Law
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Why Gay Rights Are Not The New Civil Rights
Supporters of same-sex marriage love to make analogies to the African American Civil Rights Movement. Analogies are…
Religion in a Heart-Shaped Box
I never have known the joy of owning a small, pink, heart-shaped music box. In point of…
How We Portray Suffering and Suicide
Those of us who have never experienced severe physical disability have no clue about the depth of…
Let Religious Freedom Ring
Update: In a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court decided in Hobby Lobby’s favor. When Chuck…
Give Reagan a Rest
Conservatives have a chance to make the country more productive and work-friendly. But they can also throw…
Starvation as the New “Death with Dignity”
Self-starvation has become the latest craze among the “death with dignity” crowd. This has been coming on for…
We Need More First Amendment Freedom, Not Less
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that the answer to objectionable speech “is more speech,…
What Happened to Switzerland
In 2008, bioethicist Yuval Levin in his book Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy identified a subtle…
Prisoners Are Calling. Who’s Answering?
Prisons, at the very minimum are intended as quarantine; keeping cities and towns safer by removing criminals…
Beat the Establishment
The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain…
The Miserable Science Meets the Divine Science
On April 3–4, the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago held its sixth annual conference…
Not Just For Profit
Post-argument predictions will continue to pour out regarding Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, cases…
Implied Consent
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act’s “contraception mandate”—the requirement that…
A Terrible Ruling Against a Terrible Film
It may seem hard to get upset that the Ninth Circuit recently demanded that YouTube take down…
John Wesley and Religious Freedom
Lumping together the recently attempted Arizona religious freedom law with new criminal laws against homosexuality in Nigeria…
