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Canada’s best kids book is an anti-Christian novel about a sex-obsessed trans teen? So say the Governor General’s judges

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Teenage life sucks and then it gets worse—this seems to be the message judges of children’s literature are looking for these days, at least if the winners of the Governor General’s and B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s writing contests are anything to go by. Speaking generally about the dark trend in teen lit, Greg Roper, chairman of the English department at the University of Dallas , told LifeSiteNews, “The family is now seen as the source of oppression, a place of pathology. The thesis now is that children must be prepared for a harsh world, not protected from it, and this idea is being pushed at an earlier and earlier age.” The Governor General’s winner this year for children’s literature is Raziel Reid’s When Everything Feels Like The Movies , which drew this description from a clearly complimentary review in goodreads.com written by Max Baker: “If this book is anything, it's a testament of how f****d up Generation Y is. Like, no s**t. We're a bunch of self-entitled, egot

Lesbian Marriage and Single Mums: No father transforms children’s brains: Study

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 A new study shows that growing up without a father not only affects behavior – it transforms children's brain structure. That's the verdict reached by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center and recently published in the journal  Cerebral Cortex . Researchers studied the behavior and brains of Californian mice who, like humans, are monogamous and raise their children as a unit. Mice separated from their fathers showed greater aggression, anti-social behavior , and “abnormal social interactions” than those raised with both parents. “The behavioral deficits we observed are consistent with human studies of children raised without a father,”  said  Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, the report's lead author. However, more groundbreaking was their finding that the behavior was not the only thing affected by the lack of a father. Mice raised by one parent had a misshapen prefrontal cortex, the  portion of the brain  associated with behavior, decisi

Quebec pledges $7 million to combat ‘negative attitudes’ against homosexuality

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QUEBEC, October 19, 2011  – The Quebec government ’s all-out campaign to normalize homosexuality, labeled a “war” on traditional morality by pro-family critics, is going full-steam ahead with their announcement this week that they will disburse $400,000 to homosexual activist groups. All told, the gov Image via Wikipedia ernment says it intends to distribute $3.6 million to these groups over the next five years. The funding, part of $7 million the government has allocated towards the “anti-homophobia” campaign, is available to groups dedicated to combating “ homophobic attitudes and behavior.”  They are eligible for up to $50,000 for projects lasting two years, and must apply by December 1st. “The actions of these organizations have a positive and concrete impact on the general public and thus for the social equality of lesbians, gay, bisexual, transsexual and the transgendered,” said Minister of Justice Jean-Ma Image via Wikipedia rc Fournier on Sunday.  “To increase their budget i