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The Witherspoon Institute is a conservative think tank in Princeton, New Jersey.

Overview

Founded in 2003 by Robert P. George and others, the institute is named after John Witherspoon. It shares many scholars with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Fellows include Jean Bethke Elshtain, Harold James, John Joseph Haldane, W. Bradford Wilcox, and James R. Stoner, Jr. The Institute offers summer courses on law, philosophy, religion, and social science, and deals with topics ranging from stem cell research, constitutional law, and globalization. In 2003, it organized a conference on religion in modern societies.

In 2006, Republican Senator Sam Brownback cited a Witherspoon document called Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles in a debate over a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage. It held a conference about pornography at Princeton University in December 2008. In 2012, it funded a controversial study concerning LGBT parenting, conducted by Mark Regnerus, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, which failed both an internal and external audit and has been criticized by major scientific institutions. It publishes an online journal called Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good.

Financially independent from Princeton University, its donors have included the Bradley Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation.

Publications

  • Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles (2004)
  • The social costs of pornography: a statement of findings and recommendations (2010)

References

  1. ^ Official website: Mission
  2. ^ Deborah Yaffe, 'A conservative think tank with many Princeton ties', in Princeton Alumni Weekly, July 16, 2008
  3. ^ David D. Kirkpatrick, The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker, The New York Times, December 16, 2009
  4. Robert P. George & Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Meaning of Marriage, Scepter Publishers, p. vii
  5. Official website: Fellows
  6. Roger Scruton, A political philosophy, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006, p. 210
  7. Steve Kolowich, Is the Research All Right?, Inside Higher Ed, July 13, 2012
  8. Controversial Gay-Parenting Study Is Severely Flawed, Journal’s Audit Finds
  9. Public Discourse website

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