Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. There was more attention this week to the ethical debate weaponized drones in the war on terror. The discussion came amid a Senate Intelligence Committee Confirmation hearing for john brennan, nominated to be the next head of the cia. Brennan helped lead the obama administrations largely secret drone program. A leaked memo revealed the justice departments view that it is legal for the government to kill u. S. Citizens overseas if it believes they pose an imminent threat, even if there is no evidence of an immediate specific attack. Some ethicists say that amounts to illegal targeted killings. They are not the best strategy, they are not ethically right, and they are not morally right. After much campaigning by outside groups on both sides, the boy scouts postponed until may a decision on lifting its ban on gay scouts and leaders. Several conservative religious organizations were particularly vocal in their opposition to lifting t
Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. There was more attention this week to the ethical debate weaponized drones in the war on terror. The discussion came amid a Senate Intelligence Committee Confirmation hearing for john brennan, nominated to be the next head of the cia. Brennan helped lead the obama administrations largely secret drone program. A leaked memo revealed the justice departments view that it is legal for the government to kill u. S. Citizens overseas if it believes they pose an imminent threat, even if there is no evidence of an immediate specific attack. Some ethicists say that amounts to illegal targeted killings. They are not the best strategy, they are not ethically right, and they are not morally right. After much campaigning by outside groups on both sides, the boy scouts postponed until may a decision on lifting its ban on gay scouts and leaders. Several conservative religious organizations were particularly vocal in their opposition to lifting t
Tavis how do you know what interest you will interest other persons . Its very funny. I had lunch with paul simon, and i was talking about this very thing. How for a while the stuff that interested him did interest people. Top of the charts. They were revolutionary in a lot of ways as musicians, and he said, sometimes you get to a place and not everyone react. Ups and downs. I think you cannot predict anything, but you do the best you can to go, this feels like something that actually interests me. Idea that spark something in me. All you can do is that. If you go at it from the beginning saying, the audience will like this, i think the odds of it working at all dropped enormously. I think its a dangerous aiding th ing the interests a dangerous thing. Lunch let me explore this that i wish i could have been part of. Between abrams and simon is simon is called think artists at their best are called upon to speak a certain truth through their music. Simon has to live and speak and express
Wedding. The issue has split those who cite biblical passages against homosexuality, and others, who see jesus inclusive vision as welcoming all. More church trials may be ahead, as betty rollin reports. Reporter the Metropolitan United Methodist Church in washington, d. C. , recently had an unusual celebration. The event, called church quake, honored married couples of the same sex and the clergy who married them. Retired Bishop Melvin talbert was the first methodist bishop to publicly endorse samesex marriage, which is prohibited in the churchs book of discipline. I felt the time had come for clergy to give leadership to their congregations and its time for clergy to refuse to convict their colleagues for doing the right thing. Reporter one of those colleagues, who is facing a potential church trial for performing a samesex marriage, is 79yearold reverend tom ogletree, the retired dean of yale divinity school. The marriage that reverend ogletree performed was that of his own son, tho
At ave maria, 90 of the 1,000member student body are catholic. Professors pledge to uphold catholic beliefs. There are worship sites in every dorm, and mass is held three times a day. Its president , jim towey, who worked for the Bush Administration as director of its faithbased and Community Initiatives office, also served as Legal Advisor for the late mother teresa. Ave maria is determined to stay a course from which its president says other catholic institutions have strayed. In an age where modernity has attacked the whole idea of objective truth and the whole relativism that you see thats pervasive in our culture, i guess this universitys not going to be here to be popular. Its not here to try to please everyone. Its here to try to be true to itself and its own catholic identity. Georgetown university, renowned for its academic excellence, has a different view of its catholic identity. All students, though only half of the 7,000 undergraduates are catholic, are required to take tw