CONSCIENCE AND ITS ENEMIES Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Securalism, by Robert P. George

Having spent my entire life on the losing side of the so-called "culture wars" and believing as I do, deeply, that many of the most persistent problems in our nation and our world are a direct result of the anti-religious, anti-marriage trajectories of our political and social history, it is comforting to know that there are still people who are willing to think and write like Robert P. George.  And to do so with such incredible power.

"The two greatest institutions ever devised for lifting people out of poverty and enabling them to live in dignity are the market economy and the institution of marriage.  These institutions will stand together, or they will fall together.  Contemporary statist ideologues have contempt for both of these institutions, and they fully understand the connection between them.  We who believe in the market and in the family should see the connection no less clearly." Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies, p. 13, 2013 ISI Books

This book is an invaluable resource for those who are concerned with the attacks on religious liberty which seem to be key to the left's agenda in the 21st century, and who are looking for strong moral and logical and legal and historical and philosophical counterarguments.  George doesn't just have the scholarly credentials of an ivy league professor (lot's of people have those).  He has the actual intellect too. 

This is an incredible book.  I have returned to portions of it again and again since I first read it.  A book that belongs on every conservative's bookshelf.  A first source for the best and deepest and most important arguments about a variety of our political questions.

"What has also become clear is that the threats to the family (and to the sanctity of human life) are necessarily threats to religious freedom and to religion itself--at least where the religions in question stand up and speak out for conjugal marriage and the rights of the child in the womb.  From the point of view of those seeking to redefine marriage and to protect and advance what they regard as the right to abortion, the taming of religion (and the stigmatization and marginalization of religions that refuse to be tamed) is a moral imperative."  Id. at p. 9.

Five Stars Out of Five.