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Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity

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Intentional killing is always wrong, and support of capital punishment often stems from a misunderstanding of the nature of human dignity.
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Global Warming, Evolution, and Presidential Politics: The Long Shadow of Galileo

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Judging from the media’s response to Rick Perry’s Galileo reference in the Reagan debate, our discourse is still governed by the modern view that science and religion can only clash.
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Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life

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As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein.
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A Bully-Free World?

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New Jersey’s new anti-bullying legislation is misguided and unrealistic, seeking to eliminate conflict rather than resolve it.
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Memorializing September 11th

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What makes September 11th worthy of public memorializing is that it was not only an event in the lives of these individuals and their families; it was an event in the life of the American nation, an attack aimed at the American nation.
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My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture

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America should reject torture. This would reinforce our commitment to America’s founding values and support excellence in intelligence collection for the defense of our nation.
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Flogging: The Best Hope for Our Broken Prison System?

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A new book argues that flogging may be a more humane, efficient, and just punishment than incarceration.
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A New Kind of Presidential Debate

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Monday's Presidential Forum broke new ground.
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Targeting Down Syndrome by Regulation

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Prenatal testing for Down syndrome should not be considered preventive medicine. Such tests cannot prevent the presence of Down syndrome in a child; but they can decrease the likelihood of a child with Down syndrome surviving beyond the womb. Expectant parents need accurate information, including the many positive outcomes, about life raising a child with Down syndrome.
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End Human Trafficking: A Contemporary Slavery

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A culture of exploitation and violence, especially sexual exploitation of children, is at epidemic levels here in the United States and around the world. The current Administration’s response is anemic and more must be done.
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Empower Parents: Restore the Constitution by Returning Educational Policy to the States

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Presidential candidates in the 2012 election must be prepared to protect the interests of parents and children nationwide by rolling back the progressive education agenda and returning to the states their constitutional power to make decisions about education.
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Help the Sick and Reduce the Debt: The Moral Economy of the Health-Care Debate

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The health-care debate presents us with a moral imperative to solve an economic problem, but how we solve this economic problem has moral implications: allowing individuals and families greater freedom to choose among treatment options in a market that drives down costs, or establishing centralized control that makes utilitarian calculations of the worth of different people’s lives.
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Promote Democracy: Start at Home, but Don’t Stop at Home

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At a time when the Arab world is ripe for change, our next president must understand the strategic potential of American credibility, constitutionalism, and communication in the promotion of democracy abroad.
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Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival

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Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion.
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Fix America’s Economy: Two Principles for Reform

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Candidates in the 2012 presidential race should champion two principles for reviving America’s economy: the Adam Smith principle for limiting government and the subsidiarity principle for regulating government intervention.
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Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter

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Presidential candidates in the next election should uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue

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Public officials—especially the President—are obligated to protect the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings, regardless not only of sex and race, but also without regard to age, size, condition of dependency, vulnerability, or the esteem of others. Abortion and embryo-destructive research are profound and lethal violations of this principle of equality to which the law (and the President) must respond.
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Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond

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Introducing a Public Discourse symposium on the 2012 election.
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40 Years Later: How to Undo the Autonomy Argument for Abortion Rights

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In response to pro-choice appeals to autonomy in support of abortion, we feminists should advocate that parents—both mothers and fathers—have binding duties to their unborn child as the product of their life-giving sexual act.
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Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence

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New York’s new sex education mandate excludes abstinence-only options and forces all city school children to learn about “safe sex” in the sixth and seventh grades.
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Nation of Faith, Nation of Immigrants

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America’s laws and institutions come from a moral worldview shaped by Christian belief. They depend not on where her people came from, but on what they are willing to sacrifice to keep the experiment alive. Adapted from a keynote address delivered to the national gathering of CALL (Catholic Association of Latino Leaders).
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Perry, Prayer, and Politics

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Rick Perry’s prayer rally engendered accusations that he wrongly crossed the church-state divide. But great leaders in American history have long held that religion is a necessary basis for public morality.
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Pornography and National Security

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The frequency with which terrorists are found with pornography raises important questions about the possible effects of pornography on our national security.
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The Balanced Budget Amendment: What Would Hamilton Say?

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The balanced budget amendment would rob the federal government of an essential power.
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