fbpx
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Search
Close this search box.
Search Results For:

Search Results for: same-sex marriage – Page 16

Public Discourse

What’s Wrong is Right: A Revolution in Rationalization

By
Today, we face a movement to accomplish on a societal level what those who embrace morally condemned behavior have always sought as individuals: rationalization.
Public Discourse

Polygamy and Human Dignity

By
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.
Public Discourse

Brown v. Board of Education Turns Sixty

By
The new world of civil rights turns the old one on its head.
Public Discourse

Philosophy and Morality in Public Discourse

By
If we want to move public discourse in the right direction, we should rely on the many assumptions we share with most of our contemporaries.
Public Discourse

The Rich Get Married, the Poor Get Poorer

By and
The Canadian dialogue on marriage and economic prosperity lags behind the American conversation, but a new report aims to change that.
Public Discourse

Time for a Return of Fusionism

By
Conservatives and libertarians must rediscover the things that bind them together. A return to Frank Meyer’s philosophy of “fusionism” could provide a roadmap to unity.
Public Discourse

Liberalism’s Biggest Lie: If You Like Your Morality, You Can Keep Your Morality

By
The unchecked progress of sexual liberalism means that we cannot say what kind of moral culture our children will inhabit as adults or, accordingly, what kind of moral culture will form our grandchildren. No responsible person can support such a movement.
Public Discourse

The Mother-Free Money Tree

By
If we believe that human beings should not be for sale and should not be trafficked or manufactured like products, and if we believe that women deserve better than to be treated as mere baby machines, then we must oppose third-party reproduction.
Public Discourse

No Interest in Fathers

By
President Obama’s enthusiasm for emphasizing the importance of fatherhood is an encouraging development. Unfortunately, the president has undercut this message with his own policies.
Public Discourse

Jonathan Rauch’s Denial

By
Jonathan Rauch, in his memoir Denial, argues that only access to the institution of marriage can make gays and lesbians whole. In doing so, he purposefully suppresses the truth that there are many other options available to those who are attracted to persons of the same sex.
Public Discourse

Conscience and Its Reviewers: A Response to Kevin Doyle

By
Kevin Doyle’s review of Robert George's new book is based on a fundamental error. Conscience, rightly understood, is not simply self-will. Rather, conscience identifies one’s duties under the moral law.
Public Discourse

The Global Fight for Children’s Rights: Europe

By
Underground movements in England and France are beginning to counter the global LGBT ideology that has entrenched itself in the governments of First-World nations.
Public Discourse

Sexual Radicalism: Imperial Project, Global Goliath

By
While US conservatives are distracted by internal debates, the wealthy and powerful international movement for LGBT rights is aggressively targeting nations that are poorer and less powerful.
Public Discourse

An Orwellian Warning for Conservatives

By
Supporting crony capitalism weakens the appeal of social conservatism; it is difficult to hold the moral high ground on abortion and marriage while defending exploiters of the poor and oppressed.
Public Discourse

A Married Mom and Dad Really Do Matter: New Evidence from Canada

By
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.
Public Discourse

Saving Our Locker Rooms

By
We need to offer cogent, rational arguments against non-discrimination laws that would de-segregate single-sex personal facilities.
Public Discourse

Rehabbing Authenticity in an Ideological Age

By
We can only define ourselves authentically in terms of, in Charles Taylor’s words, a “backdrop of things that matter”—a set of values that transcend our arbitrary choices. The second of a two-part series.
Public Discourse

Authenticity and the End of Rhetoric

By
Our current jargon of “authenticity” is an affront to political friendship—it demands that others always capitulate to our claims, and makes not doing so tantamount to harm. The first of a two-part series.
Public Discourse

Lessons on Conscience Protection from the UK

By
Unless Americans respond to the Supreme Court’s recent marriage decisions with greater protections for the rights of conscience, our first freedom is sure to lose force, just as it has in the UK.
Public Discourse

The “Mystery of Life” Makes Law a Mystery

By
Since our culture has embraced Justice Kennedy’s “mystery of life” philosophy, we lack a coherent framework for making laws that don’t just cater to personal preferences.
Public Discourse

The Legal Circus That Killed Proposition 8

By
The process that killed Prop 8 in California should concern anyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law. The cheaters won.
Public Discourse

The DOMA Decision and the Inscrutable Anthony Kennedy

By
When Justice Anthony Kennedy writes a majority opinion for the Supreme Court, he is famous for baffling his fellow justices (particularly Justice Antonin Scalia) as well as lower court judges.
Public Discourse

Without Words to Describe

By
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.
Public Discourse

The Declaration of Independence and the American Creed

By
The Declaration of Independence contains the clearest, most concise, and most eloquent articulation of the American creed: a political definition of man in two axioms, and three corollary propositions on government.
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Public Discourse © 2024 | All Rights Reserved