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“Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of Tolerance

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Conservatives are called bigots because those who embrace the new sexual mores are beholden to the new tolerance as a plausibility structure. Postmodern liberals cannot comprehend the idea that one could simultaneously reject a belief and accept the person who holds it.
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The End of Single-Sex Higher Ed

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As transgender people have increasingly come under the public eye, all-female colleges have caved to pressure to admit trans women—that is, persons identifiably male at birth who now identify as female. But doing so undermines these colleges' mission of educating the next generation of female leaders. Let’s celebrate our differences and our similarities. But let’s not call ourselves something we’re not.
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Surrogacy and Same-Sex Marriage: A Tale of Two Countries

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As skeptics in Ireland feared and the naïve in the United States are now realizing, “marriage equality” inevitably leads to the push for “family equality” through third-party reproduction.
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Gender Identity

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Gender is a way of communicating truths or falsehoods about one’s sex and its corresponding social and cultural roles. An age of gender confusion and rejection calls for reflection on important issues that, in an upright age, would hardly arise. The second in a two-part series.
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Sex Identity

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As animals that reproduce sexually, humans in the paradigm case are either male or female, with the sexes specified by reproductive roles they can potentially fulfill. According to this account, it is impossible for someone to change his or her sex, and all attempts to do so involve mutilation. The first of a two-part series.
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Public School LGBT Programs Don’t Just Trample Parental Rights. They Also Put Kids at Risk.

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No matter what well-intentioned teachers and administrators believe, LGBT acceptance programs designed by GLSEN and funded by the CDC are designed to encourage kids to question their gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and the Price of Progress

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In the old America, there were laws regulating sexual conduct, but freedom of association was largely unimpeded. In the new America, there will be no laws regulating sexual conduct, but freedom of association will be limited in defense of sexual liberation.
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“Sex Change” Surgery: What Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, and You Should Know

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The dark and troubling history of the contemporary transgender movement, with its enthusiastic approval of gender-reassignment surgery, has left a trail of misery in its wake.
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Judicially Mandating Same-Sex Marriage Would Put the US at Odds with the Western World

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Fewer than 9 percent of the countries belonging to the United Nations have redefined marriage to include same-sex relationships—and only one of those did so via its judiciary. A judicial redefinition of marriage would make the United States an extreme outlier on the global stage.
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When My Father Told Me He Wanted to Be a Woman

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When I was nine years old, my father told me he wanted to become a woman. I know I speak for others who have undergone similarly tragic childhoods when I say that I pray the Supreme Court will seriously consider the six amicus briefs submitted by the children of LGBT parents.
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Nature vs. Synthetics: What’s at Stake in the Dolce and Gabbana Controversy

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Dolce and Gabbana, whether they use the term or not, are strong advocates of natural law.
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Are Not Like Race: Why ENDA is Bad Policy

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Sexual orientation and gender identity are conceptually different from race, and beliefs about marriage as the union of man and woman are conceptually and historically different from opposition to interracial marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered on Monday March 16 before the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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The Girl in the Tuxedo: Two Variations on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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Teens struggling with their sexual identity may seem to have more options than they did in the 1980s—but one important option is increasingly denied to them.
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Is Christian Teaching on Sexuality Psychologically Harmful?

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For parents with LGBT children, Christianity offers an alternative to false dilemmas of affirmation or abandonment.
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Between Magisterium and Magistrate: Notre Dame’s Choice on Marriage’s Meaning

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Notre Dame’s acceptance of the same-sex marriage movement’s rhetorical paradigm has made our nation’s flagship Catholic institution impotent. Yet there is an opportunity for the Notre Dame community to model ways to promote the good amid the crumbling ruins of institutional integrity.
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Breaking the Silence: Redefining Marriage Hurts Women Like Me – and Our Children

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The push to present a positive image of same-sex families has hidden the devastation on which many are built. We must stand for marriage—and for the precious lives that marriage creates.
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Marriage and Witness: What’s Going on at Notre Dame?

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The University of Notre Dame is unwilling to bear an “uncompromising witness,” as Pope Francis challenged it to do, to the moral truths of marriage and sexuality. This is a subtle but certain pastoral failure on the university’s part.
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Gender, Discrimination, and Marriage

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In the name of equality, same-sex marriage seeks to codify gender discrimination. But marriage welcomes everyone: husband and wife, father and mother, grandfather and grandmother.
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Jonathan Rauch’s Denial

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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.
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Euthanizing the Unhappy: The Urgent Need for Love

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The case of a Belgian woman who committed physician-assisted suicide after a sex-change operation reveals that we must not only look more closely at the causes of gender dysphoria, we must also offer all people the love that they so deeply need.
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Come Out and Celebrate?

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National Coming Out Day’s emphasis on “celebrating” students’ self-identification as LGBT undermines Notre Dame’s pastoral responsibility to help students develop an integrated sexual identity and a true understanding of human dignity.
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Saving Our Locker Rooms

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We need to offer cogent, rational arguments against non-discrimination laws that would de-segregate single-sex personal facilities.
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What Will Become of Equal Protection for Women?

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Laws in Massachusetts and California requiring that sex-segregated facilities be open to both sexes will undermine equal protection for women.
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A Pulpit for Bullies

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To campaign against the bullying of LGBT people as if disagreement with the gay lifestyle were an evil is itself a form of bullying.
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