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The Ninth Circuit’s Desperate Targeting of Justice Kennedy

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This week’s decision in the Prop 8 case is a desperate appeal to Justice Kennedy, and the latest assault of judicial supremacy.
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Keeping Mom, Dad, and Baby: Social Conservatism and the Republican Platform

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In order to win, do Republicans really need to stop talking about abortion and marriage?
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Mandating Our Religious Freedom

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People of faith must reclaim their religious freedom, granted by the Creator and protected by the Constitution.
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Healthcare, Conscience, and Religious Liberty: A Response to Linda Greenhouse

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New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse refuses to see the truth about contraception, conscience, and religious liberty.
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The Scientific Revolution and Contemporary Ethics

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Modern science does not require us to abandon notions of nature and human nature upon which so much of traditional ethics depends.
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Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life

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As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein.
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Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival

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Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion.
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Defend Our Laws: Justice Matters

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In developing their positions on Supreme Court appointments and the Department of Justice, presidential candidates should 1) welcome the battle over the Supreme Court, 2) determine to fight hard for high-quality justices, 3) frame the argument for why abortion policy should be restored to the democratic processes, 4) support the Defense of Marriage Act, and 5) commit to select senior legal leaders who fully embrace their goals and priorities.
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Is Sex Just Like Race?

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Race and sex play qualitatively different roles in our interactions with each other, making sex rationally relevant to our social and political policies in a way that race is not.
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The Family’s End

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The logic of contract and the movement to conquer nature have resulted in the triumph of autonomy and demise of the family. The first of a two-part series.
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Kenji Yoshino’s Dream of Discorporation

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Rather than trying to escape our bodies, we should see that our bodies make union with another possible.
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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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Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary

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What’s wrong with a prominent professor’s incestuous relationship with his daughter.
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The Shock of Recognition

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Newly defined and vigorously enforced rights have proliferated even as they are uprooted from any philosophic grounding.
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Abortion Law is Family Law

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Abortion law is usually seen as a matter of constitutional law. Is it time for that to change?
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Don’t Defend, Don’t Tell

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The Obama Administration has chosen to place political considerations over a proper defense of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law.
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Elitism and Judicial Supremacy

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Faced with an increasingly democratic political system, American elites have turned to the courts as an alternate means of enacting their political and constitutional agenda.
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The Sources of Liberal Intolerance

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Liberal intolerance is rooted in a secular disregard for the dignity of individuals, coupled with the veneration of Progress and the belief that liberal ideologies can’t win in public debate.
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Diversity and Discrimination in the Case of the Christian Legal Society

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Our struggle to identify the sort of diversity that is conducive to a vibrant, participatory, and just society is primarily a political inquiry, not a constitutional one.
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The Pop-Culture Wars

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If we take seriously what is said by Plato and Aristotle, then we must also pay attention to what is being said by the likes of Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
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All in the Family

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Though there is no hope of having a morally neutral definition of marriage, it is possible to have one based on human nature and supported by sound reasoning.
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Law, Feelings, and Religion at the Bar in Iowa

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The Supreme Court of Iowa’s decision to redefine marriage abandons reason and replaces it with feelings as the standard of public consensus.
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How the No-Establishment Rule Does (and Does Not) Protect the Freedom of Conscience

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The Constitution’s no-establishment rule does protect the liberty of religious conscience, but not in the way, or ways, that we usually think.
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