Judge To Bakers: No Free Speech For You
By decree of the great state of Oregon, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa must pay $135,000 to the lesbian couple whom they “mentally raped” by refusing to bake their wedding cake. This was...
View ArticleHow Choice And Emotion Can Influence Sexual Orientation
Sex is the headline story this summer. What is the sex of Bruce Jenner’s brain, and what should be the sex of the romantic partners in marriage? The underlying theme of these sex stories is one of the...
View ArticleRand Paul, Don’t Swallow The Bait
Sen. Rand Paul has walked straight into a bait and switch trap set by big-government proponents like Cass Sunstein. In a recent Time magazine commentary, Paul reacted to the Supreme Court ruling on...
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Which Same-Sex Marriage Supporter Is Correct?
Some same-sex marriage supporters have very different goals in supporting it. It’s worth looking at these goals, because they are in direct conflict with one another. One side is right, and the other...
View ArticleLena Dunham Makes The Case For Oregon Cake Bakers. Really!
Lena Dunham has a tremendously sad piece in the New Yorker about how her boyfriend told her they would get married once marriage was redefined to include same-sex marriage couples. In his Obergefell...
View ArticleWill Marriage Dissidents Be Treated As Bigots Or Pro-Lifers?
With its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court has brought the sexual revolution to its apex—a redefinition of our civilization’s primordial institution, cutting its link to procreation...
View ArticleThe Argument For Redefining Marriage That Gives Me Pause
While I listened to Justice Anthony Kennedy read his decision on marriage from the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court, I thought about the one argument I would not know how to answer if it ever came from...
View ArticleHow Christians Can Bake Cakes And Sign Licenses For Gay Weddings
Editor’s note: Below, Matthew Arildsen and Hunter Baker offer suggestions for how Christians can live in our new totalitarian culture without compromise but also without leaving behind the work they...
View ArticleThe Big Gay Marriage Lie
It has become devastatingly clear that virtually the entirety of the gay-marriage activist effort was built on a lie. That lie, repeated ad nauseam, was this: gay marriage will affect nobody outside of...
View Article5 Questions For Libertarians Who Support Privatizing Marriage
Reason magazine went out on a limb recently and published an article entitled “Privatizing Marriage Is a Terrible Idea,” by Shikha Dalmia. She presented an argument that is boldly counter-intuitive for...
View ArticleLiberals Don’t Want You To Read Ryan Anderson
Ryan T. Anderson is the most dangerous man in America. His new book, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom,” is the hottest new thing that you absolutely should not read. At...
View ArticleBroken Homes Are Overloading Social Services
In summer 2015, the nation celebrated as same-sex marriage reached all 50 states. The last strongholds of bigotry and hatred were finally overcome. The laws preventing gay couples from pursuing the...
View ArticleWhy Same-Sex Marriage Will Never Measure Up To The Real Thing
According to American icon and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, “The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of...
View ArticleKim Davis Uproar Shows That Breaking The Law Is Only Okay When Progressives...
The main contestant on this week’s edition of Internet outrage theater is Kim Davis, a Democratic clerk in Kentucky who is refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Davis, who was arrested by...
View ArticleWhy The Left Hunts Kim Davis
Kim Davis is now in jail. On the one hand, it probably didn’t have to be this way. She could have deputized another member of her office to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. Or, even more...
View ArticleWhat Both Sides Get Right And Wrong About Kim Davis
Kentucky Clerk of Court Kim Davis is free, but it remains to be seen whether she’ll stay that way. The judge ordered that she be released from jail on one condition: She must allow her deputies to...
View ArticleAbortion, Suicide, And Same-Sex Weddings Are Now Your Job
Despite all appearances to the contrary, the Left actually loves Kim Davis, who just switched her political affiliation from Democrat to Republican. The mantra against Davis is that you can’t refuse to...
View ArticleKim Davis Exposes A Nerve Of American Law
Somehow, a local controversy involving a county clerk in Kentucky provides the opportunity to revisit the Obergefell decision before the ink is dry on the Supreme Court’s opinion. Kim Davis—whether you...
View ArticleBabies For Sale, In A Market Near You
The black market in baby sales is a predictable shadow enterprise of foreign surrogacy markets. The open question is how long it will remain a back-alley economy. Considering the form and function of...
View ArticleHow Empathy Is Killing Us
Despite the wishful thinking of social justice warriors, the fight continues over what some call marriage equality and what those forced to choose between their conscience and their livelihoods...
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