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The intrinsic good of marriage
Tweet One of the events in the John Adams Center’s recent Goods of Family conference (a really important event put on by the Center’s director, Ralph Hancock) was a superb lecture by Russell Hittinger of the University of Tulsa. Dr. … Continue reading
Poverty’s elephant in the room
Tweet One core advantage of religious and other private charity over government welfare is that it is more likely to address the elephant in the room in discussions of poverty: marriage and family structure. The Department of Workforce Services report … Continue reading
Polyamory and willful blindness?
Tweet Imagine a scenario where a small child is allowed to play with loaded weapons without meaningful oversight from the parents. Then imagine the parents excuse their behavior by saying that the child had not yet been shot or shot … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Law
Tagged child welfare, children, custody, divorce, family, marriage, parenting
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Same-sex marriage inevitable? Not so fast
Tweet At a Sutherland Institute event in April 2011, Maggie Gallagher noted that victory in a war comes when one side believes it is no longer worth fighting. Thus, one of the most important arguments made by those who want … Continue reading
Defending traditional marriage at UVU ethics week
Tweet Utah Valley University’s Center for the Study of Ethics very kindly invited me to give a speech on “The Meaning of Traditional Marriage” on Sept. 18 as part of an Ethics Awareness Week In the speech I tried to explain … Continue reading
Utah's Reid shows leadership on intergenerational poverty
Tweet Utah State Senator Stuart Reid is providing important leadership on a crucial issue — intergenerational poverty. The 1990s saw a major effort to reform public welfare through work requirements for welfare recipients. This effort had merit, but Senator Reid … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty
Tagged children, divorce, family, Legislature, marriage, SB 37, sb37, Stuart Reid, unwed parenting, welfare
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Helen Gurley Brown and the American family
Tweet Helen Gurley Brown’s death last week was followed by a number of laudatory stories about her trail-blazing career at Cosmopolitan magazine. Undoubtedly she was successful, measured by influence and money. But I find it hard to lionize her career … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family, Uncategorized
Tagged cosmo, cosmopolitan, family, feminism, marriage
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How sound marriage laws enhance liberty
Tweet A sincere question often raised in the debate over the definition of marriage is whether it is appropriate for government to be in the marriage business at all. For those of us who believe in the principle of limited … Continue reading
Who’s really driven by hatred in the ‘gay marriage’ debate?
Tweet Many on the political left dismiss people who support traditional marriage, comparing them to bigots driven by race and hate who seek to harm a hated minority. But just this week, an organization of people who have known true … Continue reading
Posted in Gay Rights
Tagged african-american, chick-fil-a, Constitution, discrimination, free speech, marriage, pastors, race, racism
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Playing chicken with religious liberty
Tweet Hopefully many readers have been to Chick-fil-A recently. After the company’s president expressed his belief that marriage is the union of a husband and wife, four big town mayors have threatened to prevent the company from doing business in … Continue reading
Protect marriage, protect life
Tweet The small and brave contingent of the University Faculty for Life was in Utah recently for their annual conference hosted this year at Brigham Young University. My presentation examined the linkages between the deconstruction of marriage as a social … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Marriage
Tagged abortion, cohabitation, marriage, University Faculty for Life
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The judicial campaign against DOMA
Tweet Yesterday, a panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit (the federal appeals court that covers Massachusetts and some of the other Northeastern states as well as Puerto Rico) ruled the federal Defense … Continue reading
What’s the big rush to get divorced?
Tweet In the 2012 session, the Utah Legislature took a welcome baby step toward restoring moral seriousness to the state’s treatment of divorce by restoring the (very short) 90-day waiting period before filing and finalization. At the other end of … Continue reading
Video: Marriage gap linked to lack of college education
Tweet According to Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, marriage is losing ground among Americans who are not college-educated. Those who are college-educated stay married longer and have more marital stability. This marriage … Continue reading
How marriage affects the economy
Tweet What do personal choices regarding marriage have to do with the economy? Quite a bit, according to a number of studies. Take a look at this report, a synthesis of recent research regarding marriage and the economy, which Sutherland … Continue reading