Category: Politics

Judicial Overreach, a Family’s Grief

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A judge in Hamilton County, Ohio, defied common sense and decency, today, and gave full legal custody of a 17-year old girl to her grandparents.

The parents had declined to go along with their daughter’s declaration that she identifies as male and wants to transition accordingly.  The parents, acting perhaps out of some religious convictions (according to prosecuting attorneys, that was their only ground for opposition to their daughter’s decision) but also out of an informed concern for their daughter’s physical and mental health, were deemed incompetent to act on their daughter’s behalf.  Grandparents, who perhaps were not so well informed on the issues, were more amenable to indulging the girl, and so were granted custody.

My heart aches for these parents. Everything I have read of them indicates that they have taken time to become informed of the risks of transgender procedures — from the increased risks from hormone therapies to the nearly 50% incidence of attempted suicide, and the increasingly-high rate of transgenders who request to be re-transitioned to their original sex at some point down the road.  This is a heartbreaking loss for them, and it’s a damnable folly for our courts to be promoting a sexual agenda so dangerous, physically and mentally, as transgenderism.

Judge Hendon ordered that the parents shall have visitation rights, with a view toward reintegrating the family unit, according to CNN.  That translates to, “the parents shall have to give in and be persuaded that they are now wrong in order to reconcile with their child.”  Utter insanity.  I hope that the voters of Hamilton County will demand a recall of this judge and assure, through their votes, that she never hold elected office again.

LGBT vitriol

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I questioned why the professional community taxed with screening gender reassignment candidates has not been more capable of recognizing the severe dysfunctions operating in the LGBT community, particularly in those lesbian households that are putting little boys on the transgender trainwreck. But perhaps the answer to that lies here:

“. . . the aggression shown by the LGBT community toward people who question whether children should prepare to have their genitals surgically altered and be injected with massive doses of hormones is such that clinicians are terrified to continue searching for the truth.”

The original article is available from the Wall Street Journal, but they demanded I subscribe before I could access the article.  I’m not in the market for a paid subscription of a work I only use a few times a year, rather than daily, cover to cover.

The LGBT community certainly is aggressive, even hostile, in the face of opposition.  Last week I posted a story by Janna Darnelle about her experiences divorcing, or being divorced by, a man who’d decided to come out of the closet.  Later in the week, this article appeared with an update, revealing that, in the aftermath of Janna’s article’s publication, and widespread sharing on the internet, the Gay Mafia has gone berserk with trying to punish her.

I highly recommend Rivka’s update, full of great information and insights such as this one:

“You want to marry a man and you are a man? Society does not owe you women’s children, women’s eggs, or women’s bodies.”

I would add, ” . . . or our hearts and souls.”

Recommended article: The Soul-Crushing Scorched-Earth Battle for Gay Marriage

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No, it doesn’t have anything to do, directly, with the ex-wives of gays. But one can extrapolate a LOT about the mentality of the “gay rights” movement, which reflects very directly on the attitude directed toward women (especially We The Ex-Wives) and the attitude that any method of control is acceptable because, after all, no one else matters.

Robert Oscar Lopez wrote an article in which he used his experiences and observations as a young man raised by his mother and her lesbian partner to defend the recent sociological study by Mark Regnerus which outlines the problems of children growing up in same-sex, gay households. That article is entitled “Growing Up with Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View,” and it’s here, for your reading pleasure. Or angst – there is always the risk of pain when we enter these territories.

Well, Lopez has taken a veritable verbal beating from the gay community for having the integrity to stand up and publicly state, “I bear significant scars as a consequence of being raised by two lesbians.” This demonstrates a great deal about the overall, militant disposition of the gay community at large, which we need to be aware of — especially those of us who are still raising children.

Lopez’s further response , and further reflections on the inherently violent, take-no-prisoners tactics of the gay movement, is the immediately recommended article which appeared here this week in American Thinker.

Violent? That guy who shot the security guard at the conservative, Christian-based Family Research Council in Washington, yesterday, was angry and resentful over the FRC’s opposition to gay marriage.

I earnestly urge you to read both articles. Take them to your lawyer if you’re still engaged in custody battle. Take them to your children’s pediatricians and clinical psychologists –

And, if I may be so nosy and bossy and presumptuous, if you don’t get a supportive response from either of those professionals, you might want to read the writing on the wall and recognize that these people have bought into the lies that the gays are promoting in order to further their agenda. That is, they are more concerned with promoting the party politic than with protecting your child – and do not deserve your patronage any longer. You need, and are worthy of (I hate the phrase, “you’re entitled…”) professional services that help you protect your children and minimize the trauma and confusion that comes of having a gay parent.

The risk is real: I did not understand what I was up against when DH and I divorced. I did not believe he would ever be so ungodly…   and to this day, he insists to our daughters that his being gay had nothing to do with our divorce, and our older daughter is now very much a heterosexual, “fag hag” gay activist of sorts – at least, a very vocal proponent of gay rights, and an utterly miserable woman.

Personal experience biasing my vision? Possible. But if it happened to me, you are not immune.

Think about it. And God bless you.

 

Positive activism

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In an arena where sentimentality masquerades for “love,” and “God just wants everybody to be happy,” we who have lived under the shadow of the rainbow – the shadow of our husbands’ homosexuality – can speak truth with love and with insight and with a power few other people possess.

We know the destructiveness of homosexuality on families.

We know the destructiveness of homosexuality in the character and personality of our loved one.

Love compels us to speak out: Homosexuality is a destructive lifestyle choice. It is physically violent, it is marked by emotional violence; it is a perversion – literally, “the alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended” – of the love and fruitfulness of life that God created man and woman to live in.

It is not out of a selfish desire for vindication but of a deep and Christ-centered love that protects us from giving in and playing along with the game that says our husbands have the right to be happy, no matter what.

We know better.

We won!

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North Carolina passed its “Marriage Amendment” by a 61% vote. Three-fifths of North Carolina voters recognize the historical and multicultural value of marriage as limited to man and woman.

Already there is talk about legal challenge to the amendment, although it was pursued according to Constitutional guidelines, it passed with the vote of 3/5 of the State’s citizens, and 93 out of 100 counties passed it.  The battle is by no means over.

I predicted that the NC Triangle and the Charlotte area would go Against, and I was right. I also thought Asheville area would go Against because of their large gay population, and I was right on that. I was surprised that Wautauga County, the Boone area, went Against.

I was even more surprised, however, that the Greensboro Triad (Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem) went FOR. This area is one of NC’s gay strongholds. The NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, WXII TV12, reports that the measure was defeated by only 100 votes in Guilford County, where more than 116,000 were cast. That’s a much narrower margin than I would have expected, indicating that the area’s residents are a bit stronger-minded than I’d realized.

I worked the polls, yesterday, and am pleased to report that in my area folks both for and against the measure were, for the most part, pleasant and cheerful. That is how it should be when we deal with differences of opinion. A couple of people were defensively brusque, but not to the point of outright rudeness, and there was certainly not any hostility. I heard there was some up in the Raleigh and Chapel Hill areas. A shame.

However, the rhetoric, yesterday, and last night as the results were being announced, was ridiculous. “Vote against discrimination” was one of the slogans. Discrimination??? WTH??? Gays have every single civil right and access to legal recourse for their grievances that I have as a heterosexual. NO ONE – not I or the gay community – has the right to try to redefine language or to deconstruct history.

But that’s what they’re determined to do. The battle isn’t finished, yet.