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Inequality and Elite Failure

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Is inequality the cause of our worst social ills?
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Why California’s Three-Parent Law Was Inevitable

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A California bill allowing children to have three legal parents will not help children, but instead will unnecessarily complicate their lives. The supposed need for California’s SB 1476 flowed directly from the drive to normalize same sex parenting and recognize same sex unions.
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The Surrogate Uterus: The AGR Case and Melissa Brisman

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The question of surrogacy has always been more about us than about the participants in the relationship. Will we use the power of the people to take a child from the arms of her mother when the mother is perfectly fit, loves her child, and desires to discharge her duties to her child?
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Liberal Love and Sargent Shriver

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It’s far too easy when bickering about this or that policy, and particularly when the policy is morally charged, to miss the values modeled by good men and women when we disagree on the means.
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Building a Culture of Religious Freedom

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If we want a culture of religious freedom, we need to begin it here, today, now. We live it by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to God with passion and joy, confidence and courage; and by holding nothing back. God will take care of the rest. Adapted from remarks delivered yesterday at the Napa Institute’s 2012 annual conference.
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Religious Freedom Under Fire

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The threats to religious freedom in our nation are real, and they’re serious. And things will get worse unless we defend our rights. The first in a two-part series.
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Will the Obamacare “Tax” Trump Religious Liberty?

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Though the Supreme Court has long been hostile to tax exemptions for religious reasons, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Establishment Clause should give religious organizations reasons to hope that they won’t be penalized by the Obamacare “tax.”
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HHS Mandate: Unjust (as well as Illegal)

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To recap two major problems with the HHS mandate: it restricts the natural right of religious freedom and imposes a false view of religion.
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Franciscan, Ave Maria, and Obamacare

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Two Catholic universities’ decisions to drop student health-care plans show Obamacare’s long-term goal: Force Americans to choose government-subsidized plans over no insurance at all.
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What’s Behind the HHS Mandate?

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The HHS mandate illustrates three liberal ideological commitments that treat religious freedom as an afterthought.
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Abortion and the Limits of Philosophy

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Unlike civil rights advocates of the 1960s, pro-life and pro-choice activists can be ambivalent about their causes because they are torn between their reason and their sentiments.
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The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage

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Given the legal principles involved in recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages, it’s hard to see any coherence in President Obama’s statement.
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Liberalism Is Bad for Literature

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Jeffrey Eugenides shows what happens to the novel when courtship and marriage lose their binding character.
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Is Conscience Partisan? A Look at the Clinton, Moynihan, and Kennedy Records

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When did respect for conscience rights, once a bipartisan consensus, become a “Republican war on women”?
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The Costs of Contraception

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The negative side-effects of contraception are often ignored in our public discourse, but a truly free decision to use or not use them—and whether to use government to promote them—depends on a frank acknowledgement of their costs along with their alleged benefits.
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A Guiding Principle Revealed

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The state should never force anyone to perform an action he or she believes to be wrong, unless it has a good reason, not merely to have the action performed, but to insist that even those who find it wrong perform it.
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The Bishops and the Mandate: Principled Witness vs. Politics as Usual

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The controversy over the HHS mandate is not a spat about wonkish detail or tribal privilege. It remains a struggle for the principle of religious freedom, the soul of civil society.
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Equality versus Freedom?

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Lawmakers must look past the “equality versus religious freedom” standoff, and consider the substantive merits of each particular case.
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The HHS Mandate, Cooperation with Evil, and Coercion

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The fundamental problem with the mandate is that it coerces some people into doing what they think is wrong, and this problem remains regardless of whether the coercion excuses the actions of the people being coerced.
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Obama’s Contraception Cram-down: The Pork Precedent

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An ancient example of resistance to a tyrant’s attempt to coerce violations of religious conscience provides an interesting perspective on resistance to the Obama administration’s recent healthcare coverage mandate.
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Mandates and Bad Law

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Were the central task of government to be seen as that of aiding citizens in their own self-constitution, oriented towards real human goods including the good of religion, the HHS mandate would be seen for the unjust imposition it is.
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The Paradise of Sexual Revolution

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The sexual revolution puts forth a vision of paradise in which we rig up some nifty devices to guarantee infertility, consider neither holiness nor virtue, and believe in the blessings of no one and nowhere and nothing.
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The HHS Mandate and Legal Precedent

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Contrary to what Obama supporters would have us believe, there’s no precedent for the HHS mandate.
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President Obama, the Right Not to Do Wrong, and the Politics of Ruse and Delay

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No one can be rightly coerced by the state to be directly complicit in the commission of a wrong. This goes for any businessman, employer, insurance company, or individual, regardless of faith.
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