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Sep 28,2009, 11:22AM

The University vs. Christian Belief

My daughter, Alyson, took a semester away from her nominally Christian university to study abroad. Emails describing the first few days of classes had a common theme. "I'm the only conservative and they hate Christians." One professor says 'Jihad is tame compared to 13th century Christians.' There's the obligatory Sarah Palin bashing complete with sexual innuendo. Another prof was... "totally ripping on Columbus."

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Sep 21,2009, 10:44AM

Revising Social Studies

By Penna Dexter

The state of Texas is in the midst of a mandatory, every-ten-year review of its social studies curriculum for public schools. This is important to the whole country because textbook publishers develop material based on their largest market, Texas.

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Sep 18,2009, 10:24AM

Shame and Attachment Loss: Reparative therapy and father-son estrangement

By Warren Throckmorton

Picking up the narrative on the new book from Joseph Nicolosi, Shame and attachment loss: The practical work of reparative therapy, I want to focus on the family dynamics Nicolosi proposes to be at the source of male homosexuality. There are two basic types of family soil which Nicolosi believes grows some same-sex love: the "classic-triadic family" and the "narcissistic family." If you are looking for the "relatively-normal-often-happy family" in this book, you won't find it. According to Nicolosi, they don't produce same-sex attracted men.

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Sep 17,2009, 11:00AM

48 Hours

By Bradley Mattes

Sarah Capewell's son is dead because of Britain's nationalized health care system. Little Jayden was born premature at 21 weeks and 5 days after conception. If Jayden had been born just two days later, doctors would have worked to save his life. But the cutoff age for a premature baby under Britain's National Health Service rationing guideline is 22 weeks.

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Sep 17,2009, 9:47AM

Joseph Nicolosi's Shame and Attachment Loss

By Warren Throckmorton

Trying to keep up on the new developments in reparative therapy, I purchased NARTH's co-founder Joseph Nicolosi's new book, Shame and Attachment Loss: The Practical Work of Reparative Therapy. This post is not a review but more of a prep for a review. I am going to provide some excerpts and comments which may form the basis for a more formal review at a later date.

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Sep 11,2009, 1:09PM

Life Issues Institute Condemns Murder of Pro-Life Activist

By Bradley Mattes

Life Issues Institute was shocked and saddened to hear that a long-time, pro-life activist, Jim Pouillon, was brutally gunned down in a cold act of murder this morning. He was reportedly killed by a 33-year-old man who is now in police custody.

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Sep 11,2009, 11:38AM

FEMINISTS' STIMULUS SELFISHNESS

By Penna Dexter

The Stimulus Package was sold with promises of millions of "shovel ready" jobs. Americans envisioned men who had lost jobs in the construction industry getting work repairing roads, bridges, and the electrical grid. Even the skeptical were glad, at least, that long-needed highways and schools would be built. But not the feminist groups. They demanded that half the stimulus jobs b...

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Sep 08,2009, 9:13AM

NARTH authors mislead readers about brain plasticity

By Warren Throckmorton

This post is a follow up to one on my personal blog about Neil and Briar Whitehead's article titled, "Brain Plasticity Backs Up Orientation Change" published on the Anglican Mainstream. In their article, the Whiteheads liken sexual reorientation to learning to play a musical instrument and proclaim that science leads us to this assumption: Our assumption now should be, change is possible in ...

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