Jennifer Roback Morse's Townhall.com Column

A Toast to Open Debate

2008-07-14T00:00:32-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
Here in San Diego, gay rights activists are organizing a boycott against the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, an elegant downtown hotel.

Now You Tell Us

2008-06-30T11:02:34-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
The advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn't work very well.

Memo To Advocates of "The Conservative Case for Same Sex Marriage"

2008-06-09T08:44:24-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
Well, it is official. You won. We lost. Same sex marriage is the law in California.

Get the Government Out of Sex Ed

2007-07-09T00:01:00-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
We don’t give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students “low-risk” forms of smoking on the grounds that “kids are going to smoke anyway.” We shouldn’t be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.

Not His Magnum Opus

2007-06-12T00:00:00-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
The cartoon published Sunday June 10 was appalling not only for its unadulterated, unapologetic male-bashing. The cartoon is also a sickening foretaste of what awaits us as same sex parenting becomes normalized.

The Ultimate Winner on the Immigration Issue

2007-05-21T00:00:11-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
My Fellow Americans, By the time I am sworn in as President, the current Congress will have passed “comprehensive immigration reform, ” because the elites of America have decided that’s what we need. But the ordinary citizens of the United States want and deserve the rule of law.

How Dare Linda Hirshman Retire!

2007-04-30T00:00:58-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
She is at it again. Linda Hirshman keeps turning up like a bad penny. Her friends at the New York Times have given her more space to spread her poisonous message that the intelligent woman’s place is at the office.

The New Underground Women's Movement

2007-04-16T00:01:00-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
In March, I had two major speaking engagements, which together showed me the real condition of the women's movement. At the University of Virginia, I debated the state of Women's Studies programs. In Harrisburg, PA, I presented The Smart Sex Workshop to a statewide network of crisis pregnancy center counselors. These contrasting audiences revealed this surprising truth. The self-styled women's advocates housed in Women's Studies are now the Establishment. The new underground, counter-cultural radicals, the really committed advocates for women, are the women of the Pro-Life movement.

Is Feminism Finished?

2007-04-02T11:18:36-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
I hesitate to proclaim the death of feminism, since it seems to be alive in the public square. Men are still being persecuted on trumped up rape charges. Fathers are still being kept out of their children's lives. The abortion lobby is still whining about crisis pregnancy centers. But judging from my recent debate at the University of Virginia, I'd have to say there ain't much intellectual life left in the old feminist corpse.

Are Dads Disposable?

2007-02-06T08:34:05-05:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
I hate to disagree with my friend Glenn Sacks, but I think he has missed the boat in his recent comparison of lesbian "social" mothers with divorced fathers. Mr. Sacks, a prominent fathers’ rights advocate, is correct that in both cases, family law courts diminish the claims of people who want to maintain a relationship with a child.

Some people just need to get spanked

2007-01-24T08:48:23-05:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
A childless legislator here in California (where else?) has proposed a legislative ban on spanking. Sally Lieber, Democrat (naturally) from Mountain View, which is in Northern California (why am I not surprised?) believes this is a proper function of state government.

Immigration Reform for the Minority Party

2006-12-11T00:00:39-05:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
The next six weeks present an opportunity for the Republican Rule of Law Caucus.

Not a Live and Let Live Movement Any More

2006-09-04T14:09:33-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
Many people of libertarian inclinations, of whom I am one, have sympathy for a particular style of gay rights movement. Let and let live, we always say. Those days are over.

The Real Third Rail in Politics.

2006-08-07T00:00:00-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
Social Security is often described as the Third Rail of Politics. You touch it, you die of electric shock and exit the political stage in a hearse.

With Pope Benedict XVI in Valencia

2006-07-10T12:00:00-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
As the whole world surely knows, Pope Benedict XVI was in Valencia this weekend.

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A choice, not an echo

2006-07-03T00:00:00-04:00

Jennifer Roback Morse Column
The Abortion Lobby must be desperate. They evidently feel threatened by little old ladies who give away free baby clothes to women in crisis pregnancies.

Mom and dad do immigration

2006-06-19T00:05:00-04:00

The humanitarian argument for increasing immigration appeals to many people of deep religious sensibilities. According to this argument, the...

Thanks E.J. Dionne, for explaining it all to me

2006-06-12T00:05:00-04:00

Thanks EJ Dionne, for explaining to me that I’ve been used again. The entire week surrounding the vote on the Marriage Amendment, social...

Boondoggle of massive proportions

2006-06-05T00:06:00-04:00

Once again, the bad arguments in favor of universal pre-school arise from the dead like a vampire. I feel like Dr. J, the Vampire Slayer:...

Suicide and the textbooks

2006-05-30T00:05:00-04:00

The California State Senate recently passed the "Bias-Free Curriculum Act," requiring textbooks in California to include the...