Event Description
Robert P. George and Maggie Gallagher, nationally-renowned speakers, authors, and experts on marriage. Both were key proponents of California Proposition 8 and Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, was the primary architect of the recent Manhattan Declaration. They are also the founders of the National Organization for Marriage. This lecture will focus on marriage and current challenges to marriage by the homosexual agenda and other influences.
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Thursday April 1, 2010, 7:00pm
at Southern Evangelical Seminary
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Maggie Gallagher
Maggie Gallagher is president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (www.iMAPP.org), whose motto is "strengthening marriage for a new generation" and whose unique mission is research and public education on ways that law and public policy can strengthen marriage as a social institution.
Maggie is a nationally syndicated columnist, the author of three books on marriage (including most recently with University of Chicago Prof Linda Waite "The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially"), and a leading voice of the new marriage movement. National Journal named her to the 2004 list of the most influential people in the same-sex marriage debate.
She appears frequently on major TV and radio and is frequently asked to lecture at colleges, universities and law schools. She has testified as an expert witness on marriage before the U.S. Senate and in various state legislatures. Her writings on marriage have appeared in The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as scholarly journals such as the Louisiana Law Review, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy.
Maggie is a graduate of Yale (class of ’82). She lives with her husband and two children in Westchester, New York.
Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at PrincetonUniversity. He is also a Professor of Politics and an associated faculty member of the Department of Philosophy at Princeton.
He served from 2002-2009 as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, and currently serves on UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). He is a former presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award.
Professor George is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993), In Defense of Natural LawThe Clash of Orthodoxies (2001). He is editor of several volumes, including Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (1992), The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism (1996), Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality (1996), and Great Cases in Constitutional Law (2000), and co-editor with Jean Bethke Elshtain of The Meaning of Marriage (2005). He is co-author of two new books, Embryo: The Case for Human Life (Doubleday) and Self-Body Dualism and Contemporary Ethical and Political Controversies (Cambridge University Press). (1999), and Professor George’s articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is a frequent contributor to First Things, where he is a member of the editorial advisory board, and has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, Touchstone, the Boston Review, City Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement.
A graduate of SwarthmoreCollege and HarvardLawSchool, Professor George also earned a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy of law from OxfordUniversity. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore, and received a Knox Fellowship from Harvard for graduate study in law and philosophy at Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates of law, letters, ethics, science, humane letters, civil law, and juridical science.
On December 10, 2008, Professor George received the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the highest honors that can be conferred by the United States on a civilian. Among his other awards and prizes are the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Sidney Hook Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Henry Salvatori Award of the Heritage Foundation, the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award in Politics at Princeton. He gave the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard, the 2008 Judge Guido Calabresi Lecture at Yale, and the 2008 Sir Malcolm Knox Lecture at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Professor George is general editor of New Forum Books, a Princeton University Press series of interdisciplinary works in law, culture, and politics. He serves on editorial boards of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Journal of International Biotechnology Law, and First Things magazine. In addition to his academic work, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee.