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Imagine the following scenario: A Louisiana school district introduces a “family life” curriculum for public preschools and elementary schools in which all students are required to participate—no parental opt-outs...

Last week marked ten years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—the case that invalidated state laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife...

On April 22, Kelly Armstrong, the Republican governor of North Dakota, vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would have required public schools (and libraries) to ensure...

A small slice of Arizona wilderness is an unlikely battleground in America’s religious freedom struggle. In recent years, high-profile religious liberty cases have often involved such familiar settings as...

When I met the great Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson, I was a young man, just starting out in academic life. He was already an eminent figure in academia. He...

Due to a leak in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging Mississippi’s prohibition of elective abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation, we now know that the Supreme...

Let me offer a prediction, free of any face-saving hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold that there is no constitutional right to elective abortions. In Dobbs v. Jackson...

Lynn Fitch, the attorney general of Mississippi, faces the most consequential litigation decision of the last 50 years: whether to ask the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade,...

Imagine that I am running for public office—say, president of the United States—and I claim to be a “committed secular progressive.” You say, “But Professor George, you’re no such...

This is a time of testing for our nation. We were already in the midst of dealing with a pandemic—trying to protect public health while respecting basic constitutional liberties—when...

In an April 17, 2019, interview on the Today Show, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the Archbishop of Newark, profoundly and damagingly misrepresented the teaching of the Catholic Church on a...

At the heart of the recent Catholic scandals is infidelity—literally the lack of faith. There are priests, including bishops and even cardinals, who do not believe in God, or...

Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching; Catholic moral teaching includes Catholic social teaching. It is a mistake—a common one, yet a profound error—to speak and think of “social”...

In the old days, an unwritten understanding, honored by presidents of both political parties, had it that certain groups—Jews, Catholics, Southerners—got a “seat” on the Supreme Court. For many...

Versions of these remarks were delivered this spring at the commencement ceremony for the Mount Academy of the Bruderhof community in Esopus, New York, and at the commencement ceremony...