by Karlo Broussard | Jun 5, 2024 | Articles, General Ethics
When a Christian expresses his disapproval of sexual activity between members of the same sex, he’s often criticized for being a bigot. As a result, many Christians back down from expressing their disapproval, since no one wants to be a bigot. So what can we say in...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 15, 2023 | Articles, General Ethics
Actress Jane Fonda recently raised some eyebrows with her comments on ABC’s The View. When asked what abortion advocates should do in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade besides marching and protesting, Fonda responded, “Well, I thought of murder.” Amid the...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 11, 2023 | Articles, General Ethics
“Thou shalt not kill the innocent.” The movement to protect children before they’re born rests on this moral command, assuming that the child, from the moment he starts to exist, is an innocent human person. There are many routes that the opposition takes to get...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 16, 2023 | Articles, General Ethics
The other day I was having a heated conversation with a dear friend in which he claimed that I said something in a prior conversation. “You said X,” he stated, to which I responded, “No, that’s a false statement!” My friend’s response: “Oh, so now you’re calling me a...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 15, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
It’s immoral to kill an innocent human being. That’s because we all have a “right to life”—a moral claim on one another not to be killed. But some might say that this approach creates a conflict with our general intuitions about justified lethal self-defense. Does the...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 28, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
Recently, I attended a city council meeting in Temecula, California, to hear what people had to say concerning a proposed resolution to make Temecula a sanctuary city for the unborn and for the city council to, as a unified group, oppose Proposition 1, which, among...