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Freedom, Equality, and Abortion

Posted: May 23, 2019
By: Steve Soukup

The principal argument underpinning the Pro-Choice position is that abortion is not about babies or death or anything else so unpleasant but about freedom.  Indeed, the label “Pro-Choice” is a nod to the criticality of this argument.  Women should be … Read

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Remember Christmas?

Posted: December 22, 2018
By: Steve Soukup

The other day, I sat down to watch a little TV with my youngest child.  He was watching the “Phineas and Ferb” Christmas special.  I was surprised.  I’m not an enormous Disney fan – for a number of reasons – … Read

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College Education, Ethics And Yardsigns

Posted: November 17, 2018
By: Steve Soukup

On Tuesday, November 6th – the day of the midterm elections – Melissa Link, is a publications specialist at the University of Georgia, and the Managing Editor of Ethics and the Environment, was filmed on the streets of Athens, Georgia taking and destroying campaign signs for Republican candidates. If you’re at all surprised that an “expert” in ethics at an institution of higher education would be caught doing something likely illegal and certainly unethical, then you haven’t been paying attention. Read

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World Leaders And The Media

Posted: June 6, 2018
By: Steve Soukup

Pope Francis and President Trump walk into a bar. There’s a duck sitting on a stool watching the nightly news. The President and the Pope pull up stools on either side of the duck. “What are they saying about him?” the President asks the duck as he nods to the Pope. “They are praising him for upending Catholic orthodoxy,” says the duck. “And what are they saying about him?” the Pope asks the duck, pointing to the President. “They are condemning him for challenging liberal orthodoxy.” “And what do you think?” the two leaders ask the duck. “I think… Read

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The #MeToo Movement And Sexual “Morality”

Posted: January 22, 2018
By: Steve Soukup

The men whose actions precipitated the “#Metoo” movement believed that no sexual behavior was off limit to them, because the Sexual Revolution had convinced them that no sexual behavior was immoral. Going forward, many innocent men, and indeed society itself, will pay a heavy price as the civil war of modern governance attempts to impose order, and does so arbitrarily, brutally and without remorse. It’s another win for the “Enlightenment.” Read

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Charlie Gard And The Utilitarian Utopia

Posted: July 10, 2017
By: Steve Soukup

In 1973, the science-fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin published “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” In it, she describes the city of Omelas, a utopia filled with laughter, music, love, and, above all, happiness. Everyone in Omelas is joyous. They are content, absolutely, completely, and undeniably fulfilled. Well, almost everyone…. You see, locked in a small basement room with no window, little light, a damp dirt floor and foul air, lives a little child. Read

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The Factions Of The West

Posted: June 7, 2017
By: Steve Soukup

Three years ago, the French Government banned a public service advertisement called “Dear Future Mom,” which was an attempt to convince Europeans not to abort children diagnosed in utero with Down Syndrome. Why? Because two viewers complained, one of whom had aborted a Down Syndrome child and found watching the ad “violent.” The ad ran unopposed in Great Britain and the U.S. That geographic dichotomy highlights one of the great divides in the West: the source of our rights. Who gets to decide what we can or cannot say or who should or should not live? God, or the Enlightened? Read

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Moral Chaos And Despair

Posted: April 11, 2017
By: Steve Soukup

Two years ago, economics professors at Princeton shocked the academic and political worlds with a ground-breaking study that showed the death rate among middle-aged, working-class whites has been increasing dramatically since the turn of the century. Last month, a follow-up study showed that those trends are increasing. What is it about our brave new world that is taking such a toll on this particular group of people? Read

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Italy Debates The Definition Of “Family”…A Half-Century Too Late

Posted: February 4, 2016
By: Steve Soukup

Last Thursday, Italy’s Senate began deliberations on the question of “civil unions.” I can’t help but wonder if the Italian people and even the Church are wasting their time bickering over the question of homosexuality’s role in defining the family, even as the basic family unit is collapsing in Italy and throughout Europe. In Italy – as in the rest of “Christendom” – the family was destroyed long ago and by forces that have nothing whatsoever to do with homosexuality or same-sex relationships. Rather, it was destroyed by selfishness, laziness, cultural apathy and, above all, antagonism to, and resentment of, traditional Judeo-Christian religious values. Read

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As Americans March For Life, A Warning From China

Posted: January 19, 2016
By: Steve Soukup

This week, as American Pro-Lifers march in somber commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of Roe v Wade, the government of China has, however unwittingly, sent the United States and the rest of the West an urgent and fitting message: people are not the problem, and abortion is not the answer. Indeed, the construction of that equation has the variables precisely backward.
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