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Chesterton famously observes that when you get rid of the Big Laws (against, for instance, sexual purity and honoring one another with our bodies) you don\u2019t get freedom and you don\u2019t even get anarchy. You get the small laws. And so the Sexual Revolution produces, not liberation, but strangling micromanaging attempts to cope with rampant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-53301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-laws-and-small-laws"],"yoast_head":"\n
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