Clash of Orthodoxies - Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis

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In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, same-sex unions, civil rights and liberties, and the place of religion in public life, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs are rationally superior to their secular liberal alternatives The clash of orthodoxies (including an exchange with Josh Dever) -- Liberal political theory and the culture of death -- God's reasons -- "Same-sex marriage" and "moral neutrality" -- The concept of public morality -- Making children moral: pornography, parents, and the public interest -- The tyrant state -- Justice, legitimacy, and allegiance: "The end of democracy" symposium revisited -- Natural law and civil rights: from Jefferson's "Letter to Henry Lee" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" -- Natural law, the Constitution, and the theory and practice of judicial review (including and exchange with James Fleming) -- What is law? A century of arguments -- Religious values and politics -- Nature, morality, and homosexuality -- Bioethics and public policy: Catholic participation in the American debate -- On fides et ratio -- Afterword: We should not kill human embryos, for any reason