Jim Guinee wrote:
> Hmm...can you say more about "her ethics?" I don't understand that.
It seems quite clear to me that Dr. Laura makes her living from telling
lies (the prime current examples being her claim that the APA is on the
verge of announcing that there's no problem with adults having sex with
children, and her claim that homosexuality threatens "the traditional
family").
In this instance, my objection is to the fact that unlike you (Jim), she
takes her claim to be self-evident and not in need of the kind of research
support you made reference to. If her column read like your post, I'd have
no serious objection. If you read her column in toto, however, you couldn't
miss her dogmatism. In my opinion, dogmatism is among the worst of ethical
problems.
I'd like to point out that I have tried to give her the benefit of the
doubt a couple of times when we discussed her on this list, and I've even
backed off some comments I made about her. I don't think I'm throwing stones
in a glass house here...
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
