A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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Polling from the US, Canada, and Europe all show slight shifts to the right on social and cultural issues. The shifts aren’t dramatic, but they are clearly discernable. Is it a backlash? It is too early to tell. I do think, however, that we may be seeing the high water mark of the Sexual Revolution: “Cultural shift? US and Canada now show decreased support for the LGBT agenda.”
Blair right that a woman has a vagina and a man has a penis, Starmer says
The subtitle is equally magnificent: “The Labour leader has hardened his position on biological sex.” I do wonder how the editors and headline writers got through all that without dissolving helplessly into giggles, or if any veteran journalist stared bug-eyed at the sorts of things once-venerable publications are reduced to covering. But either way, it is unfortunately significant that the man who is likely going to be the U.K.’s next prime minister does, in fact, acknowledge that women have vaginas and men have penises.
A gay couple is suing the city of New York because their IVF costs—they plan to rent a surrogate and purchase a child—have not been covered. This is part of the LGBT movement’s ongoing plan to redefine terms like “family,” “parent”—and also “infertility.” An excerpt:
In fact, the LGBT movement sees the commodification of children as one of the key battlegrounds in their ongoing revolution. California moved to give homosexual men the “right” to intentionally motherless children last year, redefining “infertility” from a medical condition to a status: “a person’s inability to reproduce either as an individual or with their partner without medical intervention.” Under this definition, homosexual men would be classified as “infertile.”
As the LGBT activist group “Men Having Babies” (which I covered in 2022) states on their website: “Central to our fight for more equitable access to parenting options is what we know from our combined experiences: The anguish and yearning that same-sex couples and singles feel due to their inability to reproduce without medical intervention is equal to the anguish of heterosexual couples who suffer from ‘medical infertility.’”
