More from “It Takes a Family”–here’s the podcast of Adam Weinberg’s talk, entitled “Spreading the Message on Campus.” The California regional field coordinator from the Leadership Institute discussed how to recruit and inform on campus and gave an overview of some of the discrimination and other obstacles conservative students face.
Keep checking the podcast page for more lectures from “It Takes a Family.” The most recent one up is Dr. Robert Gagnon’s talk, entitled “Jesus and Sex.” He’s a professor from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and he discussed what Jesus taught about sex–including marriage, homosexuality, and divorce–and how His teachings related to the Mosaic law and the mores of the culture.
Let’s say that you’ve been reading the Ruth Blog for a while. You’ve seen my brilliant and insightful commentary about how stupid it is to hook up. You decide that you will refrain from having sex until you are married.
That decision is not just a resolution. It’s also a prediction. How accurate is that prediction? Read more…
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
“The Liberation of Lifelong Love: Church Teaching on Marriage” is the opening of my contribution to a new book called “Women, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching.” I realize that many of my readers are not Catholic. However, I still enthusiastically encourage you to consider purchasing this book. Many of the chapters contain valuable information from the social sciences that will be helpful to anyone from any faith tradition making the case for traditional sexual morality. Read more…
There are a few more podcasts up for your listening pleasure–one from our recent “It Takes a Family” conference, and the other two are interviews of Dr J on Issues, Etc.
Dr J gave the opening talk at ITAF 2010; entitled Marriage and Freedom in Society, it discusses what marriage does for society and some of the consequences (especially those relating to children) if we choose to dissolve or weaken it. Some of the areas she covers include divorce law, state intervention, and parenthood.
The two Issues, Etc interviews discuss the response to Judge Walker’s attitude about the Prop 8 case (Shot in the Arm…or the Foot?) and another group of Mama Grizzlies, this one opposed to Sarah Palin (Sarah Palin vs. Mama Grizzlies). Dr J’s exposition on the arrogance of both subjects is excellent.
Now here’s a good idea. (Heavy sarcasm)
A high profile British homosexual activist wants the age of sexual consent lowered to 14, on the basis that currently underage sex “is mostly consenting, safe and fun”. Read more…
Today, I discovered a blog called “[Expletive] Feelings.” Considering my stoic, unsentimental and unromantic outlook, I knew that I found kindred spirits in the writers of this blog. Sure enough, I found this post. It’s every kind of awesome I can think of. And more.
In it, he says just about exactly what I’ve been saying on these pages. But he says it without as much cheeky sarcasm and obscure cultural references randomly hidden among the hyperlinks. He also says it with the authority of a psychiatrist.
But, dude, check this post out:
I love my wife, and I have since we met in college. She’s also been very devoted to me, supporting my fledgling career as an artist and even taking a part-time job as my manager (on top of her full-time job, which supports us both). The problem is that, as much as I love her and as much as I’ve tried to ignore my feelings for other men, I’m pretty sure I’m actually gay. To admit that I’m gay would mean divorcing her, which would not only break her heart when all she’s ever done is sacrifice everything for me, but throw every aspect of my life, personally and professionally, into chaos. I don’t want to hurt her or lose her, and, well, I don’t want to go on welfare. My goal is to be true to both of us. Read more…
Interesting.
France, that bastion — if not Bastille — of egalité, has its own debate on single-sex versus co-ed schooling, to judge by a recent opinion piece in Le Monde.
The writer notes that the subject is currently much dicussed in France. He points out that number of British schools have reverted to education organised on single-sex lines, and that a recent report in a French journal (l’Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques) concluded that mixed-gender classes were having no discernable effect on recognition of male-female equality. Read more…
The first two podcasts of talks given at this year’s summer student conference are up on the podcast page for your listening pleasure. There will be around 10 talks when all of them are podcasted (categorized under “ITAF 2010″). Thanks to everyone who was a part of “It Takes a Family.”
from Leo:
Dr. J. has previously pointed out that the theology and defense of marriage is uniting (http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/22/christian-unity/) the Orthodox and the Catholic traditions around a subject vital to both. The same issue has divided the Anglican (Episcopal) community. I would like to call your attention to some stories in the news about what is happening among the Lutherans.
The welcoming of seven openly gay and transgender pastors back to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) received warm attention in these articles in the New York Times and the Ms. Magazine newswire. Read more…
From the halls of academe to the hills of Hollywood the cry of ‘family diversity’ rings out ever more confidently.
Let’s start with a little warm-up exercise. Here are three people who have made pronouncements on the family: a government advisor on families and parenting; a filmstar; an academic. See if you can correctly match them with the following quotations: Read more…
Here’s more from the author of ‘Plan C for Conscience,’ since that post garnered so much attention here and elsewhere. Here’s her take on the reactions her previous article received. Be sure not to miss the last few paragraphs. They’re key.
Pharmacists dispense advice to a colleague who will not sell the morning after pill.
I recently wrote an article expressing my delight that Washington State pharmacists will no longer be forced to dispense products or provide services they find morally objectionable. My elation at the Washington victory was quickly numbed, however, when an edited version ran as a “Point of View” on the Canadian Healthcare Network website. It is one thing for the public to oppose our freedom of conscience, quite another for pharmacists to be shooting themselves in the foot. Read more…
It’s a great way to keep your head clear. But does anybody care, I wonder?
It is always gratifying when research coincides with common sense and everyday experience, as in the case of a new study showing that a relationship in which sexual intimacy is delayed is more likely to endure. Read more…
Great post today over at the First Things blog.
It is odd that simply because of its “sexual freedom” our time should be considered extraordinarily physical. In fact, our “sexual revolution” is mostly an industrial phenomenon, in which the body is used as a idea of pleasure or a pleasure machine with the aim of “freeing” natural pleasure from natural consequence.
Like any other industrial enterprise, industrial sexuality seeks to conquer nature by exploiting it and ignoring the consequences, by denying any connection between nature and spirit or body and soul, and by evading social responsibility. The spiritual, physical, and economic costs of this “freedom” are immense, and are characteristically belittled or ignored. The diseases of sexual irresponsibility are regarded as a technological problem and an affront to liberty.
Industrial sex, characteristically, establishes its freeness and goodness by an industrial accounting, dutifully toting up numbers of sexual partners, orgasms, and so on, with the inevitable industrial implication Read more…
by Bill Bumpas and Jody Brown
he full results of a national study that favors abstinence education is being withheld from researchers and the public.
The taxpayer-supported survey from 2008 found that around 70 percent of parents and their teenagers believed that teens should wait until marriage to have sex. Despite release of the study’s summary and its highlight at two major public health conferences last year, the Department of Health and Human Services is withholding the full results according to Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Foundation. Read more…
More news sent to me by Leo:
Originally I dismissed the idea of recusal by Judge Walker, but this piece makes a strong legal case.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-08-11/opinion/22213940_1_parties-judge-walker-new-trial
It reads in part
The political philosopher John Locke noted in his Second Treatise on Civil Government that “it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases (because) self-love will make men partial to themselves and their friends.” That sentiment, undoubtedly true, is actually codified in federal law. A judge is required to disqualify himself in any proceeding “in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances in which: (a) the judge has … personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding; [or] … (c) the judge knows that the judge … has a financial … or any other interest that could be affected substantially by the outcome of the proceeding.” Read more…
Something submitted by one of our blog friends:
Here is an interesting dialog in the electronic world of the NY Times that you might be interested in.
Sorry that you will be subjected to a commercial to watch it.
Two gay strategists are arguing over making a pitch to religious people to alleviate their concerns. The second strategist says, in effect, we could do that, but that would be a lie.
The contraceptive pill could make women better gossips but no better at reading maps, if research carried out in Austria is anything to go by.
The first ever study of the effect of the pill on women’s brains found that it increased areas linked with memory and conversation skills — parts of the brain already better developed in women than in men, the Daily Mail reports. However, the contraceptive appeared to have little effect on areas more dominant in men, including those associated with spatial skills such as map reading. Read more…
Considering the posts I have written on romantic love and on sentimentality, some readers of this blog may have the mistaken impression that I am unromantic.
This is not so.
Recently, I saw a movie, the movie featured the recitation of some poetry. That got me to thinking about my wife’s upcoming birthday. So, to honor this blessed event, I have written a poem in my wife’s honor. I hope you enjoy. Read more…
You know what can happen when we declare sex to be a “human right”?
This.
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