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Religious Liberty and the Ministerial Exception

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An upcoming Supreme Court decision might give government, rather than religious organizations, the final say on who counts as a religious minister.
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Go to Jail and Get a Seminary Education?

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Religious conversions can be pivotal in turning an inmate away from a life of crime, but only if the process of spiritual transformation continues outside the prison walls.
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Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare

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A recent rule issued by the Obama administration threatens our nation’s healthcare by attacking the consciences of our nation’s healthcare providers.
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Preventing Another Attack: International Religious Freedom

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The advancement of international religious freedom is crucial for terrorism’s defeat.
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Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America

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John Locke is a deep cultural well from which we still can draw good water.
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Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity

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Intentional killing is always wrong, and support of capital punishment often stems from a misunderstanding of the nature of human dignity.
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Flogging: The Best Hope for Our Broken Prison System?

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A new book argues that flogging may be a more humane, efficient, and just punishment than incarceration.
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A New Kind of Presidential Debate

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Monday's Presidential Forum broke new ground.
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End Human Trafficking: A Contemporary Slavery

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A culture of exploitation and violence, especially sexual exploitation of children, is at epidemic levels here in the United States and around the world. The current Administration’s response is anemic and more must be done.
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Help the Sick and Reduce the Debt: The Moral Economy of the Health-Care Debate

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The health-care debate presents us with a moral imperative to solve an economic problem, but how we solve this economic problem has moral implications: allowing individuals and families greater freedom to choose among treatment options in a market that drives down costs, or establishing centralized control that makes utilitarian calculations of the worth of different people’s lives.
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Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival

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Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion.
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Fix America’s Economy: Two Principles for Reform

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Candidates in the 2012 presidential race should champion two principles for reviving America’s economy: the Adam Smith principle for limiting government and the subsidiarity principle for regulating government intervention.
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Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter

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Presidential candidates in the next election should uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue

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Public officials—especially the President—are obligated to protect the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings, regardless not only of sex and race, but also without regard to age, size, condition of dependency, vulnerability, or the esteem of others. Abortion and embryo-destructive research are profound and lethal violations of this principle of equality to which the law (and the President) must respond.
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40 Years Later: How to Undo the Autonomy Argument for Abortion Rights

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In response to pro-choice appeals to autonomy in support of abortion, we feminists should advocate that parents—both mothers and fathers—have binding duties to their unborn child as the product of their life-giving sexual act.
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Contraception and Healthcare Rights

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Contraception does not respond to an authentic healthcare need, and the state acts untruthfully and beyond its legitimate authority when it mandates contraception coverage.
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Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith-Based Approaches to Crime

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Prejudices of secular and religious groups alike stand in the way of successful crime reduction efforts.
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One Man, One Woman, and the Common Good: Marriage’s Public Purpose

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The state should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, because the state’s interest in marriage is fundamentally about public, not private, purposes for marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered before the United States Senate.
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Philosophy, Marriage, and Moral Grandstanding

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In a discipline whose point is dispassionate reasoning and discourse, some would shut down debate and silence dissenters on a deep and complex moral-political issue. And the view they would anathematize, far from irrational, is more coherent and more compelling than their slippery and ill-defined 'default'.
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The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here

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Five suggestions for how our nation can regain a healthy marriage culture and the economic prosperity and personal flourishing that comes with it. The second in a two-part series.
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A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part Two

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Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part two of two.
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A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part One

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Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part one of two.
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Is Sex Just Like Race?

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Race and sex play qualitatively different roles in our interactions with each other, making sex rationally relevant to our social and political policies in a way that race is not.
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Religious Liberty and Development of Doctrine in Islam

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By the year 2020, the Islamic nations of the Mediterranean Basin will resound with positive cries for democracy, human rights, individual liberty, and the dignity of every man, woman, and child.
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