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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

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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Sexual Assaults in the Military: Porn is Part of the Problem

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If our military is to lower its rate of sex crimes, it must limit its members’ consumption of pornography and educate them about its risks.
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Children Need Our Marriage Tradition

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Redefining marriage will make it harder for our children to develop their self-understanding and will sanction procreative methods that treat children like commodities.
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Yes, Marriage Will Change–and Here’s How

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The sexual permissiveness of men will emerge a winner in the contest of ideas as same-sex marital norms begin to shape the larger institution of marriage.
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Lessons from France on the Myths of Same-Sex Marriage

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After the French protests against same-sex marriage, we can no longer speak of redefined marriage as inevitable or enlightened.
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Natural Law and the Economy: A Reply to Miller

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Natural law does not demand capitalism, but we can deduce from natural law that some institutions that are key to market economies are normally just, while practices key to socialist arrangements are usually unjust.
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Justice and the Marriage Debate

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The just way to settle the marriage debate is to delink from marriage any benefits that apply to any group of people who cohabit and comingle assets, while preserving marriage as a permanent and exclusive union of a man and a woman to provide the optimal setting for raising children.
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Gosnell, Law, and Modest First Steps

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The Gosnell case shows us that a society’s laws teach, and if they teach a lesson of injustice they will corrupt its people over time. Indeed, contemporary abortion jurisprudence undermines the very notion of natural rights and constitutional government.
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The Feminist, Pro-Father, and Pro-Child Case against No-Fault Divorce

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No-fault divorce hurts women, men, and children. So why is it still legal?
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Justice Kennedy’s 40,000 Children

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During oral arguments on Prop 8, Justice Kennedy alluded to the views of children of same-sex couples as if their desires and concerns are identical to and uncritical of their parents’ decisions. But the reality is far more complicated.
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Proposition 8 and Discrimination: Marriage on Trial at the Supreme Court

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Proposition 8 does not, contrary to Judge Vaughan Walker’s claims, treat equals unequally.
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Sheer Hart Attack: Morality, Rationality, and Theology

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Natural law theory makes a very limited, but very important claim—that there is common ground between all human beings, and particularly between religious believers and non-believers, on which moral disagreements can be rationally adjudicated.
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Same-Sex Marriage Fever: Prohibition Parallels

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Media voices and progressive activists for same-sex marriage are appealing to judicial fiat because they know they won’t always have public opinion on their side.
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Memo to Lady Gaga: “Born This Way” Doesn’t Mean “Act This Way”

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It remains unclear whether sexual orientation is genetically determined. Even if it is, that doesn’t justify advocacy for same-sex marriage.
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If Knot Now, When? The Impact of Delayed Marriage Among Twenty-somethings

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Young adults desire stable marriage and family life even while they engage in unmarried sex and parenting. We should encourage and help young adults achieve these goals instead of trying to make birth control “sexy.”

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