The sexes

One way to express the contradiction at the heart of “gay marriage” is that it demands the right to a special status—marriage—in the name of abolishing special status. The real effect of such demands is to eliminate marriage in favor of equal treatment of living arrangements. The sentimentality about how nice married life is, and … More ...

The homosexual movement and its allies constantly use the phrase “sexual identity.” The phrase seems to be taken for granted, and is rarely explained and justified. It seems, though, to refer to the notion that our sexual habits and inclinations are fundamental to what we are, more so than religion or even sex in the … More ...

As counterpoint to the “queering the schools” agenda, here’s a footnote-laden Family Research Council report on Abstinence until Marriage: The Best Message for Teens. We’ve touched before on the widespread technocratic prejudice against “abstinence-only” sex-ed programs. Nonetheless, it should be obvious that it’s the abstinence curricula that are based on reason and common sense … More ...

A tale of two causes: “queering the schools”—mainstreaming homosexual and polymorphously perverse themes throughout education—goes forward, and the only people who complain are said to be homophobic cranks. Meanwhile, it’s a huge scandal if the Secretary of Education praises Christian schools very moderately (“all things being equal, I’d prefer to have a child in … More ...

In London, Ontario, a judge declined to recognize three people as the legal parents of a single child (the mother, the father, and the mother’s lesbian partner). And in an older London, the Lords rejected a request to interpret English law as permitting transsexual marriage.

The victory for the traditional definition of the family was … More ...

Maybe “gynocide” wasn’t so totally gynocidal: The victims of the witch hunt history would rather forget. Of the 60,000 or so persons executed for witchcraft in Europe between 1450 and 1750, perhaps 12-20,000 were men. In some regions, such as Burgundy, Normandy and Iceland, men were a majority of those accused. Those aren’t facts … More ...

An item that illustrates John Rao’s point about the infinite openness of “common sense” in an officially pluralist society, as well as my point about the impossibility of dealing reasonably with sex under the new dispensation: Leading U.K. health agency gives 11-year-olds free condoms. The reason? They “want youngsters to become comfortable with condoms … More ...

When people need something to stew about what they choose is unpredictable. In Edinburgh it’s still OK to have a school Nativity play, you’re just not allowed to videotape it. The concern isn’t offense to animists or Muslims, psychological stress for participants, the right of the student to control reproduction of his likeness, or … More ...

Get government out of the bedroom! So went the rallying cry of the movement to abolish public standards of sexual morality. It didn’t work out as planned. Like other traditional standards, customary sexual morality made it possible for people to live together and cooperate in stable productive ways without the intervention of public authority. If … More ...

A clever summary of the arguments for “gay marriage” and their intrinsic flaw: The Marriage of True Minds: A Dialogue. Why, after all, shouldn’t I be able to marry George Washington or the Bank of Nova Scotia?