Sexual Orientation Laws and Religious Freedom

By |2014-08-01T09:19:37-05:00July 22nd, 2014|Categories: Education, Homosexual Unions, Religion, Sexuality|Tags: |

Legislation pertaining to sexual orientation is often justified by the claim that it protects citizens’ liberty. Advocates of this type of legislation do so with the intent of using the state to enforce the belief that homosexuality and other sexual choices are natural moral acts. Groups that support laws such as the “Fair Education Act” [...]

A Literary Lament for Lost Love

By |2016-02-12T15:28:10-06:00June 25th, 2014|Categories: Anthony Esolen, Books, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Homosexual Unions, Marriage|

If you write a book exposing our society’s aggressive LGBTQ agenda do not expect to be thanked. Do not expect to be noticed. Do not expect for your book to register on the cultural radar. Expect the opposite. Robert R. Reilly’s recent book Making Gay Okay was ignored not only by progressive elites, but also [...]

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage was Paved by Rousseau

By |2014-01-12T16:45:17-06:00July 24th, 2013|Categories: Homosexual Unions, Natural Law|Tags: |

There is more to same-sex marriage than politics. It only becomes plausible if you accept certain assumptions about how to distinguish what is natural from what is unnatural and what is right from what is wrong. The intellectual origins of the debate stretch all the way back to the Greeks, but radical changes in philosophy [...]

The Family Crisis & the Future of Western Civilization

By |2022-10-20T12:26:11-05:00June 3rd, 2013|Categories: Christian Humanism, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, Culture, Homosexual Unions, Marriage, Virtue|Tags: , , |

We may be on the verge of a wider confrontation that will decide not only the survival of the family but fundamental questions about the scope and nature of the modern state. In April 2009, Dr. James Dobson stepped down as head of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family with a pessimistic message [...]

Could You Be a British Judge?

By |2014-01-20T12:04:38-06:00January 31st, 2013|Categories: Culture, Homosexual Unions, Marriage, Stephen Masty|

As a British judge, how would you rule under the forthcoming law allowing homosexual marriage? Winners may become British judges after purchasing a horse-hair wig. 1) Clarissa wants to divorce Arthur because he has been having an affair with Clive. Can divorce be granted? (a) yes; (b) no; (c) yes if Clive agrees to a sex-change [...]

Homosexual Unions v. Incest – What’s the Difference? (Part II)

By |2017-06-26T12:28:21-05:00February 1st, 2011|Categories: Conservatism, Culture, Homosexual Unions, John Creech, Marriage, Natural Law, Politics, Sexuality|

As I mentioned in my previous essay, although we still think incest is wrong, we appear to be reaching the point where we can’t explain why its wrong. We’re in this predicament because, at some point, we began to that think that extra-marital heterosexual sex is morally permissible, and, more recently, that homosexual sex is as [...]

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