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Hadith and Apostasy

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The part of the Muslim tradition usually cited in support of killing apostates has been gravely misunderstood.
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Equal Basic Rights for All, Born and Unborn

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Not only those with a “future-like-ours,” but all human beings possess equal basic rights.
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Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments

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Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.
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Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection

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There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.
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Bored to Death

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We live in days of distraction.
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Where the Abortion Debate Stands

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A new book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and even-handed presentation of the abortion argument.
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The Prenatal Testing Sham

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On this year's World Down Syndrome Day, Mark Leach discusses the unacknowledged effects of prenatal testing.
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What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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Diversity, Dignity, and My Daughter

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An anti-bullying program’s political slant leads one mother to reflect on the real meaning of diversity and dignity.
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Democracy, Foreign Policy, and American Values

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America has an obligation to look after its own interests.
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On Aristotle’s Wide Applicability

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Aristotelian virtue ethics has very little to say about what is a good political structure or economic system.
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Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics

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Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy.
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Business vs. the Market

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Public employee unions aren’t the only seekers of government largesse.
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The Progressive Case for Conscience Protection

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Have progressives abandoned the liberty of conscience?
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John Locke and the Evangelical Retreat from Marriage

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John Locke’s philosophy gives no support to those who would seek to endorse same-sex civil marriage.
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Premarital Sex in America

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Dispelling the sexual myths of America’s emerging adults.
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Roe to the Rescue?

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Roe v. Wade could prove an unlikely source of pro-life conscience protection.
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Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility

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President Obama’s decision to refuse to defend DOMA is not an act of executive assertion so much as an expression of deep deference to the courts.
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Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA

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President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.
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Bernard Nathanson: A Life Transformed by Truth

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A man who made a career of death and lies became a hero for life and truth.
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The Quranic Case Against Killing Apostates

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A leading Muslim scholar questions whether foundational texts of Islam really do prescribe death for leaving Islam.
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Repelling the Attack on Conscience

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A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience
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Did Pius XII Lie to Save Jews?

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A historian looks at how one man sought to serve both truth and love.
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Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

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What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?