Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View
The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there. The last thing we should do is make them feel guilty if the strain gets to them and they feel...
View ArticleLessons from France on Defending Marriage
Unlikely characters, including gay men, are leading the French people in protest against redefining marriage. A repeating refrain is “the rights of children trump the right to children.” Americans...
View ArticleTruth, Metaphor, and Race in the Marriage Debate
Whatever same-sex marriage is, that’s not what gays are after. They are after a symbolic vehicle that can make them equal to people who can do something they cannot—procreate.The briefs filed in...
View ArticleJustice Kennedy's 40,000 Children
During oral arguments on Prop 8, Justice Kennedy alluded to the views of children of same-sex couples as if their desires and concerns are identical to and uncritical of their parents’ decisions. But...
View ArticleLessons from France on the Myths of Same-Sex Marriage
After the French protests against same-sex marriage, we can no longer speak of redefined marriage as inevitable or enlightened.If the recent French mobilizations against same-sex marriage have taught...
View ArticleSame-Sex Parenting: Child Abuse?
Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as “normal” imposes a silence on children about the...
View ArticleSexual Radicalism: Imperial Project, Global Goliath
Speaking before the United Nations earlier this month—bragging about American leadership in a global movement to normalize homosexuality, same-sex marriage, artificial reproductive technology, and...
View ArticleThe Global Fight for Children’s Rights: Europe
On September 14, 2013, I had the privilege of attending the “Summer University” of the Manif pour Tous. The latter is the French grassroots movement that sprang up last year as a counterrevolution...
View ArticleLife on the Academic Animal Farm
“Do not try to teach a pig how to sing.” That was a piece of advice given to me when I was a young man, by a witty and cavalier drag queen, someone who never had the benefit of reading George Orwell’s...
View ArticleCatholic Higher Education in Ruins
Before there was Pope Francis, there was a different Francis from Assisi, Italy. Back in the twelfth century, St. Francis heard the call to fix a church falling into ruins. Now it is the twenty-first...
View ArticleThe Sacred Tradition of Offending People: Why Our Society Needs Pamela Geller
Forget all the headlines you’ve read about a Muhammad cartoon contest causing Muslims to engage in mass murder and setting back our efforts to have productive dialogue with the Islamic world. The plot...
View ArticlePlanned Inhumanities: From Roe to Obergefell
I am, perhaps, an outlier on the current Planned Parenthood scandal. I am not shocked that high-ranking officials in an organization by that name would be caught on video speaking callously about the...
View ArticleJustice Kennedy, Henry David Thoreau, and the Children of Gays and Lesbians
Obergefell v. Hodges was decided by five robed justices, but only one man both wrote and signed his name to the majority opinion. The four concurring justices chose to concur silently, adding nothing...
View Article
