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  • The Essential Ingredient for a ‘Deep Education’

    03/18/2019 5:51:32 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 7 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | March 18, 2019 | Shannon Watkins
    About a year ago, Princeton philosopher Robert P. George came to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to speak about civil discourse and diversity of thought with the UNC system Board of Governors. He returned on February 8, but this time he came with Cornel West, a long-time friend and philosopher at Harvard University, as guest speakers for Duke University’s Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics. Instead of directing their message to policymakers, George and West came to speak face-to-face with students, faculty, and local citizens. The two spoke about how they navigate their vastly different political views while maintaining a strong friendship,...
  • Princeton Prof: Transgenderism Not Scientific, ‘Superstitious Belief’

    05/16/2016 5:35:29 AM PDT · by detective · 64 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 16 May 2016 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D
    A noted Princeton University professor has attacked the very notion of transgenderism, saying that the belief “that a woman can be trapped inside a man’s body” is ludicrous and superstitious, with no basis in medical fact. Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, sent out a tweet late Sunday evening questioning the science behind the transgender movement, in reaction to the Obama administration’s threatening letter to educators mandating accommodation of gender-confused teenagers.
  • Conservative Catholics endorse Ted Cruz as Trump alternative

    03/20/2016 9:51:20 AM PDT · by John W · 77 replies
    Religion News Service ^ | March 19, 2016 | David Gibson
    (RNS) More than 50 conservative Catholic activists and political leaders have come out in support of Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz in an effort to shore up Catholic backing for Cruz as an alternative to Donald Trump. Among them is a priest from South Carolina who may be skirting the edges of his own church’s policies against clerics becoming involved in politics. Trump is currently leading the three-man GOP field and has drawn strong primary support from Catholic voters despite his controversial rhetoric and past stands on key issues like abortion rights, which he once supported. The Catholics endorsing Cruz,...
  • Robert George Home From Hospital, Thankful for 'Fervent Prayers

    12/15/2015 3:53:31 PM PST · by iowamark · 6 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 12/15/2015 | Samuel Smith
    After being released from the hospital following a life-threatening heart complication, Princeton professor and religious freedom advocate Robert P. George took to Facebook Sunday night thank all those who prayed for him throughout his ordeal, as he now expects to have a swift recovery. George, who is the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and also a conservative author, was hospitalized in New Jersey last Sunday after feeling pain in his abdomen. He was later diagnosed with a rare life-threatening tear on the inner layer of his aorta and was transferred to Weill Cornell Medical Center in...
  • Robert George 'Out of Danger' After Being Hospitalized With Life-Threatening Heart Complication

    12/11/2015 4:07:18 PM PST · by iowamark · 3 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 12/11/2015 | Samuel Smith
    Princeton professor and prominent religious freedom and traditional marriage advocate Robert George has been hospitalized with a serious heart ccomplication that now appears as though it is no longer life threatening.George, who is the chair of the State Department's United States Commission on International Religious Freedoms and the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, began feeling abdominal pain on Sunday and checked himself into the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro in New Jersey, where he was diagnosed with a life-threatening tear on the inner layer of his aorta. After he disclosed his condition, a number of George's friends,...
  • Cruz: Congress can end abortion without the Supreme Court

    12/05/2015 8:39:54 AM PST · by Isara · 12 replies
    Live Action News ^ | Dec 5, 2015 | Calvin Freiburger
    Pro-life Professor Robert George of the American Principles Project has been conducting extensive interviews with the Republican presidential candidates, and in his talk with Ted Cruz, the Texas Senator made his boldest pro-life promise yet.Candidate Conversations 2016 with Robert George - 2015-11-25 (Video)[Relevant segment starts around 9:30] GEORGE: Ted, the Fourteenth Amendment says that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Now, the amendment in its fifth section includes a provision that delegates to the Congress the...
  • Cruz Pledges to Ignore Unconstitutional Obergefell Decision (same-sex "marriage")

    12/04/2015 6:56:03 AM PST · by Isara · 33 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | December 4, 2015
    Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from an interview with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) conducted by Professor Robert P. George of Princeton University that aired November 25 on EWTN. The interview series, titled "Candidate Conversations 2016," will pose a number of questions to presidential candidates on topics of particular concern to Catholic voters. The passage below addresses the question of how public officials should best respond to the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling on so-called same-sex "marriage" decided last summer. Here, Senator Cruz publicly endorses a position advanced by Prof. George and others who argue that unconstitutional decisions of...
  • Ted Cruz Talks to Robert P. George (Video) - Ted Cruz's Law Professor at Princeton

    11/30/2015 3:32:23 PM PST · by Isara · 19 replies
    Caffeinated Thoughts ^ | November 30, 2015 | Shane Vander Hart
    If you are looking for a substantive interview (beyond what we offer of course) of presidential candidates be sure to check out “Candidate Conservations” on EWTN hosted by Robert P. George who is a Princeton Law Professor, the chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and founder of American Principles Project. His first episode that aired last night he spends almost an hour with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).One interesting tidbit is that Cruz was a former student of George’s while he was at Princeton University.Even though the series is targeting Catholic voters most of the discussion is...
  • Half the Republican Field Seeks Advice From This Princeton Professor [Robert George]

    10/21/2015 9:43:41 AM PDT · by iowamark · 11 replies
    Bloomberg | 10/21/2015 | Melinda Henneberger
    Cannot post Bloomberg articles on FR. Link only: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-21/half-the-republican-field-seeks-advice-from-this-princeton-professor
  • Conservative Princeton Professor Robert George, Others Offer to Take 1,000 Lashes for Saudi Blogger

    01/22/2015 8:47:56 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/22/2015 | Leonardo Blair
    Conservative Princeton University professor and vice chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Robert P. George, along with six other advocates, have offered to take 100 lashes each for Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting his country's clerics. Badawi, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes got his first 50 lashes by cane in a public square just over a week ago. A news release from Amnesty International explained that a second round of flogging for the blogger was postponed last Friday because his wounds from the...
  • Catholic Caucus: Four Things to Remember About the Pope’s Environment Letter

    01/08/2015 7:41:01 PM PST · by Coleus · 14 replies
    First Things ^ | 01.13.15 | Robert P. George
    So here we are waiting for Pope Francis to hand down his encyclical on our moral responsibility to care for the natural environment. Already there is lots of huffing and puffing, and ideological battle lines are being drawn. It seems that virtually nobody in the public media is interested in being taught by the Pope in his magisterial capacity. Instead, all the talk is about how the encyclical can or can’t be used to advance political agendas. Catholics who fear that the Pope is a secret (or perhaps not-so-secret) radical left-winger, are preemptively questioning the Pope’s authority as pope to address...
  • Princeton Jurisprudence Prof. Robert P. George: Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom Cannot Coexist

    10/26/2014 12:03:49 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 10/25/2014 | Napp Nazworth
    WASHINGTON — Gay marriage proponents will not allow for religious freedom of their political opponents because their belief system does not allow for the fact that dissenters can be reasonable people of goodwill, Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, argued at the Institute on Religion and Democracy's 2014 Diane Knippers Memorial Lecture. Most of those arguing in favor of redefining marriage to include same-sex couples do not understand, or even know, the arguments of those who oppose the redefinition of marriage, George claimed. They assume there are no reasonable arguments against gay marriage and those who...
  • Students Share Mixed Responses to George/West Collection (“condoning homophobia?” at Swarthmore)

    02/15/2014 2:03:34 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    The Swarthmore Daily Gazette ^ | February 13, 2014 | Isabel Knight, Martin Froger-Silva and Eduard Saakashvili
    Robert George ‘77 and Cornel West’s collection on Monday, hosted by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, culminated a campus-wide discussion on the meaning of discourse at Swarthmore. The Princeton professors, known for their friendship despite of their strongly opposing viewpoints, intended to build community and discuss questions like “What does it mean to communicate across differences regarding what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong?’” The event was expected by many to be controversial, with rumors of student-led protest in the form of a boycott of the event or a rally after the collection, but no such protest occurred during the collection....
  • Robert George Warns of Catholic Oppression Over Marriage

    01/23/2013 12:11:14 PM PST · by marshmallow · 18 replies
    Catholic World Report ^ | 1/23/13 | Adelaide Darling
    Washington D.C., Jan 23, 2013 / 02:04 am (CNA).- A Princeton law professor has predicted increasing persecution of Catholic teaching on sexuality, amid accusations by a New York scholar that such teaching creates a culture of rape. In a Jan. 17 email to CNA, Professor Robert George of Princeton University warned of rising oppression against those who oppose a redefinition of marriage. Such persecution includes an increase in "the use of 'anti-discrimination' laws to violate the freedom of religious institutions and religious individuals to honor their beliefs about marriage and sexual morality,” he said. George's comments came amid claims by...
  • Opinion: Robert P. George on 'Obama's Abortion Extremism'

    10/15/2008 4:04:08 PM PDT · by tcg · 27 replies · 828+ views
    Catholic Online ^ | 10/16/08 | Deacon Keith Fournier
    Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress.Yet there are Catholics and Evangelicals-even self-identified pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals - who aggressively promote Obama's candidacy and even declare him the preferred candidate from the pro-life point of view. What is going on here? I have examined the arguments advanced by Obama's self-identified pro-life supporters, and they are spectacularly weak....
  • Princeton Prof: Pro-abortion Catholics More Horrific than Clergy Sex Abuse

    08/13/2007 4:23:45 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 27 replies · 715+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/13/07 | Peter J. Smith
    UNITED STATES, August 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Princeton professor has warned that the scandal of pro-abortion Catholics and its cover-up by bishops threatens more damage to the Catholic Church than the abhorrent scandal of pedophile priests hiding behind their Roman collars to perpetrate crimes against children.Robert George, a McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, writes in an article published in the ecumenical magazine First Things that, unlike the clergy sexual abuse scandal, the tolerated scandal of prominent anti-life Catholics continues to engender far more insidious effects upon society."Nothing undermines the cause of justice and cultural reform and...
  • Snake Oil

    07/28/2004 6:06:13 PM PDT · by neverdem · 9 replies · 720+ views
    NRO ^ | July 28, 2004 | Robert P. George
    Ron Reagan’s dishonest presentation. Ron Reagan's speech Tuesday night at the Democratic convention was breathtakingly irresponsible. For example, despite the fact that no one knows whether embryonic stem cells will ever be effective in curing Parkinson's disease or any other grave affliction, Ron Reagan virtually promised Parkinson's sufferers that embryonic stem cells will provide a cure for them in ten years or so. "Sound like magic?," he said. Welcome to the future of medicine." But Ron Reagan has no idea — no one does — whether this is the future of medicine. He is engaged in a campaign of outrageous...
  • Conservative Heavyweight: The Remarkable Mind of Robert P. George

    09/03/2003 12:55:14 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 42 replies · 1,206+ views
    Crisis ^ | September 1, 2003 | Anne Morse
    Professor Robert P. George is pacing around a Princeton auditorium before 200-plus undergraduates, preparing to wage an intellectual shock-and-awe campaign against illogical thinking. “Some politicians say that they’re ‘personally opposed’ to abortion, yet ‘pro-choice,’” says the 48-year-old professor of constitutional law and moral philosophy. “But we must ask: Is this a position that can survive the test of logical coherence? After all, if abortion is wrong, surely it is wrong because it is the unjust taking of the life of a developing human being.” He pauses to let that sink in and then launches another question: “And if one believes...
  • Lonely Campus Voices

    09/26/2003 8:50:22 PM PDT · by Pokey78 · 14 replies · 389+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 09/27/03 | David Brooks
    Most good universities have at least one conservative professor on campus. When, for example, some group at Harvard wants to hold a panel discussion on some political matter, it can bring out the political theorist Harvey Mansfield to hold up the rightward end. At Princeton it's Robert George. At Yale it's Donald Kagan. These dissenters lead interesting lives. But there's one circumstance that causes true anguish: when a bright conservative student comes to them and says he or she is thinking about pursuing an academic career in the humanities or social sciences. "This is one of the most difficult things,"...
  • 'A fair fight on the plane of reason': Princeton's Robert George

    09/06/2002 3:46:26 PM PDT · by rhema · 4 replies · 223+ views
    WORLD ^ | 9/14/02 | Anne Morse
    The story is told that whenever former Princeton president Harold Shapiro received an angry telephone call from someone demanding to know why Princeton had hired a professor with such fanatical views, the first thing he did was check to see where the call originated. If the person shouting into his ear was phoning from outside Princeton's ivy-covered walls, Mr. Shapiro knew the caller was referring to philosopher Peter Singer—promoter of infanticide, euthanasia, and bestiality. If the call came from within the university, he knew it was a complaint about Princeton's other notorious troublemaker: Professor Robert George, an Oxford-trained Catholic moral...