I have a B.A. in philosophy from a liberal arts college.  When I describe my education, many people wonder what the heck I plan on doing with all the "impractical" studies I've occupied myself with. Yet, the more I steep myself in the public controversies LifeSiteNews.com reports on daily, the more thankful I am for having spent so much time pondering the important questions in life.

After all, everyone has a philosophy by which they understand life. In addition, every person has a theology, a set of convictions relating to God(s) and His/their relation or lack thereof to the world. As G.K. Chesterton wrote, "You cannot evade the issue of God, whether you talk about pigs or the binomial theory, you are still talking about Him." Our laws are inevitably related to our convictions about the nature and destiny of man as formulated in philosophy and theology.  Take two recent court cases related to incest.