Tag: lgbt

You Got the Analogy Right, But You Came to the Wrong Conclusion

Brian Scarborough
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Some lefty media person decided to chime in on the Terry McAuliffe gaffe by using a simple analogy. You remember: McAuliffe said that parents should not tell teachers what to teach. The commentator smugly said that teachers were professionals like surgeons and, therefore, parents should not tell teachers what to teach. After all, you would not tell a surgeon how to do surgery. You would leave it up to him or her.

After thinking about this for almost two seconds, I realized that he was partly right. We should treat teachers like surgeons — in a different way. A surgeon may recommend a certain kind of surgery, and you may say “Yes” or “No” to that. But the surgeon does not operate without your permission or perform surgery different from what you want. Of course, that is not really telling him how to do the surgery. It is telling him what surgery he is allowed to perform on you.

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Three Martini Lunch

SCOTUS Sides with Freedom, Durbin’s Dumb D-Day Analogy, Biden Redefines Title IX

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Hosted by Greg Corombos
With guest Alexandra DeSanctis

Greg and guest host Alexandra DeSanctis Marr cheer a unanimous Supreme Court decision that says faith-based adoption agencies can limit their clients to traditionally married couples and that government must work with them. They also call out Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin for comparing those who want to kill the filibuster with the heroes of D-Day. And they react to the Biden administration issuing guidance declaring that Title IX protections against sex discrimination apply to sexual orientation and gender identity issues as well.

 

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A Letter to My Gay Friends

Henry Racette
Henry Racette
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June is widely recognized as “Pride Month,” and I’m sure we’ll see lots of reminders of that over the next few weeks. Most people aren’t aware that the Pride movement was inspired by, and is in part to commemorate, a specific series of events, the Stonewall Riots in New York City in 1969.

Like members of many other minority groups in American history, homosexual men and women faced discrimination, both legal and cultural, that was overcome only slowly and often at great personal cost. But it was overcome: today people who experience same-sex attraction have the same rights as heterosexuals and enjoy widespread public acceptance.

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Chuck
Chuck
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A few minutes ago I learned that Nigerians are required to obtain a “National Identity Number” on pain of 14 years jail time.  I was thinking about that and wondering how we’d respond: Which led me to remember that essentially all of us have Social Security Numbers. But then I remembered something else.  All male […]
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Sprinting Towards Sodom

Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio…
Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio…
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OK, that is a deliberately provocative title. But there’s a new Gallup poll about LGBT self-identification in the US and the results are alarming for a traditionalist like myself, with an unexpected twist. The title of this post is intended as a homage to Robert Bork’s terrific Slouching Towards Gomorrah, published in 1996. I highly recommend the book, which is available online free (here), though I can’t vouch for the copyright legitimacy of this version. I have it in my Audible library.

Onto the data and graphics. The latest Gallup poll, released this week but reporting polling data from 2020 (here), reports an increase in LGBT self-identification to 5.6%. The prior reported figure, from 2017 (here), was 4.5%. That’s an increase of about 24% since 2017. Here’s how it breaks down by age cohort:

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Federalist Radio Hour

Was 2020 The Year Biology Made A Comeback?

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Hosted by Emily Jashinsky
With guest Madeline Osburn

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky and Staff Editor Madeline Osburn break down the events, people, and legislation that shaped the cultural momentum to reclaim biological sex as a concept and push back on transgender politics.

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Three Martini Lunch

Pro-Life Football Story, Bloomberg Knows Better Than You, SJW’s Target Hallmark

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Hosted by Greg Corombos & Jim Geraghty

Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! Grab a stool as Jim and Greg dissect good, bad, and crazy martinis today. First, while Greg laments another Ohio State win over Michigan, they love the powerful pro-life story involving OSU’s star running back. They also slam Michael Bloomberg for saying taxes on poor people are good because then poor people won’t make as many bad choices for themselves. And they roll their eyes as LGBT activists complain about the absence of same-sex romances in Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies. You’ll also enjoy their unvarnished analysis of the Hallmark movies as they currently exist.

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et tu, Chick-fil-A?

AndrewAdams
AndrewAdams
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Unlike Kanye, I have never written a song comparing my beloved to Chick-fil-A though it might work just plugging it in to Shakespeare’s Sonnet #18: Shall I compare thee to a Chick-fil-A?  Like most people, Christians included, I just enjoyed a good chicken sandwich.  I also appreciated a rare corporate entity that offered a polite nod to my faith instead of trying to make me forget it or apologize for it.  

So, I was quite taken aback to see news reports that Chick-fil-A would end its support for so-called “anti-LGBT groups.”  Who are these groups?  The Salvation Army and The Fellowship of Christian Athletes.  Huh?  Labeling these organizations “anti-LGBT groups” is quite curious.  To be sure, they are formally “Christian” organizations that hold traditional Christian views about homosexuality and same-sex marriage.  But the work they perform in the communities they serve cannot be characterized as “anti-LGBT” in good faith.  Yet, the litany of news stories about this shift in policy has identified them as such without any qualification.  

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Greg Strange
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There’s been a lot of reflection in 2018 about the year 1968, a half century past.  Generally regarded as one of the most disquieting years in American history, there were assassinations, urban race riots, the ongoing and controversial war in Viet Nam, all the campus protests and unrest, the Democratic National Convention which descended into […]
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Stad
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. . . the special interest groups which form the left worldwide get their panties (jocks?) in a wad about the other groups from time to time.  Here’s this tidbit from across The Pond: https://pjmedia.com/trending/lesbians-blame-transgenderism-for-conversion-therapy-and-rape-culture-at-london-pride-parade/ Preview Open
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Three Martini Lunch

Trump’s Travel Ban Triumph, Religious Freedom Victory, Pride March Mayhem

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Hosted by Greg Corombos
With guest David French

David French of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America celebrate the Supreme Court decision that upheld a portion of President Trump’s travel ban, overturning lower court rulings. They also applaud the SCOTUS decision in favor of Trinity Lutheran Church against the State of Missouri in a religious liberty case. And they question Pride Month’s “inclusivity” as LGBT members of the Jewish community are ejected from a Chicago pride march for having the Star of David on a rainbow flag.

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Milo to be Keynote Speaker at CPAC

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CPAC has announced that this year’s keynote speaker will be Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart editor whose talk was shut down earlier this month through violence at the University of California at Berkeley.

Yiannopoulos told The Hollywood Reporter that he will discuss his “experiences in America battling feminists, Black Lives Matter, the media, professors and the entertainment industry.”

…According to The Hollywood Reporter, those protests are part of the reason CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp decided to host Yiannopoulos as the meeting’s keynote speaker.

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MJBubba
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An internet dating site for Christians is run by a private company.  They also have separate sites for Catholic singles and Adventist singles. California is forcing them to include gay singles.  Whereas they only had two entry categories (“single man seeking woman” and “single woman seeking man”) now they will have to just let anyone […]
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Stad
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I’m seeing more and more anecdotes in the news about LGBT individuals and groups coming out in public support for the second amendment. It makes me wonder how they’ll vote this November, given the vehement anti-gun rhetoric coming from the Democrats. I also wonder how the LGBT folks feel now about the Ninth Circuit’s recent […]
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Some in the Firearms Community Are Helping Some in the LGBT Community

Cameron Gray
Cameron Gray
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As you might imagine, this week’s episodes of “Cam and Company” — a Second Amendment news broadcast show that I produce for NRA News — have focused on the horrific massacre in Orlando, Florida. One of the stories that host Cam Edwards discussed that’s been gathering steam all week is about the number of people in the LGBT community who have decided to arm themselves for self-defense. The Washington Times reported yesterday that Pink Pistols, a LGBT gun-rights group, has seen membership spike after Orlando attack:

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