By: Eliana Dockterman – time.com – September 25, 2019 A child opens a box. He starts jumping and screaming with joy—not an unusual sound in the halls of Mattel’s headquarters where researchers test new toys. But this particular toy is a doll, and it’s rare for parents to bring boys into these research groups to play with dolls. It’s rarer...

By D’Ann Lawrence White, – patch.com – September 3, 2019 The conservative evangelical group, the Liberty Counsel, has filed a motion for summary judgment asking a federal court to permanently block the City of Tampa’s ordinance prohibiting licensed counselors from providing conversion therapy to minors. The Liberty Counsel claims the ordinance violates the right to free speech and unfairly imposes significant...

By: Pam Belluck – nytimes.com – August 29, 2019 How do genes influence our sexuality? The question has long been fraught with controversy. An ambitious new study — the largest ever to analyze the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior — found that genetics does play a role, responsible for perhaps a third of the influence on whether someone has same-sex...

By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – August 28, 2019 Christian Moore is an eight-year-old in Wichita, Kansas. On his first day of school this year, he noticed that a fellow classmate named Connor Crites was crying. Christian walked over, took Connor’s hand, and led him into their elementary school. He didn’t know that his new friend is autistic. Christian’s mother took...

By: Peter Sprigg – frc.org – June 14, 2019 One of the first major successes of the “gay liberation” movement in the United States was the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the “DSM”). Early activists in the movement knew they would never persuade the public that they...

By: Peter Sprigg – frc.org – June 14, 2019 One of the first major successes of the “gay liberation” movement in the United States was the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the “DSM”). Early activists in the movement knew they would never persuade the public that they...

By: Hunter Baker – thegospelcoalition.org – November 25, 2015 When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Obergefell case, establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, public Christianity in America suffered what might be its greatest defeat in the nation’s history. Others might point to earlier decisions that struck down practices such as prayer and Bible readings in public...

By: Peter Hasson – dailycaller.com – April 10, 2019 Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams. Democrats’ Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – February 16, 2019 Outsiders should regard purported hate crimes that sound like crafted narratives with skepticism until they’re proven true. ‘Jussie Smollett, one of the stars of the television show ‘Empire,’ was attacked in Chicago by 2 assailants who yelled racial and homophobic slurs,” tweeted the New York Times on January 29. Mark the...

By: Associated Press – nbcnews.com – January 21, 2019 The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, the school’s president said, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to...