Sex Educators: Nice People Who Lie

In You’re Teaching My Child What? Miriam Grossman exposes sex education and the problem of parental ignorance. Miriam Grossman, M.D., is a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist.

Sex educators may be very nice people but they stand on a social-political platform that can be yanked from under them if they don't spin the liberal party line. They twist medical facts into dangerous propaganda.

In You’re Teaching My Child What? Dr. Grossman presents what sex educators don’t want parents to know:

• Why the discredited founder of "sexology"—dead for half a century—has more influence on sex education than today’s most eminent neurobiologists.
• How information your child gets about common infections like herpes, warts, and Chlamydia is whitewashed.
• When "safe sex" isn’t safe; why condoms won’t protect your teens from some of the most serious sexually transmitted diseases.
• How sex educators try to normalize fringe behaviors—ignoring the health risks to your children.

Sex educators want parents to accept them as the "authorities" and to surrender parental responsibility for training a child in the path of rightness. The epidemic of sexually transmitted infections in young people and the increase in teen pregnancies indicate that the "education" is a failure.

To learn more, check out Dr. Grossman's website and read her book!

Liberals Who Think Like Stalin

The first adjective that comes to mind for "liberal" may be "touchy-feely." The best adjective for a Stalinist might be "murderous." That's a pretty big difference. I would never want to mistake a well-meaning liberal for a nasty Stalinist. At the same time, I hope we don't fail to spot any Stalinists who might be looking for mischief and pretending to be liberals. Certainly the mainstream media aren't interested in the difference.

The term "Stalinist" is historically justified by undeniable evidence, including testimony from thousands of former Stalin collaborators. So this is not a question to take lightly, as long as we are careful to separate undeniable facts from mere allegations.

I've started to gently question the beliefs of the liberals I know, without getting into any loud argument. Much to my surprise, some of the gentle-sounding people I know actually talk murderously at times. I wouldn't have believed it, because these are people I like a lot. They have a warm side. In their own minds they all believe they are driven by love and compassion. And yet, some of them -- certainly not most -- seem ready to hang the current media scapegoat from the nearest gallows.

I also know a lot of really sweet, dumb liberals, people who are so desperate to be loving that they rationalize all the nonsense they are fed by our media.

Read it all here.

Durban Document Recognizes "Christianophobia"

The outcome document of the Durban Review Conference held in Geneva from April 20th to 24th of 2009, recognizes the phenomenon of Christianophobia: "12. Deplores the global rise and number of incidents of racial or religious intolerance and violence, including Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and anti-Arabism manifested in particular by the derogatory stereotyping and stigmatization of persons based on their religion or belief..."

Read the full outcome document here.

Homosexuals Block Open Debate in Germany

On May 9th the German Gay and Lesbian Association in opposition to two speeches on Psychotherapy congress on whether sexual orientation could be changed if wished for. Speeches had to be delivered with police protection. Anti-Christian counter-demonstration portrayed Jesus as a pig nailed to the cross and used slogans such as: "We are here to hurt your feelings."

A German Gay and Lesbian Association (LSVD) opposed in an open letter from March 26th two speeches that were scheduled to be held on the "6th International Congress for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Welfare" (20th to 24th of May 2009 in Marburg). The lectures were to be given by therapist Markus Hoffmann of the organization Wüstenstrom and medical doctor Dr. Christl Ruth Vonholdt of the Deutsche Institut für Jugend und Gesellschaft. The main objection was their conviction that sexual orientation could be changed if wished for by the individual. The Association called upon the University in Magdeburg to distance itself from the meeting.

On April 21st 2009 a declaration "for freedom and self-determination – against totalitarian gay and lesbian associations" was opened for signatures. Several thousand people including on high ranking officials signed in favor of the protection of the freedom of speech and scientific discussion. Among them: philosopher Robert Spaemann, former minister of state socialist Hans Apel, public law expert Martin Kriele, and member of parliament Norbert Geis.

Due to these efforts, the speeches in question were not cancelled. Protests during the congress however required heavy police protection and forced the concerned speeches into an offsite location which prevented several people from participating.

Homosexual activist groups were responsible for the smearing of walls of Christian buildings and the destruction of display cabinets of parishes.

Red it all here.

Episcopalians Jumping Sinking Ship

How one Episcopal parish is addressing TEC's slip into spiritual darkness (surely it can't slip any farther?)

Whereas The Episcopal Church in its most recent General Convention has once again exhibited a disregard for Holy Scripture and failed to submit to the Anglican Communion, we the Vestry of Christ St. Paul's Parish, Yonges Island, SC, hereby request that the Diocese of South Carolina be placed under a spiritual authority which holds to the clear teaching of the Holy Scripture and the Bonds of Affection within the Anglican Communion which will give our Diocese a place to thrive.

From here.

Hat Tip to Kendall Harmon.

Pray for These Folks

Makes the heart sad...

THANKSGIVING for GAYNESS

God, thank you for the gift of Gayness, a way of reaching out and loving, a way of enjoying your gifts of sexuality and pleasure, a way of knowing aloneness, a way of knowing union. Thank you for the awareness it gives me, for the clarity of pain, for the rapture of joy. All good gifts come from you, Oh God. May I use the gift of Gayness to celebrate you, life, your love, your tender whimsy. AMEN (Fr. Ron Wesner)

From here.

David Bentley Hart's New Book

David Bentley Hart is visiting professor, Theology Department, Providence College, and author of several books, including In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments and The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. Hart is a Christian in the Orthodox Church. He is the younger brother of the Anglican priest Robert Hart of The Continuum. (The third Hart brother is a Roman Catholic priest. The conversation around the table when the three brothers are together must be interesting!)

Here is a review of David Bentley Hart's new book Atheist Delusions:

Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion’s most passionate antagonists—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others—have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism. But contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon profound conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history or even outright historical ignorance: so contends David Bentley Hart in this bold correction of the distortions. One of the most brilliant scholars of religion of our time, Hart provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists’ misrepresentations of the Christian past, bringing into focus the truth about the most radical revolution in Western history.

Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the “Age of Reason” was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason’s authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values.

From here.