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Understanding the Slavery-Abortion Analogy

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In both Dred Scott and Roe, the justices of the Supreme Court had to decide what it means to be a person, whether human beings can be considered property, and what it means to be deprived of liberty. They got it wrong both times.
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Peonage for the Twenty-First Century

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The Common Core exists only because we have forgotten that parents have a right to educate their children. The state has no educational authority of its own apart from what parents delegate to it.
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What Makes a Marriage? Love, Sex, or Comprehensive Union

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Prof. Charles Reid thinks love makes a marriage. He claims we think sex makes a marriage. In truth, comprehensive union makes a marriage. And getting marriage right matters for everyone.
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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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Conservatism and Freedom

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Conservatives need to refine their understanding and presentation of the moral substance of their cause, crafting a message that appeals to both reason and imagination.
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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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A Married Mom and Dad Really Do Matter: New Evidence from Canada

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A new academic study based on the Canadian census suggests that a married mom and dad matter for children. Children of same-sex coupled households do not fare as well.
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Illusions of Unity? Mind, Value, and Nature

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Is it wrong to study the natural sciences using a metaphysical framework that sees unity in reality?
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Millennials and Marriage

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Young Americans have come to believe that they can only achieve “good” marriages through professional success and economic prosperity.
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Islam’s Scholars for Dollars

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Many Muslims do not have the financial resources or social clout to combat political and religious extremism. Such extremism is further enabled by scholars who let themselves be bought by the rich or powerful.
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Allison Benedikt’s Immodest Proposal

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A rant against private schools should teach all of us something about the purposes of education, and what responsible parents should seek for their children.
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The Layman and the Scientist: A Response to Miller

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The layman’s understanding of the world can’t be considered mere guesswork—it’s the necessary starting point for understanding reality.
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Same-Sex Parenting: Child Abuse?

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Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as “normal” imposes a silence on children about the wound caused by the loss of one parent or the other.
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Lessons from France on the Myths of Same-Sex Marriage

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After the French protests against same-sex marriage, we can no longer speak of redefined marriage as inevitable or enlightened.
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Not Used Up: Progress in Abstinence Education

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Abstinence education today is a public health intervention, based on science and evidence, using sound pedagogy and methodology, to deliver a sound health message to young men and women, primarily in school settings.
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Natural Law and the Economy: A Reply to Miller

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Natural law does not demand capitalism, but we can deduce from natural law that some institutions that are key to market economies are normally just, while practices key to socialist arrangements are usually unjust.
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Did Senator Lee Forget the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act?

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We don’t need a new resolution from Congress to address the wrongs of clinics like Kermit Gosnell’s—the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act already serves that purpose, and we should restore the civil penalties originally attached to it.
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After Beauty

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Just as our culture’s rejection of an essential human nature wreaked havoc on our moral thought, so too our rejection of the concept of form has made our artwork incoherent.
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Sheer Hart Attack: Morality, Rationality, and Theology

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Natural law theory makes a very limited, but very important claim—that there is common ground between all human beings, and particularly between religious believers and non-believers, on which moral disagreements can be rationally adjudicated.
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What Fiction Can Tell Us about Afghanistan

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People are at the heart of what we are doing in Afghanistan. Novels can help us understand them and their cultures in all their subtlety and complexity.
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Same-Sex Marriage: We’re Playing Chess, Not Checkers

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Just as chess requires players to seriously consider every possible consequence of their moves, we need to seriously consider every possible consequence of the push for same-sex marriage, especially for children.
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I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage

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While religion and tradition have led many to their positions on same-sex marriage, it’s also possible to oppose same-sex marriage based on reason and experience.
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The Feminine Mystique at Fifty: Time for a New Feminism

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No one wants to return to the 1950s as Betty Friedan characterized them, where women felt blocked from pursuing interests outside the home. At the same time, to insist that stay-at-home moms are trapped, desperate, and unhappy is naïve, insulting, and even damaging to the roots of society.
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Natural Law Liberalism Beyond Romanticism

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To reject the presence of natural law in documents of the Founding era is to embrace both cynicism and romanticism.
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