In my latest piece in C2C Journal I say that while "legislating morality" has a distinctly Victorian and reactionary feel we actually do it all the time, often on "progressive" grounds, so we need to think clearly about why and how we do it.

“If ever God is banished from the world so that even His image is eradicated from the human mind, we will cease to be human and become merely very clever animals—and our ultimate fate will be too horrible to contemplate."

Father Karl Rahner, SJ, quoted by Paul Johnson in “The human race: success or failure?” in The New Criterion Vol. 25 (Nov. 2006)

"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)

"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."

George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us

"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos."

G.K. Chesterton "The Book of Job," reprinted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)

"Take away religion and we are truly reduced to the condition of talking animals…"

David Warren, “Sunday Spectator,” in Ottawa Citizen May 15, 2005

"Public thinkers such as politicians and members of the media who comment on them are the first generation of our society to have been badly schooled without being aware of the fact."

"Mad Intelligence” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us