Hard times for the pure of heart: is it possible to live ethically in modern society?

By Sam Smith On April 3, 2011  

I think we’d all love to live every phase of our lives in happy accord with high moral and ethical principles. We’d love it if we were never confronted by logical contradictions and cognitive dissonance, by cases where our walk was at odds with our talk. But the truth is that we live [...]

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