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Dr. Nancy Pearcey on Loving Your Body, Human Rights and Secularism’s Low View of Sexuality & Gender

Live No Lies Podcast

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The State Irrigated to Itself the Authority to Decide Which Humans Qualify as Persons

The right to life used to be based on the idea that anyone who's biologically human has the most fundamental right of all, which is the right not to be killed. But in Roe v. Wade, the abortion decision in 1973, the court ruled that some humans are not persons worthy of protecting their life legally. Or take marriage. Marriage is a pre-political right because human beings, men and women naturally come together and form families. In order to give same-sex people exactly the same rights as opposite-sex people, the state had to deny the biological component of marriage and say it's just an emotional connection. The legal definition of parenthood now is something that the state creates and

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