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If a Company Can Be African American, Can’t It Be Religious?

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A business owner brings his values and his entire self—his faith no less than his race—to his daily work. The government shouldn’t force him to violate his conscience.
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Declaration Man: How Justice Clarence Thomas Earned His Enemies

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For Justice Clarence Thomas, the foundation of all our law lies in the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence, beginning with human equality.
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Blind Resentment

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The struggle against Catholicism in today’s culture is not particularly about religion. It is a revolt against reason and reality. Many have internalized such resentment that they are unable to see truth.
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Women and Children First

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Men and women struggling with infertility know real heartache. However, as citizens of a country founded on the struggle for rights and freedom, Americans have a civic and moral duty to confront laws that marginalize the already marginalized and threaten to create a second-class citizenry.
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Sex, Drugs, and Religious Liberty

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Same-sex marriage may pose a grave threat to religious liberty, but the cultural conditions and assumptions that make that threat possible are rooted in heterosexual behavior and the idea that everyone has a right to consequence-free sexual intimacy.
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What Our Obligations to Other Animals Are Not

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Charles Camosy’s new book argues that we should treat animals with the same Christian justice that underlies our treatment of other people. But human beings and other animals are not fundamentally equal in the way that all human beings are, as free and rational beings created in the image of God.
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Gettysburg and the New “Proposition” of American Politics

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In Lincoln’s day, America’s dedication to human equality was contested, but its embrace of God’s providential role in the world was a given. Now, the reverse is true.
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Sexual Radicalism: Imperial Project, Global Goliath

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While US conservatives are distracted by internal debates, the wealthy and powerful international movement for LGBT rights is aggressively targeting nations that are poorer and less powerful.
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Come Out and Celebrate?

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National Coming Out Day’s emphasis on “celebrating” students’ self-identification as LGBT undermines Notre Dame’s pastoral responsibility to help students develop an integrated sexual identity and a true understanding of human dignity.
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Saving Our Locker Rooms

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We need to offer cogent, rational arguments against non-discrimination laws that would de-segregate single-sex personal facilities.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain: Gifted Thinker and Courageous Woman

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Jean Bethke Elshtain, our editorial board member and Witherspoon Institute Senior Fellow, fearlessly pursued truth irrespective of the prevailing orthodoxies in the academy and the broader intellectual world.
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Aristotle Can’t Refute Evolution: A Response to Seagrave

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While evolutionary theory shows us that we can’t divide living things into stable, distinct species, this doesn’t mean that it imperils the foundations of knowledge.
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With Malice Toward Some

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Lincoln’s Order of Retaliation—a command to kill Confederate prisoners as punishment for the South’s massacre of black Union soldiers—can help frame our view of presidential military power today.
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Employment Law

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The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would equate sexual orientation and gender identity, ambiguous and malleable concepts, with immutable features like race, color, and ethnicity as classes worthy of special legal protection.
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The DOMA Decision and the Inscrutable Anthony Kennedy

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When Justice Anthony Kennedy writes a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, he is famous for baffling his fellow justices (particularly Justice Antonin Scalia) as well as lower court judges.
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Are You Out of Your Brain? Reflections on Free Will and Neuroscience

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Thinking presupposes a functioning brain, but it cannot be reduced to the brain.
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A Call to Conservative Donors

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If future conservative politicians are to have a conservative tradition in their heads, we need to finance programs that introduce college students to the conservative and liberal traditions through philosophy, history, literature, and art.
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Evolution and the Eye Test

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory rests on a problematic premise: Our senses don’t tell us the truth about nature.
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Proposition 8 and Discrimination: Marriage on Trial at the Supreme Court

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Proposition 8 does not, contrary to Judge Vaughan Walker’s claims, treat equals unequally.
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Are We Guilty for Our Religious Belief?

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Is religious belief wrong, and are religious believers morally culpable for their false beliefs?
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Blessed Are Les Misérables: For Theirs Is the True Philosophy of Law

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Hollywood’s new musical masterpiece illustrates a classical legal philosophy, long lost to our liberal establishment, that serves as a golden mean between tyrannical legalism and libertine antinomianism.
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Why and How We Should Tackle the Sperm-Sale Industry

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With money as the biggest incentive for sperm donation, donors are set up to be absent fathers. Politicians, charitable organizations, academics, and donors themselves should counter the ills of sperm donation through law, journalism, and funding for anti-sperm donation advocacy. The second of a two-part series.
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Why Sperm Donation is Bad for Dads and Kids

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Commercialized sperm “donation” degrades and objectifies men, promotes a culture of irresponsible parenting, and hurts children conceived through donation. The first of a two-part series.
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Deciding Who Gets Religious Freedom: The Latest HHS “Accommodation”

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In the latest proposed version of the HHS mandate, the government presumes to say which employers get religious freedom and how much they get, but all religious employers are obligated to live out their beliefs and should have the freedom to do so.
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