LYDIA SHERMAN writes:

“The economy” or “in this economy” are two new religious phrases honoring the god of this age. It seems that all you have to do to get people to gasp and fall to their knees in awe is say, “in this economy.”

Many women really do want to stay at home, but fear of doing so “in this economy” prevents them. The Bible says that “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Luke 3:34) Every human action is guided by the heart, or the conscience, if you will. The things you protect and defend the most are your treasures. That determines where your heart really is. (more…)

IF YOU are unfamiliar with the story of Timothy Miller, who was arrested in April for helping a former lesbian flee the country with her child, you can read about it here. Lisa Miller, who is unrelated to Timothy, is the woman who was ordered by Vermont Supreme Court to  turn over her biological child to a former lesbian partner who is neither related to the child or the adoptive parent. Imagine a mother who was taking good care of her child being forced to flee the country to keep her child after a court ordered her to turn over the child to a man who was unrelated to the child and not the adoptive parent. Such a thing would not happen.

Homosexuals are the most intolerant people in America. They are bullies and persecutors.

From the Timothy Miller site:

On Monday morning April 18th of this year, Timothy Miller, or Timo as he is known to most, boarded a flight bound for Washington, D.C. from their mission station in Nicaragua . Traveling with him was his wife JoAnna and their four young children. They were returning to the States for a short break from their service there, as well as to attend a close friend’s wedding. (more…)

At Truth Shall Set You Free, Justin writes:

Others in the Mensphere have long noticed signs that Obama does not wear the pants in his own family. His latest comments add more direct confirmation of the fact that he is the family Beta all the way.

 Quoting from a Yahoo article:  (more…)

EMILY HALL writes:

I found this article on WSJ.com and immediately thought of you. The author did a study of 75 very successful (by modern, feminist standards) women and was surprised by ” how deep (and surprisingly traditional) the bond” between father and daughter is. (more…)

ALAN writes:

Apropos your recent discussion of “turning the clock back:” 

In a moral or cultural sense, people would not talk about “turning the clock back” if they had not abandoned the moral fiber and cultural standards that once made America a better and stronger nation than it is today. (more…)

FROM the website Tradition in Action comes this excerpt from Maria von Trapp’s autobiography The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, published in 1949. Von Trapp describes the Sundays of her childhood in rural Austria and the Sundays she experienced when the family emigrated to America: 

As I have spent most of my life in rural areas, it is Sunday in the country that I shall describe.

First of all, it begins on Saturday afternoon. In some parts of the country the church bell rings at three o’clock, in others at five o’clock, and the people call it “ringing in the Feierabend.” Just as some of the big feasts begin the night before – on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, Easter Eve – so every Sunday throughout the year also starts on its eve. That gives Saturday night its hallowed character. When the church bell rings, the people cease working in the fields. They return with the horses and farm machinery, everything is stored away into the barns and sheds, and the barnyard is swept by the youngest farm-hand. Then everyone takes “the” bath and the men shave. (more…)

FATHER’S DAY should be somber and serious, almost a day of grief, in the Western world. Father hunger is everywhere. So many children are raised without intimate, daily contact with their fathers that many of them have a secret longing, and a fixation on fathers, that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. They dream of father. They idolize him. They wonder if they did not deserve him. A present father is human. An absent father is larger than life.

There are parents who never married. There are parents who divorced. Worst of all, there are those children who were deliberately deprived of any link with their natural fathers. Children conceived with anonymous sperm donors live in a fatherless hell, as described this week in Canada’s National Post: (more…)

DIANA writes:

I value your opinion, your objectivity and your sanity. So I pose the following sincere and simple question: Have we gone insane? (more…)

SEE the interesting comment by Sebastian C., who argues that it’s wrong to lump the transgression of former Gov. Mark Sanford, who had an affair with a woman he loved, with the soulless indiscretions of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer. It’s not that the former is right, but that the latter are much more disturbing. Sebastian writes:

Consider that Weiner must be the first man involved in a sex scandal that never involved sex! No touching, no caressing, no intimacy: just lust, vulgarity, profanity and pornography. Virtual sex for a virtual soul. This is what sex means to men like Weiner and Spitzer. In my view of the world, that is a much greater transgression, and shows a consciousness and soullessness that makes a man more unfit for leadership and respect than one who had a passionate, romantic affair with one adult woman. 

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KATHERYN GALLANT writes:

I thought you would like to read this article, “Why is Feminism So Afraid to Focus on its Flaws?,” by Deborah Orr in The Guardian. 

I consider myself a pro-life feminist and am a member of Feminists for Life of America. However, I realize that feminism is flawed (like all human endeavors) and cannot be the first priority in a Christian’s life. One comparison that I once read sums up my thoughts vis-a-vis feminism and Christianity: without feminism, I would not be able to walk, but without Christianity, I would not have a soul. (more…)

CHILLINGWORTH writes:

I have been interested to read your thoughts on women in the medical profession and some of the ensuing discussion.

Without wishing to take away from any of what you’ve said, there’s also a different lesson that jumps out at me from this discussion: I think the problems you describe are an excellent argument for getting the federal government out of the business of education. (more…)

LAWRENCE AUSTER writes:

Here again is Susan Burden’s letter to the Times which you quoted:

Female doctors continue to face several hurdles: unequal pay, sexist attitudes from colleagues and most devastatingly from patients, and a ruthless biological clock [emphasis added] that makes childbearing a high priority at a time when doctors are just starting their careers. It is the current system that is broken, and intelligent women should be free to make independent choices for their own well-being.

So, along with the standard oppressions of women that feminists complain about, “unequal pay, sexist attitudes,” there is also that “ruthless biological clock.” That women’s natural child bearing years are limited is not just a normal fact of life; it is something that is being cruelly imposed on women.  (more…)

HERE a commenter explains what radical egalitarianism and its obliteration of respect for natural distinctions has done to medical education and the medical profession in the United States.

James N., a physician, writes:

In the post on the medical profession, the reader “A” said, “Solution? Extremely high standards for admission [to medical school], including demonstrated competence in language, math, science, logic and physical and psychological vigor…”

OK, I agree.

Where are you going to find 18,000 22-year-olds like that, per year? (more…)

FOR MORE THAN 60 years, feminists have equated power with sex. Is it possible that all this has not made men pure and faithful?

Writing in The New York Times, Sara Lipton wonders whether policial figures such as Anthony Weiner, Mark Sanford, Eliot Spitzer and Newt Gingrich are affected by the absence of a code of male honor and even by the culture’s loss of respect for men as providers and protectors. We take it for granted that powerful men are impulsive and reckless, but it was not always so. Lipton writes: (more…)

DIANA writes:

I thought that the letter in The New York Times from the part-time male househusband/doctor was remarkably free of logic and content. Anytime someone resorts to name calling (“sexism,” “patriarchy”) you can be sure that feelings, feelings, feelings are the argument. (more…)