Ruth Institute Blog

Passports in the UK will no longer list Mother and Father on a child’s passport.  Only Parent 1 and Parent 2 will be listed.

Documents seen by the Daily Mail suggest the change was made as a result of lobbying by the gay rights group Stonewall. The Home Office Diversity Strategy’ states: ‘IPS [the Identity and Passport Service] is working with Stonewall in response to an issue about having to name a “mother” and “father” on the passport  application form.’

Stonewall has gotten the government to impose Parent 1 and Parent 2 on the passports, in the oh-so-reasonable attempt to spare people embarrassment at the border.  I want you to think about changing the birth certificates to have Parent 1 and Parent 2.  This would mean that the government would take no notice at all of which person has a biological connection with the child. Not mother and second parent. Nor mother or co-parent.  Just Parent 1 and Parent 2. Biology is out of the equation. We couldn’t have the biological mother being “privileged” over her “partner,” now could we?

This is where the decoupling of sex and reproduction from marriage has led us. No more natural parents, only legal parents. Years ago, the idea was, “every child a wanted child.”  Now we’ve come to the point where “Every child an adopted child,” whether you gave birth to the baby or not.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044491/PC-passport-Goodbye-mother-father-Now-Parent-1-2-appear-form.html#ixzz1fiCgXrPV

By Shawn Millerick

The entire leadership of the controversial gay marriage advocacy group Standing Up for New Hampshire Families consists of lawyers and activists from New York City and Washington, DC, new documents obtained by NH Journal reveal. In fact, judging strictly from these organizational documents, the group has no connection to the Granite State whatsoever. Read more…

by Charlie Butts and Bob Kellogg

After 90 years of assisting in providing foster care for children, Catholic Charities of Illinois has been forced to cease services.

The problem began with passage of the Illinois civil unions law for same-gender pairs, which led the state to force Christian foster care and adoption organizations to consider homosexual couples, even though that is contrary to basic Christian doctrine. Catholic Charities filed suit, but the state has already begun transferring the children out. Read more…

by Dr. Michael L. Brown

It was surprising to hear Rush Limbaugh say the words, “I don’t have the guts to bring it up” – but he did, on November 8, to his massive radio audience.

Rush Limbaugh lacking the guts to address something publicly? Rush Limbaugh not willing to tackle controversy? Really? Read more…

by Charlie Butts

On October 15, homosexual activists, who later took credit for the attack, threw concrete bricks through the door and windows of the Christian Liberty Academy in suburban Chicago (see earlier story). The site was chosen for the attack because it hosted a fundraising banquet for Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.  Read more…

by Mariette Ulrich

Introducing gay-friendly history curriculum is proving to be difficult, note California educators.

Teachers and administrators are flummoxed about how to carry out a new law requiring California public schools to teach all students — from kindergartners to 12th graders — about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans in history classes. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Anonymous activists have taken credit for throwing concrete bricks through windows and doors at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights to protest the banquet for the “homophobic hate group” and guest speaker Scott Lively, co-author of The Pink Swastika and founder of Watchmen on the Walls. Read more…

By Hadley Arkes

From California again we get a glimpse of the future – or the future that a political class is consciously seeking to prepare for us in reshaping the culture. During the summer the legislature enacted, and Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB48, as an amendment to “the Education Code, relating to instruction.” That Code had already made ample provision to instruct the children of California in the contributions made by all racial and ethnic groups supplying votes for politicians. But there was an appreciation also for the contributors who were “entrepreneurs” and labor unions, and whose stories deserved to be told. With SB48 the legislature took a further step by adding: “Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans.” Read more…

by Charlie Butts

The homosexual activist group All Out is asking PayPal to immediately shut down the online accounts of ten groups it has labeled “anti-LGBT extremist groups.” Most of the groups are U.S.-based. PayPal reportedly has responded, saying it could not comment on individual accounts and must take “the rights of free speech and freedom of religion” into account. Read more…

Back in July, the California legislature passed SB 48.  It mandates that all public schools must include positive discussions of the sexual orientations of transgender, bisexual, and gay Americans when teaching their contributions to history.  This includes rewriting text books and using supplemental discussion materials. Read more…

by Dr. Michael L. Brown

The recent cover of the French edition of Vogue magazine caused considerable controversy, and it was not because of the all too typical, female model featured in a sensual pose. Instead, it was the fact that the model this time was a 10-year-old girl. Read more…

Really? Isn’t this a little much?

An online push is under way to pressure the producers of “Sesame Street” into having Bert and Ernie get married.

More than 900 people have signed a petition about the pair of platonic puppets on Change.org as of early Wednesday. Read more…

by Mary Rice Hasson

How can life get better for sexually confused young people if they cut themselves off from their families and abandon themselves to sex?

For LGBT teens who face adversity and intolerance…There’s no place in society for hatred and bullying…You have an amazing future in front of you…
And an entire community in your corner…We promise you. It gets better. Read more…

by Maggie Gallagher

The First Amendment is more than a legal guarantee. It is a culture — a key American value — which holds that in a decent and free society, law-abiding citizens should not face reprisals for speaking up with civility for the moral good as they see it. Read more…

by Ron Prentice

In politics, opposing sides often hide or misrepresent facts in order to present their positions more favorably. Graciously, that is called manipulation. But bald-faced lies are coming from a new ad airing on radio stations around the state. Read more…

GROUP criticizes Business Association for Buckling to Gay Pressure

WASHINGTON – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today condemned the Florida Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Democratic Caucus for harassing Congressman Allen West over his support for traditional marriage, and sharply criticized the Wilton Manors Business Association for rescinding a speaking invitation to Congressman West in response to pressure from gay activists. At the same time, NOM praised the Orlando Sun Sentinel for editorializing against these intimidation tactics. Read more…

I Am a Man

by Kevin Ryan

California’s new gay-friendly curriculum raises questions about the future of government-run schools.

Earlier this month, the left-leaning California State Legislature overwhelmingly passed The FAIR Education Act (SB 48) and has sent the bill on Governor Jerry Brown for what will surely be a celebratory signing. The FAIR Education Act is the seventh sexual indoctrination law to teach the state’s children to regard homosexuality, transsexuality (sex-changes operations) and bisexuality as good and natural. This is another in an impressive string of legal victories by gay activists. On the other hand, it further fuels a growing national discontent with public education. Read more…

by Frank Turek

Are you supposed to have sex at work? I guess it depends on your profession, but for most of us the answer is “no.” Why then is corporate America obsessed with training about sex? Read more…

I bet it’s becoming a challenge for some of these gay rights groups to say with a straight face that they are not America-Hating, Freedom-Hating goons.  (Luckily, there are counterexamples.  Gay individuals like Gay Patriot, Charles Winecoff, Tammy Bruce and others who publicly share their love of the USA).

Radio Derb documents the following depressing incident:

Every time I think I’m inured to the follies and depravities of our age, something comes along to assure me that my stomach can still be turned. This week it was the story of 11-year-old Will Phillips, who lives in West Fork, Arkansas. Little Will is a crusader for gay rights. He refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in his fifth-grade classroom, saying, quote: “It’s not true when gay people don’t have the same rights as everyone else … I feel like I’m lying if I say that pledge.” Little Will is of course a hero to the buggery brigades, and — here’s the news — he has been chosen as one of the leaders in this year’s San Antonio gay pride parade. Eleven years old. The lines have already been written, listeners, I need only quote them.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.