Bioethike

That’s right, the National Organization for Marriage, which supports traditional marriage–one man, one woman, for life–is having its Summer for Marriage Tour 2010. And their tour will stop in St. Louis! See the above or click on the link for more details.

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In faint opposition to what is becoming de rigueur among mainline “Protestant” church bodies, on July 9 the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. narrowly maintained the Bible’s definition of marriage–between one man and one woman. The affirmation of the biblical doctrine received a mere 51% of the votes. The church body also [...]

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The Los Angeles Times reporting: U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled July 8 that the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against states like Massachusetts that have legalized gay “marriage.” States are permitted to define marriage as they wish, according to Tauro’s reasoning. He also ruled that DOMA violates the Equal Protection Clause, part [...]

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Here’s an interesting post by Elizabeth Scalia, aka The Anchoress at First Things, titled Restructuring Marriage in the Age of Relativism. Ms. Scalia offers salient thoughts on a CBS piece about a man’s decision to include a third party–another woman–in his marriage, after his wife developed Alzheimer’s disease.

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In what now appears is going to be a long, hot gay summer, the Obama administration is moving forward with pushing forward the gay-normalization agenda. Says Clinton: This is a human rights issue. Just as I was very proud to say the obvious more than 15 years ago in Beijing that human rights are women’s [...]

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From The New York Times: The policy will be set forth in a ruling to be issued Wednesday by the Labor Department’s wage and hour division, the officials said. . . The new ruling indicates that an employee in a same-sex relationship can qualify for leave to care for the child of his or her [...]

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Obama clearly honors a “two-father family” as a “nurturing family.” I thought that, generally speaking, women were the more nurturing sex. Why not a three- or four-father family? This is really getting confusing!

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In what should come as no surprise, the US resumed its trend of following Europe in a declining fertility rate. A portion of “Table 1″ is provided above. From the report: The 2008 preliminary estimate of the total fertility rate (TFR)) was 2085.5 births per 1,000 women–2% ower than the rate in 2007 (2,122.5) (Table [...]

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Here’s a paragraph from an article I recently wrote for The Hausvater Project. Titled “Medicating against Motherhood: As the Pill Turns 50, a New Generation Seeks to Rediscover Marital Chastity,” the article offers an explanation why the Lutheran Church eventually accepted contraception. Included within the article is the connection between Professor Alfred Rehwinkel’s book, Planned [...]

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The President signed the memorandum today (Thursday) that will be released tomorrow. From the Washington Post: The decision injects the president squarely into the debate over gay marriage by attempting to end the common practice by many hospitals of insisting that only family members by blood or marriage be allowed to visit patients. . . [...]

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