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Judicially Mandating Same-Sex Marriage Would Put the US at Odds with the Western World

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Fewer than 9 percent of the countries belonging to the United Nations have redefined marriage to include same-sex relationships—and only one of those did so via its judiciary. A judicial redefinition of marriage would make the United States an extreme outlier on the global stage.
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When My Father Told Me He Wanted to Be a Woman

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When I was nine years old, my father told me he wanted to become a woman. I know I speak for others who have undergone similarly tragic childhoods when I say that I pray the Supreme Court will seriously consider the six amicus briefs submitted by the children of LGBT parents.
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Nature vs. Synthetics: What’s at Stake in the Dolce and Gabbana Controversy

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Dolce and Gabbana, whether they use the term or not, are strong advocates of natural law.
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Are Not Like Race: Why ENDA is Bad Policy

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Sexual orientation and gender identity are conceptually different from race, and beliefs about marriage as the union of man and woman are conceptually and historically different from opposition to interracial marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered on Monday March 16 before the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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The Girl in the Tuxedo: Two Variations on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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Teens struggling with their sexual identity may seem to have more options than they did in the 1980s—but one important option is increasingly denied to them.
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Is Christian Teaching on Sexuality Psychologically Harmful?

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For parents with LGBT children, Christianity offers an alternative to false dilemmas of affirmation or abandonment.
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Between Magisterium and Magistrate: Notre Dame’s Choice on Marriage’s Meaning

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Notre Dame’s acceptance of the same-sex marriage movement’s rhetorical paradigm has made our nation’s flagship Catholic institution impotent. Yet there is an opportunity for the Notre Dame community to model ways to promote the good amid the crumbling ruins of institutional integrity.
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Breaking the Silence: Redefining Marriage Hurts Women Like Me – and Our Children

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The push to present a positive image of same-sex families has hidden the devastation on which many are built. We must stand for marriage—and for the precious lives that marriage creates.
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Marriage and Witness: What’s Going on at Notre Dame?

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The University of Notre Dame is unwilling to bear an “uncompromising witness,” as Pope Francis challenged it to do, to the moral truths of marriage and sexuality. This is a subtle but certain pastoral failure on the university’s part.
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Gender, Discrimination, and Marriage

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In the name of equality, same-sex marriage seeks to codify gender discrimination. But marriage welcomes everyone: husband and wife, father and mother, grandfather and grandmother.
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Jonathan Rauch’s Denial

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Jonathan Rauch, in his memoir Denial, argues that only access to the institution of marriage can make gays and lesbians whole. In doing so, he purposefully suppresses the truth that there are many other options available to those who are attracted to persons of the same sex.
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Euthanizing the Unhappy: The Urgent Need for Love

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The case of a Belgian woman who committed physician-assisted suicide after a sex-change operation reveals that we must not only look more closely at the causes of gender dysphoria, we must also offer all people the love that they so deeply need.
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Come Out and Celebrate?

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National Coming Out Day’s emphasis on “celebrating” students’ self-identification as LGBT undermines Notre Dame’s pastoral responsibility to help students develop an integrated sexual identity and a true understanding of human dignity.
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Saving Our Locker Rooms

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We need to offer cogent, rational arguments against non-discrimination laws that would de-segregate single-sex personal facilities.
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What Will Become of Equal Protection for Women?

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Laws in Massachusetts and California requiring that sex-segregated facilities be open to both sexes will undermine equal protection for women.
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A Pulpit for Bullies

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To campaign against the bullying of LGBT people as if disagreement with the gay lifestyle were an evil is itself a form of bullying.
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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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Memo to Lady Gaga: “Born This Way” Doesn’t Mean “Act This Way”

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It remains unclear whether sexual orientation is genetically determined. Even if it is, that doesn’t justify advocacy for same-sex marriage.
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Sky Fall: Gender Ideology Comes to the Schoolhouse

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Since redefining marriage requires us to deny sexual differences, even school children now have to conform to that principle at the risk of punishment.
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Reflections of a Former Fetus and Former Incubator

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Radical pro-choice rhetoric attacks the most basic facts of our human existence: that the human body comes in two different but complementary types, male and female. They cannot forgive women who embrace femininity rather than neuter themselves.
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Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity at the UN

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One of the great achievements of the 20th century is the development of the universal human rights regime. But that regime teeters under the weight of new ideologies, and as it teeters it endangers not just gays and lesbians but everyone.
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In the Courthouse was the Word

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Though we feel that we human beings are meant for something, not individually and arbitrarily, but together and truly, we lack the language and even the political sanction to think along those lines.
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Bullying and Civil Rights

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The Obama Administration’s campaign against “bullying” and “harassment” in schools is a subterfuge to exert federal control over the minutiae of daily school operations and to impose its preferred cultural attitudes.
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Public Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage

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Senior citizens are less likely to support same-sex marriage than younger Americans, but that does not mean that they are anti-gay.