thoughts in and out of season
The science of family life continues to make huge strides: Study Looks At Women, Marriage And Divorce and discovers that shacking up and premarital pregnancy make for shaky marriages. How revolutionary! Similar findings may eventually lead scholars to propose sophisticated theoretical concepts like “commitment and integrity” and “moral orientation,” or maybe eventually even “virtue and … More ...
Here’s a useful survey of family life in the West. They don’t give links or footnotes, but at least they mention where they got the information.
The German Christian Democrats get with the program: their 28-year-old pregnant unmarried mom shadow spokeswoman for family affairs is appealing for the votes of homosexuals by promising various gay rights reforms that it seems the Social Democrats and Greens have failed to deliver.
In the most basic ways, “Western Civilization” no longer works. Some illustrations: More Englishwomen staying childless to advance their careers, while Sweden looks for social policies to boost the birthrate while keeping female labor fully and equally available as an economic resource. The policies just don’t work—after a brief rise Sweden’s birthrate is back in … More ...
Gleichschaltung rolls on: Catholic institutions to be forced to cover contraceptives in their health plans even though the drugs often work as abortificiants. The reporter’s presentation, which deals with the controversy by emphasizing other features of the bill and other uses for contraceptive drugs, is typical.
The president signs the Michal Judge Act, which has the effect of paying federal death benefits to “partners” of unmarried policemen and firemen, while New York City considers giving effect to homosexual unions registered in Vermont and California. It’s “simply the right thing to do,” says the City Council speaker.
The Judge Act can … More ...
Worth noting: LifeSite Canada has a comprehensive collection of articles on the current clerical homosexuality scandals. Their front page, by the way, has a good listing of current news items relating to their areas of concern, including PC suppression of traditionalists in Canada.
British feminists call for continued Western occupation of Afghanistan, and Nicholas Kristof takes time out from abusing anyone with doubts about CEDAW to speak of “the half of the globe where to be female is to be persecuted until, often, death.” Is there a certain pattern here?
Meanwhile, closer to home, all decent people … More ...
Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, provides a textbook example of human rights advocacy: Women’s Rights: Why Not?. He details particular horrendous abuses, claims that’s all “human rights” is about, and attacks people for even raising questions. It annoys him that the Justice Department is examining the legal effect of American adherence … More ...
There’s no reason the logic shouldn’t play out, so I imagine the researcher’s interpretation would be the normal one among social scientists today: Study Examines Homophobia In The Workplace. The “homophobia” was a tendency among both men and women to view an unwanted sexual advance from a man to a man as more serious … More ...