The BYU symposium generated a bit of local publicity. Here is an article about my opening talk that kicked off the conference. The author did a reasonable job of identifying the important points of my talk.
Americans are being taught to believe they’re generic humans, that “we’re not men and woman, we’re generic parents, we’re not moms and dads,” she said. “Ladies and gentlemen, there are no generic people!” Read more…
I have been in the student presentation sessions at the BYU Stand for the Family conference. The Ruth Institute sponsored the Call for Papers. We arranged for the judging and awarding of prizes. We had over 150 papers entered in our essay contest. The first place winner for undergraduate papers was Alyssa Brown. Her paper was a critique of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She won first place from a field of over 100 entries in the undergraduate category.
Steve Francis won first place for the graduate papers with a paper on the New Natural Law and the definition of marriage. Sterling Olander won the first prize for a paper he wrote for a Law and Logic class, “Logical Fallacies Used by the Courts to Justify Same Sex Marriage Validate a Slippery Slope.” All these papers are works in progress, and may be substantially revised before they get published. We will be posting them on the Ruth Institute Marriage Library site, in the meantime.
Thanks to all students for their efforts!
I’m excited: the Ruth Institute team is busily putting up videos on our new Ruth Institute You Tube channel! Check it out! There are clips from our same sex marriage affects everyone series, as well as from my Fox News program last week.
Here is what I got to do while I was stuck due to the snow storm in NYC last week. I got to be a guest on the Fox New web TV program, God Talk. In this short clip, I explain the mission of the Ruth Institute.
Keep an eye out for students doing worthy pro-marriage activities and send them THIS. (Click to download basic info about marriage every college student needs to know!)
How an event about building character in children became headline advocacy for gays.
A headline squawking “Lesbian parents better at raising children” flew around the English-speaking world last week, having been released by The Times of London. No doubt this thrilled the gay lobby, while alarming traditionalists of all parties. But the real story here is not about lesbians. The real story is the media’s severe case of Gay Infatuation Syndrome: anything that makes gays look good is newsworthy. This seriously misleading headline should caution readers to make a habit of looking behind the headlines. There may be, as in this case, nothing there. Read more…
Irony is a funny thing . . . and sometimes irony is unavoidable. For Progressives who seek to deny the realities of low nature rather than taking them into account on the journey toward a more natural (in the higher sense) and just world, the irony often is that they end up embracing the low tyranny of nature’s grip on man. They think they are overcoming nature by denying it when, in fact, they only reaffirm their powerlessness in the face of it. They decry the “Cretan-like” and “backward” thinking of conservatives when, in fact, it is their way of thinking that points backward . . . way backward.
Jennifer Roback Morse helps to illustrate this phenomenon by taking to task a “story” that ripped through international headlines last week as it claimed to demonstrate that lesbian couples make better parents than heterosexual couples. As Roback Morse argues, the “story” amounted to a single (and fuzzy) quote from a lone conference participant at a meeting of the British think tank Demos during which they were discussing this report (a report which, by the way, does not at any point address the question of the relative merits of lesbian parents). Read more…
Special thanks to Focus on the Family for supporting the Ruth Institute as well.
The students who attended the first Ruth Institute marriage conference in August (students learned from speakers about the personal and civic importance of marriage) were the highlight of the weekend.
Here’s what one student said about marriage and her peers.
“A lot of young people are fed up with the culture,” said Madeline Klem, a student at the University of Dallas. “They know there’s something better out there. There’s this hunger — especially among kids whose parents have been divorced or were never married — to have something better.
“A lot of people our age are very open to things that will help them to achieve that. But they just aren’t receiving the information or guidance to know what is going to get them there.”
Read the entire Citizen article here. You can order Citizen magazine online here.
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