May 18, 2015

Politicization of Language and Morals




[From article]
An extensive literature in psychology about moral reasoning traces back to Jean Piaget, the genetic epistemologist who founded developmental psychology. Piaget, like almost all important psychologists, was a humanist uninterested in God or faith. He wrote, “Only education is capable of saving our societies.” The moral reasoning theories grounded in Piaget, Kohlberg, and others are actually not about morality at all. They are about strategies for getting what one wants.
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Justice Kennedy, you remarked that same sex marriage bestows “dignity” that benefits the children of homosexual couples. Setting aside the irony that homosexual couples can't have children, here is a God-based definition of dignity. Dignity is an unalienable element of the human mind which shines forth most brightly in people who have been especially able to rise above the clamor of wants. Dignity does not come from human convention and cannot be bestowed by the laws of men. You may say that you are not charged with trying to figure out God's will, but you are supposed to keep American law out of God's way. Our liberty and right to pursue happiness are God given. Our Constitution is written to prevent governmental interference with that liberty. The purpose of your court is to interpret law to protect divinely granted freedom, not to make up human-based entitlements. The Constitution is not to be torn apart like an old couch and mined for the spare change of unnatural, unchartered special rights.
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For decades, the American Psychological Association (APA) has devoted vast resources to the normalization of homosexuality and same-sex parenting. The following position on Lesbian and Gay Parenting (reinforced as recently as 2012 in another statement) is typical of the APA’s official and oft repeated stance:
Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents.
Decades of research has not produced one study that is inimical to the promotion of same-sex parenting? This not science but doctrinaire politics.
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What are the psychological effects of knowing one has a shadow family of brothers and sisters, biological parents and grandparents who can never give their love? I once saw a teenager who had been adopted at birth into a loving Christian family. Her first words to me were, "They are not my family."
Every human condition encompasses gifts and vulnerabilities. American psychology has deemed an honest examination of the inherent vulnerabilities of homosexual consciousness and same-sex parenting to be heretical.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/justice_kennedy_and_factitious_matrimony.html

May 17, 2015
Justice Kennedy and Factitious Matrimony
By Deborah C. Tyler

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