by Charlie Butts
Thanks to an executive order from Mayor Tim Burchett, registered sex offenders are no longer allowed at 19 Knox County libraries. Liberty Counsel attorney Harry Mihet believes it is a sensible approach “to say that we’re going to protect our children at a library, at a place of information. We’ll keep those places safe by prohibiting registered sex offenders from coming to these libraries and transforming them into a place where they can prey on the young children.” Read more…
The response to my post, A Word on Terminology has confirmed my intuition that I am correct to abstain from using the term “same sex marriage.” Three things have led me to conclude that my instincts are correct about this:
1. The wailing, weeping and general indignation meeting being held all around the Left side of the Blogosphere.
2. My friend, Bill May, of Catholics for the Common Good, confirms my opinion. (I always listen when Bill talks.) He pointed me to a tract that his organization has written on the subject, a tract which I highly recommend to all Regular Ruth Readers, Friends with Wrong or Right Ideas.
3. Finally, and most importantly, in the aforesaid wailing and indignation, advocates of the redefinition of marriage have, perhaps inadvertently, revealed just how radical they really are. See for instance, comment #12, which states in part: Read more…
The last part here cracks me up: The APA only considers it a mental disorder if they’re distressed by their actions or behavior. “I’m distressed; therefore, I have a mental disorder. Nah, I’m okay with it now. No mental disorder.” I’m definitely starting to question the APA’s discernment.
by Charlie Butts
Liberty Counsel Action‘s Matt Barber attended the conference and says he felt he was on a different planet, as the presenting professionals aimed to remove pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). That would mean that pedophilia would no longer be considered a mental disorder. Read more…
Red diaper baby David Horowitz is an expert on the mentality of the Radical Left. In his pamplet Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution, (which I highly recommend, by the way) David makes the following point:
An SDS radical once wrote, “the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words, the cause-whether inner city blacks or women–is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause, which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.
I would add, whether the cause is the redefinition of marriage or the expansion of entitlements for homosexuals, the issue is never the issue: the revolution is the issue.
Exhibit A: This April 2011 story, from Radio Netherlands, Read more…
The presentation at the UN Committee on the Status of Women that talked about “orgasm, oral sex and masturbation” in the schools generated a lot of controversy, around the internet and right here at the Ruth blog. One of our permanent commenters suggested that I go listen to the whole speech, and that I would find the original article had misrepresented her.
I think our commenter was correct that Ms. Diane Schneider was not explicitly advocating that “orgasm, oral sex and masturbation” be taught as activities in the school. However, I don’t think the discrepancy salvages her speech in the slightest. Read more…
A representative of the NEA, the US’s largest teachers union, has a different idea about the purpose of comprehensive sex ed. She tells all to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Comprehensive sex education is “the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity,”(NEA representative, Diane) Schneider proclaimed, “and we must make these issues a part of every middle and high-school student’s agenda.” “Gender identity expression and sexual orientation are a spectrum,” she explained, and said that those opposed to homosexuality “are stuck in a binary box that religion and family create.” (Whose kids are they, anyway?) Read more…
by Zac Alstin
Do taboos on incest and infanticide have a rational basis?
The father of modern astronomy, Galileo, did not win converts to his theories through their obvious truthfulness. Rather, the younger generation of astronomers were drawn to the new and exciting research possibilities that came with Galileo’s telescopes. Older, more established astronomers doubted that the new technology could be trusted. We moderns take for granted that what we see through the end of a telescope is real. Yet some of Galileo’s contemporaries refused to even look through one of his telescopes for themselves. Read more…
This video has been circulating in pro-life circles. I’m interested in the images of the signs carried by the pro-abortion people. Pause the video around 3 minutes, and run it slowly for the next 15 seconds. You will see:
“Life Begins when you stand up to Christian Fascists” ”Abortion on Demand without Apology” “Abortion Providers Save Lives”
all done up in the Revolutionary Red style of slightly dripping red paint.
oh, I’m so intimidated by the intimations of violence. LOL. But it does pretty much show you where these people are coming from. “Central Casting? Send me over a batch of extras for a Left-wing Mob Scene.”
This article in the Baptist Standard isn’t particularly interesting. It is the photo that interests me:
A Clenched Fist wouldn't be my idea of a lovey-dovey marriage image
The Clenched Fist is an image straight out of the Hard Left playbook. They are getting careless, and letting the mask slip. Up until now, the Sex Radicals have done a pretty good job of steering people away from their radicalism. They must think they have the same sex marriage issue wrapped up, so they can let people see who and what they really are: social revolutionaries, hiding behind White Picket Fence gays and lesbians, who really do just want normal lives. All the shouting about “equality” is a way to keep people from thinking about what is really being changed here. We are being ask to change the definition of marriage and tacitly, the definition of parenthood, without even having an honest discussion about the issues at stake.
“Oh, same sex marriage is not a big change of anything. No sir. Nothing to see here, just keep on moving. We just want what everyone else has.” Just one problem: Most normal (ie, non-revolutionary) people don’t put Workers of the World Unite images on their wedding invitations.
I’m just saying.
I’ve been telling my audiences that redefining marriage means redefining parenthood. I’ve told people that same sex marriage will create pressure for triple parenting. Now, here is an article in the Boston Globe, explaining what I’m talking about. You can see for yourself that I am not making this up. (By the way, notice the unisex, ungendered, “generic human” look of the child in the Globe’s drawing.)
Now a few family-law scholars have begun to argue that there is nothing special about the number two — if three or four or five adults have a parental relationship with a child, the law should recognize them all as parents. Going beyond two, these scholars argue, would better reflect the dynamics of the modern family, and also protect the children in such families. It would ensure that, even in the event of a split or major disagreement between the adults in question, the children would not be deprived of the affection, care, and financial resources of any of the people they have grown up regarding as their mothers and fathers.
“The law needs to adapt to the reality of children’s lives, and if children are being raised by three parents, the law should not arbitrarily select two of them and say these are the legal parents, this other person is a stranger,” says Nancy Polikoff, a family-law professor at American University’s Washington College of Law.
Gosh, that all sounds so reasonable. But why are we allowing adults to manufacture children in the first place? Is there any thought to the interests of children here? The Globe evidently thinks interviewing a couple of Sex Law Radicals, and giving one short paragraph to their thoughtful critics like Elizabeth Marquardt (author of the important report, “My Daddy’s Name is Donor,”) is fair and balanced journalism.
Read it all here.
Yesterday, I posted about the impact of redefining marriage on the District of Columbia. Some of the comments about my post and others on this topic around the web, seem to say that if only the Catholic Church would stop being so stubborn and get with the program, they wouldn’t have these problems. These are the new values of society, and the Church needs to give up its beliefs.
Wait a minute: How do you know these are the new values? Every time we ask the voters what they think, Read more…
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