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.
Author: Robert P. George (Robert George)
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Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Destructive Logic of Marriage Revisionism
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: The Need for a Defining Principle
George replies to Doig’s criticisms of George’s arguments regarding marriage. The second in a week-long exchange.
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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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Conscience and Its Reviewers: A Response to Kevin Doyle
Kevin Doyle’s review of Robert George's new book is based on a fundamental error. Conscience, rightly understood, is not simply self-will. Rather, conscience identifies one’s duties under the moral law.
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Hotels and the Pornography Plague: An Example of Moral Responsibility from Scandinavia
While many American hotel executives refuse to rid their businesses of pornography, Petter Stordalen, owner of one of Scandinavia’s largest hotel chains, is leading the way forward.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain: Gifted Thinker and Courageous Woman
Jean Bethke Elshtain, our editorial board member and Witherspoon Institute Senior Fellow, fearlessly pursued truth irrespective of the prevailing orthodoxies in the academy and the broader intellectual world.
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What Is Religious Freedom?
In its fullest and most robust sense, religion is the human person’s being in right relation to the divine. All of us have a duty, in conscience, to seek the truth and to honor the freedom of all men and women everywhere to do the same.
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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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The Common Good: Instrumental But Not Just Contractual
Is the fundamental and essential point of forming the polity the polity itself, or is the polity primarily a means of protecting and achieving many other valuable ends?
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Eugene Genovese: Truth-Teller
Eugene Genovese was a teller of truth, even when the truth to be told was ugly, embarrassing, humiliating. He told the truth, even when it meant confessing complicity in world historical crimes.
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Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the “Grand Bargain”
In the name of “marriage equality” and “non-discrimination,” liberty—especially religious liberty and the liberty of conscience—and genuine equality are undermined.
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Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry
A letter on pornography and business ethics written by two prominent public intellectuals—one a Christian, one a Muslim—sent to hotel industry executives last week.
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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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Morals and Mandates
Morality is not about keeping as long a leash as you can on the harms you cause. It is about keeping upright intentions and rejecting unfair tradeoffs—neither of which Obama’s proposed revision even pretends to affect.
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Pornography, Public Morality, and Constitutional Rights
Every member of the community has an interest in the quality of the culture that will shape their experiences, their quality of life, and the choices effectively available to them and their children.
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Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited
The Judiciary doesn’t have the final word on the meaning of the Constitution, and Congress could step in to protect the 14th Amendment rights of the unborn.
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Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments
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
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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Bernard Nathanson: A Life Transformed by Truth
A man who made a career of death and lies became a hero for life and truth.
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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?”
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?
A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail
A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.