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Dignity, Dystopia and the Meaning of Marriage

Prologue: A while ago I had the pleasure of taking one of our younger family members to a party at the home of a girl she knew from school. I had some notice that the girl’s family was not a “traditional family structure” as we, with our orthodox Christian sensibilities, would...
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From CRISIS: Explaining the Decline in Abortion Rates

Anne Hendershott discusses what some abortion advocates call a “worrisome trend.”
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Pope Gives Short Shrift to Rome March for Life

May 10. It was a hot Roman Sunday as pilgrims headed for St. Peter’s Square for the traditional Papal appearance for the Regina Coeli after which the Pontiff greets the crowds and bestows his apostolic blessing. Clusters of tourists and tour groups as well as couples ambled along...
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From Public Discourse: The dark side of the transgender movement

Bruce Jenner and Diane Sawyer could benefit from a history lesson. I know, because I suffered through “sex change” surgery and lived as a woman for eight years. The surgery fixed nothing—it only masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems. –Walt Heyer  ...
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National Review on why Rand Paul and media don’t mix . . .

Large majorities oppose re-criminalizing all abortions. But large majorities also support limits on abortion, including banning them after 20 weeks (when about one-quarter of babies can survive) or 24 weeks (when half or more can)....
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Stop Physician Assisted Suicide: Two videos from the Patients’ Rights Action Fund

The Patients’ Rights Action Fund has released two videos against physician assisted suicide. These two are the first in a series that will include at least 5 and possibly as many as ten short videos, mostly focusing on survivors of terminal illnesses and doctors who treat...
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Lincoln, the Republican Party, and Human Rights

Tuesday, April 14, marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  A century and a half ago, on a fateful Good Friday evening, the 16th President of the United States, the man who ended the scourge of slavery in the United States, was shot at the hand of a...
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Wesley Smith on Artificial Intelligence: via First Things

The existence of a human soul may be a contentious issue these days, but regardless of whether we each have one, a manufactured machine surely would not. –Wesley Smith AI Machines: Things, not Persons    
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via The Telegraph: Sir Elton John boycotts Dolce & Gabbana

In a scathing post on picture sharing site Instagram, the furious singer branded Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana “judgmental” and “archaic”.
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