Conscience, Obamacare Mandates, and Sex-Reassignment Therapies
No American should be forced to violate his or her moral and religious beliefs, especially when it comes to morally fraught issues in health care.
Protecting the Religious Liberty of Adoption and Foster Care Providers
Provided agencies meet basic requirements protecting the welfare of children, they should be free to operate according to their values, especially their religiously informed beliefs about marriage. New legislation introduced this week would protect this right.
The Blessings of Liberty and the Index of Culture and Opportunity
Opportunity is not merely the absence of artificially imposed impediments. It is also the capacity to pursue happiness, individually and in community. Adapted from the 2014 Index of Culture and Opportunity.
What Makes a Marriage? Love, Sex, or Comprehensive Union
Prof. Charles Reid thinks love makes a marriage. He claims we think sex makes a marriage. In truth, comprehensive union makes a marriage. And getting marriage right matters for everyone.
The Supreme Court, You and Me, and the Future of Marriage
What happened yesterday at the courthouse matters, and we must keep up our witness to the truth about marriage, by word and deed, until it is safely beyond judicial overreach.
We Don’t Need to Redefine Marriage to Fix Policy Problems
Good public policy can meet the needs of all Americans without redefining marriage.
The Bishops and the Mandate: Principled Witness vs. Politics as Usual
The controversy over the HHS mandate is not a spat about wonkish detail or tribal privilege. It remains a struggle for the principle of religious freedom, the soul of civil society.
The Lazy Slander of the Pro-Life Cause
Do pro-lifers care about life after birth?
Does Marriage, or Anything, Have Essential Properties?
A reply to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
Marriage: No Avoiding the Central Question
A reply to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino’s second critique of “What is Marriage?”
Marriage: Real Bodily Union
A response to FamilyScholars Blogger Barry Deutsch.
Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?
A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
The Argument Against Gay Marriage: And Why it Doesn’t Fail
A response to NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino.
