By Ryan T. Anderson, Tony Evans and Robert P. George, The National Review. The year since Obergefell v. Hodges was decided has proven that courts should leave democratic debate to the people. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Obergefell v. Hodges that the United States Constitution mandates same-sex marriage. But in…
By David D. Corey, First Things. In September of this year, Baylor University sponsored two lectures on the topic of religious persecution. The presenters were former congressman Frank Wolf (now the Jerry and Susie Wilson Chair of Religious Freedom at Baylor) and Princeton Professor Robert P. George, who currently serves as the Chair of the…
By Robert P. George, Touchstone. The days of socially acceptable Christianity in the West are surely over. The days of comfortable Christian orthodoxy are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic Evangelical witness to the truths of the gospel. A price is demanded and must be…
By Robert P. George (CNN) — The recent ordeal of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, a Sudanese mother and wife of an American citizen — coupled with Iran’s continued imprisonment of Saeed Abedini, also an American citizen and a pastor — should awaken our conscience to one grim and inescapable fact: The persecution of Christians continues….
By Faith McDonnell On July 23, 2013, Dr. Robert P. George was elected Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). USCIRF, an independent, bi-partisan U.S. federal government commission tasked with making policy recommendations to the President, Congress, and the State Department, was created by Congress through the enactment of the International Religious Freedom…