Family Values Still Threaten GOP

By Edward Hudgins

In another skirmish in the GOP's civil war, Ken Blackwell recently linked mass killings with gay marriage. This is why, in spite of the prospects for a Republican takeover of the Senate in 2014, the party is still in a death spiral.

Blackwell is a prominent Republican: a former Ohio secretary of state and now a senior fellow at the Family Research Council. On May 27, reacting to the recent shootings in Isla Vista, California by a young mentally unbalanced nut, Blackwell placed part of the blame for the killings on "the crumbling of the moral foundation of the country" and on "the attack on natural marriage and the family." He made the even more outrageous assertion that "Throughout history, in order for totalitarianism, Marxism or a welfare state to occur two things have to happen—the marginalization of the church and the destruction of the family." Read more >

Sexuality and Society

The drive of sexuality is all around us. It is most viscerally in our bodies; it often drives our deepest desires and fears; it propels much of the glory and diversity of our artifacts; and it manifests itself all over in the natural world! Yet, many of us insist on straitjacketing sexuality Read more >

First stop: The Bakery. Second stop: Galt's Gulch

First she bought a building. Then she turned it into a bakery. But Kathy Prellwitz soon got entangled in a sticky web of complex government regulations and fees. The experience left her in the end with a new priority: Get me to Galt's Gulch!
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