10-01 Moral Compass
Listening to my parents discuss issues gave me a sense of right and wrong. It was 1944 and I am eleven years old. Mother and father were driving aimlessly around Forest Hill Village with me in the back seat. It was serious talk time and they wanted me to hear what was discussed. Mother had…
10-02 Moral Dilemmas
The important moral dilemmas are faced by families. Not by politicians. From my years of involvement in public life I have witnessed political leaders time and again confronting moral dilemmas. Often when they lie to the public there may be a good defensible reason. Often it is just a matter of selling perception rather than…
10-03 Marriage
Never had a problem with same sex marriage with a gay son. He was born that way. It was one of our first cruises in the early 1960s, and my wife and I were seated with a couple about our age. We discovered he had been a Mormon in his early days with three wives.He…
10-04 Adoption or Abortion
Blessed that two mothers did not abort their children. We adopted them. But I can live with a woman’s right to choose. It is 1947 and the family is in Belfast visiting with the grandparents and taking a trip to Dublin. Everything was scarce so soon after the war, and father had sent a two-month…