Table of Contents

Introduction Alyssa Bormes ix

Preface Steve Mosher xii

Acknowledgments xv

Abbreviations xvi

Part I Persecution Under Way

1 A Preliminary Bout: The HealthCare Mandate 1

2 The Unjust Law: Obey? Or What? 9

3 The Main Event: A "Queer" America? 14

4 The Supreme Court on Same-sex "Marriage" 21

Part II Underlying Causes of Persecution

Introduction 30

5 The Dictatorship of Relativism 31

6 Conscience Redefined 40

7 The Constitution: Moral Neutrality 46

8 The Constitution: Still Taken Seriously? 56

Part III An Unacknowledged Cause: Contraception

Introduction 65

9 Nineteen Centuries of Condemnation 67

10 Consequences 75

11 A First Commandment Problem 83

12 A Teaching Untaught 90

Part IV The Response

13 Truth, Trust and Prayer 100

Index 109

Biography 117