I have been meaning to write you this email for some time now, I apologize for the delay.
I wanted to share with you an experience I had on the flight home after the conference in San Diego with the Ruth Institute. I was, unfortunately, the very last person to board my full Southwest Airlines flight back to St. Louis. Once I found my seat (the only seat left), I buckled up and quickly pulled out my white binder full of the materials from the conference. Maybe this is the nerd in me, but I love to read, learn and learn some more.
As I flipped through the journals, the gentleman sitting next to me asked if I was in law school. With a smirk, I shook my head and explained that I was just brushing up on some literature. He queried further and began laughing aloud when I told him I attended a conference on why marriage was a social and economic good, amongst other things. He replied that he was shocked that I was sitting next to him, as he was a firm non-believer in marriage! Read more…
Watch the creation of this amazing student initiative! Over 700 students where involved in making this happen. The Ruth Institute was thrilled to be apart of campus activism.
“Hidden in Obama’s health care bill is a huge marriage penalty. Both the Senate and House bills would set up yet another federal program to provide financial incentives to subsidize marriage avoidance and illegitimate offspring.
Even though all evidence shows that marriage is the best remedy for poverty, lack of health care, domestic violence, child abuse and school dropouts, federal welfare programs continue to discriminate against marriage and instead give taxpayer handouts to those who reject marriage. This isn’t any accident — it is a central part of the Democrats’ political strategy that produced 70 percent of unmarried women voting for Obama for president in 2008.
“‘Gayby Boom’ Fueled by Same-Sex Parents” screamed a headline on the website of ABC News this past summer. “Post-1980s Children of Gay Parents Thrive in School, More Open Society,” the subhead declared. Was there some new information in this story? Nope. It was just another human-interest story in the noble-homosexuals-who-overcome-adversity-and-stay-true-to-themselves template.
Unfortunately for ABC, a closer look at the source of the few facts in this story tells another story — one the “gay rights” lobby and its allies in the media probably would rather you didn’t hear: Same-sex “marriage” is a completely disproportionate response to an overwrought problem. Most of the feature consisted of interviews with same-sex couples who have raised children together. But among the obvious ploy for sympathy were a few facts, including this eyepopper: “Just under 1% of all couples in the U.S. — or 594,391 people — identify themselves as gay, lesbian or transgender, and about 20% of them are raising children under the age of 18.”
Yes, you read that correctly: Two-tenths of 1% of couples in America are same-sex couples raising children.Read more…
Yesterday JP Morgan Chase Bank decided to override the vote of many who participated in the Chase Community Giving program. This intiative was a Facebook poll that allowed users to vote on which non-profits they thought $5 millions should be distributed to. The National Organization for Marriage Educationa Trust, of which the Ruth Institute operates, receieved adaquate votes to be included in the $5 million distribution.
However, yesterday Chase spokesman said that the bank would be removing The National Organization for Marraige Educational Trust from this list because they violated the Chase nondisrimination policy.
The Bishops recently published a letter on marriage: its definition, what marriage means to the Church and how it calls us to live!
We encourage people of all faiths to take a look at this holistic view of the human person seen through the vocation of marriage! We all have something to learn from their in-depth anaylsis of marriage and the family!
Rebecca Ryland–A High School Student from St. Joseph Academy in San Marcos CA, writes on the founding of the Ruth Institute.
Dr. Jennifer Morse marks August 1, 2008, as the date on which the Ruth Institute began. She had been toying with the idea for a long time, but things really began to take shape in January of that year. The name of the organization came to her as she was praying at Mass on the feast of Epiphany. “I had an epiphany on Epiphany,” she laughs. She knew that she wanted to name the institute after a person. She also knew that she didn’t want the name to be overtly Catholic, since she intended the organization to be an inter-faith one. Ruth seemed to fit the bill perfectly – as a Biblical figure, she was someone that both Catholics and Protestants could relate to. Incidentally, Ruth was also the name of Dr. Morse’s mother. Read more…
First found on the NYtimes website. November 2009: this is an insightful article that pulls together great research.
It used to irk Melissa Calapini when her 3-year-old daughter, Haley, hung around her father while he fixed his cars. Ms. Calapini thought there were more enriching things the little girl could be doing with her time.
But since the couple attended a parenting course — to save their relationship, which had become overwhelmed by arguments about rearing their children — Ms. Calapini has had a change of heart. Now she encourages the father-daughter car talk.
“Daddy’s bonding time with his girls is working on cars,” said Ms. Calapini, of Olivehurst, Calif. “He has his own way of communicating with them, and that’s O.K.”
As much as mothers want their partners to be involved with their children, experts say they often unintentionally discourage men from doing so. Because mothering is their realm, some women micromanage fathers and expect them to do things their way, said Marsha Kline Pruett, a professor at the Smith College School for Social Work at Smith College and a co-author of the new book “Partnership Parenting,” with her husband, the child psychiatrist Dr. Kyle Pruett (Da Capo Press). Read more…
Speaker Byrnes is using Same Sex Marriage in the hopes to increase Michigans poor economy. Young people want to live in progressive cities that allow Same Sex Marriage. Her platform: it will be best for Michigan’s economy to legalize Same Sex marriage so that young people will move Michigan cities!
This article found at Detriot New.com
Speaker Pro Tempore Pam Byrnes, D-Lyndon Township, introduced a resolution to amend the state constitution to allow same-sex marriage. Voters instituted the ban in 2004, when they approved Proposal 2.
Check out this recent NYTimes article in the Your Money section
Much of the debate over legalizing gay marriage has focused on God and Scripture, the Constitution and equal protection.
But we see the world through the prism of money. And for years, we’ve heard from gay couples about all the extra health, legal and other costs they bear. So we set out to determine what they were and to come up with a round number — a couple’s lifetime cost of being gay. Read more…
Sparked by the David Letterman sex scandal, the nation is again talking about the “rules of engagement” in love. Plenty of chatter has focused on the famous talk-show host’s affairs with female co-workers and on the workplace suite (dubbed “the bunker” by insiders) that he used for trysts. There’s also the blatant hypocrisy – Mr. Letterman routinely mocked people for their sexual peccadillos. Now it’s his turn to look hangdog into the cameras.
My take is that Mr. Letterman is now a poster boy for an aspect of cohabiting often gets glossed over: Cohabiters are more likely to cheat than married spouses.
Marriage is built on sexual exclusivity, and spouses typically vow to forsake all others in front of witnesses (and God). But cohabiters take no such vows. They may not even promise privately to be faithful.
ME Vote No Left Turns: We cannot make equality include things not encompassed within the natural meaning of equality.
http://bit.ly/3nbDeF8 months ago
ME is close to the margin of victory in CA. Prop 8 won with 52%, the % by which Obama was annointed. Prop 8 however, was considered close. 8 months ago
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