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A Brief History of Sex Ed: How We Reached Today’s Madness

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Today’s sex ed curricula are based on the widely-accepted teachings of depraved human beings.
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The New York Times, Church-State Law, and Equality

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Prohibiting religious schools from using public facilities would not protect religious freedom; it would encourage further discrimination against religion and religious people.
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Without Words to Describe

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Those of us who value life over death, vibrant religious exercise, and the good of natural marriage need to find our voice again even though the powers-that-be are redefining words arbitrarily and avoiding reason.
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The Ongoing Culture War: A Report from the Texan Frontlines

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The abortion fight in Texas is a flashpoint in the culture war. But it need not be another skirmish in which the casualty is civility and reason. It is rather an opportunity for pro-lifers to seize the high ground of decorum and reasonableness.
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How Will Future Historians Treat Same-Sex Marriage?

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Future historians will probably marvel that LGBT activists—a small, well-organized, and wealthy segment of the population—successfully deployed civil rights language for material benefit, especially at a time when national economic inequality only continues to worsen.
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The Constitutionality of Protecting Unborn Babies at 20 Weeks

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There is nothing in the text, history, or tradition of the U.S. Constitution that precludes extending the most basic protections of the law to twenty week-old (or older) unborn children who are capable of experiencing pain. Adapted from testimony delivered on July 8th before the Texas State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.
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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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Marriage, the Court, and the Erosion of Constitutional Democracy

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What future does democratic self-government have in our country if same-sex marriage supporters are willing to undermine it through the courts?
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The Declaration of Independence and the American Creed

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The Declaration of Independence contains the clearest, most concise, and most eloquent articulation of the American creed: a political definition of man in two axioms, and three corollary propositions on government.
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Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act

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Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.
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Threats to Religious Freedom in Europe

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By failing to recognize the importance of religion and its relationship to human rights, European courts are progressively eroding religious liberty.
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The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage

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What happened yesterday at the courthouse matters, and we must keep up our witness to the truth about marriage, by word and deed, until it is safely beyond judicial overreach.
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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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Mitt Romney’s Bad Day

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Gabriel Schoenfeld’s new book, A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign, offers an insider’s account of how misguided campaign tactics led to Mitt Romney’s defeat in the 2012 presidential election.
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On Winning the Marriage Debate

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Conservatives need to argue as lovers: As we woo the person across from us, we are funny, self-effacing, merciful, and confident.
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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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Euphemisms: The Modus Operandi of Death Rights Advocates

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Death rights advocates can only win supporters by calling the act of killing something else.
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Why Religious Liberty Became Controversial: The Left and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Left is adopting a Rousseauian view of religion’s role in public life: the state is to determine where, when, and how religious instruction should be permissible for citizens.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, Fundamentally At Odds

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Marriage and religious freedom will stand or fall together.
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What Is a Mother to Do? Questions for Same-Sex Marriage Advocates

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To demand that we recognize same-sex romantic relationships as marriages, and teach our children so, is to prevent them from discovering reality.
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Sexual Assaults in the Military: Porn is Part of the Problem

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If our military is to lower its rate of sex crimes, it must limit its members’ consumption of pornography and educate them about its risks.
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Children Need Our Marriage Tradition

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Redefining marriage will make it harder for our children to develop their self-understanding and will sanction procreative methods that treat children like commodities.
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Evolution and the Eye Test: A Response to My Critics

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Darwin rejected a theory of knowledge that best accords with the common experience of the expert and the layman: a process of induction or intuition whereby sense impressions become memories, and memories become experience.
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Evolution, the Eye Test, & Scientific Reasoning: A Response to Seagrave

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The “eye test” is no more a problem for the evolutionary origin of species than it is for the atomic structure of matter or for the motion of the earth.