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On April 27th of this year, the heavy hand of Bolshevism clamped down upon David Parker, a Lexington, MA. citizen and father of a six year old son. David was arrested on trumped up charges, handcuffed like a dangerous felon, and led off to jail. His heinous crime? Parker is guilty of being a morally principled man with the courage to request that he and his wife be given advance notification when issues of sexual unnaturalness and perversion (transgenderism, sodomy, and same-sex headed relationships) were going to be discussed in his son's classroom. Said Parker, "certain authorities insist that I...

On Being the ‘Other’ By Mary Ann Dellinger When one interviews for a tenure-track position at Virginia Military Institute, the process often seems more like an orientation session than an exploration of a suitable match between the interviewee’s credentials and the mission of the institute. From the dean to the last of one’s future colleagues, the candidate is reminded once and again of the “unique military atmosphere” that defines VMI; the requirement that all faculty wear a uniform, the fact that all uniformed faculty and staff adhere to military protocol, and that one does not refer to the VMI campus...

HOROWITZ ON QUEER LIBERATION On queer liberation as the ultimate revolutionary project, from David Horowitz's 1998 book, The Politics of Bad Faith: To the queer theorist, all identities, gay and straight, are the product of the socially imposed ideal—hetero-normativity—which structures the system of oppression. For the new revolutionaries, the enemy is no longer a ruling class or a hegemonic race or even a dominant gender, but the sexual order of nature itself. . . . Oppression lies in the very idea of the normal, the fixed order that arrays humanity into two complementary, procreating sexes. It is the gender-patriarchy system...

(AgapePress) - Christian students who openly opposed a pro-homosexual event at their Wisconsin public school met stiff resistance from school officials. The Gay Straight Alliance Club at Evansville High School recently held a "Day of Silence" to protest alleged discrimination against homosexuals. The club was permitted to advertise the event through posters, literature, and on the school intercom. The school even provided them with a "safe room" to sit in if they felt they were being harassed during the day. But a group of Christian students who countered the Day of Silence by praying and sharing Bible verses in the...

Selling Homosexuality by Matt Kaufman You generally know an ad campaign when you see it, and you don't take it seriously. You may buy Pepsi, but you don't really believe drinking it makes you cool because Britney Spears pitches it. But you may not recognize an ad campaign so easily when it's not relegated to paid 30-second spots. Or when the product being sold isn't a soft drink, but an idea, or an attitude, or a worldview. Which brings us to a fascinating article in the Regent University Law Review. In an issue analyzing various aspects of gay activism, one...

At a high school in prosperous Newton, Massachusetts, it’s “To B GLAD Day”—or, less delicately, Transgender, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Awareness Day. An advocacy session for students and teachers features three self-styled transgendered individuals—a member of the senior class and two recent graduates. One of the transgenders, born female, announces that “he” had been taking hormones for 16 months. “Right now I am a 14-year-old boy going through puberty and a 55-year-old woman going through menopause,” she complains. “I am probably the moodiest person in the world.” A second panelist declares herself an “androgyne in between both genders of society.” She...