Spousal fidelity is a very important personal and cultural value. In communities where husbands are more faithful to their wives, children and marriage vows, you also will find a host of other positively consequential values.

As Professor Brad Wilcox explains in his latest book, Get Married, infidelity “exacts a serious toll on marital quality,” adding it is “because, regardless of the state of the marriage prior to the adultery, breaking the fidelity norm ushers in thoughts and feelings of betrayal, distrust and anger — not to mention worries about abandonment.”

Infidelity is one of the top predictors of divorce, a devastating destroyer of families.

It is well-documented that men are more likely to stray from their marriages than women. But are some men less likely to stray than others?

Indeed. The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) examined the marital fidelity of men by political party allegiance. Their research, here and here, shows that Republican men are markedly less likely to stray from marital fidelity than Democrat men.

First, let us look at attitudes and belief.

For the most part, Republicans and Democrats have been similar in how they answer the question: “Is having an extramarital affair always wrong?” Dems have been slightly more likely to disagree with this statement, but not dramatically less than Republicans. But that changed around the time Donald Trump won the White House.

Three Virginia teachers won a victory when “the Harrisonburg City School Board agreed to respect the teachers’ constitutionally protected right to do their job in accordance with their religious beliefs,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) announced.

The teachers, Deborah Figliola, Kristine Marsh and Laura Nelson, no longer have to hide a child’s sexual identity confusion from parents and no longer must use a child’s “preferred pronouns,” which could be different from the student’s real sex.

ADF argued that these mandates violated the religious beliefs and free speech of the teachers, whose Christian faith prohibits lying to or deceiving parents.

Figliola was delighted by the verdict, saying:

“As teachers, we care deeply about the children entrusted to our care. We could not idly stand by while the schools’ administration enforced a policy with a radical, one-size-fits-all approach to students struggling with their gender, and that allowed parents to be pushed out of the picture.

“We’re thrilled for this legal victory that allows religious educators in the Harrisonburg school district to do the job we love, in a manner true to our faith.”

The legal aid organization explained that the teachers filed a complaint after the school district unveiled new guidelines mandated by the Virginia General Assembly.

It will be 121 years ago on December 17 that Orville and Wilbur Wright took their Kitty Hawk flyer to the skies for man’s first successful powered flight.

That first journey covered just 180 feet and lasted 12 seconds. By the end of the day, they had figured out how to soar 852 feet and stay aloft for 59 seconds.

For perspective, the Airbus A380 can now fly 9,200 miles carrying over 500 passengers for upwards of 19 hours without stopping.

In the years following this world-changing triumph, the Wright Brothers were asked to explain how they were able to do what prior to that December day had never been done.

During one interview, a reporter posited to Orville that he and Wilbur were just two young men with “no money, no influence, and no other special advantages” who had somehow managed to pull off the impossible.

Orville politely pushed back.

“It isn’t true to say we had no special advantages,” the now aging pioneering aviator replied.

He continued:

“We did have unusual advantages in childhood, without which I doubt we could have accomplished much. The greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”

TikTok asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit this week to postpone the enforcement of a law that could ban the social media platform from America.

The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the Act) gives TikTok until January 19 to cut ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.

The law, which President Biden signed in April, addresses years-long, bipartisan concerns that the Chinese government uses TikTok to gather data on American citizens.

TikTok spent months trying to get the law thrown out as a free speech violation.

The D.C. Circuit effectively dashed those hopes last week after unanimously finding the Act constitutional.

“The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States,” Senior Circuit Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote in the Court’s majority opinion, continuing:

Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.

Government laws that infringe on free speech rights must 1) serve a compelling government interest and 2) be narrowly tailored to serve that purpose.

Though the Court acknowledged a ban would infringe on the free expression of some 170 million users, it concluded the Act met this two-pronged test.