Ruth Institute Blog

By Peter Johnson Jr.

Wednesday the United States Supreme Court delivered a knockout blow to the White House in the cause of religious liberty.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a unanimous court swatted away the government’s claim that the Lutheran Church did not have the right to fire a “minister of religion” who, after six years of Lutheran religious training had been commissioned as a minister, upon election by her congregation.  Read more…

By James Tillman

September 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) — According to Dr. Stephen Baskerville, professor of political science at Patrick Henry College and author of “Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family,” the government “is engaged in a direct assault on the family” that is causing its breakdown – which in turn allows government to reach into yet more areas of civil society under the pretext of solving the problems that the breakdown of the family creates. Read more…

by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. from the book of essays, Indivisible–a project of the Heritage Foundation.

Lifelong monogamy was one of the distinctively Christian contributions to Western civilization. Socialists have attacked every aspect of the social order created around the lifelong, sexually exclusive union of a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage, the current hot button issue, is but one of many issues designed to turn marriage into a collection of individuals loosely stapled together by the state. The Left often uses the rhetoric of individual choice and liberty to advance this project. But the rhetoric is not the reality. Deinstitutionalizing marriage will lead to an expansion of the size and scope of the state. Read more…