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Jordan Peterson urges parents to fight radical sex ed: It’s ‘a form of indoctrination’

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Schools are pushing Ontario 's sex ed curriculum on students in a “completely reprehensible” way,  Dr. Jordan Peterson  said in an interview with parental rights advocate Tanya Granic Allen, who is running to be the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario . If parents don’t approve of what their children are being taught at school, then “don’t send them to the classes,” Peterson said forcefully. “Keep them at home,” he suggested. “And take the consequences.” Peterson said so many parents oppose the graphic sex ed program that the small group behind it won’t be able to do much. Parents who refuse to let their children be subjected to the program launched by Kathleen Wynne 's Liberal government “may find that you have a lot more support than you think.” “If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards,” he said. “If you wanna be pushed backwards, then go along with it.” Parents “have to decide what’s impo...

Kansas Republicans vote to ‘oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity’

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Bucking the nation’s politically correct transgender tide, the Kansas Republican Party voted this weekend to “oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity.” The resolution affirms “God’s design for gender as determined by biological sex and not by self-perception.” While the Kansas GOP ’s resolution attests to the dignity of all LGBT people , the statement also makes clear that it does not support medical procedures––hormonal or surgical––which aim to affirm people’s perceived, non-biological gender identities .   One intent of the resolution appears to be aimed at counteracting pro-transgender efforts now underway in Kansas’ public school systems. “Some Kansas public schools are encouraging parents and teachers to affirm the feelings of children experiencing gender dysphoria,” reads the approved resolution.  “And some Kansas public schools are allowing access to private facilities according to children’s self-perception of gender and not according ...

Homosexuality and the Synod on the Family

  The Ordinary Synod of the Bishops on the Family  opened today to address the theme of “The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and the modern world.” The world’s media will be watching the bishops very closely, expecting them to ratify “changes” to the Church’s teaching on divorced Catholics and hoping for “changes” to the teaching on homosexuality . Journalists conveniently forget, what most of them know, that the core of Church teaching does not change. However, some of the bishops want to discuss precisely what this “core” really is. And that is unsettling. The issue of homosexuality  was raised by Pope Francis himself  when he declared early in his papacy, ““If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?,” deliberately using the English word, “gay.” This remark released an avalanche of comment both from within the Church and out that has continued unabated since it was made July 29, 2013. And to ensure...

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...

The myth of being born gay

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Are people ever born with conditions that are not normal and sometimes harmful? Is there any difference between sexual desires (“orientation”) and sexual behavior? Should people act on every desire they have? Homosexuals are born as males or females, so why should they follow their desires but not the design of their bodies?  Some homosexuals insist that they have had homosexual desires as long as they can remember. Somehow this is supposed to prove that these desires are the result of nature not nurture. But this argument ultimately fails to justify homosexual behavior or any behavior for that matter.  First, notice that “born-that-way” is an argument from nature or design: “Since I was designed with these desires, I ought to act on them.” The people who say this normally presume that the Designer is God . 63   But if you insist that God designed your desires, then you cannot deny He designed your body as well.  This raises the question to homosexuals who make thi...

Is Homosexuality a class of people like African-Americans?

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Is there a difference between skin color and sexual behavior ? Why should we classify people because of what they desire to do sexually?  Homosexuals want to be considered a class of people by depicting themselves as victims who, like blacks, have been denied civil rights . That way, they can make the unsuspecting public think that those who oppose their political agenda are discriminating against them rather than their behavior. According to them, conservatives are all bigots on par with racists—we are opposed to fairness itself.  But all of that is nonsense. First, the comparison of homosexuality to race is completely invalid. Skin color is benign, but sexual behavior is not. Having a certain skin color does not hurt anyone, but homosexual behavior can and does hurt others. Furthermore,  sexual behavior is always a choice; race never is.   You will find many former homosexuals, but you will never find a former African-American.  Second, homosexuality is not...

What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuals Who Were Born That Way?

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Image via Wikipedia Apologists for homosexual behavior often attempt to distinguish between “born” homosexuals and people who engage in homosexual behavior for other reasons. This distinction is usually combined with the claim that approximately 10 percent of the population is exclusively homosexual. Both of these claims are false. Further, they are misleading because they provide a rationalization for “normalizing” harmful behavior. Science has not yet discovered any genetically dictated behavior in humans. So far, genetically dictated behaviors of the one-gene-one-trait variety have been found only in very simple organisms. . . . But if many genes are involved in a behavior, then changes in that behavior will tend to take place very slowly and steadily (say, changes of a few percent each generation over many generations, perhaps thirty). That being so, homosexuality could not appear and disappear suddenly in family trees the way it does. (Whitehead,  Genes , 209, quoted in...

Whats wrong with Homosexuality?

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The issue of homosexual behavior has had a lot of publicity of late. Homosexuals say that the slaves have been freed and women have been liberated, so gay rights are long overdue. Society does seem to be moving in that direction. Many homosexuals are “coming out” and openly declaring their homosexuality. In many parts of the western world, homosexual couples receive the same recognition as heterosexual couples with regard to social security benefits. Some church leaders are giving their blessing to homosexual relationships , homosexual church members and even homosexual ministers. Many homosexuals' claim that… They are made that way. Homosexuality is of no harm to the participants or to anyone else. If it feels right to those involved, it is nobody else's business. Homosexual relationships and heterosexual relationships are equally valid. (Some even claim that the Bible condones homosexual relationships.) Made that way? Since other groups who have been discriminated a...