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		<title>Motherhood within marriage is a worthy choice</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/motherhood-within-marriage-is-a-worthy-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we judge the status of a woman by her pay check? Have women arrived when they have half the seats in the legislature and their husbands do half the chores at home? This is Part I of a symposium by Mercatornet.com on improving the status of women by 2020.
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse&#8217;s take on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>facebook is the gay lobby&#8217;s new target&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/facebook-is-the-gay-lobbys-new-target/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/facebook-is-the-gay-lobbys-new-target/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, it&#8217;s not that I’m Australian mates (born and raised right here in the good old USA, as a matter of fact) but for some reason the first two times I’ve felt motivated to post on Ruth Institute blog it’s been because of something that was happening ‘down under’ (and both times specifically in Queensland, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would Jesus Defend Marriage?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/would-jesus-defend-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the question Colleen Carroll Campbell asks.  in reference to the recent story about a Catholic school in Colorado that denied readmission to the child of a lesbian couple.  As she put it: 
Boulder&#8217;s vociferous gay-rights activists mobilized to protest the priest, the parish and the Archdiocese of Denver, brandishing signs outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Human Rights Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/california-human-rights-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/california-human-rights-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Human Rights Amendment would define personhood to include everyone, &#8220;no matter how small.&#8221;  The spiritual dynamo behind this amendment is pro-life hero, Rev. Walter Hoye. An African American pastor in Oakland, Rev. Hoye spent time in jail, because he violated the Oakland City Council&#8217;s draconian &#8220;clinic bubble law.&#8221;  Rev. Hoye makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Courts Now</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/better-courts-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Diego County residents will have the chance to vote in better judges, meaning judges who will interpret the Constitution, rather than make up law as they go along. Visit Better Courts Now to find out how you can be involved. If you don&#8217;t live in San Diego County, forward this to someone who does! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race and Abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/race-and-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/race-and-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Race and Abortion: a series of billboards in the Atlanta area call attention to the connection between abortion and race. I talk about those billboards in this interview on Issues Etc, on Lutheran Public Radio.
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		<title>Where did the Stimulus Money go? The World needs the Ruth Institute!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/where-did-the-stimulus-money-go-the-world-needs-the-ruth-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean Hannity reports that #100 on his list of wasted stimulus money&#8221; $219,000 on an academic study of female hook-up patterns at Syracuse University. Note that the professor/principle investigator explains that hooking up is a public health problem, or at the very least, correlated with public health problems. Why, then, do we not discourage hooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the world needs the Ruth Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/why-the-world-needs-the-ruth-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/why-the-world-needs-the-ruth-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People sometimes ask me why I founded the Ruth Institute. I always reply that young people who want lifelong married love need and deserve accurate information and adult support.  People sometimes have a hard time believing me when I try to convey just how crazy campus life can be.  But now, I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blinded by Scientism</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/blinded-by-scientism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/blinded-by-scientism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Feser has a provocative article about scientism, which he defines this way: Scientism is the view that all real knowledge is scientific knowledge—that there is no rational, objective form of inquiry that is not a branch of science.  His critique is that Despite its adherents’ pose of rationality, scientism has a serious problem: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak Tea or Strong Tea?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/weak-tea-or-strong-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/weak-tea-or-strong-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Correctness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social critic Lee Harris scores great points in his analysis of the Tea Party movement. Though his analysis is indirect: he is critiquing David Brooks&#8217; analysis. But, Harris leaves no doubt where he stands. 
Here we come to the most puzzling aspect of David Brooks’s column. Why did he feel the need to make his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Rights and The Sexual Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/civil-rights-and-the-sexual-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/civil-rights-and-the-sexual-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently asked a black pastor friend of mine to consider this hypothetical question:  Where do you think the black community would be today, if the Sexual Revolution had not happened at the same time as the Civil Rights movement of the 1960&#8217;s?  Think about it: a functioning African American family, black men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daring scheme for raising Korean births</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/daring-scheme-for-raising-korean-births/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/daring-scheme-for-raising-korean-births/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low birth rate a problem? Making abortion illegal seems like a good idea to me. I&#8217;m skeptical that Korea (or any abortion nation) would actually pull it off, though.
Anna Choi
Unless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion.
Korea has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll never end our teenage pregnancy epidemic until we admit what&#8217;s REALLY causing it</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/well-never-end-our-teenage-pregnancy-epidemic-until-we-admit-whats-really-causing-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/well-never-end-our-teenage-pregnancy-epidemic-until-we-admit-whats-really-causing-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex ed programs aren&#8217;t working. The solution: keep having them!
By Professor Brenda Almond
After 13 years in power, a sense of chronic disappointment hangs over the Labour administration.
Yesterday, another of the Government’s shameful failures was exposed: the bankruptcy of its policy to tackle Britain’s awful record as western Europe’s teenage pregnancy capital.
With typical fanfare, Tony Blair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different screens, same effect on relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/different-screens-same-effect-on-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/different-screens-same-effect-on-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not to mention the A.D.H.D., the obesity, the lack of creative thought factors.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Art imitates life and research imitates common sense, it seems. A new study has found that the more young people watch television, the poorer their relationships with both their friends and parents.
Evidently, some parents worry that their kids might feel excluded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll be in Houston</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/ill-be-in-houston/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/ill-be-in-houston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[at the end of March. I will be speaking at Houston Baptist University.  My topic will be “What happened to the culture of marriage in the West?”
The talk is open to the public.  Tell your friends in the Houston area. 
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		<title>The Impact of No-Fault Divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-impact-of-no-fault-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-impact-of-no-fault-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article about Prof. Doug Allen&#8217;s talk at the BYU Symposium. Divorce is important to study, because no one fully anticipated how much changing divorce rules would change many other areas of society. I posted on this lecture, from the conference itself. see here. 
Allen said, it&#8217;s safe to say between 10 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Essays Posted!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/student-essays-posted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/student-essays-posted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[college students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The winning essays from the Stand for the Family Symposium are already posted!  Great job to Jamie and Betsy for getting those 18 essays up so quickly! There were three categories, with separate judging and prizes: Undergraduate essays, Graduate student essays, and Law student essays. They are all posted at the Marriage Library.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War on Intimacy</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-war-on-intimacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-war-on-intimacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abstinence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend the book, The War on Intimacy. The subtitle tells the story, &#8220;How Comprehensive Sex Ed Sabotages Committed Relationships and Our Nation&#8217;s Health.&#8221; I met the author, Richard Panzer, Ph.D. at a meeting of the Abstinence Clearing House last year.  He pressed this book into my hands, and I read it on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>should sexual orientation be a protected class?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/should-sexual-orientation-be-a-protected-class/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/should-sexual-orientation-be-a-protected-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I take up that question in this podcast from Issues Etc, my weekly Lutheran Public Radio program. What kind of legal category is sexual orientation? How does it differ from race? Listen to the whole thing here. 
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		<title>From the BYU Symposium, Stand for the Family</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/from-the-byu-symposium-stand-for-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/from-the-byu-symposium-stand-for-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BYU symposium generated a bit of local publicity. Here is an article about my opening talk that kicked off the conference. The author did a reasonable job of identifying the important points of my talk. 
Americans are being taught to believe they&#8217;re generic humans, that &#8220;we&#8217;re not men and woman, we&#8217;re generic parents, we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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