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2024 VOLVO COMMERCIAL REVIEW

by Kathy Barrilleaux I cannot remember if I have ever been moved to write a review for a commercial before, but here we are.  Forget its raison d’être is to sell Volvos. There is a theme FAR more important the film makers convey and it is the advocacy for life. The ad, in both obvious […]

Real Population Growth Means Strong, Faith-Filled Families

A diverse coalition is concerned with our demographic decline, but we need to be careful not to choose solutions that create worse problems. Bu Anna Reynolds November 26, 2024 at Crisis Magazine There is a surprising coalition dancing in the streets following the reelection of Donald Trump. We cannot say that the group of political […]

Take it from me: sometimes banning books is a good idea

By Friend of the Ruth Institute, James Parker, featured in the Dr. J Show interviews: “I was born gay: until I learned I wasn’t” and  “Fact is, you can change your LGBT identity.” August 30, 2024, at Mercatornet.com. Conservative Christian bigots are campaigning to ban books from public libraries. This is a familiar headline in […]

Ex-Lesbian: Divine Grace is Real

by Suzanne Carrillo at OnePeterFive Today is the first of June, the month that Church dedicates to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since so many people outside the Catholic world haven’t any knowledge of the liturgical year, much less how one can live according to it, they will be inundated with “pride” memorabilia all month […]

Ex-Gay Visibility Day: First Sunday in June

by T. S. Flanders June 1, 2024 at One Peter Five From the Ruth Institute: “The gay lobby makes sure everyone knows Junes is ‘Pride Month,’ but they certainly won’t acknowledge the many people who have left the LGBT identity behind. That’s why the Ruth Institute is declaring the first Sunday of June to be […]

Reclaiming ‘Pride Month’: June 2 is ‘Ex-Gay Visibility Day’

Unpopular truth: There are more people today living as ‘ex-gays’ than there are those leading homosexual lives. by Doug Mainwaring June 1, 2024 (LifeSiteNews) — “Pride Month” has just begun, a month when woke identity politics takes center stage for 30 days, relentlessly driving home the unfounded neo-Marxist claim that homosexual and transgender-identifying individuals are […]

Finally, a ‘Visibility Day’ for the People the LGBTQ Movement Finds Inconvenient

By Tyler O’Neil May 28, 2024 at DailySignal.com Next month, companies will add rainbow flags to their icons and logos, the White House will hold events celebrating LGBTQ individuals, and Target and other stores will likely promote rainbow-themed merchandise. Amid all this “Pride,” the men and women who rejected a homosexual lifestyle will be forgotten. […]

Donald Trump and Kari Lake are dead wrong to defend IVF: here’s why

This article quotes Dr. Morse near the end. Republicans who support IVF are wrong; they’re playing with fire. IVF is a cash cow for the fertility industry; it’s murder for many children.  by Doug Mainwaring February 26, 2024 at LifeSiteNews After the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed last week that embryos are children — bringing an […]

Counseling Freedom Battle Wins and Setbacks

Activists promoting ‘conversion therapy bans’ will not be satisfied until every last counselor, therapist, priest or pastor on planet earth has been silenced, shamed or scared into submission.

‘Settled Science’? Anthropologists Don’t Know the Difference Between Men and Women

COMMENTARY: Ideology is trumping the free exchange of ideas, open inquiry and the scientific method itself. by Jennifer Roback Morse and Betsy Kerekes October 11, 2023 at National Catholic Register The American Anthropological Association (AAA) recently rejected a proposed session from its annual meeting. The board released a statement titled, “No Place for Transphobia in […]

Smears for Money

John Stossel writes about the racket the Southern Poverty Law Center has run since they bankrupted the clan: Smears for Money

YouTube censors Ruth Institute interview clip about link between abortion, breast cancer

By Jean Mondoro June 21, 2023 ‘YouTube doesn’t want the public to know about the abortion-breast cancer link, so it shuts down any discussion of the matter, under the guise of protecting the public from ‘misinformation.’ How convenient,’ Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse said. (LifeSiteNews) — A pro-life organization has been censored once again on YouTube […]

The Man from Macedonia

What did Joseph Ratzinger point out about a passage in the Acts of the Apostles that changes a seemingly brief and off-hand biblical travelogue into something that is so rich with meaning?

Connecticut Pedophilia Protections Made Law

by Martina Moyski The slippery slope toward anything goes HARTFORD, Conn. (ChurchMilitant.com) – Connecticut is facing controversy over a bill that has raised concerns among citizens, as they fear it could pave the way for the gradual legalization of pedophilia within the state. The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill this month that changes the state’s […]

The ‘Born Gay’ Myth: When Ideology Masquerades as Science

COMMENTARY: The available research does not support the claim that same-sex attraction has an immutable genetic origin. by Jennifer Roback Morse May 15, 2023 at National Catholic Register. Science says: No one is born gay. Actually, it is more accurate to say, “The available science is inconsistent with the claim that people are born gay.” […]

Mothers are the gateway to tomorrow

By Don Feder – – Sunday, May 14, 2023 Mother’s Day should be about more than cards and candy, flowers and fine sentiments. As we move into the desolate wasteland of demographic winter, mothers assume a role of paramount importance. If humanity is to have a future, it lies with them. The left can’t even say the […]

“Trans” Activists Identify as Victims, But Act Like Bullies

By Jennifer Roback Morse Published on April 20, 2023 at The Stream Are “trans” people really helpless underdogs in the West today? In this age of politically manufactured victimhood, separating the truly weak from the faux weak is a full-time job. I submit that these are the telltale signs of authentic power. A group is really […]

Dr. Paul Sullins Refutes Common Same-sex Parenting Studies

Originally Published at ThemBeforeUs.com There have been several studies done in an attempt to show “no difference” in child outcomes between same-sex and opposite-sex parenting. Studies commonly cited in support of same-sex parenting are Reczek’s, “Family Structure and Child Health; Does the Sex Composition of Parents Matter?,” and Wainright, Russell, and Patterson’s study on adolescents […]

Government’s Back-to-School Grooming

As parents are revving up for the school year, the government is spoon-feeding LGBT propaganda to children. Church Militant’s Martina Moyski unpacks the “Back-to-School” video luring schoolchildren into the LGBT web.

The COVID-19 Rise of Deception and Tyranny

For nearly two years, the media and Big Tech actively censored any discussions about the possibility of the Wuhan virus having come from the military-run bioweapons lab in Wuhan, China. They went batty instead over the easily debunked idea that it came from the sale of animals in a “wet market.” It was the viral equivalent of the Russian collusion hoax, along with the “phone call” impeachment and the “armed insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.

UK Court Rules Against Chemical Castration for Minors

The National Catholic Register recently reported on some welcome news regarding protecting minors from hormonal drugs prescribed to gender-confused children. The ruling by the UK court is an important step in protecting minors. Celeste McGovern News December 8, 2020   Gender-confused children likely can’t comprehend the risks of hormonal drugs that clinics prescribe, British judges […]

IFTCC Conference 2020 – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Our friends at the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counseling Choice will be having their 6th Annual Freedoms, Rights and Self-Determination conference. This year’s conference will be online, Friday November 27th and Saturday November 28th. Therapists, counselors and family members of those dealing with unwanted same sex attraction, gender identity questions, and sexual orientation will […]

The Sexual Revolution’s Impact

Originally published as one of Fr. Nagel’s homilies. Elise is a six-year old who lives with her grandmother, and whose mother had a baby with someone other than Elise’s father. ‘I hate it when my Mom comes home with her new baby and her new boyfriend. Why do I have to live with my grandma? Why doesn’t my mother love me? Why does that baby get to live with her, and I don’t?’ she asks. Bethany’s husband Joe is a pornography addict. He lost interest in her and their children. He divorced her. He moved in with another woman and no longer has any interest in the faith she thought they shared. ‘Earning a living and supporting and caring for the kids is tough,’ she said, ‘I don’t know what I would do if my parents hadn’t moved closer to help me.’ Tom’s mother was married and divorced twice. Neither of these men was Tom’s father. Tom has one half-sister. Neither of his mother’s husbands was her father, either. Tom had never really had a relationship with his father. Tom married a woman named Genevieve, whose mother and her first husband adopted a child. Later they decided to have another child through anonymous donor conception. That was Genevieve. When Genevieve was eight, her mother and her husband divorced. The husband wanted shared custody of the adopted child but not of Genevieve. Those are some scenarios from the beginning of Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse’s book, The Sexual State, about the costs and casualties of the Sexual Revolution. I thought about them this past Tuesday at the March for Life in Olympia. The marchers always walk to the steps of the capital by going past the supreme court. On the steps of the supreme court are the pro legal-abortion counter-protesters. As I walked, I thought, “Here is the existential experience of our society – the fundamental conflict buried beneath so many other tensions that undermine our peace. Only here it’s out in the open with all the shouting, bitterness, and anger, while most of the time the consequences of the Sexual Revolution are fiercely silenced or ignored. I felt comp

‘The Sexual State’: How Government and Big Donors Gave Us the Sexual Revolution

In 21st century America, sex is all around us: on television, in movies, in classrooms, in politics, and even in churches. Sex permeates our desires, our expectations for relationships, even our identity. The Sexual Revolution goes far beyond the LGBT movement, and it has fundamentally reshaped American society. But few Americans actually grasp exactly where this revolution came from. An explosive new book reveals that government and wealthy donors, rather than impersonal historical forces or newly liberated women, propelled the Sexual Revolution.

Children falling short in school? Blame parental break-ups

When family life fails, so too do students Nicole M. King and Bryce J. Christensen This article was published April 18, 2018, at Mercatornet.com.   Educationhas established itself as a god term in progressive circles. Name any problem whatever—from global warming to grade-school bullying—and progressives will begin to genuflect and burn incense before the shrines […]

Putting a ring on it, for the children’s sake

Hollywood’s Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and his partner have another daughter on the way. By Carolyn Moynihan This article was first published April 13, 2018, at Mercatornet.com.   Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first […]

Selling Hate

by John Stossel; originally published at Creators.com Who will warn Americans about hate groups? The media know: the Southern Poverty Law Center. SPLC, based in Alabama, calls itself "the premier" group monitoring hate. Give us money, they say, and they will "fight the hate that thrives in our country." I once believed in the center’s mission. Well-meaning people still do. Apple just gave them a million dollars. So did actor George Clooney. They shouldn’t. Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in Somalia, where she suffered female genital mutilation. So now she speaks out against radical Islam. For that, SPLC put her on its list of dangerous "extremists." Maajid Nawaz was once an Islamic extremist. Then he started criticizing the radicals. SPLC labels him an "anti-Muslim extremist," too. While launching hateful smears like these, SPLC invites you to donate to them to "join the fight against hatred and bigotry." SPLC once fought useful fights. They took on the Ku Klux Klan. But now they go after people on the right with whom they disagree. They call the Family Research Council a hate group because it says gay men are more likely to sexually abuse children. That’s their belief. There is some evidence that supports it. Do they belong on a "hate map," like the Ku Klux Klan, because they believe that evidence and worry about it? I often disagree with the council, but calling them a hate group is unfair. In my YouTube video this week, the group’s vice president, Jerry Boykin, tells me, "I don’t hate gay people. And I know gay people, and I have worked with gay people." But once you’re labeled a hate group, you are a target. One man went to the Family Research Council headquarters to kill people, shooting a security guard in the arm before he was stopped. The shooter told investigators that he attacked the FRC because he found them on SPLC’s hate list. Calling the council a "hate group" made its employees the target of real hate. SPLC also smears the Ruth

May I Please Speak to My Daddy?

by Doug Mainwaring at publicdiscourse.com on March 2017.     This world does not need men to selfishly take whatever we want, especially if the price is the welfare of our children. Our children don’t need superheroes—just quiet, unsung, ordinary, everyday heroes who answer to the name “Daddy.” When I was taking my first few […]

The most important correlation in all of social science

Number of sexual partners and duration of first marriage. by Patrick F. Fagan for Mercatornet.com on February 13, 2017 Regular readers of Faith and Family Findings are familiar with the data on family structure and its impact on everything important to a functioning society. On every outcome measured, for adults and children, those in an […]

Is cohabitation the new marriage? Not for kids

Children born in cohabiting unions experience more family instability, a new study finds. by Carolyn Moynihan for mercatornet.com on February 9, 2017 One thing the same-sex marriage debate has done is shine a light on why marriage is even worth arguing about. If it is just about loving couples, forget it. But it is not […]

Battling Pornography: Strategies for Home and Classroom

The good news is that media literacy and character development can protect kids. For more than four decades, my work as a developmental psychologist and educator has focused on helping schools and parents develop good characterin youth. I direct a character education center at the State University of New York in Cortland, New York. Among […]

Sterile fantasies

Young people are clueless about how quickly their fertility ebbs away by Nicole M. King for Mercatornet.com on February 8, 2017 Melinda Gates: “Like most women I know, I have used contraceptives for many years.” The News Story: Want to Empower Women Worldwide? Give Them Access to Contraceptives “Like most women I know, I have […]

Hormonal contraception linked to depression

A huge study finds that users face higher risks to their mental health. by Tamara El-Rahi This article was first published October 10, 2016, at Mercatornet.com.   It’s been reported by many smaller publications, but finally the big news sources are onto it: the pill increases your chance of developing depression. This time, the statistics […]

Chaste—and happier—Millennials

The idea that you can enjoy life without having sex is catching on. by Nicole M. King This article was first published September 13, 2016, at Mercatornet.com.   The News Story: Less Sex Please, We’re Millennials—Study The British Guardian reported recently on an American study revealing—to the surprise of everyone involved—that millennials are having less […]

Will IVF change human history?

Scientists are beginning to realize that IVF could be a time-bomb. by Michael Cook This article was first published September 6, 2016 at Mercatornet.com.   Evolution works because of the differential reproduction of individuals with certain features. If an organism has a harmful gene, it will not survive to reproduce and will perish before it […]

The historic Christian teaching against contraception: a defense

Acceptance of contraception undercuts Christian sexual ethics. by Sherif Girgis   Forty-eight years ago last month, our story reached a dramatic climax. But it began in the dawn of Christianity, with a document called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (or Didache). Written thirty to fifty years after Christ’s death, it gives the earliest evidence […]

Homosexuality is a Natural Law Issue

My friend Daniel Mattson hits it out of the park today, “Why Homosexuality is a Natural Law Issue.” I’m thinking pretty much every moral issue can be framed as a natural law issue, but that’s just me. Dan has had great succes talking with young people about sexual morality using this approach. Must read for […]

Two Men Talk about Marriage: New Book

This looks like a good book, and a good resource for our Gay Lifestyle Refugees.  Jeremy Bell was in a long term, same-sex relationship and had not yet met his now-friend and co-author John McCaughan when he began, six years ago, to think seriously about the meaning of marriage. John, on the other hand, had […]

Losing a parent to death or divorce – which is worse?

Research shows that “Parental separation was significantly associated with almost all disorders.” by Nicole M. King This article was first published April 20, 2016, at Mercatornet.com. The News Story – MPs to look into Cyprus divorce problems Divorce in Cyprus has been on the rise, and the resulting “negative impact on children caught in bitter […]

Hush: the film

One of our readers sent us this information: “There is a newly produced documentary film which profiles the marginalization even suppression of information regarding reproductive health that does not fit the liberal narrative. The film is called “Hush”. It is produced by Canadian company called Mighty Motion Pictures. You can find it at www.hushfilm.com. It […]

Long and Winding Road out of the gay lifestyle: a story of forgiveness

The headline over at LifeSiteNews says this is a story out of the gay lifestyle. And so it it. But it is first and foremost an inspiring story of forgiveness and repentance. Any Survivor of the Sexual Revolution, any person seeking peace, can benefit from this article.  A sample:    I embarked upon an incredible […]

Losing a parent to divorce affects educational ambition

Why? Because it changes family involvement in children’s educational activities by Nicole M. King   This article was first posted March 30, 2016, at mercatornet.com. The News Story – Free community college education bill a potential “game changer” for state A new bill proposing that Kentucky cover the costs of community and technical college education […]

My dad was a sperm donor. My lack of identity reflects his

The film Delivery Man shines a light on the people deprived of roots, extended family and a father figure. It’s a hole that can never be filled by Elizabeth Howard This article was first posted at The Guardian on January 16, 2014. ‘The deprivation I feel as a donor-conceived child, though diluted for my children, […]

Donor IVF baby who says ‘I wish I’d never been born’: It’s the great IVF taboo – how will a child feel about never knowing their biological parents? For this family, the answer was shattering

By Helen Carroll for the Daily Mail This article was first published at the Daily Mail on June 25, 2014. Gracie Crane was one of the first children conceived from donor embryo Born before the 1998 Embryology Act, she has no right to know who her biological parents are Despite her parents unconditional love, Gracie […]

Sperm donor children speak out

by Christine Dhanagom This article was first posted on Life Site News on December 5, 2011. There are only four things Alana Stewart knows about her father: he has blonde hair, blue eyes, a college degree, and his assigned number at the sperm bank where he sold half of Alana’s genetic code is 81. She […]

The Sperm-Donor Kids Are Not Really All Right

A new study shows they suffer. By Karen Clark and Elizabeth Marquardt This article was first published at  Slate, June 14, 2010.     The Kids Are All Right, due out in July, is being praised for its honest portrayal of a lesbian couple, played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. But what seems most […]

Natural Love Stories: The Film

By Tamara El-Rahi This article was first posted at Mercatornet.com on March 3, 2016. Wondering if hormonal contraceptives are having negative side-effects? Trying to conceive or avoid a pregnancy? Just keen to be informed on your fertility? Sounds like you need to see Natural Love Stories: The Film. Produced by Natural Womanhood, this newly-released film […]

The children of divorce: anything but resilient

By Nicole M. King This article was first published February 24, 2016 at Mercatornet.com.   The News Story – Coping with a new home life In Part I of a series called “Children of Divorce,” provided by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the Lohud Journal News outlines some “strategies to help your child cope” with a parental divorce. […]