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In the war on family life, why are most American men neutral observers?

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What will it take to rouse the protective instincts of American fathers? The role of a father is to protect his family. The role of a man—a real man, I mean—is to protect the vulnerable. Yet the vast majority of American men today are sitting idly by, couch-potato spectators, while their families are menaced and their vulnerable neighbors victimized. For over 40 years now, we have tolerated the destruction of unborn children. We have averted our gaze as more and more elderly hospital patients succumbed to the effects of the steadily increasing morphine drip. We have allowed Planned Parenthood to encourage high-school students toward promiscuity, and homosexual activists to recruit adolescents to their cause. So is it any surprise that the vanguard of the sexual revolution has advanced further into our lives? Let me cite just a few frightening cases: In Massachusetts , the state’s highest court has ruled  that the names of some criminals convicted of sexual ...

Target flip-flops, funds same-sex ‘marriage’ organization

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA , May 23, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Two years after funding a pro-marriage politician, the Target Corporation has decided to fund an organization dedicated to same-sex “marriage.” Target has announced it will make a donation  worth up to $120,000  to the Family Equality Council (FEC), a homosexual political advocacy group. LGBT groups put Target in a bulls-eye after it donated money to a pro-marriage candidate in 2010. In the month of June, the chain will donate the proceeds from  online sales of a special collection of shirts, including one  designed by singer Gwen Stefani , to the organization.  The Minneapolis-based retailer faced backlash in 2010 after it gave $150,000 to MN Forward , a political group that supported Tom Emmer , the pro-life, pro-marriage Republican candidate  for governor of Minnesota. He narrowly lost to pro-abortion Democrat Mark Dayton . At the time, the corporation resisted calls to make ...