I have a radical sexual idea–a kind of dream.

I have a radical sexual idea–a kind of dream.

Let’s re-re-define marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife–the unique form of relationship that is ordered to and would naturally be fulfilled by the coming to be and rearing of children together. Let’s regard the social role of marriage as uniting a man and woman as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children born of their union, thus conferring upon those children the inestimable blessing of being brought up in the committed love of the two people whose becoming one in an act of marital communion gave them the gift of life, and further providing those children with the benefit of both paternal and maternal examples, influences, and care.

Now here comes the really radical part. Let’s view sex as having its meaning and significance in expressing in the most intimate and profound way the conjugal love and commitment of the spouses. Let’s understand it as uniting them as one-flesh in a uniquely comprehensive sharing of life–a sharing at all levels of their being as human persons, the biological, the affective, the rational-volitional and spiritual. Let’s regard marital love and commitment as the very principle of sexual morality, the normative basis for distinguishing upright from unworthy sexual conduct. Let’s embrace a set of virtues that guard us against objectifying others (and indeed ourselves) and treating human beings (others or ourselves) as mere means of gratification.

Let’s respect each other’s inherent worth and human dignity by honoring each other in all aspects of our being, including its sexual dimension, and never treating sex as a way of asserting, expressing, or exercising power over others. Let’s not deceive ourselves into supposing that virtue in the sexual dimension of our lives is merely a matter of gaining consent from an object of our desires to use him or her to satisfy our lust. Let us not reduce ourselves to seducers or sirens.

Sex has become depersonalized in our culture and in cultures like ours–and the carnage of the sexual revolution that we now see all around us is the appalling testament to that fact. Let’s re-personalize it.

A quarter of homicides linked to domestic violence

A quarter of homicides linked to domestic violence

Example: Marshall’s boyfriend was arrested and charged with murder in connection with her death. Earlier in 2017, a restraining order was filed against him for domestic violence, court documents show. “Maybe she would have called if she knew there was an advocate that could have helped,” said Lt. Col. Mike John, Police assistant chief.

Every day in the United States, three women are killed by a current or former intimate partner on average, according to the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

 Nearly half of female homicide victims are murdered by an intimate partner. For males, that number is just below 5 percent. A  quarter of all 2016 homicides involved an offender who was either directly engaged in a domestic assault at the time of the offense or who had a history of domestic or sexual assault, according to the records.

Some other troubling statistics:

❚ According to numbers from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, intimate partner violence makes up 15 percent of violent crime in the United States.

❚ On top of the homicides that were the direct result of a domestic violence offense, another nine homicides were committed by an offender with a history of domestic, sexual or child abuse, John said.

Victim advocates and police felt the pressure to address what Kristin Smith-Shrimplin, president and CEO of Women Helping Women, called a “public health epidemic.” The Domestic Violence Emergency Response Team, or DVERT, will launch in January, to provide more support for victims.

Think about it. If domestic violence came into the national conversation as much as we are seeing “sexual abuse”, a significant impact could be made on women’s deaths by homicide.

Muslim writer makes plain the desire to call people to activism while ignoring the real problem

Muslim writer makes plain the desire to call people to activism while ignoring the real problem

Her call? It’s time to choose: Stand up to hate or sink into division

Below are excerpts with responses to her declarations….

This is a watershed moment in our nation’s history as we struggle to overcome racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, etc. Normally, we Americans could expect our president, the leader of our nation, to be at the forefront of this struggle, lighting the way toward a brighter future for all Americans. Instead, our president has chosen to produce and amplify messages of hate, marginalization and division, tearing our nation apart.

First, she misrepresents the moment as compared to U.S. history. The watershed is the invasion of Muslims that refuse to become a part of the American Culture. Secondly, she lies about Trump as the cause. In his words and behavior, he is not.

We have all seen more than the usual level of prejudice over the past three years, targeting nearly every minority community. American Muslim families have borne the brunt of this bigotry for more than a decade.

Here, she admits a lot of her complaints pre-date Trump.

The effect on all minority communities has been huge increases in discrimination, hate crimes and the bullying of children. The negative effect on the future of our nation, our families and communities is hard to overestimate.

Again, a vacant declaration. No citations or supporting data.

So, what are we, as fair-minded Americans, to do? In circumstances like these, it’s up to each one of us to set examples with our own actions and help lead the way toward a better future, for our families, our communities and our nation. While those who spread hatred and division claim their right to free speech, we must choose to firmly grasp our own freedom of speech to turn back the tide of negativity that threatens to engulf us all.

I’ve listened to this woman and what she has written for a number of years. It is Free Speech that allows this. CAIR (she is one of their executive directors) has been declared to be exactly what she says is wrong. Speech keeps us free!

Every one of us, as fair-minded Americans, can use our freedom of speech to inspire our fellow Americans to be their best selves.

So, if you agree with her you are fair-minded. If not, sorry, you must not be fair! She completely ignores the foundation of our country that is clearly spelled out in the Declaration of Independence. The love for and the commitment to those principles and truths called out is what makes us uniquely Americans!

Our voices, amplified through media and other platforms, can help inspire millions of fair-minded fellow Americans to do their part to build inclusive communities, to find solutions to the challenges of the future. We all have talents, abilities, ideas and networks that we can and must use to start repairing the damage that has been done to the fabric of our nation. It can’t wait until next month or next year. Each of us can start by visiting a mosque, a synagogue or a church of a different denomination so that we can truly get to know one another. Then, we can inspire our fellow Americans to also do the same by talking to family, friends, neighbors and co-workers, and by using social media to reach beyond those circles.

One’s religion or any other factor really comes into play in her world view. It is not simply thoughts, it is behavior. When one or more people kill large numbers of innocents, we judge the behavior. If those responsible, claim a particular allegiance, we judge that as well. 

This country is our home, and it is one of the most beautiful, and beautifully diverse, places in God’s amazing creation. I truly believe that if we can all work together and raise our voices for good, we can help make it the best it can be.

Again, she ignores the harsh reality of what is going on in our nation and others. Muslims are arriving and not assimilating into the American Culture.  They demand Sharia Law and want our Nation to bend to Islamic belief. Going to a Mosque or another person’s place of worship will not change that. How can we be one nation if we have those that come in (some say invade) to our countries and refuse to assimilate?

CAIR may be what they are accused of being. That is not my purpose here. I have read the Koran and know the Bible. I can find no way these two beliefs can co-exist; for one is diametrically opposed to the other in all ways.

Karen Dabdoub is executive director of the Cincinnati office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, America’s largest American Muslim civil rights organization wrote the above article.

The problem is serious – and it’s getting worse because of writers like Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post!

The problem is serious – and it’s getting worse because of writers like

Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post!

Here are excerpts from a recent article Eugene Robinson wrote with commentary.

How long are we going to pretend that President Trump is fully rational? How long are we going to ignore the signs that he is dangerously out of control?

Two questions that set the tone for the rest of the article that has no connection to reality.

Trump’s supporters comfort themselves with the idea that he’s being crazy like a fox – that all the outrageous lies, abrupt reversals, bizarre pronouncements and vicious personal attacks are calculated to achieve some rational goal. He’s just playing to his base, perhaps, or distracting everyone from unpopular legislation cutting taxes for the rich, or trying to deceive other world leaders into thinking he might be unhinged and therefore should be accommodated.

Change out the name “Trump” with any number of liberal Democrats and the rest of the paragraph would remain the same with one exception. That would be he is wrong about Trump.

But what evidence is there of calculation? Congress may indeed pass a slapped-together tax bill, but there is no indication Trump even knows what’s in it. That would be his first and only significant legislative accomplishment. His approval rating plummeted after the inauguration and has been stuck at 40 percent or below since June, according to Gallup. He has managed to alienate our closest allies – even drawing a rare rebuke this week from British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Here, Robinson asks the right question, while going on to provide answers that are opinion at best and lying at its worst.

The logical thing to do, at this point, would be to come up with a new strategy. But Trump stays his wild and erratic course, as if he simply cannot help himself. The most alarming development is the revelation that Trump continues to entertain paranoid conspiracy theories of the kind usually found beneath tinfoil hats. According to both The Washington Post and The New York Times, Trump still clings to the ridiculous “birther” theories about where former President Barack Obama was born. More delusional ranting. Robinson combines some known facts with wild statements in hopes the reader will believe. The public record is contrary to what he says.

You will recall that Obama’s birth in Hawaii has been definitively proved.

 Obama’s “Photo Shopped” birth certificate did not prove anything other than there are people willing to go to any length to protect Obama.

It would be one thing if Trump were broadcasting this nonsense for a reason. I’d feel better even if he had a nefarious reason – to appeal to racists who cannot accept the legitimacy of the first black president, say, or to encourage his base to doubt everything they see and hear in the media and instead to trust only him.

Robinson goes way out on a limb and brings back into the conversation Obama and his legacy. Further, people don’t disregard the media because Trump told them. The media has created this conundrum all on their own. They have demonstrated publicly they are in the liberal progressive bag!

It is one thing to create a fantasyland for political ends – appealing to some voting group’s prejudices or giving supporters a reason to excuse bad behavior. It is another thing altogether, however, for Trump to fall into his own rabbit hole and actually believe what he once knew to be untrue. Maybe he is worried about the steamrolling Robert Mueller investigation. Or maybe his mental state is just deteriorating.

Only a delusional liberal like Robinson can go on about the mental state of Trump and writing as though the uprising against progressivism in this country is passing phenomenon. That as well as ignoring the bizarre behavior demonstrated daily by his fellow liberal Democrats in Congress: Maxine Waters, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. And, let’s not forget Hillary and Obama!

You can reach Robinson at the following  email address;  eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

University officials effectively shut down a “cemetery of innocents” display at the Miami University Campus in Hamilton, Ohio

University officials effectively shut down a “cemetery of innocents” display at the Miami University Campus in Hamilton, Ohio

Students sue over ‘pro-life’ protest at Miami University

Miami University students filed a lawsuit against their school’s president, trustees and other administrators over a “pro-life” protest. Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the students against Miami claiming the university violated the student's free speech rights.

Since 2015, the student group has set up a display of crosses on the university’s Central Quad to commemorate the lives lost to abortion, along with an explanatory sign.

This fall, the university officials refused to approve the display unless the students agreed to post warning signs around campus with a “trigger warning” that urged people not to view it. Officials feared the pro-life display might cause “emotional trauma” for some viewers and this would help those individuals “better protect and manage their emotional reactions to the display.”

 “No university official has the authority to censor student speech simply because of how someone might respond to it,” Travis Barham, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, said.

 Barham said public university administrators have an obligation to respect students’ free speech rights and, under the First Amendment, “can’t impose trigger warnings that restrict what some students can say to spare the feelings of others.”

The university has the authority to grant or deny any student group’s request to conduct an exhibit on campus. Students ask for a permit at least seven business days in advance, explain the message and purpose of their exhibit and agree to let university officials edit the display as they see fit. This “sweeping authority” allows administrators to deny permits for any reason and to control students’ messages by imposing specific conditions for approval.