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The third pillar of a decent society is a just system of politics and law. Such a government does not bind all persons, families, institutions of civil society, and actors in the marketplace to itself as subservient features of an all-pervading authority. Instead, it honors and protects the inherent equal dignity of all persons, safeguards the family as the primary school of virtue, and seeks justice through the rule of law.

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The Audacity of Faith

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The views about faith and religion that President Obama expressed in his Commencement Address at Notre Dame pave the way for his HHS mandate. He would protect the state from the church, not by privatizing faith, but by redefining it.
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A Constitutional and Wise Way to Protect the Unborn: A Response to Paul Linton

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We should pass Unborn Child Protection Acts and begin the conversation about the pain of the unborn.
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The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Unconstitutional and Unwise

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The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act does not deserve the support of the public because it is unconstitutional and represents poor public policy.
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Explaining Obama’s Evolution

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The electorate will often forgive—and can even embrace—a clean conversion story, where a politician honestly changes his mind and admits to it. But on marriage, such a story should not be available for the President, who was either alarmingly befuddled for several years or merely lying.
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The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage

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Given the legal principles involved in recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages, it’s hard to see any coherence in President Obama’s statement.
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Catholic Social Teaching and the Ryan Budget

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Paul Ryan’s budget plan does not violate principles of Catholic social teaching; it is one prudent application of them.
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Obama, Marriage, and the “Anti-Gay” Theme

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Yesterday’s statement about same-sex marriage by President Obama and last week’s departure of a gay-rights activist from the Romney campaign reveal important lessons.
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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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Evangelicals and Politics: The Way Forward

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Virtuous citizenship requires building moral consensus across religious and cultural divides. The third in a three-part series.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Religious Right (Born 1979, Died 2000)

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The largely forgotten history of evangelical political activism forces us to re-evaluate the rights and wrongs of the Religious Right movement. The second in a three-part series.
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Evangelicals and Politics: The Hundred Years’ War

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The legacy of the great Protestant schism a century ago continues to hinder evangelicals from finding satisfactory ways to participate in America’s civic order. The first in a three-part series.
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Is Conscience Partisan? A Look at the Clinton, Moynihan, and Kennedy Records

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When did respect for conscience rights, once a bipartisan consensus, become a “Republican war on women”?
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Beyond Conservatism and Libertarianism

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Despite their disagreements, conservatives and libertarians often agree on many things. Resolving their differences, however, means rejecting philosophical skepticism and taking right reason seriously.
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Should Libertarians Be Conservatives?: The Tough Cases of Abortion and Marriage

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The libertarian commitment to free markets and limited government is best preserved within a broader conservative context.
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Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Egalitarianism

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Libertarians and conservatives should not allow their differences to impede political cooperation against the common adversary: egalitarian liberalism.
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The Unprecedented, Extraordinary, Anti-democratic, Activist Power of Judicial Review

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President Obama’s recent quips about “judicial activism” do not amount to arguments. They are shallow sloganeering.
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Rediscovering Property

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Has the Supreme Court rediscovered the institution of property? In a recent unanimous affirmation of property owners’ rights, the Court gives us reason to hope.
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The Occupy Movement’s Vacuous Critique of Inequality

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The Occupy Movement should be an occasion for the American left to rethink its own moral crusades, which turn out to be morally corrosive and hence incompatible with any serious commitment to social justice.
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Libertarianism: Not So Wrong, After All! A Reply to Nathan Schlueter

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Libertarianism offers the best defense of individual rights that government can employ.
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The Libertarian Double-Face and the Case for Conservatism: A Reply to Wenzel

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Conservatives value individual liberty as much as libertarians, but they deny that freedom from coercion is the only form of liberty.
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Pepsi, Proxies, and Pro-Life Respect for the Rule of (Corporate) Law

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Social activists opposed to the use of HEK-293—a kidney cell line derived from an aborted baby—in PepsiCo products should not respond with shareholder activism, because it wreaks political and economic havoc.
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Confusion About Discrimination

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Not all discrimination is wrong. While the government should regulate some forms of wrongful discrimination, other forms of discrimination lie beyond the purview of the state.
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Privatizing Marriage Is Unjust to Children

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The primary business of the state is justice. Because children cannot be autonomous, adult society has an obligation in justice to provide institutional structures that protect their most basic interests.
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Privatizing Marriage Will Expand the Role of the State

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Libertarians are being taken in by rhetoric that sounds libertarian but, in fact, will lead to a dramatic shift in the balance of power between the state and civil society, indeed between the state and the natural order itself.

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