This post is not about programming, so I hope all of you non-programmers won’t give up on it after reading the first paragraph or two.
Last week I blogged about my Open Source project, xajax. As open source projects like Linux, the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the OpenOffice.org Office Suite have gained more prominence, the idea of freely available information and tools has been slowly creeping into other parts of our society.
OK, so I’m reading a very interesting article on Mitt Romney, perhaps the most interesting article I’ve seen on the Mormon Massachusetts governor, and near the end, the writer has the gall to ask him, “do you wear temple garments?” Mitt very politely responds the only way one can to that type of public question, saying it is a “private” issue and he won’t answer. But of course this raises the inevitable issue: why can journalists get away with asking Mormons questions about their underwear when they would never get away with asking questions like that to a Jew, Muslim or Buddhist?
Fox News reports that a new marriage-vow fad is on the rise:
In some weddings, “’til death do us part” is going the way of “to honor and obey” — that is, out the window.
Vows like “For as long as we continue to love each other,” “For as long as our love shall last” and “Until our time together is over” are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow — a switch that some call realistic and others call a recipe for failure.
Ed Whelan of National Review has written this interesting article on a way of framing the abortion debate and how it will affect the Roberts confirmation battle. Whelan is against the Roe v. Wade decision and liberals and others who support Roe v. Wade clearly won’t agree with many things in his article.
But I was interested in the three positions he has staked out here, and how they affect the LDS approach to the Constitution.
Over at ProvoPulse, Mason has discovered the BYU’s Speech Archive. He writes: