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Protecting the Religious Liberty of Adoption and Foster Care Providers

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Provided agencies meet basic requirements protecting the welfare of children, they should be free to operate according to their values, especially their religiously informed beliefs about marriage. New legislation introduced this week would protect this right.
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Caritapolis: A New Global Vision

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To achieve a moral ecology under which the dignity and solidarity of all peoples can thrive, we must take small steps, little by little—yet not lose sight of the goal.
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Gordon College and Pluralism in Higher Education

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Requiring all colleges and universities to adopt the same practices and policies would destroy their institutional identities and prevent them from achieving their diverse missions.
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The Peaceful Are Not Irrelevant

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Contra Brigitte Gabriel, history tells us that peaceful Muslims do matter.
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The Blessings of Liberty and the Index of Culture and Opportunity

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Opportunity is not merely the absence of artificially imposed impediments. It is also the capacity to pursue happiness, individually and in community. Adapted from the 2014 Index of Culture and Opportunity.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage: Civil Debate on a Serious Issue

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Although we disagree with each other about the nature of marriage, we are united in the conviction that it is an issue on which reasonable people of good will can and do reach divergent conclusions.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Destructive Logic of Marriage Revisionism

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Part four of a continuing exchange between Doig and George on the meaning and purpose of marriage.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Equal Dignity of Same-Sex Couples

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Part three of a continuing exchange between Doig and George on the meaning and purpose of marriage.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage: The Need for a Defining Principle

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George replies to Doig’s criticisms of George’s arguments regarding marriage. The second in a week-long exchange.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage: The Benefits of Same-Sex Marriage

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What’s wrong with a long-term committed child-rearing same-sex relationship? Nothing, says Jameson W. Doig. The first in a week-long exchange with Robert P. George.
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Asking “Why?” of the Whole World: Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World

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The “why?” we ask of God receives its most persuasive answer in the beauty, the love, and the heroic devotion of human life.
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Beyond Consent: Moving toward An Integrated Approach to Sexuality and Sexual Assault

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It's time to change the way we talk about sexual assault on campus. The second of a two-part series.
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Sexual Assault: What Does the Hook-Up Culture Have To Do with It?

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The sexual assault epidemic on college campuses is created, in part, by the effects of the hook-up culture. The first in a two-part series.
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Sexual Integrity, Due Process, and Campus Alcohol Policy

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Lowering standards of proof in campus tribunals is not the best way to combat the scourge of sexual assault on campus. Instead, colleges should strengthen and enforce policies that combat excessive alcohol use.
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The Trouble with Campus Rape Tribunals

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Sexual assault should be adjudicated in courts, not in campus tribunals.
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Rethinking the Logic of Hobby Lobby

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The Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case missed an important point. As with churches, the government has no compelling interest in coercing businesses and organizations with religious objections to carry out the HHS mandate.
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Meanwhile, Outside the Panic Room: Contraception, Hobby Lobby, and Women’s Rights

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Contra Justice Ginsburg, the Hobby Lobby decision is no cause for alarm. Yet we should acknowledge and address a fear she highlights: the serious obstacles women face today in the realms of sex, marriage, and parenthood.
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Is Same-Sex Parenting Better for Kids? The New Australian Study Can’t Tell Us

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The Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families has been getting copious positive press coverage. Unfortunately, it has some serious methodological weaknesses—it studies only the lives and experiences of the LGBT elite.
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Justice Sotomayor Misses the Mark: Religious Non-Profits Should Prevail

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The contradictory reasoning of Justice Sotomayor’s Wheaton dissent exposes a glaring weakness in the legal argument requiring religious non-profits to comply with HHS’s regulatory scheme.
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The Right to Be Wrong

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The right to religious freedom is for everyone, not just those with the “right” beliefs.
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Church, State, and Human Trafficking

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For the common good, we must remember the ways in which church and state can mutually benefit each other—and watch for the ways in which the state threatens that relationship.
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After Hobby Lobby, the Struggle for Religious Freedom Continues

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According to the structure of the Court’s logic, all objecting employers should receive the same religious freedom protection given to churches and religious orders.
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Supreme Court to Obama Administration: You Don’t Have to Agree with Religious Beliefs to Respect the Liberty of the People Who Hold Them . . . and the Groups They Form

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Yesterday’s decision demonstrates that the Supreme Court understands what Congress set out to do when it passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Religious freedom is for all, regardless of the popularity of the belief. Congress, in passing RFRA, has said that if the belief can be accommodated, then it must be.
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A Perpetual Haven: Why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Matters

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Respect for religious conscience is not an afterthought or luxury, but the very essence of the American political and social compact. Adapted from testimony presented before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.