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Campaign Designed to Encourage Marriage, Reduce Divorce Rates
Marriage Is Worth Celebrating
Marriage is worth celebrating as the foundation, the corner stone, the building block of a healthy society. It's God's design and He knows best. The circumstantial evidence is abundant. For example, reports issues by the US Department of Health and Human Services under The Healthy Marriage Initiativ...
Letter: 12 Years of Promoting Healthy, Sustainable Relationships
New paper highlights huge marriage divide between the social classes
Recovering Lincoln's Teaching on the Limits to the Courts--and Giving the News to David Blankenhorn
History clearly demonstrates that the legislative branch can legitimately act to counter the rulings of the judicial branch. This is as true for marriage as it was for slavery.
Government Can't Save Marriage!
It is a well-known fact that unstable families and divorce cost taxpayers. According to a [strong]2008 Institute for American Values study,[/strong] increasing family stability by even 1 percent can result in $43 million of savings for Oklahoma state government.[1] [1. The study referred to here ...
Can You Handle the Truth?
Imagine a world in which blue eyes are illegal. People still live in countries where simply having blue eyes can lead to imprisonment or death. As a result, blue-eyed people face ferocious persecution.
Can Gay Wedlock Break Political Gridlock? A Debate
(This article includes a reply by David Blankenhorn, William Galston, Jonathan Rauch, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.) In the divisive, partisan political debates in D.C., the term "grand bargain" refers to a deal in which each side gives up a dearly held position to get what they want. Democrats ac...
A Way Forward for LGBT and Religious Liberty Rights
The problem with continuing the culture war along these lines is that all the fighting might prevent both sides from achieving anything – which would be tragic, since both sides stand for important values. It's simply inaccurate to say that gay rights and religious freedom can't co-exist in Am...