Is more sex ed the answer to sexualization of girls?

Is sexual intercourse between 16 year olds "healthy"?

Author Dale O’Leary critiques the American Psychological Association’s report about the sexualization of girls:   “The resulting report shines a light on a real problem, but it fails to offer a workable solution.”

From MercatorNet:

The fundamental question the APA report avoids is: Should adolescent girls engage in sexual activity or do the risks outweigh the benefits? Because the authors of the report ignore the real cause of the sexualization of girls, the remedies they offer – including more sports, forums, positive media -- will not solve the problem. If girls are encouraged by comprehensive sexuality education to have sex they will inevitably be treated as sexual objects. 

There is a truism, that men say “I love you” to get sex and women give sex in order to get love. For women and girls, sex outside marriage can have serious negative consequences, including sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), pregnancy, loss of self-respect, and emotional entanglements with males who are not committed. Societies have long recognized these dangers and have therefore found various ways of protecting girls from seduction and destructive relationships.

The author of The Gender Agenda and One Man, One Woman, O’Leary notes that society used to protect girls, but now they simply offer more comprehensive sex education.

Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia, after seeing teenage girls in her private practice who suffered from depression, eating disorders, and low self-esteem, concluded that, “Girls are coming of age in a very poisonous, girl-hurting culture.” However, she also reported on a number of girls who avoided these problems and were successfully navigating adolescence. In each case, the girl in question chose not to engage in sexual activity before marriage. In spite of the evidence before her, Pipher concluded that, for girls, adolescence is a time for “coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices, and learning to enjoy sex.” 

In other words, the so-called experts tell young girls to learn to enjoy being a sex object.

How will Medicaid expansion in Obamacare affect LGBT Americans?

Think Progress reports that the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare has the potential to greatly assist people with same-sex attraction and the transgender community:

Despite common stereotypes, poverty and unemployment are higher among LGBT communities, particularly LGBT communities of color, than for the general U.S. population. For example, lesbians and bisexual women are 20 percent more likely to be poor than straight women, and a recent survey indicates that transgender people are twice as likely as the general population to make less than $10,000 a year.

Thus, an increase of Medicaid funds to low income citizens means more LGBT people will be eligible for the government insurance. 

Chuck Norris wonders 'Is Obama creating a pro-gay Boy Scouts of America?'

“Is Obama Creating a Pro-Gay Boy Scouts of America?”  

Real life action figure and TV star Chuck Norris also questions the timing and motives of BSA board member, James Turley regarding the new "pro-gay" stand he is taking with the scouts.

Straight from AmmoLand:

A Boy Scouts of America national board member, James Turley, who is also global chairman and CEO of the accounting firm Ernst & Young, recently said he “will work from within to seek a change” to overturn the BSA policy that bans gay Scouts and leaders. 

 Is it a coincidence that a couple of months ago, Obama reversed his position on marriage, extending the union to gay couples, and that Turley just came out of the closet in his position against the BSA’s position? 

Is it a coincidence that in the same few weeks when Turley turned on the BSA with his pro-gay stance, Obama turned on the U.S. military and sent down a decree that the service branches must celebrate “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month”? 

Is it a coincidence that Turley is in tight cahoots with the White House and that he is the only BSA national board member in 100 years to oppose its pro-traditional family stance?

Norris also questions President Obama’s actions regarding the Scouts:

Is it a coincidence, too, that on March 3, 2009, Obama became the honorary president of the BSA — a position proudly and publicly held and highlighted by all presidents since President William Howard Taft in 1910 — but that Obama’s induction was held behind closed doors in the Oval Office with seven or so Boy Scouts present and absolutely nothing noted in the White House daily briefing or any other official communication?

Blankenhorn switches from pro-gender marriage to gender-segregation

Author of The Future of Marriage, David Blankenhorn testified in court in favor of pro-gender marriage in 2010 during California’s Proposition 8 debate.  In his recent New York Times op-ed he explained his reasoning:

I opposed gay marriage believing that children have the right, insofar as society makes it possible, to know and to be cared for by the two parents who brought them into this world. I didn’t just dream up this notion: the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force in 1990, guarantees children this right.

Marriage is how society recognizes and protects this right. Marriage is the planet’s only institution whose core purpose is to unite the biological, social and legal components of parenthood into one lasting bond. Marriage says to a child: The man and the woman whose sexual union made you will also be there to love and raise you. In this sense, marriage is a gift that society bestows on its children. 

At the level of first principles, gay marriage effaces that gift.

But then he changed his mind.  Now Blankenhorn’s focus has switched from pursuing what he believes is best for children (both a mother and a father) to appeasing gender-segregated adult couples:

For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love. I don’t believe that opposite-sex and same-sex relationships are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over.

As for denigrating and stigmatizing, both will increase as gay rights activists continue to call gender defenders “bigots” and “offensive.”

Take it from someone who lives in Vermont:  many liberals’ love and open-mindedness end abruptly when you support pro-gender marriage.  Gender-integrated marriage advocates are silenced in Vermont and businesses are sued for supporting pro-gender marriage. 

Blankenhorn, surely you gave in too soon.   Americans can debate gender-integration in marriage while upholding the dignity and worth of people with same-sex attraction, and same-gender marriage advocates can treat their opponents with respect.  Just because it is difficult doesn’t mean we should give up.

Don’t surrender, be a pro-gender marriage defender.

New York woman sues Catholic hospital over same-sex marriage

A New York woman believes the state should tell the church what to believe and how to act toward same-sex couples. 

So much for the separation of church and state.

From the New York Times:

A lesbian employee of St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Westchester County filed a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that her spouse is entitled to the same medical coverage as the spouses of heterosexual employees.

The following exemplifies the confusion that same-gender “marriage” generates:

The St. Joseph’s employee, who works at St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester, a division of St. Joseph’s, said in a telephone interview that she applied for health coverage for her spouse last December. She said that after a human resources employee helping her fill out forms kept referring to her new spouse as a “he,” she said, “I think you should know, I did not marry a man, I married a woman.”
 

The Catholic Church teaches that gender is important, especially in the marital embrace, therefore marriage is between complementary genders.  The Church does not recognize gender-segregated “marriage” and instead calls for all marriages to be gender-integrated.

The suit illustrates what Roman Catholic bishops warned would happen last year when the Obama administration, calling the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, said it would no longer defend it in court. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, wrote to President Obama to contend that steps toward legalizing gay marriage could push Catholic social service organizations to shut down, rather than violate their moral beliefs. A similar warning came from the bishops in the continuing fight over whether Catholic-affiliated organizations should be required to provide birth control coverage to employees. 

“On behalf of my brother bishops, I urge yet again that your administration end its campaign against DOMA, the institution of marriage it protects, and religious freedom,” Archbishop Dolan wrote to President Obama in a Sept. 20, 2011, letter, using the acronym for the Defense of Marriage Act.

For same-sex marriage activists, redefining marriage also means redefining Catholic teaching and mandating what Catholic hospitals can do.

SSM advocates like to ask, "How will same-sex marriage affect your marriage?"  That question is simply a smokescreen.  The questions we need to ask each other are:  How will redefining marriage impact your church?  Your hospital?  Your school?  Your taxes?  Your culture?    

Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches confront same-sex marriage

Should marriage be gender-integrated or not?  That’s the question many churches are wrestling with in America today as they discuss same-gender marriage.

Christian Post:

In February, a poll among Presbyterian members showed that 51 percent are opposed to same-sex marriage, with 34 percent in favor of changing the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples and the rest saying they are undecided. Presbyterian pastors were just as divided on the issue – 49 percent supported same-sex marriage while 41 percent supported traditional marriage. 

 The Episcopal Church, which has also seen dozens of congregations leaving over the years for its increasingly liberal theology, has already been blessing gay and lesbian couples for decades, but those wishing to change the legal definition of marriage want to make the commitment vow free of gender and official liturgy.

It comes down to a choice between creating a new minority of marriages with segregated genders, or continuing with traditional gender-integrated marriage.  Which is better for society and children?  Which is more in line with creation and natural law?

Gender matters.

Gay rights activist Larry Brinkin charged with possession of child pornography

After 22 years at the Human Rights Commission, former employee Larry Brinkin has been charged with possession of child pornography.

SFGate: 

During his 22-year tenure at the Human Rights Commission, Brinkin was best known for championing equal rights for gays and lesbians. He helped craft San Francisco's groundbreaking Equal Benefits Ordinance, which became a national model for workplace equality.

Now Brinkin is charged with possession of child pornography. 

Police say that Brinkin had pornographic images, some that appear to show children as young as 1 and 2 or 3 years old being sodomized and performing oral sex on adult men, in e-mail attachments linked to his account, according to a search warrant served by San Francisco police.

Workplace equality?  Try explaining that to abused children.  

What a tragedy that Brinkin cared more about the wishes of adult men than he did for the safety and innocence of young children and babies.  

What does New York woman say after marrying girlfriend?

A New York woman who married her girlfriend now says:  “I do believe we never should have been anything more than friends."

The Atlantic Wire:

Soon after New York passed the Marriage Equality Act on June 24 last year, Katie Marks and Dese’Rae Stage began planning their wedding day. A licensed masseuse and a photographer, both 28, the couple had been dating since 2008 and were already planning to get married — in Boston over the Memorial Day weekend of 2012 — but the euphoria of the moment moved everything forward. “It was kind of one of those things, to be a part of history,” Des says. On July 30, the first Saturday that gay marriages could be performed in New York City, Katie in a magenta dress and Des in skinny jeans and pink Chuck Taylors joined 23 other couples at the Pop Up Chapel, a one-day wedding event in Central Park, as part of New York City’s first wave of legally married gay couples. By January, though, things had started to come apart. Des and Katie have since separated and moved out of their Washington Heights apartment. They're now one of the first married gay couples — if not the very first — in New York to divorce. “I feel like I’m the president of the loneliest club in the world,” Des says. “I was the first gay person in my group of friends to marry, and now I’m the only gay divorcée I know.” 

Same gender couples discover divorce is not as gay as marriage.

Do gays have the right to be treated as straight?

Do gays have the "right" to be treated as straight?  And do men who self-identify as women have the "right" to be treated as female?

From Washington Examiner’s article:  “Unsatisfied, gays demand more from Obama”

Representatives of GetEQUAL and Students Working for Equal Rights told Secrets that they want Obama to take executive action to institute the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that is languishing in Congress. They said the act would protect employees of federal contractors from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and that Obama was not taking the issue seriously.

If, as gay rights activists claim, sexual orientation and gender truly don’t matter, then why don’t gays simply orient themselves towards the opposite gender?  And why don’t men self-identifly as men?

It’s precisely because gender does indeed matter that we treat men and women differently. 

Treating men like men should not be illegal.

Gender matters.

President Obama wants your bar mitzvah money!

It's official:  President Obama wants your bar mitzvah money.

Hey, kids!  Now you can donate to President Obama’s re-election campaign! Instead of saving your monetary gifts for a new iPod or tucking it in the bank to pay for college, you can opt in to give it to the Exchequer-in-chief!

From the Obama Event Registry:

Got a special milestone or event coming up? 

Instead of another gift card you’ll forget to use, ask your friends and family for something that will go a little further: a donation to Obama for America. Register your next celebration—whether it’s a birthday, bar or bat mitzvah, wedding, or anniversary—with the Obama campaign. It’s a great way to show your support for a cause that’s important to you on your big day.

After all, your bar mitzvah isn’t about you or God, it’s all about Obama!

Video: Transgender Dr. Scout proposes to Liz Margolies in White House at President Obama’s LGBT pride reception

Openly transgender Dr. Scout from the Network for LGBT Health Equity uses President Obama's LGBT pride reception to pop the question to Liz Margolies of the National LGBT Cancer Network.

President Obama lauds gay rights activists and they make obscene gestures and say 'f*** you' to Reagan portrait

Is this where President Obama wants to lead us?  Posting on Facebook photos of ourselves making obscene gestures at portraits of former presidents? 

President Obama praised gay rights activists:  "We'll get there because of every man and woman and activist and ally who is moving us forward by the force of their moral arguments, but more importantly, by the force of their example."

The Weekly Standard reports what their example is:

Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception. . . . some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Ronald Reagan the middle finger. 

“It’s not a gesture that I would use in the White House when representing our city and our community,” opines Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal, who opted for a sarcastic thumbs-up pose in front of the portrait of George W. Bush over the more vulgar one demonstrated by his Reagan-loathing peers, Matthew “Matty” Hart, the national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress, and self-taught photographer turned toast-of-the-town Zoe Strauss. 

But his counterparts couldn’t seem to care less. Hart posted his photo on Facebook with the caption, “F*** Reagan.” Strauss simply posted hers without commentary. After all, the murderous facial expression and double-barreled bird-flipping seem to speak for themselves. Comments ranged from “you forgot to add with a chainsaw” on Hart’s “F*** Reagan” note, to my personal favorite, “star wars … up yours,” on Strauss’s. ... 

“Yeah, f*** Reagan,” reiterates Hart one week after the reception. “Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands. The man was in the WhiteHouse as AIDS exploded, and he was happy to see plenty of gay men and queer people die. He was a murderous fool, and I have no problem saying so. Don’t invite me back. I don’t care.”

This is "moving us forward"?  Does Obama seriously want to lead from behind these people?  


Is what they mean when they say, "It gets better"?

Video: Catholic Vote calls on all faiths to stop HHS mandate

The HHS mandate threatens Americans' freedom of religion, right to life, and separation of church and state for all faiths, not just for Catholics.

Join the fight to defend your freedom, your faith, and your children's lives:  pray, register to vote, get informed, and speak up.