Is It Bigoted Not to Date Someone Who Is Transgendered?
Sex has to do with nature, and nature always asserts itself and eventually wins out.
Researchers Karen L. Blair and Rhea Ashley Hoskin published their findings in an article Transgender exclusion from the world of dating: Patterns of acceptance and rejection of hypothetical trans dating partners as a function of sexual and gender identity published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. They asked nearly a thousand participants, in the words... Continue Reading
Academics Questioning “Rationality” & “Reason”
The case against reason and rationality will be presented in the form of arguments that give reasons for these beliefs.
“There is a widespread skepticism about many sorts of knowledge claims today, and this skepticism has been promoted from both the right and the left. The skepticism is largely based on the realization that knowledge is always connected to power. But there is uncertainty about what follows from this: is it still ‘knowledge’?” Postmodernists... Continue Reading
Marxism: A False Religion that Cannot Deliver on its Promises
No ideology can bear the weight of our eschatological hopes and dreams.
Marx argues that each of these eras was a necessary precursor to a new, socialist, era that would soon dawn. In his view, capitalism would disappear because it undermined human dignity, alienating human beings from the product of our labor, the process of labor, our fellow workers, and even authentic existence itself. Socialism is... Continue Reading
When All the Good Guys Are Actually Bad Guys
We do seem to be quite prone to thinking of those on the “other side” not in terms of the wisdom of the goals at which they aim but in terms of virtue and vice.
We have been deprived of the opportunity to consider things from the perspective of the other, and thereby to soften our differences, and more frequently find solutions which better balance the various concerns. We tend to deal with by means of “war” what would be better dealt with by means of dialogue. Does it... Continue Reading
How LGBT Pride Month Became a Religious Holiday
How did we get to the point where celebrating homosexuality and transgenderism became a month-long event that rivals Christmas?
The roots of LGBT Pride Month extend back to the Gay Pride Marches that began in New York City in 1970 as a commemoration of the Stonewall Riots in Manhattan the previous year. The original march was more of a protest than a celebration, says German Lopez. “There were thousands of people, but there were no... Continue Reading
The War Against Victimhood Starts in Our Own Hearts
The West has embraced victimhood as its standard of righteousness.
One’s victim status is not only the top new currency; it’s also the robe that imputes an impeccable righteousness to its wearer. We are promised: Don this seamless garment, and you’ll be ordained into the cultural priesthood. Arrayed in this technicolor dreamcoat, you’re sure to see your father, mother, brothers, and even the sun, moon, and... Continue Reading
Beware of Bills in Sheep’s Clothing
Given the current legal climate, even those who are moderate on the right to life issue should oppose the Equality Act.
The bill reads “pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition shall not receive less favorable treatment than other physical conditions.” Abortion supporters view pregnancy as a medical condition that is cured by abortion. Abortion would be no different from an appendectomy. Thus HR 5 would overturn the Hyde Amendment that prevents federal money from funding... Continue Reading
Equality = Legal Persecution Of Christians?
By excluding any religious consideration of sexual morality, the federal Equality Act would impose on an entire culture the unhealthy lifestyle of homosexual and transgender sexuality.
If it is passed by the Senate, the Equality Act will amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by adding to the categories protected by anti-discrimination laws “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI). This new social category of LGBTQ rights would join categories such as race and religion,... Continue Reading
Abortion and Eugenics
This case highlights the fact that abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.
In the Supreme Court’s May 28 decision in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, the Court declined to review an Indiana law prohibiting abortions on the basis of race, sex, or disability. Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion, excerpted below, describes the connections between abortion advocacy and eugenics, and the ways in which abortion is... Continue Reading
Can Atheism Ground Human Rights?
Smith simply attempts to establish that, if atheism is true, there is no warrant for believing in a number of things that (most) atheists affirm.
“A naturalistic universe is one that consists of energy and matter and other natural entities, such as vacuums, operating in a closed system in time and space, in which no transcendent, supernatural, divine being or superhuman power exists as creator, sustainer, guide or judge. Such a universe has come to exist by chance – not... Continue Reading
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