Qwerky Quotes for the Inquisitive: Masha Gessen

“It’s a no-brainer that [homosexual] should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist.

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[F]ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie.”

- Masha Gessen, lesbian journalist, 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival

Note:

I recommend that readers take the time to listen to the panel discussion linked above. In it, you will hear monogamy ridiculed — even laughed at — and candid admissions from nearly all the panelists that they don’t want marriage of the future to mean what it is today (which is, essentially, life-long monogamy). One panelist, Dennis Altman, a gay man and gay rights activist himself, says that monogamous homosexual relationships don’t really exist.

Qwerky Quotes for the Inquisitive: Scott Klusendorf

“Men and women, I am here to concede today that my opponent has won this debate. She’s right! We shouldn’t restrict abortion for any reason. There should be no laws passed against it. Abortion should remain legal through all nine months of pregnancy as is currently allowable. In addition to that, even partial birth abortion ought to be allowed. Even a procedure that ends the life of a human fetus in the process of being born ought to be allowed legally and morally. Furthermore, I wish to concede that I have lost this debate before it has begun. In other words, I’m standing up in front of all of you to concede that my opponent has won… if the unborn are not human. And if [my debate opponent] can demonstrate that the unborn are not human using scientific and philosophic reasoning, I will concede that this debate is won by her side of the issue and I’ll be the first to join her in her adventure to keep abortion legal.

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If [my debate opponent] can show us that the unborn are, in fact, not human, she wins this debate. And I can’t wait to see what scientific evidence she’s going to present to make her case. Let’s wait to see what she has to say.”

- Scott Klusendorf Pro-Life Ethics lecture [10:32]

Klusendorf highlights in his short lecture that abortion is not about “choice”, but about correctly identifying the unborn. Simply put: “What are the unborn?”

A View on the Silent Screams and Cruel Casualties of Modern-Day Genocide

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The trial of Kermit Gosnell has brought to light the true face of the victims of abortion. It is also a fine time for us to read and share a horrific description of what happens during a legal abortion procedure as recalled by former director of a Planned Parenthood office in Texas Abby Johnson in her book “Unplanned”:

At first, the baby didn’t seem aware of the cannula. It gently probed the baby’s side, and for a quick second I felt relief. Of course, I thought. The fetus doesn’t feel pain. I had reassured countless women of this as I’d been taught by Planned Parenthood. The fetal tissue feels nothing as it is removed. Get a grip, Abby. This is a simple, quick medical procedure. My head was working hard to control my responses, but I couldn’t shake an inner disquiet that was quickly mounting to horror as I watched the screen.

The next movement was the sudden jerk of a tiny foot as the baby started kicking, as if it were trying to move away from the probing invader. As the cannula pressed its side, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that it could feel the cannula, and it did not like what it was feeling. …

My eyes shot back to the screen again. The cannula was already being rotated by the doctor, and now I could see the tiny body violently twisting with it. For the briefest moment the baby looked as if it were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then it crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then it was gone.

All the training she went through merely blinded her to the reality of what she was a part of. Then there on that gray scale screen she literally came face to face with the disturbing truth. Thank God that it was the first and last time she was actually involved in an abortion herself.

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Notes:

genocide – the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, political, cultural, ethnic, or other group defined by the exterminators as undesirable

Gosnell worker testifies: Baby being ‘aborted’ ‘screamed… like a little alien’ (In fact, the illegal worker commented that she identified the babies as “specimens” to make it “easier to deal with mentally”.)

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Two great articles about the impact this case is having on even pro-choice people:

From Roe to Gosnell by James Taranto (Wonderfully points out the Orwellian doublespeak that fills so-called “pro-choice” rhetoric. You can also read of the sadistic, experimental device Kermit Gosnell was responsible for inserting into the wombs of 15 women nearly 40 years ago.)

14 Theories for Why Kermit Gosnell’s Case Didn’t Get More Media Attention by Conor Friedersdorf (Very thoughtful article.)

Qwerky Quotes for the Inquisitive: Doug Mainwaring on Same-Sex Marriage

“Same-sex marriage will undefine marriage and unravel it, and in so doing, it will undefine children. It will ultimately lead to undefining humanity. This is neither ‘progressive’ nor ‘conservative’ legislation. It is ‘regressive’ legislation.”

- Doug Mainwaring, Same-Sex Marriage: We’re Playing Chess, Not Checkers

UPDATE: Comments

Before posting comments, please read my comment policy. I have been too lenient in the past, a mistake which enabled bigotry and insults to mar an otherwise fun learning activity.

About NAA

If someone does leave a comment that I think is worthwhile and on-topic, I will approve it. If they don’t, I won’t.

If you have any complaints, maybe find a new hobby. If you’re looking for a place to rehearse your bigotry, please go to another blog. If you are suffering from an I’m-an-atheist-so-I-can-look-down-my-nose-at-a-Christian-because-I’m-morally-and-intellectually-superior complex, then I’ve really got no time for you. May God bless you by forcing you to actually hear yourself.

On the bright side, I genuinely hope that the enforcement of my policy will free up time for yourself and for me.

And here’s a preemptive strike on the more emotional of the readership: Just like forcing children to raise their hands in class before speaking, this is not an attempt at censorship, but to restore some order to the comments section of my blog. Keep it on-topic and we’ll be OK!

Thanks!

Joshua / NAA

Tampering with the Lock on Pandora’s Box

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Same-sex marriage proponents think changing the definition of marriage is a tiny, insignificant action. However, there will be severe, far-reaching consequences should they be successful in the US and around the world…

Really Recommended Reading: Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse On Same-Sex Marriage

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse’s testimony to the Rhode Island legislature regarding Same Sex Marriage

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The only argument you have is so-called “equality.” You have taken a venerable American concept and twisted it out of recognition. Equality used to mean limiting the power of the state to make irrelevant distinctions among citizens. In your hands, equality has become a battering ram for smashing every aspect of social life that has any hint of sexual differentiation. No more mothers and fathers, only Parent 1 and Parent 2.

Far from limiting the power of the state, your version of equality has become a tool for the hostile takeover of civil society by the state. Churches are already under attack for daring to dissent from the new state-imposed Orthodoxy that marriage is whatever the government says it is.

Parents are losing the right to direct the education of their own children. Foster parents in the UK must submit to the state’s views about marriage. Reputable adoption agencies have been put out of business.

And the pettiness of some of the complaints brought by same sex couples is simply staggering. Christian bed and breakfast owners have been sued for not allowing unmarried couples to stay in double rooms. They would have gladly rented them separate rooms, but that was not good enough for the thought police. Same sex couples have brought legal complaints against wedding photographers, as if there were a constitutional right to have your picture taken by the person of your choice. All in the name of “civil rights.”

Let me remind you that a vast majority of African Americans completely reject same sex marriage. They are deeply offended by the high-jacking of the moral authority of their civil rights movement.

When slavery was abolished, all slaves became free men and women. When women obtained the right to vote, the discrimination ended with the very next election. But for children of same sex marriage, the situation will be different. When we come to our senses 30 years from now and realize that we have perpetrated a grotesque injustice, not a single child born fatherless or motherless within a same sex marriage will get his missing parent back. Only prevention will protect children’s rights.

The thin disguise of marriage equality will not mislead anyone, nor will it atone for the wrong this day done.

And to those of you who plan to vote for man/woman marriage, I say: stay strong! History is on your side.

[ original, full-text source with footnotes HERE ]

NOTE: As frequent commenter Andy pointed out, the couple which owned the B&B was in violation of the UK’s Equality Act.

The Sword of Faith is Hammered Out on the Anvil of Doubt

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The Submergent Church

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Recently, Rob Bell came out to voice his support of gay marriage, saying:

“I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it’s a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. And I think the ship has sailed. This is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.”

Well, Rob Bell et al. just so happen to also be on a ship… a sinking one.

Will the grave of the human race be dug by apathy and silence?

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