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The second pillar of a decent society is the institution of the family, which is built upon the comprehensive sexual union of man and woman. No other institution can top the family’s ability to transmit what is pivotal—character formation, values, virtues, and enduring love—to each new generation.

Intensive Parenting Is (Probably) Incompatible with Having Many Kids.

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The Historic Christian Teaching Against Contraception: A Defense

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The Catholic Church’s teaching on contraception, common to all Christian denominations for 1900 years, is not arbitrary. It reflects a moral truth. And the Catholic Church can never revise it. Part one of two.

Why Autonomy Cannot Explain Marriage and Family Life

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Radical autonomy does not capture the webs into which we are born, our experiences of deep neediness and equally deep love, our embodied nature, our reaction to tragedies and unforeseen obstacles, or our response to our children once they arrive. Autonomy resists the dependence at the heart of loving relationships.

Homosexuality and Bad Arguments

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Historically, the modern liberal position has lacked a robust philosophical argument in favor of homosexual activity. A new book by Chris Meyers attempts to provide one.

President Obama’s Sex-Driven War on Science

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President Obama has sacrificed the well-being of our nation’s youth on the altar of ideology.

Worth the Risk? Rivka Weinberg on “How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible”

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A new book sets out a system of “procreative ethics” based on the idea that life is not a gift but a risk. From this point of view, imposing that risk on someone requires serious justification.

The Problem with Gender Studies

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If gender studies is to serve as a helpful guide, it must abandon its invented dualisms of sex and gender, nature and nurture, embodiment and social construction. Gender sociologists need to study the way human beings actually live rather than the way they wish we would live.

A Psychiatrist Looks at Personal Identity, Family Structure, and Identity Politics

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If we ever hope to rid our country’s political discourse of the poison of identity politics, we must begin by rebuilding the psychological foundations of healthy identity formation in our children.

It’s Possible: Gays and Lesbians Can Have Happy Marriages

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Same-sex marriage is not the only option for gays and lesbians who seek the personal fulfillment and familial happiness that is the universal desire of the human heart.

I Know the Pain of Being Left by a Gay Husband: An Open Letter to Lauren Pearson

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Amid public congratulations for “being true to himself,” a husband’s coming out leaves his wife and children in deep pain.

The Data on Children in Same-Sex Households Get More Depressing

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A new study examines the risk of depression and other negative outcomes among adolescents and young adults raised by same-sex couples.

Federal Policies on Transgender Students: Serving Neither the Community, the Family, nor the Transgender Student

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The recent “Dear Colleague” letter from the Departments of Justice and Education relies on an ideology of expressive individualism to handle issues of gender identity. It does so to the detriment of community, family, and those it intends to serve. It also eliminates one of the most basic and universally accepted forms of privacy.

Regret Isn’t Rare: The Dangerous Lie of Sex Change Surgery’s Success

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Stop enabling the delusion that transition is the only answer. Allow scientific research to flourish, no matter what the results show. Look at the evidence and facts and encourage treatment options that address dangerous psychiatric conditions first.

For Christian Judges, Is Compromising Religious Beliefs “The Price of Citizenship”?

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In our emerging legal climate, Christians are to be admired for their dedication to moral principle, and they are welcome to act in accordance with it at home and at church. But once they venture into public, our new legal overlords tell us, they must act according to a different set of norms.

Sex Education and the Seduction of Selective Science

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HHS has a responsibility to correct misinformation surrounding its list of “evidence-based” sex education curricula, to implement consistent research protocols, and to ensure that the sexual health of American teenagers is prioritized above politics or ideology.

Aristotle, True Friendship, and the “Soulmate” View of Marriage

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What would it mean for true friendship to exist in a marriage?

Rendering the Sexed Body Legally Invisible: How Transgender Law Hurts Women

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The gross misappropriation of executive power to utterly remake the meaning of very basic legal terms threatens not only the structure of our government. It threatens the rule of law itself. This distortion of legal language is a particular threat to laws concerning women.
Public Discourse

A De-Sexed Society is a De-Humanized Society

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President Obama’s transgender directive isn’t about civil rights or bathroom use. It’s about state control over personal relationships.

Political Philosophy and the Bathroom Wars

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A recent statement by the Attorney General provides a window into the intellectual history surrounding the concept of “human dignity” and the selfhood from which it arises.

Dear Mr. Trump: If You Want to Make America Great Again, You’ve Got to Start with Marriage

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If you want to make America great again, you cannot afford to ignore the role stable marriage plays in motivating our labor force and in our nation’s economic growth as a whole.

Valuing Full-Time Motherhood

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While most Americans respect and appreciate mothers on an individual basis, we as a society devalue their vocation.

You Don’t Need “Meternity” Leave to Be Happy—You Just Need to Love Someone Else More Than Yourself

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Becoming parents shocks us out of our normal state of being. It compels us to love others more deeply and to act upon that love more fully.

Why Governments Haven’t, and Shouldn’t, Recognize Polygamy

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Despite the example set by the Biblical patriarchs, Western societies have traditionally outlawed polygamy, for reasons both religious and secular. In his recent book, John Witte Jr. gives a history of the arguments for and against polygamy, making a compelling case that polygamy should not be recognized today.

Federal Courts, Government Agencies, and Transgender Bathroom Policy

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A federal court has said a student’s subjective understanding alters the meaning of an unambiguous, federal law. And it alters the meaning of the law for everyone in the Gloucester County school district and, potentially, everyone who resides in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

What’s Wrong With Rights?

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Rights in the modern world are meaningless, existing only at the will of a sovereign lawmaker. A return to “perfectionist jurisprudence,” in which rights are derived from plural authorities, at least some of which are higher that the human sovereign, and constructed on genuine human goods, would restore the structural integrity and normative currency of human rights.

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