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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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Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question

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

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A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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Moral Principles and Human Happiness

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Moral principles should be derived from experience about what makes people happy, not from logic.
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Kant the Bogey Man

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Kant was right: we need principles to guide our judgments.
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The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail

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A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
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The Ambitions of Natural Law Ethics: A Reply to Arkes

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What's unnatural about the Kantian take on natural law.
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The Particular Appeal of Universal Principles

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Responding to a review of his most recent book, Hadley Arkes asks some questions about the nature of natural law.
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Campus Political Correctness and the Costs of Free Speech

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It is difficult to speak up and defend certain unpopular truths on today’s college campuses. But it is also urgently needed and greatly rewarding.
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Unemployment and the Minimum Wage

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To stimulate job creation, Democrats favor government spending and Republicans favor tax cuts, but is there a more direct way?
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Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing

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The practice of socially responsible investing, often associated with opposition to apartheid or support for environmental causes, can also be a way to battle the harms of pornography.
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Marriage and the Law of Tradition

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Custom and tradition, far from being necessarily irrational, are often the vehicles of guiding and binding reason.
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Don’t Defend, Don’t Tell

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The Obama Administration has chosen to place political considerations over a proper defense of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Public Opinion: Spirals, Frames, and the Seinfeld Effect

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Americans appear to accept same-sex marriage more than they really do, perhaps because they believe it to be more widely accepted than it really is.
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A Marriage Tail

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Re-examining the essential characteristics of marriage.
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Moral Reasoning

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Even same-sex marriage advocates should recognize the bad logic in the ruling overturning Proposition 8.
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Marriage and the Reign of Judges

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The latest decision from our judicial overlords on same-sex marriage spells trouble for republican constitutionalism and the institution of marriage.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Formal Discrimination

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Another reason the analogy between same-sex marriage and interracial marriage fails.
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Remembering the Pill

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The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
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Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage

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Why the analogy fails.
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Morality, Rationality, and Natural Law

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We should prefer natural law thinking to utilitarianism -- here's why.
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Pornography and the Muslim World

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Promoting a sexually permissive pop-culture in the Muslim world gets the true foundations of ordered liberty wrong. In defining our ideals by rejecting our enemy’s, we go from one extreme to another, and miss the virtuous mean.
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The Social Costs of Pornography

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Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Witherspoon Institute reported a set of scholarly findings and recommendations on the social costs of pornography.
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Marc Thiessen, Double Effect, and the Torturer’s Dilemma

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Both Marc Thiessen and his critics have misunderstood an important moral distinction on the question of torture.
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