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The second pillar of a decent society is the institution of the family, which is built upon the comprehensive sexual union of man and woman. No other institution can top the family’s ability to transmit what is pivotal—character formation, values, virtues, and enduring love—to each new generation.

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Same-Sex Marriage and Public Opinion: Spirals, Frames, and the Seinfeld Effect

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Americans appear to accept same-sex marriage more than they really do, perhaps because they believe it to be more widely accepted than it really is.
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A Marriage Tail

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Re-examining the essential characteristics of marriage.
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Moral Reasoning

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Even same-sex marriage advocates should recognize the bad logic in the ruling overturning Proposition 8.
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Marriage and the Reign of Judges

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The latest decision from our judicial overlords on same-sex marriage spells trouble for republican constitutionalism and the institution of marriage.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Formal Discrimination

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Another reason the analogy between same-sex marriage and interracial marriage fails.
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Remembering the Pill

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The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
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Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

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Why the analogy fails.
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Morality, Rationality, and Natural Law

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We should prefer natural law thinking to utilitarianism -- here's why.
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Pornography and the Muslim World

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Promoting a sexually permissive pop-culture in the Muslim world gets the true foundations of ordered liberty wrong. In defining our ideals by rejecting our enemy’s, we go from one extreme to another, and miss the virtuous mean.
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The Social Costs of Pornography

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Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Witherspoon Institute reported a set of scholarly findings and recommendations on the social costs of pornography.
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Marc Thiessen, Double Effect, and the Torturer’s Dilemma

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Both Marc Thiessen and his critics have misunderstood an important moral distinction on the question of torture.
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Debt and the Current Crisis

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As we attempt to revive the global financial system, it may be time to reconsider the long tradition that warned against the dangers of borrowing.
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Desires Natural and Unnatural: A Reply to Paul Griffiths

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A recent First Things article on natural law misses the mark.
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Bad Reason and the ‘Manhattan Declaration’

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A good deal of online commentary about a recent ecumenical statement misunderstands the nature of human reason.
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Is Divorce Good for America’s Women?

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An article by sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox raises the question of how divorce hurts and helps women.
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Marriage As Friendship

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One of the best ways to bolster American unions is to promote a proper understanding of friendship and marriage.
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The Financial Crisis and the Challenge of Natural Law

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Is the current financial crisis simply a technical failure, or does it derive from some more basic problem? Economists may need to begin addressing fundamental questions concerned with value, and for that, they may turn to the natural law tradition.
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All in the Family

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Though there is no hope of having a morally neutral definition of marriage, it is possible to have one based on human nature and supported by sound reasoning.
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Free Trade, Utility, and the Good

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Economists and other social scientists should take into account the integral flourishing of human beings and not just material utility. After doing so, defense of free trade becomes more—not less—important.
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The Limits of Free Trade

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Free trade brings with it financial benefits and human rewards. However, it sometimes must be limited if communities and people are to flourish.
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Free Trade as Prosperity, Free Trade as Human Right

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Free trade is not only good economic policy, it is a human right that should not be restricted lightly.
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Civil-Rights Movement: A Problematic Analogy

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Those who see the movement for same-sex marriage as today’s civil-rights struggle are abusing historical reason and our national institutions.
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Infidelity and Its Implications

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As recent polls and recent events show, Americans remain morally opposed to sexual infidelity in marriage. At the same time, Americans show broad acceptance of premarital sex. But an examination of the reasons why infidelity within marriage is detrimental to human flourishing reveals sexual infidelity prior to marriage to be just as harmful.
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Making Men Moral

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Earlier this year scholars gathered at Union University for a conference considering the work of Robert P. George in his 1994 book Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality. One theme of the conference was how religion and reason can help us understand and promote the common good.
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