by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
Legalizing same-sex “marriage” is not a stand-alone policy, independent of all the other activities of the state. Once governments assert that same-sex unions are the equivalent of marriage, those governments must defend and enforce a whole host of other social changes. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
Most Americans have made their peace with no-fault divorce, believing easy divorce to be an enhancement of individual liberty. But a new book by Stephen Baskerville argues that permitting unilateral divorce allows an unprecedented scope for government intrusion into ordinary people’s lives. Taken Into Custody has several breakthrough insights. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
The hyper-active gay-rights establishment in California has finally succeeded in getting the Governor Schwarzenegger to sign the California Student Civil Rights Act. State Senator Sheila Kuehl’s new bill adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of groups protected from educational discrimination. Teachers and school districts have been prohibited from “giving instruction… [and] sponsoring any activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed, handicap, national origin or ancestry” and more recently, sexual orientation and gender identity have been added to the list. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
(Originally published on Mercator Net, June 11, 2007)
The title of Patricia Morgan’s new book, The War Between the State and the Family, is fighting talk. But the British sociologist has a lot of evidence on her side when she alleges that modern governments are engaged in “systematic discrimination against (married) couples in the tax and benefit system.” (62) In the words of her subtitle, she aims to show “How Government Divides and Impoverishes” the family. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
Abstinence education doesn’t work. That was the big hoopla in the American press over the publication of a study by Mathematica (http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/abstinence07/index.htm), purporting to show that abstinence education programs don’t work. But with a bit of checking, I found something you are not likely to hear on the evening news. Sex education programs don’t “work” either. (more…)
