‘It Takes a Family’ National Student Leadership Conference Photos
Here is a link to some of the pictures from our national student leadership conference! If you are intersted in learning more on how to start a student initiative on your campus stay tuned for more information on next year's conference.
http://www.ruthinstitute.org/ITAF/slideShow/Students/indexS.html
Jennifer Aniston Backs Off of Her Single Parenthood Comments
This article was first published on Foxnews.com on August 13, 2010.
Jennifer Aniston is clarifying her statements about single motherhood that landed her in the hot seat with Bill O’Reilly.
“Of course the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age,” she told People magazine. “Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. And of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who’ve not yet found their Bill O’Reilly, I’m just glad science has provided a few other options.”
Earlier this week, while promoting her new film “The Switch,” Aniston said women no longer have to “settle” for a man in order to start a family.
Dr. Morse is on the air right now!
Dr. Jennifer Morse is right now being interviewed on the Ave Maria Radio with Al Kresta.- listen live now!
Opinion: The Institution Formerly Known as Marriage
(Aug. 5) -- The essential public purpose of marriage is to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to one another. Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning California's Proposition 8 illustrates that he does not understand this basic point.
He replaces this public purpose with private purposes of adults' feelings and desires. He approvingly quotes a historian who explains that marriage is "a couple's choice to live with each other, to remain committed to one another, and to form a household based on their own feelings about one another, and their agreement to join in an economic partnership and support one another in terms of the material needs of life."
Nothing about children. No understanding that marriage connects generations. By the time Judge Walker and his ilk are finished, there will be nothing left of marriage but a government registry of friendships.
There are two big problems with this. First, "marriage" will no longer solve the essential problem of attaching children to their mothers and fathers. Instead of using biology or legal adoption as the determining factor in deciding who counts as a parent, the courts are inventing a new kind of parenthood to resolve these disputes.
"De Facto Parent" is the legal invention that usually involves court-created "tests" to decide whether a person has wiped enough noses and changed enough diapers to count as a "parent in fact." The natural meaning of "mother" and "father" as biological categories are being replaced by a new kind of parenthood that expands the authority and discretion of the family courts.
Student claims her rights are violated over same sex marriage
First posted at heritage.org
A student at Augusta State University has embarked on a federal lawsuit in which she claims that the faculty violated her constitutional rights when they required that she, a trainee counselor, take sensitivity training as one facet of a remediation plan which was given to her, in part, because of concerns over her staunch views opposing homosexuality. If incapable of fulfilling this plan, she was told that she would have to leave the course.
From The Chronicle:
In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Augusta, Ga., the student, Jennifer Keeton, argues that faculty members and administrators at the university have violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion by threatening her with expulsion if she does not fulfill requirements contained in a remediation plan intended to get her to change her beliefs.
Ms. Keeton's lawsuit accuses the university of being "ideologically heavy-handed" in imposing the requirements on her "simply because she has communicated both inside and outside the classroom that she holds to Christian ethical convictions on matters of human sexuality and gender identity." It argues that her views, which hold that homosexual behavior is immoral and that homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle, would not interfere with her ability to provide competent counseling to gay men and lesbians.
Green Sex vs. Pink Viagra
This excellent article was first posted by Janet Smith on July 25th 2010 in the National Catholic Register online.
This year there was a predictable amount of hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of “the pill.” Many pundits told us that the pill had delivered as promised: Women had become liberated. Sex in the City! Sex in dorm rooms! Sex behind bleachers! Women have it all.
But wait. Now comes word that women aren’t all that interested in sex any more. Their libidos are waning to the point that pharmaceutical companies are racing to find a Pink Viagra: a new pill; a pill that will restore the desire to have the sex that the pill made possible.
Why don’t women want to have sex? Is it because they are so absorbed in their careers? Is it because these careers force women to sacrifice their femininity and males to sacrifice their masculinity and thus the vivifying difference between males and females no longer exists? Why do women need males? Women have everything males have; they can do everything males do; what do males have to offer?
Certainly the above explanations are not unlikely and almost certainly have a degree of truth but — still — can the desire of female for male be so easily obliterated? Isn’t the attraction even more elemental than caps and chaps and buttons and bows?
Dr. Morse travels with the NOM bus tour
Dr. Jennifer Morse has been traveling with the National Organization for Marriage bus tour. Along the way there have been many supporters as well as some opposition. Follow the bus tour, see pictures and photos and check to see if they are coming to your area by visiting http://www.marriagetour2010.com/ for further information.
Resisting the Age of Infidelity
This article written by Viviana M. Garcia was first published in Mercator Net on Friday July 16, 2010. Dr. Jennifer Roeback Morse has written many columns for their online publication.
Journey’s song Faithfully is always a hit on college campuses, often played at dances and sports events, and crooned in dorm rooms. The irony is that the song’s popularity reflects very little of the real state of affairs on college campuses, which have been at the center of the hedonistic world for decades.
High school seniors receive letters of admittance that are the first tangible symbol of their complete “independence”. Yet, while they leave home prepared to face a different environment, difficult professors, new friends, tough courses and a new social scene, there is one thing they are sadly unprepared for: the temptation to grasp at fleeting emotional and physical liaisons.
By definition liaisons are sexual relationships that involve unfaithfulness to a partner. Not, in the case of the typical student, to a spouse (except in a futuristic sense) but to the person he or she agrees to casually couple with, and to themselves. Thanks to a society that no longer believes in healthy boundaries nor explains why they are important, students on college campuses are learning to be experts in infidelity; they are studying how to lie and cheat with their bodies and affections.
Professor Fired For a Statement About Marriage
This article was from our parent company the National Organization for Marriage.
University of Illinois Professor Fired For Catholic Beliefs
More on the story we highlighted a few days ago. University of Illinois Religion Professor Ken Howell was fired for telling students in his “Modern Catholic Thought” class that he agreed with the Church teaching on marriage and sexuality.
AP coverage of Ken Howell’s firing is below. You can read the email that got him in so much trouble here.
U of I instructor fired over Catholic comments
The Associated Press
Posted Jul 09, 2010 @ 10:22 AM
Last update Jul 09, 2010 @ 03:05 PMURBANA -- The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral.
The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, said his firing violates his academic freedom. He also lost his job at an on-campus Catholic center.
Howell, who taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought, says he was fired at the end of the spring semester after sending an e-mail explaining some Catholic beliefs to his students preparing for an exam.
"Natural Moral Law says that Morality must be a response to REALITY," he wrote in the e-mail. "In other words, sexual acts are only appropriate for people who are complementary, not the same."
