Ruth Institute Blog

by Charlie Butts

Council members in Baltimore are introducing a “Peeping Tom” ordinance that reportedly creates “serious safety issues for women.” 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…

Associated Press

BOSTON - A group of married “gay” current and former military personnel has sued the federal government, seeking equal recognition, benefits and the same support as married heterosexual couples. Read more…

You need a scorecard to keep track of this one, but the bottom line is clear enough: a bio mom and bio dad want their child to themselves, and the man’s ex-partner (who is a gay man) is declared to be a parent and the father isn’t. Unbelievable.

By Bill Kaufmann

In what’s being called a groundbreaking ruling, a gay Calgary man has been granted legal parent status in place of his ex-partner, the child’s biological father. Read more…

by Thomas Sowell

Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to his young leftist friend Harold Laski, pointing out that there were “a thousand-fold worse cases” involving black defendants, “but the world does not worry over them.” 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 Marcia Segelstein

Do you ever wonder what the world will be like in 20 or 30 years?  If you’re a parent or a grandparent, chances are you’ve thought a lot about the world the next generation will inhabit.  And if you’re a Christian, no doubt you’ve wondered if Christian values will be part of the mainstream culture, or whether such values will even be tolerated. Read more…

by Wesley J. Smith

I have worried before that stopping the normal onset of puberty in boys who believe they are girls, is a form of human experimentation–and on children, no less. And now another case has surfaced of an 11-year-old boy who is being kept medically from entering puberty. From the story: Read more…

by Stanton L Jones and Mark Yarhouse

Groundbreaking research published this week shows successful change in religiously motivated men and women.

A chorus of voices in the professional world today proclaims that it is impossible to change sexual orientation, particularly homosexual orientation, and that the attempt to change sexual orientation is commonly and inherently harmful. For example, for many years the Public Affairs website of the American Psychological Association stated: “Can therapy change sexual orientation? No. . . . [H]omosexuality . . . does not require treatment and is not changeable.”[1] Read more…

by Maggie Gallagher

In North Carolina, a group called Faith in America is starting a billboard and newspaper ad campaign against “religion-based bigotry,” aka Christian sexual ethics.

Of all the things I have observed from my perch on the front lines of America’s culture wars, the most curious is the phenomenon of the crucial moral authority of the gay man in our newly unfolding society. Read more…

What’s to keep students from lying for the sake of a scholarship?

by Bob Kellogg

Is being lesbian, “gay,” bisexual, or transgender a special talent? FRC’s Peter Sprigg says a church-affiliated college in Illinois apparently thinks so.

Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago has added to its application form a question regarding sexual orientation, making it the first school in the U.S. to do so. Reportedly in an effort to increase campus diversity, the 3,000-plus-student school is asking applicants: “Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT community?” (See earlier story) Read more…

What’s it like to have a child with someone who’s a friend but not a lover? More and more people are doing just that, to satisfy their broodiness. Helen Croydon investigates.

We often protest when homophobes insist that same sex marriage will change marriage for straight people too. But in some ways, they’re right. Here’s how gay relationships will change the institution—but for the better. By Ari Karpel

When birth control pills were making Megan’s sex drive almost nonexistent, she told her boyfriend, Colin, what many gay men in a similar position might say to theirs: “If you want to have sex, feel free to sleep with someone else; just don’t tell me about it.” Read more…

by Carolyn Moynihan

Australian government sources reveal that homosexuals and people of other self-identified genders are much more likely to attempt suicide than the general community.

Federal Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Paul Butler, says: Read more…

by Katherine Spackman

Australian states follow the crowd in allowing the radical re-ordering of children’s lives.

Across Australia homosexual activists are seeking to redefine marriage to include same-sex relationships. Fortunately, although to some surprisingly and disappointingly, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has affirmed her personal support of marriage remaining what it always has been, a commitment between a man and a woman. Read more…

Here is a video, shown at a GLBT Fun Sex Seminar event at Texas A&M, partially paid for with taxpayer money.  This video is so explicit, that You Tube requires you to affirm that you are over 18 to watch it.  This video was brought to light by Aggie Conservatives, who are asking to either defund this type of activity, or provide equal university funding for pro-abstinence, pro-family programming. 

We are contantly told that homosexual activity is “normal,” at least for some people.  However, I doubt very seriously that heterosexuals have to be given explicit instruction of the “insert Tab A into Slot B” type shown in this video.  This suggests that anal penetration is either not “normal” after all, or that the objective of this video is to induce people who aren’t necessarily naturally drawn to anal sex, to try it.  How else should we interpret the guy’s comment at around 3:30 minutes?  ”Remember guys, it takes a lot of guts to be penetrated… Those of you who are brave enough to actually try this. ..”   Who needs this information? Who needs to be told this? If it is really so natural and normal as we have been told, who needs this particular kind of encouragement?  This looks for all the world like a recruiting video for anal sex.  What is the point and why should taxpayers fund this?

And, no, this is not a “safe sex” video, comparable to what takes place in mandatory high school health classes.  There was virtually nothing in this on preventing disease.  You can’t hide behind disease prevention in this case.

The ASCSM Student Senate held a meeting on Monday, April 18 proposing the impeachment of Associated Student Body President, Vivian Abellana. …

The fliers were spread in response to Abellana’s veto to proposals for funding two events: the AB-540 Teach-In event held by Latinos Unidos and a comedy show held by the Gay-Straight Alliance. Read more…

Study after study confirms that children do best when raised by a married couple, and worse when reared by a cohabiting couple. Yet the ACLU has been pursuing a legal campaign against states that have adoption laws which favor married couples. And just last month the Arkansas Supreme Court bought the ACLU argument and struck down laws that banned adoption by cohabiters. But there is some good news: At the end of the month, Arizona’s governor approved a law giving preference to marriage couples. Brad Wilcox explains. Read more…

by Philip Sutton

Not everyone attracted to the same sex is happy about it. What help is there for those who want to change?

We hear a lot from people who claim they are happy with their homosexual or lesbian orientation and want social recognition for it. But what of people who are unhappy with their attraction to others of the same sex? What help is available and on what scientific and ethical grounds is it based? We asked Phillip Sutton, PhD, a licensed psychologist, therapist and counselor based in Indiana and Michigan in the US. Dr Sutton is also Editor of the Journal of Human Sexuality, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) Read more…

by Babette Francis

Few countries can be taking gender inclusiveness more seriously than Australia.

In the beginning there was male and female. Soon there was homosexuality. Later there were lesbians, and much later gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers. But anyone who thinks LGBTQ is the full count of contemporary sexualities is sadly out of date. For example, the transgendered have for some time been divided into those who are awaiting treatment, those have had hormone treatment, those who have had hormones and surgery, and those who have had hormones and surgery but are not happy and want it all reversed. Read more…