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Center on Human Exceptionalism

The mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism is to affirm and uphold the intrinsic nature of human dignity, liberty, and equality. In resistance to a growing movement against unique human personhood, we aim to revitalize a commitment to the traditional Western view of human rights and human responsibilities — summed up by the term “human exceptionalism.” Read more

Humanize

The Respect for Marriage Act Would Allow the State to Regulate Domestic Relations

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November 25, 2022
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I have been puzzled about the urgency to pass the Respect for Marriage Act before the end of the current Congress. Despite Justice Thomas’s dictum in his Dobbs concurrence that Obergefell (which created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage) should be overturned, I cannot discern a reason to force such a case onto the Court’s docket. If some traditional-marriage activists tried to do so, they would almost surely fail, but even if four Justices eventually voted to hear such a case, it would be years before the matter would be ripe for ultimate adjudication. So, why the rush? In part, I think it is to enable immediate federal regulation of marriage law. Bureaucrats can’t promulgate rules based on a Supreme Court ruling: They need Read More ›

The United States of Social Anarchy: Wesley J. Smith; November 21, 2022; 5

Unleash the Trial Lawyers to End Mutilation of Gender-Dysphoric Children: Wesley J. Smith; November 12, 2022; 4

‘Nullectomy’: Physician-Assisted Mutilation: Wesley J. Smith; November 2, 2022; 3

Bioethicist Proposes ‘Right’ to Gender-Affirming Care: Wesley J. Smith; November 1, 2022; 5

Religious Freedom: Biden Policy Not Where Administration’s Mouth Is: Wesley J. Smith; October 28, 2022; 3

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Podcast

Dr. Jay Wesley Richards on What Every Parent Should Know About Gender Ideology and Gender-Affirming Care

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Jay Richards
November 28, 2022}

In a previous episode of Humanize, Wesley interviewed Jennifer Lahl, director of The Detransition Diaries, which documents the stories of three young women who received what is called “gender-affirming care”—including a mastectomy in one case—and later realized that they were indeed the female sex they were born. That discussion focused mostly on the radical body-altering interventions that children who question Read More ›

Jennifer Lahl on ‘The Detransition Diaries: Saving our Sisters’

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Jackson Meyer
November 7, 2022}

We are in the midst of a transgender moral panic. Where only a decade ago, very few people sought what used to be called a sex change, today the numbers of people seeking to “transition” is becoming a flood. It is one thing when adults decide to radically alter their bodies. But it is quite another to promote these radical Read More ›

Ward Connerly on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and Individual Rights

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Tom Shakely
October 24, 2022}

Racism is profoundly evil and a clear violation of human exceptionalism by treating inherent equals unequally. Indeed, if we are to become a truly just society, racism must be countered by people of good will whenever it is expressed. At the same time, slavery is long gone and Jim Crow is dead, never to be mourned. So, the question must Read More ›