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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.

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Natural Law and the Unity and Truth of Sexual Ethics: A Reply to Gary Gutting

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Catholic sexual ethics are as fully reasonable today as they were in the time of St Paul. In fact, the natural law understanding of human fulfillment is inherently intelligible even without a theistic framework.
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Federal Court Precedent: A Defense of Judge Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court

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The US Supreme Court has set a precedent upholding the right of states to define marriage as the union of husband and wife. All federal and state judges—including those in Alabama—are bound by that precedent.
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Hearts, Parts, and Minds: The Truth Comes Out

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Once I began thinking, reasoning, and examining my life, an extraordinary thing happened: I couldn’t stop. Reason led me to acknowledge natural law, which led me to begin rejecting some of my former ways of thinking and acting. Reason then led me to recognize God.
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The Shopkeeper’s Dilemma and Cooperation with Evil

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A shopkeeper who objects to sex-same weddings but who nevertheless provides services at such weddings generally acts in a morally permissible way if he acts to comply with a validly-enacted law, to preserve the goodwill of his business, and to make a just profit. Nevertheless, a law that in this way coerces a shopkeeper to cooperate with actions he reasonably believes immoral is gravely unjust.
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Truth-Telling and the Right of Self-Government: Why Obama’s Marriage Lie Matters

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The right of self-government depends upon the ability of voters to give their informed consent in choosing elected officials. If candidates lie, self-government becomes impossible.
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Same-Sex Parenting: Unpacking the Social Science

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For some people, scientific research on the subject of same-sex parenting is irrelevant. A new volume is meant for those who still approach the topic of parenting and sexuality with open minds. According to the best data, average life outcomes for children raised by parents in same-sex relationships tend to resemble those of children raised by single and divorced parents.
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The Implications of Extending Marriage Benefits to Same-Sex Couples

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It is morally indefensible for Catholic institutions to recognize and incentivize same-sex marriages by extending marriage benefits to employees who declare themselves legally married to a person of the same sex.
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Abraham Lincoln and Same-Sex Marriage

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The structure and logic of the legal arguments made for nationwide judicial imposition of same-sex marriage are remarkably similar to the arguments made by those who argued for the judicial imposition of slavery nationwide. Will the Republican Party produce another Lincoln to stand against them?
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Hooked Up and Tied Down: The Neurological Consequences of Sadomasochism

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Neurons that fire together wire together. BDSM causes the neural networks controlling sexual arousal, aggression, and fear to become dangerously intertwined. An examination of the phenomenon of BDSM from the perspective of a psychiatrist.
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The Death of The Rule of Law in Alabama

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The constitutional crisis now unfolding in Alabama is a direct and foreseeable result of Judge Callie S. Granade’s orders.
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New Research on Same-Sex Households Reveals Kids Do Best With Mom and Dad

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Published research employing the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), the ECLS (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), the US Census (ACS), the Canadian Census, and now the NHIS all reveal a comparable basic narrative, namely, that children who grow up with a married mother and father fare best.
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The Absurdity of Transgenderism: A Stern but Necessary Critique

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We should make public policy and encourage social norms that reflect the truth about the human person and sexuality, not obfuscate the truth about such matters and sow the seeds of sexual confusion in future generations for years to come.
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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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Dear Justice Kennedy: An Open Letter from the Child of a Loving Gay Parent

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Take it from the adult child of a loving gay parent: redefining marriage promotes a family structure in which children suffer.
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Challenging Unjust Laws Takes Prudence, Courage, and Common Sense

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In the real world, human goods are often in conflict with one another. This reality forces us to make difficult choices and trade-offs that cannot be eliminated or adjudicated by following simple rules.
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Resist or Accommodate Evil: There is No “Third Way”

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When conscience flirts with the idea of accommodating an unjust law, it must politely, yet firmly, reject the sirens of seduction.
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Complementarity: Lessons from Little House in the Big Woods

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The family is only whole and safe when it is founded on the complementarity of masculine and feminine.
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Sex Education in America: How Yesterday’s Extremists Shaped Today’s Sex Ed

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In order to influence the future of sex education, we must have a nuanced understanding of its colorful past.
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Gay Weddings and the Shopkeeper’s Dilemma

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One option for pro-marriage business owners: obey the law and serve gay weddings, but make it known publicly that you believe that the law forcing you to do this is unjust, needs to be changed, and is obeyed only out of your respect for law and the democratic process.
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Seven Things I Wish My Pastor Knew About My Homosexuality

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May I make two requests? Love me, but remember that you cannot be more merciful than God. It isn’t mercy to affirm same-sex acts as good. Don’t compromise truth; help me to live in harmony with it.
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Good News About Relationships in America: Findings from a New, Large, Nationwide Survey

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A new study gives in-depth information about Americans' view about sex, religion, marriage, and family. Though there’s lots of bad news, there are also some encouraging results.
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Marriage and the Black Family

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Black children have suffered the most as a result of the decline of marriage in the black community. And today marriage faces new threats. Those who promote what they call marriage equality have unjustly appropriated the language and the mantle of the civil rights movement. But there can be no equivalence between blacks’ experience of slavery and oppression and the circumstances of homosexuals. Adapted from an address delivered at the Vatican during the Humanum Colloquium.
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Reconnecting an Unbound Generation

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The answer to our culture’s dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births and children raised by single parents is not to lower the bar further. Rather than promoting “planned parenting,” we should work to build a culture of marriage.
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