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Abortion After Tiller

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A new documentary on late-term abortion providers shows us that the abortion debate is much more about why life is valuable than about when human life begins.
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If Knot Now, When? The Impact of Delayed Marriage Among Twenty-somethings

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Young adults desire stable marriage and family life even while they engage in unmarried sex and parenting. We should encourage and help young adults achieve these goals instead of trying to make birth control “sexy.”
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An American Decline?

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As Stephen Krason’s new book argues, America has departed from the founders’ design, and the founders may be partially responsible. But this claim is only as strong as the interpretation of the founding behind it.
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Justice Sotomayor and the Path to Polygamy

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The oral arguments on Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court suggest that there is very good reason to believe that the declaration of a “right” to same-sex marriage will set us on the path to polygamy.
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Cats and Dogs and Marriage Laws

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When we define our terms based on the results we want, rather than on the reality of the thing being defined, all hell breaks loose.
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Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the Ban Myth

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It’s a myth that marriage law “bans” same-sex relationships because it treats marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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Neither In the Jungle Nor Out of It

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Lust perverts language itself, calling sex “safe” or “protected,” and cohabitation “honest,” and relationships “mutual,” which are nothing but forays into a jungle, where the strongest and most cunning survive.
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The Red Herring of “Marriage Equality”

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Debates about marriage will only be cluttered up, and decisions confounded, if the issue is framed in the question-begging terms of “marriage equality.”
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Why U.N. Feminists Should Want to Partner with the Holy See

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Both sociological evidence and the teachings of Christianity show that religion is a powerful ally for promoting the equality and dignity of women. Adapted from remarks delivered at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
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Property from the Inside

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While the state has a role to play in promoting the common good, left unchecked by constitutional strictures the regulatory state will crowd private property out of public life. Without private property, our nation would be impoverished not only materially but also morally. The second in a two-part series.
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Property and the Regulatory State at the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court’s conflicted rulings on whether the government must compensate property owners for burdening their rights and interests raises questions about the value of private property in American life. The first in a two-part series.
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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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God and the Profits: Religious Liberty for Money-Makers

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The Bible says “You cannot serve both God and mammon.” The Constitution doesn’t.
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On Economists and Marriage

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While there is something noble in economists’ assumption that social life is based on mutually beneficial exchange, rather than coercion and plunder, this fails to account for what philosophy, theology, and literature reveal to us about the true substance of marriage.
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We Don’t Need to Redefine Marriage to Fix Policy Problems

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Good public policy can meet the needs of all Americans without redefining marriage.
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Abortion and Our “Moral Sense”

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When intellectual arguments against abortion fail to persuade, recourse must be had to images and strategies that awake what David Hume considered our “moral sense.”
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The Supreme Court’s First Assault on Marriage

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The Supreme Court first put marriage on its track of decline forty-one years ago, when it ruled that states could not limit the sale of contraceptives to unmarried couples.
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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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Liberalism’s Logic and America’s Challenge: A Reply to Schlueter and Muñoz

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The Founders’ vision of the “common good” was not the pre-modern natural law conception of an objective human good, but a conception of “mutual advantage” shaped by the social contract framework. This logic of liberalism has driven our country to its current political and cultural problems.
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Sustaining American Liberalism in Principle and Practice

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While we should reject misguided claims that our founders adopted political voluntarism, we should follow suggestions for strengthening civic life—and thereby sustain American liberalism—through local government, families, churches, and other civic associations.
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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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Sky Fall: Gender Ideology Comes to the Schoolhouse

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Since redefining marriage requires us to deny sexual differences, even school children now have to conform to that principle at the risk of punishment.
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Natural Law is neither Useless nor Dangerous: A Response to Hart and Potemra

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A recent claim to reject the natural law for its uselessness and false claims to neutrality misunderstands the first-personal perspective of contemporary natural law. The second in a two-part series.
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