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Dads Can’t Be Moms: Guest Column

Jun 17, 2024John StonestreetLGBTChild Welfare, LGBT, Transgender

Recently, The Washington Post released an article with this headline: “Our daughter wanted a mommy, so she picked one of her dads.” In it, the author praised his same-sex partner for taking a “motherly role” as assigned by their three-year-old adopted daughter. He argued that the term should be broadened, as if anyone can be a motherly figure.

This is another iteration of a fundamentally bad idea of the sexual revolution, that men and women are interchangeable. Still, the story betrays itself. Why did this three-year-old girl sense something was wrong in the first place? She somehow knew she needed a mother.

In fact, throughout the article, the author expressed concern that his daughter was “bending the reality” of having two dads. And that’s the very point: “two dads” is not a reality, it’s a social construction. Moms and dads? Those are baked into the human condition.

Dads can’t mom. And moms can’t dad.

Not Even Sororities Are Safe: Guest Column

Jun 10, 2024John StonestreetLGBTLGBT, Transgender

On May 15, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Westenbroek et al. v. Kappa Kappa Gamma. In fall 2022, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority headquarters forced the University of Wyoming chapter to admit a male member. Women who objected or spoke up were threatened with discipline.

Months later, members of the chapter filed a lawsuit against the sorority for failing to abide by its own bylaws, specifically the one that says, “a new member shall be a woman.”

This is what happens when institutions and leaders sacrifice the safety, wellbeing, happiness, and protection of women on an altar of gender ideology. If a sorority is no longer a space reserved for women only, why should we expect anywhere else to be?

As one of the plaintiffs put it, “To girls across our great country—and their mothers and fathers—if you think you’re in a situation where this issue won’t affect you, think again.”

Louisiana Legislature Upholds Life and Women’s Health: Guest Column

Jun 5, 2024John StonestreetAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The Louisiana state legislature has passed a bill that would add mifepristone and misoprostol, the two pills in the chemical abortion regimen, to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances. The law, which passed the legislature 69-24, would require that pills for chemical abortion be stored in special facilities and doctors to have a special license to prescribe them.

Abortion activists have responded to the bill by claiming that this will lead to significant harm. However, the opposite is true. Passing this bill will save the lives of countless preborn children and preserve women’s health.

Activists claim chemical abortion is a safe choice for women, but the FDA’s own label notes that approximately 1 in 25 women who take the drugs have an emergency room visit. Other studies have found that one in five women who take the pill report an adverse event, and that rates of complications are four times higher for chemical abortion than with surgical abortion.

The truth about chemical abortion is available. And it’s not good.