Category: Sovereignty Rights

Same-Sex Marriage and the European Bishops

On November 25, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ordered Poland to recognize same-sex marriage. Polish law does not provide for same-sex marriage, and Poland’s constitution explicitly declares the state’s responsibility to protect marriage as a sexually differentiated union. Such little things as national constitutions or laws, however, cannot get in the way of the European Union.

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What Makes Us Happy?

Everyone wants to be happy. As Aristotle explains in “The Nicomachean Ethics,” happiness is the thing we desire for its own sake. We don’t pursue happiness as a means to some other good; it appears to be the final end people pursue in life. The other things we aim at – wealth, pleasure, relationships – we pursue for the sake of happiness.

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