Society & Culture

“Government coercion is a scary term until you realize that in this case, it’s just talking about showing a woman what’s going on inside her body.” - Washington Examiner

“English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun to correspond neatly with singular pronouns like everyone or someone, and as a consequence they has been used for this purpose for over 600 years.

“…it was extremely odd to see a wave of online outrage after Donald Trump signaled Tuesday that he intended to sign an executive order broadening protections against anti-Semitism in America’s federally funded colleges and schools.” - David French

“Neither politics nor government will ever bring an end to immorality, but as Christians we should think carefully about the aims of both.” - Russel Moore

“…why is Brown talking about me given that my op-ed was about evangelicals who foolishly support Trump in spite of the fact that he is a deeply mentally and morally disturbed person? This is a common tactic employed by many Trump supporters — go after the accuser rather than the accused.” - Christian Post

“…it isn’t surprising at all when you consider that women have been lied to for decades about what constitutes a happy life.” - Susan Venker

“Who Killed Civil Society?: The Rise of Big Government and the Decline of Bourgeois Norms argues that ‘formative’ efforts by private organizations to prevent social problems from appearing … have been supplanted by the ‘reformative’ efforts of government programs to remedy problems once they appear.

“Pro-life supporters in Kentucky were pleased with a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions.” - BPNews

“For the first time, the name Muhammad has cracked the top 10 list of most popular baby names for newborn boys in the U.S., according to a parenting website that tracks the popularity of names among its users.” - RNS