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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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NoFap: One Small Step for Man

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NoFap, an anonymous online community devoted to helping its “Fapstronaut” members overcome their addictions to masturbation and pornography, lends credence to traditional moral teachings and offers important insights for defenders of sexual morality.
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Internet Pornography & the First Amendment

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Current jurisprudence protecting pornography as “artistic expression” contradicts the Founders’ understanding and the underlying purposes of the First Amendment’s protection of speech, and it fails to protect Americans from the social and personal trauma caused by pornography. The second in a two-part series.
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The New Narcotic

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New neurological research reveals that porn is as potently addictive as heroin or cocaine.
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A Married Mom and Dad Really Do Matter: New Evidence from Canada

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A new academic study based on the Canadian census suggests that a married mom and dad matter for children. Children of same-sex coupled households do not fare as well.
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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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Millennials and Marriage

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Young Americans have come to believe that they can only achieve “good” marriages through professional success and economic prosperity.
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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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Marriage, Community, & Kinship

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Marriage connects more than just a man and a woman: it creates and sustains the fabric of society as a whole.
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Hotels and the Pornography Plague: An Example of Moral Responsibility from Scandinavia

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While many American hotel executives refuse to rid their businesses of pornography, Petter Stordalen, owner of one of Scandinavia’s largest hotel chains, is leading the way forward.
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Now That We’re All Haters…

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To defend marriage, we must reframe the narratives that shape our culture and our minds.
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Why Is It So Difficult to Discuss Marriage?

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Redefining marriage will bring profound and perhaps unintended consequences for the ways in which we think of ourselves as men and women, and for the kind of society we live in. Adapted from the Foreword to The Meaning of Marriage (2006).
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Losing My Religion: Faith, Family, and the Real Story of Secularization in the West

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In her new book, Mary Eberstadt argues that the West started losing God when it started losing the natural family. If she is right, then churches need to encourage and promote family formation, and religious believers need to form families.
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Collaborative Reproduction and the Things We Should Not Do

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The city council of Washington, DC should consider the psychological damage to children that would come of a new bill legalizing surrogacy contracts.
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The New Article of Faith for Canadian Law Schools: Same-Sex Marriage

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More evidence from Canada of the danger of allowing the endorsement of same-sex marriage to become a prerequisite to participation in public life.
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The Legal Circus That Killed Proposition 8

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The process that killed Prop 8 in California should concern anyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law. The cheaters won.
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Without Words to Describe

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Those of us who value life over death, vibrant religious exercise, and the good of natural marriage need to find our voice again even though the powers-that-be are redefining words arbitrarily and avoiding reason.
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How Will Future Historians Treat Same-Sex Marriage?

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Future historians will probably marvel that LGBT activists—a small, well-organized, and wealthy segment of the population—successfully deployed civil rights language for material benefit, especially at a time when national economic inequality only continues to worsen.
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Same-Sex Parenting: Child Abuse?

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Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as “normal” imposes a silence on children about the wound caused by the loss of one parent or the other.
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Marriage, the Court, and the Erosion of Constitutional Democracy

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What future does democratic self-government have in our country if same-sex marriage supporters are willing to undermine it through the courts?
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Abraham Lincoln, the Supreme Court, and the Defense of Marriage Act

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Just as Lincoln rejected the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Dred Scott decision, so too conservative leaders need to reject the Court’s faulty reasoning about DOMA. Anti-democratic judicial activism has become habitual only because our elected leaders have declined to respond to it with Lincoln’s clarity and firmness.
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The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage

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What happened yesterday at the courthouse matters, and we must keep up our witness to the truth about marriage, by word and deed, until it is safely beyond judicial overreach.
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On Winning the Marriage Debate

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Conservatives need to argue as lovers: As we woo the person across from us, we are funny, self-effacing, merciful, and confident.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, Fundamentally At Odds

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Marriage and religious freedom will stand or fall together.
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What Is a Mother to Do? Questions for Same-Sex Marriage Advocates

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To demand that we recognize same-sex romantic relationships as marriages, and teach our children so, is to prevent them from discovering reality.
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