Ruth Institute Blog

by Carson Holloway

Is there anything of substance to be gained for homosexuals from the current quest for same-sex marriage? Read more…

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…

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…

Focus on the Family is gearing up for its first run as sponsor of an annual student-led event that helps students share the hope of God’s love and truth with classmates.

The Day of Dialogue, formerly known as the Day of Truth, which is being headed up by Candi Cushman, is scheduled for April 18. 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 But anyone who thinks LGBTQ is the full count of contemporary sexualities is sadly out of date.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…

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…

by Maggie Gallagher

After same-sex marriage, what next?

Many people are tired of the culture war. They’d like to throw in the towel and go back to “normal.”

There’s only one problem: The culture war will always be ongoing because the left is never going to stop waging it. You can never “give in” and be done with it — they will simply move on to the next item. Read more…

What individuals choose in private, and for which they bear personal responsibility, is separate from what we sanction publicly for which we all must bear responsibility.

CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been an annual gig for me for years. But this year I concluded it was not my place and I declined to participate in the various venues at the event for which I was invited. Read more…

Family advocates call plan ‘worst school sexual indoctrination ever’

Yes, I’ve asked before on another thread, but the question is worth asking again:

Does anyone who ridiculed those commercials that said public schools would be required to engage in the sexual indoctrination of children as young as five years old if Proposition 8 failed want to rethink their position?

One would think that at a time when California is in serious danger of financial collapse our legislators would have more important priorities than ‘perving’ the minds of kindergarteners…

by Carolyn Moynihan

Is it OK to use deceit in the service of a cause you believe in?

Oh, the joys of Schadenfreude. When the American pro-life group Live Action released a videotape on YouTube earlier this week showing a Planned Parenthood clinic manager describing herself as a “partner in crime” with a pimp and a prostitute, there could have been few opponents of abortion who did not feel a surge of satisfaction at the unmasking of an old foe. That would have been only half the gratification, however; the rest would come from knowing that this was the work, not of battle-weary pro-life stalwarts, but of the eager, active young people who have rallied to Live Action and the pro-life cause. Read more…

More press over Dr. Morse’s scarf statement.

By Alexandra Petri

Even now, in the midst of all the hubbub over Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the Ruth Institute, based in San Diego, wants the rainbow back from the “Rainbow Coalition” of gay rights activists.

“We can’t simply let that go by,” she told OneNewsNow. “Families put rainbows in their children’s nurseries. Little Christian preschools will have rainbows…Noah’s Ark and all the animals…. Those are great Christian symbols, great Jewish symbols.” Read more…

by Thomas Peters

I have never witnessed such a blatant, systematic attempt to undermine the Catholic Church as the one I am writing about today.

The latest Catholyc astoturf group “Catholics for Equality” (which I exposed a couple months ago) already had me deeply concerned when they introduced a “Report Anti-Equality Activity!” section on their webpage. Read more…

by Brendan O’Neill

Much of the wacky authoritarianism of twentieth-century dystopian literature is now coming to life, from the promotion of homosexuality as a check on population growth to the celebration of childfree women as superior to ‘breeders’.

Reading an op-ed in an American newspaper last month, which argued that gay marriage should be legalised because it will help reduce overpopulation (homosexuals don’t breed, you see), I knew I had heard a similar sentiment somewhere before. Read more…

by Melinda Selmys

The idea that sexual orientation is fixed is based on an impoverished view of the human person, says a former lesbian.

If you have undergone modern sexual education, followed the gay-marriage debates on television, or simply unconsciously imbibed the sexual ethos of this culture, you are probably familiar with the idea of sexual orientation. This is the theory that every human being has an innate, fixed set of sexual attractions either for the opposite sex, for their own sex, or for both. Read more…

An interesting, but not surprising twist.

A school district in Michigan doesn’t plan to reverse a teacher’s one-day unpaid suspension for kicking a student out of class because the boy said he didn’t “accept gays.”

It all started on October 20 at Howell High School, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit, when teacher Jay McDowell told a student in his classroom to remove a belt buckle with the Confederate Flag. She complied, but it prompted a question from the boy about how the flag differs from the “gay pride” symbol of the rainbow flag. Read more…

by David van Gend

The legalisation of same-sex marriage means that children will grow up without mothers or without fathers. This is progress?

Gays are not second-class citizens but a gay man certainly makes a second-class mother. Two lesbian women may be model citizens, but neither of them can be a Dad to a little boy. The most serious objection to gay marriage is that it means gay parenting, and gay parenting means depriving a child of either his mother or his father. The gay marriage debate, at its heart, is not about the rights and needs of the adults, but of the child. Read more…

by James S. Cole

Before we redefine legal “parenthood” we need to know how this affects the best interests of children.

Recently the issues surrounding same-sex relationships in which children are involved have expanded from whether two persons of the same sex can be legally both mother and father to whether or not legal parenthood can include more than two persons. Read more…

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…

This book is disturbing, and not because of the  homosexuality aspect. I can’t believe this was given an award, as though we should encourage teenagers to read it! Granted, I haven’t read it, so perhaps there’s a redeeming ending where the main character sees how all the stuff he got involved in was bad. However, what this article says about the book makes me think it’s not even something the homosexual community would want to promote. It’s not exactly painting the lifestyle in a positive light. The author of this article has a good point,too,  if the story had a heterosexual “hero,” the book wouldn’t be winning any awards.

Marcia Segelstein – OneNewsNow Columnist

The American Library Association put out a press release this month that read: “ALA adds GLBT youth literature award to prestigious Youth Media Award announcements.” Read more…