Merry Ex-Christmas!
A short listing of unevents for the unholiday, mostly not taking place in New York: Making Christmas Disappear.
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NY passes ‘gay rights’ law
They finally did it: New York legislature passes “gay rights” bill. The Republicans had been keeping the bill bottled up in committee, but brought it to the floor as a political pay-off to a homosexual organization that had endorsed the Republican governor for re-election. It passed the Assembly and Senate by solid-to-overwhelming margins.
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Ever more on guard
Don’t worry, we’re all being looked after:
- The NYC Health Department is warning doctors they could face malpractice suits if they don’t push patients to kick the smoking habit.
- English parents wanting to take pictures of their children playing “football” [I believe soccer is meant] will be asked to sign a form saying the
Speciesism refuted!
Mice and men share about 99 percent of each other’s genes. I wonder if that means there are no racial differences between the two?
More on sex and human rights
More on the “human rights” front: U.S. isolated at population conference over its anti-abortion stand. The “anti-abortion stand” consists in attempts to clarify language in existing UN agreements that UN bureaucrats and human rights professionals have read to require support for abortion. It appears that the U.S. is saying it won’t provide support for … More ...
Conservative trend in France?
I don’t know enough about French intellectual life to comment, but this seemed worth passing on: French Intellectuals take off the gloves in slugfest over `new reactionaries’.
Expert reconstruction of reality
The social construction of reality, chapter whatever: American Psychiatric Association issues statement endorsing right of gay and lesbian couples to adopt. According to the APA, “research over the past 30 years has consistently demonstrated that children raised by gay or lesbian parents exhibit the same level of emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as … More ...
Sex ed triumphs in Uganda!
Since I’m on the topic, here’s more sex news: unreported triumph fighting AIDS in Uganda because of superior sex education. HIV prevalence there was 15 percent in 1991 but 5 percent by 2001, a dramatic decline that is unique worldwide.
Oddly, the superior education was the kind Human Rights Watch doesn’t like because it violates … More ...
Yet again, free to be you and me
Social construction, take two: in accordance with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, Britain will now allow transsexuals to apply for substitute birth certificates showing their “new gender”. As the responsible parliamentary official explained,
… More ...“Our legislation will enable transsexual people confidently to take up those rights which have been denied
Santa up North
More prophets of a freer and more open tomorrow: Couple launches attack on ‘Christmas hell’. “Hell,” for these purposes, means Christmas as such, partly because it’s commercialized, but more fundamentally because it’s religious and thus exclusive. “Children are taught to worship this white, heterosexual man [Santa] who overeats. I mean, it’s wrong.”
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