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Sexuality & Family

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.

Sexuality & Family

A Step Forward in the Debate about Masculinity

By Luis Parrales

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April 18, 2011
Education & Culture, Sexuality & Family

April 18, 2011
Culture, Marriage

Sexual Revolution: Defend It, If You Can

By Anthony Esolen

Let the sexual revolution be justified on the grounds of the common good.

March 30, 2011
Sexuality & Family

March 30, 2011
Marriage

Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments

By Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley

Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.

March 28, 2011
Sexuality & Family

March 28, 2011
Marriage

Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection

By Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley

There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.

March 21, 2011
Sexuality & Family

March 21, 2011
Marriage

What Marriage Has Become

By Christopher Wolfe

Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.

March 15, 2011
Business & Economics, Sexuality & Family

March 15, 2011
Economics, Natural Law

On Aristotle’s Wide Applicability

By Robert T. Miller

Aristotelian virtue ethics has very little to say about what is a good political structure or economic system.

March 14, 2011
Business & Economics, Sexuality & Family

March 14, 2011
Economics, Natural Law

Defending Alasdair MacIntyre’s Economics

By David Andreas

Alasdair MacIntyre may be wrong about the details of finance, but he is right on the largest questions of political economy.

March 7, 2011
Sexuality & Family

March 7, 2011
Natural Law

John Locke and the Evangelical Retreat from Marriage

By Micah Watson

John Locke’s philosophy gives no support to those who would seek to endorse same-sex civil marriage.

March 4, 2011
Education & Culture, Sexuality & Family

March 4, 2011
Book Reviews, Culture, Marriage

Premarital Sex in America

By Matthew Schmitz

Dispelling the sexual myths of America’s emerging adults.

February 28, 2011
Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

February 28, 2011
Islam, Marriage

Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA

By Gerard V. Bradley

President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.

February 22, 2011
Education & Culture, Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

February 22, 2011
Abortion, Lying, Natural Law

Did Pius XII Lie to Save Jews?

By William Doino Jr.

A historian looks at how one man sought to serve both truth and love.

February 22, 2011
Education & Culture, Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

February 22, 2011
Abortion, Lying, Natural Law

Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

By Carson Holloway

What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?

February 19, 2011
Education & Culture, Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

February 19, 2011
Abortion, Lying, Natural Law

When Speaking Falsely is Right

By Hadley Arkes

All lying is immoral, but not all false utterances are lies.

February 4, 2011
Sexuality & Family

February 4, 2011
Natural Law

The Grounds of Our Judgments

By Hadley Arkes

Wrapping up an exchange on judgment and morality.

February 2, 2011
Sexuality & Family

February 2, 2011
Marriage, Pornography

Commercialized Sex and Human Bondage

By Ellyn Arevalo

The American sex trade—strip clubs, prostitution, and the booming pornography business—feeds on and fuels modern-day slavery.

January 31, 2011
Sexuality & Family

January 31, 2011
Marriage, Pornography

Sex Gone Wrong

By R.J. Snell

On the dualism of degrading desire.

January 24, 2011
Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

January 24, 2011
Abortion, Marriage

Marching on the Right Side of History

By Jennifer Roback Morse

Defenders of marriage should draw hope and courage from the pro-life movement’s success.

January 21, 2011
Sexuality & Family, The Human Person

January 21, 2011
Abortion, Marriage

The Pride of Silence

By Todd Hartch

Speaking out requires humility as well as courage.

January 17, 2011
Sexuality & Family

January 17, 2011
Natural Law

Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism

By Witherspoon Institute

Announcing the preview of a new online resource from the Witherspoon Institute

January 14, 2011
Politics & Law, Sexuality & Family

January 14, 2011
Constitutional Law, Pornography

Health, Safety, and Morals

By Micah Watson

Whether the case involves pornography or genocide, there are times when authorities must intervene to protect human interests.

January 12, 2011
Sexuality & Family

January 12, 2011
Marriage

Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?

By Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George

A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman's second critique of "What is Marriage?"

January 5, 2011
Sexuality & Family

January 5, 2011
Marriage

Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary

By Matthew J. Franck

What’s wrong with a prominent professor’s incestuous relationship with his daughter.

January 3, 2011
Sexuality & Family

January 3, 2011
Marriage

Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

By Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George

A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”

December 30, 2010
Sexuality & Family

December 30, 2010
Marriage

Marriage: Real Bodily Union

By Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George

A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.

December 29, 2010
Sexuality & Family

December 29, 2010
Marriage

Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

By Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George

A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.

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