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Rights From Wrongs

A COUNTRY AT WAR WITH ITS CONSCIENCE

Jason M. Morgan

If Americans were completely morally depraved, they wouldn't bother garnishing their sins with imprimaturs from the Supreme Court or the court of public opinion.

Transanity Is Taking Over. How Will the Church Respond?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Gender ideologues are at work in the Church -- no surprise. That they occupy positions of power and speak with authority is, however, cause for great concern.

Why Won’t Parents Let Their Kids Be Parents?

GUEST COLUMN

David A. Wisemann

In the past, parents generally did not consent to non-therapeutic, experimental procedures on their minor children. We have reached a point where they do.

Preaching Christ Customized

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

To the list of things Jesus could have been but wasn’t, there is now one more to add: A new movement would recast Our Lord as a transgender woman.

Subsidiarity of the Body

PERCEIVING THE FACE OF THE OTHER

Jason M. Morgan

The subsidiarity of the body is a testament to the theology of the body; it says that the human body is a marvel fit to host the human soul.

“Politics and the English Language.” By George Orwell.

LITERATURE MATTERS

Michael S. Rose

Language should reflect reality. If it doesn’t, what possible limits could be placed on misleading, manipulative language?

Transgenderism’s Wicked Lies

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

One de-transitioner calls her childhood experience “an act of self-destruction, enabled by medical professionals,” and “a form of medical abuse.”

They're Coming for Our Children

American Christians take pride in the "religious freedom" we think we enjoy. But rights regarding even our own children can evaporate into the mist.

All That You Can Be

Jump forward a generation and picture this: genderless toys, genderless TV role models, and genderless institutions and language. Such indoctrination will have a profound effect.

A Sign of Self-Contradiction

Today, transgenderism is firmly established in the cultural landscape. Who will cut through the cant, expose the cultural masquerade, and proclaim the truth? Our religious leaders?

Big Brother North of the Border

Canada is writing laws based on gender defined as a sense, an experience, and the result of expression: dress, hair, make-up, body language, voice, name, and personal pronoun use.

Breaking the Bathroom Barrier: A Civil-Rights Imperative?

If transgender people truly want "equal protection under the law," they shouldn't be treated as a separate class of people, distinct from the rest of society. This is what the inaptly named nondiscrimination laws would do.

Are There Male & Female Virtues?

A MARRIAGE OF NATURE & NECESSITY

Justin Paulette

The most prudent means by which to safeguard society is a partial delegation of virtuous labor in accordance with the inherent capacities of its members.

Church, Women & Pants

BEAUTY & THE BEST

Gerrie Goguen

Difficulties arise when women wear tight or revealing pants to Church: Men start seeing them as a collection of titillating body parts.

Wise Advice From a Vocations Director

Discipline the seminarian who sways when he walks, who has limp wrists, who acts like a drama queen or who lisps.

A Man of Courage

Patrick Rooney

Men are essentially the protectors, the warriors. And women are the nurturers, the nest builders. This fact hasn't changed for millennia, and it never will.

Effeminate Tolerance

GUEST COLUMN

Michael L. Hearing

Courage, or fortitude, is the cornerstone of the four cardinal virtues, and it is the element that seems to be missing in the modern "virtues."

Our Testosterone-Depleted Church

God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

Effeminacy in the Service Of Capitalism

METROSEXUAL GOES AMERICA

Michael S. Rose

The intentionally effeminate metrosexual is another fruit of the postmodern sexual assault, specifically the assault on masculine integrity.

Thank Goodness for the Unitarians!

The new queer theologians don't need your approval.

In the Name of the Father-Mother, Ron Rolheiser & the Holy Spirit

Fr. Ron says that Jesus Christ missed the mark when He called God His Father.

Breeding Sissies

Kris Berggren has plenty of support for her experiment in androgyny.

Bungled Attack on Billy Graham

A Catholic might say that Graham is avoiding "occasions of sin."

Hating the Body

BODY PIERCING, BLOOD RITES & TRANSSEXUALISM

Thomas Storck

Often the body is treated not as part of the human body-soul complex, but as a mere shell, which can be manipulated at will.