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.
Author: Ryan T. Anderson (Ryan T. Anderson)
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The Blessings of Liberty and the Index of Culture and Opportunity
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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The Right to Be Wrong
The right to religious freedom is for everyone, not just those with the “right” beliefs.
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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
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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Marriage Matters, and Redefining It Has Social Costs
What is marriage, why does marriage matter for public policy, and what are the consequences of redefining marriage? Adapted from testimony delivered on Monday, January 13, 2014 to the Indiana House Judiciary Committee.
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What Makes a Marriage? Love, Sex, or Comprehensive Union
Prof. Charles Reid thinks love makes a marriage. He claims we think sex makes a marriage. In truth, comprehensive union makes a marriage. And getting marriage right matters for everyone.
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The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage
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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Truth, Responsibility, and Love
The Regent University 2013 Commencement Address, delivered May 4, 2013.
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We Don’t Need to Redefine Marriage to Fix Policy Problems
Good public policy can meet the needs of all Americans without redefining marriage.
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On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: A Public Discourse Symposium
Witness to the truth matters for its own sake, but persistent, winsome witness also tends to bear good fruit, even if it takes 40 years and counting.
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Can the President Have a Marriage Agenda Without Talking About What Marriage Is?
How successful can a “new conversation on marriage” be when its leaders can’t even say what marriage is?
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The Bishops and the Mandate: Principled Witness vs. Politics as Usual
The controversy over the HHS mandate is not a spat about wonkish detail or tribal privilege. It remains a struggle for the principle of religious freedom, the soul of civil society.
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Coming Apart, and Back Together?
Charles Murray argues we’ve come apart, but can therapeutic Deism and the sexual revolution put us back together?
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Conservative Poverty Fighting
Neither liberal nor libertarian, a principled conservative way of helping the poor.
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Conservatives and Social Justice
Conservatives shouldn’t ignore or attack social justice, but must articulate sound principles of social justice.
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Human Development and Human Flourishing: Creating Capabilities Isn’t Enough
Rawlsian “public reason” approaches to human capabilities are insufficient bases for social justice.
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Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond
Introducing a Public Discourse symposium on the 2012 election.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: Where to Go from Here
How and why considering distribution will yield a complete economic science. The second in a two-part series.
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Dismal Science Redeemed: What’s Gone Wrong
A new book challenges us to rediscover the missing element of our economic science. The first in a two-part series.
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Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?
A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"
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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question
A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”