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Court: ‘Tolerance is a two-way street’

January 27th, 2012 Comments off

by Jody Brown, Charlie Butts, and Bob Kellogg

The Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of Christian graduate student Julea Ward, who almost three years ago was expelled from a university counseling program for her religious beliefs. Read more…

After Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ the Sky’s the Limit

March 31st, 2011 5 comments

LGBTweekly.com:
The Irish edition of tabloid news magazine The Sun recently covered the story of Penny Lawrence, a 28-year-old woman suffering from Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) who is now pregnant with her father’s child.

If you seriously don’t think there are folks waiting in the wings for same-sex ‘marriage’ to set the legal precedent they need to make what is described above legal – along with absolutely anything else you could imagine – then check out a website called Full Marriage Equality. (They refer to this father and daughter’s relationship as “consanguinarmory”.)

Study Undercuts View of College as a Place of Same-Sex Experimentation

March 19th, 2011 1 comment
By TAMAR LEWIN

The popular stereotype of college campuses as a hive of same-sex experimentation for young women may be all wrong.

To the surprise of many researchers and sex experts, the National Survey on Family Growth found that women with bachelor’s degrees were actually less likely to have had a same-sex experience than those who did not finish high school. Read more…

Students Have Right to Wear ‘Be Happy, Not Gay’ T-Shirt, 7th Circuit Appeals Court Rules

March 3rd, 2011 11 comments

ABAjournal.com:
The school argued (and still argues) that banning “Be Happy, Not Gay” was just a matter of protecting the ‘rights’ of the students against whom derogatory comments are directed. But people in our society do not have a legal right to prevent criticism of their beliefs or even their way of life.

So they needed a court to explain that citizens don’t have “…a legal right to prevent criticism of their beliefs or even their way of life…”, huh?

Well I’m just glad we got that cleared up.

‘Coming out’ assembly concerns parents

November 16th, 2010 74 comments

This is the kind of stuff that concerns me. It’s the stuff that will be pushed more and more if SSM is legalized everywhere. I think this goes beyond merely pushing equality and anti-bullying (somewhat understandable there) but gives unspoken encouragement to the gay lifestyle. Is that really necessary? I think the idea is to cause less confusion, not more.

Bill Bumpas – OneNewsNow

Brian Camenker, president of MassResistance!, tells OneNewsNow a concerned mother first alerted his group of the panel discussion that took place at Concord-Carlisle High School in late October during which seven teachers shared their “coming out” stories and encouraged the reported standing-only audience to do the same. Read more…

Does the school board need to know Johnny’s sexual orientation?

November 15th, 2010 4 comments

Kind of weird, right?

by Mariette Ulrich

A former Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, once famously quipped: “The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.”

Unless, it would seem, the “nation” means schoolchildren ages 12-17, and the “state” is local school board bureaucrats and/or the provincial Ministry of Education. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (Ontario, Canada) plans to issue a survey which asks, among other things, for children to disclose their gender (four choices) and sexual orientation (nine choices). Proponents claim the survey is voluntary, but rather than requiring parental permission for the survey to be administered, the onus is on parents to opt out in writing (by Nov. 19), if they do not wish their child to participate. Read more…

Just so you know…

October 21st, 2010 35 comments

Just so you know how colleges are indoctrinating your children at “orientation.”

And just when you thought orientation was about how to register for classes, how to find the different lecture halls and where to buy your books.

Hope you still think that $35,000 in tuition is well spent…

The Paradox of Choice

July 26th, 2010 26 comments

In the beginning, there was patriarchy.  And it was EEEEEEEEEVIL.  Under patriarchy, men were expected to get married.  And they were expected to have children soon after getting married.  You know why they had children?  Because patriarchy was oppressive and forced them to marry women.

There was not a lot of choice built into the system.  Men not only had to marry women, but they had to marry women of the appropriate station.

If Henry wanted to get married, he could marry Katherine or Anne or Jane.  That was it.

Now that the enlightened Baby Boomers have overthrown the dreaded Patriarchy, people have more choice in matters marital and sexual.  Henry does not have to confine his choices to Katherine, Anne or Jane.  He can now also marry Tiffany, Barbara, Aiko, Taliqua, or Fatima.  Not only that, in some states Henry can even “marry” James, Edward or Robert.  Or he can even forget about marriage altogether and play the field for the rest of his life.

It seems that Henry is spoiled for choice.  He must constantly frolic and rejoice to celebrate all that choice.  That’s how things work, right?  The more choices people have, the happier they are.  Right?  Right? Read more…

Troubling theories about childhood innocence

June 18th, 2010 3 comments

Troubling, indeed, to think that three and four-year-olds calling “kissing crocs” one boy and one girl is “a problem.” I don’t call that a problem; I call it normal! Let them be normal. If that’s the way they’re thinking naturally, than it’s natural. Why try to mess with them?

by Carolyn Moynihan

Sexuality engineers may be coming to a childcare centre near you.

Let’s get one thing straight: are we against the sexualization of children or are we not? If we — adult, mainstream society — are against it, we had better start explaining to ourselves why there are people employed in public institutions who say openly that they do not believe in the sexual innocence of children and want to expose it as a myth. Read more…

Welcome to Facts about Youth

April 15th, 2010 Comments off

Perhaps a good response to the information in the previous post.

Facts About Youth (Facts) is a resource created by health professionals to provide policymakers, parents and youth with the most current medical and psychological facts about sexual development.

Amid debate in the medical and mental health fields concerning the causes and proper approaches to youth with non-heterosexual attractions, Facts is a non-political, non-religious channel presenting the most current facts on the subject. Facts is committed to advancing a school environment in which all students will experience the opportunity to achieve optimal health and safety, even in the midst of differing worldviews. Facts is intended to be a resource to promote the factual and respectful discussion of these potentially divisive issues. This is a web site for and about youth and their needs.

Keep reading.

Youth and same-sex attraction: a new resource for schools

April 15th, 2010 Comments off

by Carolyn Moynihan

A group of American paediatricians concerned about policies that encourage teenagers to think positively about same-sex attraction has set up the website FactsAboutYouth.com and sent a letter to the superintendents of all public schools in the United States. Read more…

I suppose this was inevitable…

March 22nd, 2010 Comments off

The silliness of gender identity has apparently reached such a mass that it has collapsed upon itself and formed a singularityWitness:

Norrie May-Welby, 48, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28.

After becoming unhappy as a woman, May-Welby decided to become a “neuter”. The 48-year-old is now officially recognised as a person of no specific gender.

Satire is dead.

But this matter is not entirely humorous.  When we move away from “essentialist” notions of gender, we inevitably encounter silly incidents like this as gender is determined by (of all things) courts and the legal system.

It’s just as silly, but certainly less funny when courts are called in to make determinations in another area in which people want us to abandon essentialist thinking –  parenthood.