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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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Public Discourse

Incest and Pornography: More Similar Than We Think

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Although we uphold the cultural taboo on incest, we accept something with precisely the same negative effect on integrity, marriage, and family: pornography.
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Hooking Up, Shacking Up, and Saying “I Do”

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Despite the lack of cultural support for positive practices that help couples toward healthy marriage relationships, the good news is that individuals have control over their relationship choices.
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Tracking Christian Sexual Morality in a Same-Sex Marriage Future

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Churchgoing Christians who support same-sex marriage are more likely to think pornography, cohabitation, hook-ups, adultery, polyamory, and abortion are acceptable. And it’s reasonable to expect continued change in more permissive directions.
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Law and Morality in Public Discourse: How Christians Can Rebuild Our Culture

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It’s in seeking Jesus Christ with all our hearts that culture is built and society is renewed. It’s in prayer, the sacraments, changing diapers, balancing budgets, preaching homilies, loving a spouse, forgiving and seeking forgiveness—all in the spirit of charity—that, brick by brick, we bring about the kingdom of God. Adapted from an address delivered August 6th at the Archdiocese of Toronto’s “Faith in the Public Square” symposium.
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A Time for Heroism

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If we hope to protect the unborn, promote sexual integrity, preserve the truth about marriage, and defend the freedom of religious conscience in our country, we cannot simply live good lives—we must live heroic ones.
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Protecting the Religious Liberty of Adoption and Foster Care Providers

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Provided agencies meet basic requirements protecting the welfare of children, they should be free to operate according to their values, especially their religiously informed beliefs about marriage. New legislation introduced this week would protect this right.
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The Blessings of Liberty and the Index of Culture and Opportunity

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Opportunity is not merely the absence of artificially imposed impediments. It is also the capacity to pursue happiness, individually and in community. Adapted from the 2014 Index of Culture and Opportunity.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage: Civil Debate on a Serious Issue

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Although we disagree with each other about the nature of marriage, we are united in the conviction that it is an issue on which reasonable people of good will can and do reach divergent conclusions.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Destructive Logic of Marriage Revisionism

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Part four of a continuing exchange between Doig and George on the meaning and purpose of marriage.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Equal Dignity of Same-Sex Couples

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Part three of a continuing exchange between Doig and George on the meaning and purpose of marriage.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage: The Need for a Defining Principle

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George replies to Doig’s criticisms of George’s arguments regarding marriage. The second in a week-long exchange.
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Contrasting Views of Marriage: The Benefits of Same-Sex Marriage

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What’s wrong with a long-term committed child-rearing same-sex relationship? Nothing, says Jameson W. Doig. The first in a week-long exchange with Robert P. George.
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Meanwhile, Outside the Panic Room: Contraception, Hobby Lobby, and Women’s Rights

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Contra Justice Ginsburg, the Hobby Lobby decision is no cause for alarm. Yet we should acknowledge and address a fear she highlights: the serious obstacles women face today in the realms of sex, marriage, and parenthood.
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Is Same-Sex Parenting Better for Kids? The New Australian Study Can’t Tell Us

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The Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families has been getting copious positive press coverage. Unfortunately, it has some serious methodological weaknesses—it studies only the lives and experiences of the LGBT elite.
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Dostoyevsky the Prophet: The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov and the Redefinition of Family

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Dostoyevsky prophetically depicts the notion of family as determined not by nature but by consent—an idea that has come to dominate our modern society.
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What’s Wrong is Right: A Revolution in Rationalization

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Today, we face a movement to accomplish on a societal level what those who embrace morally condemned behavior have always sought as individuals: rationalization.
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Polygamy and Human Dignity

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The normalization of polygamy would undermine our commitment to human dignity—our sense that each human being is to be valued as an end in him- or herself, and not merely as a means to others’ ends.
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Western Land Policy and Natural Property Rights

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The principles of natural law and the right to property could help overcome the dysfunction that has paralyzed land management in the western US.
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Marriage, Marketing, and Intimidation: “It is up to you, fearless reader, to act.”

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Proponents of same-sex marriage haven’t won in the arena of ideas—they have won through manipulation and intimidation. Those who oppose them must speak up.
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Building Strong Marriages, One at a Time

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If healthy marriage is the basis of a strong society, it is worth every effort to strengthen it. Marriage education should supplement other efforts to address social problems.
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Marriage and Witness: What’s Going on at Notre Dame?

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The University of Notre Dame is unwilling to bear an “uncompromising witness,” as Pope Francis challenged it to do, to the moral truths of marriage and sexuality. This is a subtle but certain pastoral failure on the university’s part.
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Premature Talk of Surrender on Same-Sex Marriage

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Conservatives must defend marriage for both principled and practical reasons. The Republican Party cannot surrender the cause of marriage without also surrendering the cause of life.
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Marriage Equality and the Bible: Why All Forms of Marriage in the Old Testament are Not Equal

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The only form of marriage that existed before the fall was between one man and one woman. The narrative trajectory of the Old Testament shows that all other versions were the result of sin.
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Do Ideas Really Have Consequences?

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To view practical agreements between Aristotelian-Thomist foundationalists and contemporary anti-foundationalist liberals as “progress” is to fiddle while Rome burns.

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