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June 2017

June 23, 2017

What percentage of gays have gotten married?

Gallup now has some data about same-sex marriage. According to Gallup's survey, 10.2% of LGBT...

June 20, 2017

Special rights for eccentricity

More from iconoclast Camille Paglia. In this interview, she discusses transgenderism--its conflict with feminism, how...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Americans’ moral beliefs

Gallup has released its latest study of Americans' moral beliefs. Gallup's Values and Beliefs...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Court rules that Civil Rights laws cover LGBT bias

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights law bans discrimination on the basis of race,...

April 05, 2017

Exploding myths about cohabitation

University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox has published a study of the effects of cohabitation,...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

U.S. Census won’t ask about LGBT identities

The 2020 Census will not ask people about their sexual orientation or gender identity. An...

March 29, 2017

America’s first genderless person

A Portland judge approved a petition from a 27-year-old man to legally change his gender...

March 01, 2017

Glitter Ash Wednesday

LGBT-friendly churches are planning to mix glitter with the ashes that are imposed on Ash...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

The fall of the gay right-winger

Conservatives used to have moral qualms about homosexuality, but Milo Yiannopoulos had become a right wing...

February 14, 2017

And now multigender

How many genders are there? Jenny Crofton says an infinite number. And that each person...

February 10, 2017

Why millennials are having less sex

Millennials are having less sex than their peers in previous generations. But it isn't, for...

February 07, 2017

Don’t expect a religious freedom order

A draft copy of an Executive Order on religious freedom was leaked, creating indignation among liberals...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Birth as the “moral fault line of our time”

Christmas is about birth, Kevin Williamson reminds us, which is what reminds us most of...

December 01, 2016

Reproduction as resurrection

Peter Leithart gives a splendid reading of Shakespeare's Sonnet 3, in which he is trying...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Now that men can become pregnant. . .

Now that gender has been disassociated from biology and is a matter of personal self-identification,...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

The “Bill Clinton is worse” fallacy

Donald Trump responds to videos and testimonies about his treatment of women by saying, "But...

October 10, 2016

InterVarsity gets tough on sex issues

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has long been one of the best evangelical campus ministries, cultivating the...

October 06, 2016

Bisexuals overtake gays and lesbians in UK

The number of bisexuals has shot up 45%, according to a study in Great Britain....

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Sexual progress

I blogged about the book by my former student Matthew Rueger, Sexual Morality in a...

September 19, 2016

Civil rights must be “preeminent” over religious liberty

The U. S. Commission on Civil Rights is recommending that civil rights be made "preeminent"...

September 15, 2016

The woman who married her daughter. And her son.

Here in Oklahoma, a woman is being charged with incest for marrying her daughter. Eight...

September 14, 2016

Making babies without women

The Frankenstein fear of reproductive engineering so far has been the future possibility that women could...

September 02, 2016

The ethical non-monogamy community

Carl Trueman reflects on an interview with a member of "the ethical non-monogamy community." That...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

“The issue will come and find you”

Liberal Baptist theologian and LGBT advocate David Gushee says that there is no middle ground when...

August 25, 2016

Study challenges LGBT assumptions

Public opinion, government policy, and Supreme Court rulings about LGBT issues has been predicated on...

August 24, 2016

The case of the trans-gender funeral director

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) (1993) is still the law of the land and can...

August 23, 2016

Court blocks Obama’s bathroom mandate

Just in time for the new school year, a federal court has granted an injunction...

August 19, 2016

Why won’t bishops discipline Joe Biden?

Vice President Joe Biden performed a gay wedding earlier this month, getting special certification from the...

August 16, 2016

Trump’s ideology test will require belief in gay rights

In a major speech on immigration and fighting ISIS, Donald Trump said that he would...

August 05, 2016

Pope connects gender ideology to economic exploitation

Pope Francis connected the new gender ideology, according to which children can choose their own...