Why Marriage is Inherently Heterosexual
In the December 15th edition of Newsweek, both Jon Meacham in his editor’s note and religion editor Lisa Miller in her front-page article mock arguments from scripture. At the same time, they invoke...
View ArticleObama on the Value of Human Life: How About Some ‘Vigorous’ Debate?
In his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, President Obama suggested that he valued debate about the issue of abortion. He congratulated Notre Dame’s president, Father Jenkins, for...
View ArticleMarriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection
Activists seeking to redefine marriage typically claim that it is unfair—even arbitrary—for law and public policy to continue to honor the historic understanding of marriage as the conjugal union of...
View ArticleMarriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments
In Part One of this article, we argued that marriage is a union of a man and a woman, committed to sharing their lives together on the bodily, emotional, and rational-volitional levels of their being,...
View ArticleThe Same-Sex “Marriage” Proposal is Unjust Discrimination
The “marriage equality movement”: that’s the name chosen for themselves by same-sex “marriage” supporters. The implicit argument is that the state’s granting marriage licenses only to opposite-sex...
View ArticleHHS Mandate: Unjust (as well as Illegal)
In addition to being illegal by violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (see Ed Whelan’s posts at National Review Online about this starting here), the Health and Human Services contraception...
View ArticleTotal Brain Death: Valid Criterion of Death
Total brain death—the complete and irreversible cessation of functioning of all parts of the brain—has been widely accepted in ethics and law as a valid criterion for pronouncing the death of a human...
View ArticleMarriage Redefinition and a Lifelong Commitment
An article by demographers at the University of Minnesota published in March 2014 revealed that the current divorce rate is much higher than previously thought, especially among those thirty-five and...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Is Right: The Life of a New Human Being Begins at Conception
Senator Marco Rubio is right. The life of a human being begins at conception—not at implantation, “viability,” or birth. This is a scientific fact. It is not, as CNN journalist Chris Cuomo ignorantly...
View ArticleThe Soul: Not Dead Yet
In a recent online essay for the New York Times, the eminent English philosopher Sir Roger Scruton rightly argues that human persons are not reducible to material forces, correctly insisting that we...
View ArticleEmbryology and Science Denial
In an early draft of its next strategic plan, the Department of Health and Human Services has described its mission as “serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception”...
View ArticleHuman Embryos are Human Beings: a Scientific and Philosophical Case
What’s at stake in the abortion debate is precisely what was at stake during the nineteenth-century debate about slavery: Where do we draw the line between beings we can simply use for our own purposes...
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