Dear gay activists,
Please keep worrying about the Ruth Institute and the National Organization for Marriage and pay no attention to this:
Other targets of the ‘Talibanesque thugs’, being investigated by police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, include homosexuals.
Stickers have been plastered on public walls stating: ‘Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment’.
Sincerely,
Muslim extremists.
If you want to get good at something, you’ve got to tinker with it. Whether it’s mastering a new sport, a new musical instrument or trying to get stronger with a workout routine. You have to play around with the object of your interest so as to maximize growth.
But that’s not all you need. Let’s say you want to develop a better backhand in tennis. To do this, you need to practice doing backhands. But you also need some knowledge. Just picking up a racket and chopping at the ball will likely wind up being counterproductive. In the worst case, you may adopt some bad habits and practice them until they’re second nature, dooming your tennis game as a result of all of your hard work.
The same goes with marriage. Read more…
I have no interest in telling people how they ought to live.
I have a big interest in seeing that the government also refrains from telling people how to live.
One of the main reasons I’m against marriage redefinition is that it will result in the government interfering in people’s lives and telling them how to live. Specifically, it will result in family courts micromanaging people’s lives much more than they already do.
I don’t think my opponents on this issue could say the same thing about themselves. This post discusses an illustration of this proposition.
Let me illustrate the difference between myself and my opponents. My opponents are passionately interested in gay issues. Fine. I’m not going to argue on that. Live and let live, I say. I am passionately interested in the welfare of orthodox Judaism and its continuation for our posterity. I would venture to say that it is impossible for a gay activist to be MORE passionate about his cause than I am about mine. I would be glad to say that we’re equally passionate about our respective causes.
Let’s see the differences between us. Read more…
I write this post with trembling hands. You see my recent post on a particularly execrable high school play has inspired a histrionic conniption over at Good As You. There’s even a threat to report me to the Southern Poverty Law Center. I quake to think of what they’ll do to me.
You see, Mr. Good as Me (he doesn’t say what he’s as good as me at doing, though) and I have a vastly different worldview. My own worldview is derived from the ancient Jewish sources. It is one that asserts that life has a higher purpose. It looks at human life and human happiness in a vastly different way than modern people do.
I would presume that Mr. Good as Me looks at life in a more typically modern way. Here’s an article that describes the viewpoint. Read more…
In this blog, I have often advocated that men learn how to talk to and deal with women most effectively. In my life, I have seen men lose their marriages because they did not know how to deal with their wives. I’ve watched their interactions with their wives and feared correctly for their future. I wished I could teach them what they needed to do to get better results from their interactions with their wives. I have also met single men who were frustrated in their attempts to find love and marriage because of their lack of skill in dealing with women. Having once been hopeless with women and having learned on my own what to do, I know the value of this knowledge. Read more…
It’s hard to know where to start with this moving video.
Is it the hypocrisy? I’m sure those people who authorized, produced and participated in the making of the play are quick to scream, “HATE, HATE, H8!!!!” at those who differ with them over marriage redefinition. I’m sure they would say that the Jew hatred evident in the play is nothing but affectionate teasing. I’m sure. Calling Jews a bunch of neurotics doesn’t sound very affectionate to me. I wonder what they would say to the light comedy I came up with in my forthcoming novel Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel. I can say that my novel is much kinder to gays than their play is to Jews. Much, much kinder. Nonetheless, I’m sure those hypocrites will be screaming for fatwas when they find out about what’s in the work. Read more…
In recent months there was a giant tsunami of public grief following the suicides of several young people. Blamed for those suicides was “bullying.”
The suicide of young people is virtually always a tragedy. So, if those who lament the suicide of young people are to be taken at their word for their desire to prevent suicide, they might want to look elsewhere for their great villain. How about divorce.
Here’s the New York Times: Read more…
When I first began moving closer to Orthodox Judaism, I was struck by a curious observation I made about the Hassidic Jews I was meeting. More often than I would have expected, some geeky Hassidic man was married to a woman who, if she was much less modest about her looks, could have been a model. Had the Hassidic man and woman grown up in the secular world, the woman, more than likely, would have been waaaaay out of the man’s league. I have seen similar pairings in the secular world, but so infrequently as to provoke amused comment among friends when such a case is discovered. Read more…
It ought to be perfectly clear to everybody that the enemy we are battling in our efforts to save marriage is the political Left.
Recently, in the wake of the shootings in Tucson, the Left showed the depths of its hatred for us, the denizens of the political right. They also showed their hatred of freedom in numerous calls to roll back freedom of speech.
In response to this, John Derbyshire rallied the troops with this Rebel Yell: Read more…
This article is heartbreaking.
Keith Macdonald is called Britain’s Most Feckless Father. Admittedly, competition for that title is fierce, but Keith established a comfortable lead on Monday night when BBC1’s Panorama asked him to name his children. Tall, wan and sepulchral as a Dickensian undertaker, Keith was hesitant at first, trying to recall the eight children by eight different women that his 25-year-old loins had spawned. He managed the first six names, but then, with two children still to go, he got stuck, shrugged, took a stab at the seventh before finally admitting defeat. Read more…
Socialism doesn’t work.
The reason socialism doesn’t work is that it’s based on money for nothing. And the first lesson you learn in economics is that there are no free lunches. That means there is no such thing as money for nothing.
So, Canada, in an effort to free up its economy and to restore prosperity, has banned money for nothing.
Congratulations, Canada.
Wait? What’s that you tell me? It’s nothing to do with prosperity and everything to do with ridiculous PC attempts to ban free speech?
Okay, then. Never mind.
This chart speaks for itself.
One thing that ought to be obvious from looking at this chart is that birthrates are indeed falling all over the world. You must realize that not all of the consequences of this are going to be good.
There are those who doubt that our society has come to the point where it has come to the absurd conclusion that men and women are exactly the same, but that women are better.
It has.
But that’s not the only absurd conclusion that it has come to. It has also concluded that men are, unless proven otherwise, unspeakably evil.
Lenore Skenazy, who spends a great deal of time documenting the stupidity of the modern, paranoid style of parenting has an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Last week, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy Murray, noticed smoke coming out of a minivan in his hometown of Worcester. He raced over and pulled out two small children, moments before the van’s tire exploded into flames. At which point, according to the AP account, the kids’ grandmother, who had been driving, nearly punched our hero in the face.
Why?
Mr. Murray said she told him she thought he might be a kidnapper.
And so it goes these days, when almost any man who has anything to do with a child can find himself suspected of being a creep. I call it “Worst-First” thinking: Gripped by pedophile panic, we jump to the very worst, even least likely, conclusion first. Then we congratulate ourselves for being so vigilant. Read more…
Dr. J, in her speeches, often brings along some obscure birth certificate application to show how fathers are being eased out of families by government functionaries.
But no more.
This disgraceful stupidity is now being brought to you by the federal government. Read more…
I find it odd that people dispute the notion that birth rates and other issues relating to population matter a great deal to society and the composition of society. People who comment here attribute my views on this matter to my religious fanaticism or whatever.
I have frequently observed the irony that atheists are often so insistent in their trumpeting of Darwin. Without commenting at all on the merits of Darwin’s ideas, it’s easy to see how secularists of all stripes are Darwin’s biggest losers. They do, after all, have the fewest children. I note with further amusement, that some of our commenters want me to believe that people of my point of view are quickly to die out and disappear from the world. Seeing as how my wife is busily gestating our fourth child, I hardly can see things their way.
But don’t take it from me. Take it from a gay, atheist (I venture to say an “anti-theist”) who recognizes and laments that fact. Witness this article.
What’s that famous quote, by Edna St. Vincent Millay? Oh, yes: “I love humanity but I hate people.” It’s a sentiment that captures my normal misanthropically tinged type of humanitarianism well, but it roars apropos on some particular occasions.
You see, right here in his first paragraph, I already disagree with Bering, the author of this hilarious article. For me, I love human beings, but Read more…
In response to a recent post of mine, commenters suggested that it is wrong to condemn others for who they are or to tell them that what they are or what they do is sinful. It is implied in their objections to my comment that criminal penalties or other governmental action to prevent such condemnation could be appropriate. I have to disagree.
Who or what a person is can mean a whole lot of things. Perhaps there are people who would make an equivalent condemnation of me. Now, how would I feel if somebody told me that who or what I am is sinful? How would Dr. J feel?
Well, let’s find out about that. Read more…
Dr. Stuart Schneiderman has a new column out about same sex “marriage.”
What is a funeral when no one died? It is theatre. What is a dinner where you go through the motions of eating without there being any food? It is pantomime.
Same-sex marriage is a fiction. Even if everyone believes that the fiction is real– or be too afraid to say otherwise– that does not make it less of a fiction. The world does not become flat just because everyone says it is. In many ways the strangest part of the current debate over same-sex marriage is how little of it involves rational argument. Read more…
Dr. J. is fond of joking that the so-called “Octo-Mom” has had fourteen kids and no known act of coitus.
This, it seems, is soon going to change. It seems that Miss Octo has hit a rough patch, financially speaking. And, seeing as how she does not have anything as outlandish as a husband, she just might try to get out of her troubles the old fashioned way: porn.
Reports TMZ:
Vivid Entertainment boss Steven Hirsch just met with the guy who holds the note on Octomom‘s home — and by the sound of things … he’s even closer to banging out a deal for the Octo-crib.
As we first reported, Hirsch is looking to take the note off the hands of Amer Haddadin as a way of “beginning a relationship with Octomom” — since she’s turned down all his previous job offers.
Hirsch still needs to see some paperwork — and the inside of the actual house — before things go any further … but he tells us things are going in a very “positive” direction.
So, Dr. J is going to have to change her joke seeing as how Octo-Mom just might be making the contractual arrangements to participate in one or more acts of intercourse, and this time there will be videotape evidence thereof!
Normally, I would consider this a step down for a woman, but considering Suleman’s past history, I can hardly see how her story could get any trashier by a performance such as that.
It seems to me that Octo-Mom would have been better off with a husband and a normal life.
This article discusses the legislation of morality. The Left is fond of saying that society cannot legislate morality. This is a stunning example of hypocrisy, because, when it comes to legislating morality, the Left is doing it all the time.
Morals legislation appears to be as pervasive as ever. Nothing in the current environment suggests there exist opinions on which you may not be lectured. The extent of what is out of bounds is growing all the time. What has changed is the contents of that proscribed area. It may now be a crime to quote the Bible. For example, in May of 2010 a British preacher was arrested for handing out leaflets saying that homosexuality was a sin. A policeman appoached “to warn him they had received complaints and that if he made any racist or homophobic comments he would be arrested.”
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