First Things RSS Feed - Sherif Girgis https://www.firstthings.com/author/sherif-girgis en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:52:39 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/sherif-girgis 60 Obergefell and the New Gnosticism https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/06/obergefell-and-the-new-gnosticism https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/06/obergefell-and-the-new-gnosticism Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:25:00 -0400 For decades, the Sexual Revolution was supposed to be about freedom. Today, it is about coercion. Once, it sought to free our sexual choices from restrictive laws and unwanted consequences. Now, it seeks to free our sexual choices from other people's disapproval.

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]]> Covering Contraception, Protecting Conscience https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2011/12/covering-contraception-protecting-conscience https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2011/12/covering-contraception-protecting-conscience Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:01:00 -0500 Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebellius has issued regulations requiring private health plans to cover contraceptives (including some abortifacients). Against the USCCB’s charge that this requirement is wrong and that the exemptions from this requirement are too narrow to protect religious liberty, Doug Kmiec defends the administration”unsuccessfully. Let’s take a look.

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