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‘Bastion of Hate’ Professors Demand KU Evict Chick-fil-A

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Nothing triggers a leftist faster than a Chick-fil-A sandwich. That’s actually a sentence I lifted from my forthcoming book, “Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation.” And the most recent triggering happened at the University of Kansas where a number of aggrieved faculty members are demanding that a Chick-fil-A franchise be removed from campus. “A bastion of bigotry,” the Sexuality & Gender Diversity Faculty and Staff Council wrote in a two-page letter to university leaders. “The culture of Chick-fil-A fosters hate and discrimination on multiple levels,” they declared. “In short, Chick-fil-A on KU’s campus stands in direct contrast to the university’s mission of fostering a multicultural, inclusive environment.” For the sake of full disclosure, I’m writing this column while eating Chick-fil-A nuggets and a delicious bowl of their new macaroni and cheese. Help us champion truth, freedom, limited government and human dignity. Support The Stream » Th

Almost Everything the Media Tell You About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Is Wrong

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A major new report,   published today in the journal The New Atlantis , challenges the leading narratives that the media has pushed regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. Co-authored by two of the nation’s leading scholars on mental health and sexuality, the 143-page report discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences, painstakingly documenting what scientific research shows   and does not show   about sexuality and gender. The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that “some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence.” Here are four of the report’s most important conclusions: The belief that sexual orientation is an innate, biologically fixed human property—that people are ‘born that way’—is  not supported by scientific evidence .   Likewise, the belief that gender identity is an innate, fixed human property independent of biol

Pope Francis blasts ‘gender theory’ again: rejecting sexual difference is ‘a step backwards’

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ROME , April 15, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In his catechesis today, Pope Francis strongly refuted the foundational tenets of “ gender theory ” that forms the basis of radical feminism as well as the homosexualist political movement. The differences between men and women are not a matter of “subordination” as feminist and gender theory would have it, but of “communion and generation,” he said in his weekly General Audience at the Vatican .  The pope wondered aloud “if so-called gender theory is not an expression of frustration and resignation, that aims to cancel out sexual difference as it is no longer able to face it. Yes, we run the risk of taking a step backwards. Indeed, the removal of difference is the problem, not the solution.” He asked whether the current global crisis of faith, of belief in God and Christian teaching, “that is so harmful to us,” and that builds “incredulity and cynicism,” could be “connected to the crisis in the alliance between man and woman