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The California State Assembly passed a bill Thursday mandating schools permit boys to play on girls’ athletic teams and utilize the ladies’ locker room if they gender identify as girls – or vice-versa for girls identifying as boys. The bill’s author, openly homosexual San Francisco Democrat Tom Ammiano, has been an activist for lesbian, “gay,”…
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Do you have boys? Have you been around any young boys in your lifetime? Parented them? Are you proud of their differences from girls, understanding that God has designed them uniquely to function as protector, as leader and as masculine? Or, are you a panty-waist liberal who shudders at the thought of a boy acting…
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The Boy Scouts must have gone to the Barack Obama School of Media Management, where rule number one of controversial news-making is burying the story on a busy Friday. The BSA headquarters tried that strategy unsuccessfully last week, hoping Boston's massive manhunt might overshadow a bombshell of its own. In a move that caught both…
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Last week, the Chinese government revealed officials have killed 336 million babies through abortions since 1971, when the government first started encouraging population control. The government adopted the one-child policy in 1979. The number of aborted babies amounts to one-forth of the country’s population—equivalent to the entire population of the United States in 2012. But…
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A Christian campaigner against domestic violence says faith groups must lead the way in educating men and boys. Mandy Marshall, co-director of Restored, is representing the Church of England at this week's UN Commission on the Status of Women. She says that educating men and boys is "key" to ending violence against women, and that…
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation celebrated its victory in removing all things religious from the football uniforms of a combined Catholic / public school team. Making as little sense to many as removing the "G" from the Green Bay Packers' helmets, a Wisconsin co-op football team composed of the private Catholic Messmer High School and…
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There's no question: we are facing a crisis. A number of men are shirking their responsibilities, finding fulfillment in trivial things, and abandoning crucial spiritual and academic pursuits. That's the alarming and accurate claim of a recent article about video games' damaging effect on young men. It's the latest in a long string of articles…
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Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn't seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. After all, he was an atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth. But underneath all of that, I think, Sendak saw something of the fallen glory of the universe we followers of Jesus sometimes ignore. Sendak's most…
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