Posts from December 2012

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Coming to a girls’ locker room near you…

by mafamily

You may have read about a disturbing development in California this past week.  A 6 foot 8, 50 year old man has decided to play college basketball… on the women’s team! This summer, Robert Ludwig, who has undergone the same sex-change operation that MA convicted killer “Michelle” Kosilek is demanding be paid by taxpayers, had […]

ARGUMENT: Why implementation of medical marijuana law must be delayed

by mafamily

The argument: The 63% vote, on November 6, 2012, in favor of Question 3 has been called “the will of the people”. It is a reasonable working assumption, based on the way the question was worded, that the will of the people is for marijuana to be an option safely available to profoundly ill citizens […]

Taunton City Council seeks to ban pot shops downtown

by mafamily

The City Council wants to make sure downtown Taunton doesn’t become known as a legal pot zone. Three years after a methadone clinic opened at 66 Main St. despite an outcry from local elected officials, the City Council is taking steps to block the possibility of a medical marijuana clinic from following suit. The council […]

VIDEO: Andrew Beckwith talks SCOTUS, DOMA

by mafamily

Additionally, Andrew was quoted by the Boston Globe: A state organization that has advocated against gay marriage, the Massachusetts Family Institute, said it hopes the Supreme Court will uphold both the Defense of Marriage Act and the California ban on same-sex marriage. “At issue in these cases is, ultimately, the question of whether the government […]

MFI comments on decision by Supreme Court to hear DOMA, Prop 8 cases

by mafamily

Today the U.S. Supreme Court accepted petitions to review two court decisions that challenge the constitutionality of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The federal case, Windsor v. United States, involves the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The second case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, deals with California’s marriage amendment, Proposition 8. Massachusetts […]

APA caves to activists, removes Gender Identity Disorder

by mafamily

The American Psychiatric Association (APA), saying that “all psychiatric diagnoses occur within a cultural context,” has removed “gender identity disorder” from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In its place, the APA will now diagnose these people as being afflicted with “gender dysphoria,” or so-called emotional stress related to gender identity. This […]

Commission Opposes T-Shirt Company’s Refusal To Print ‘Gay Pride’ Message

by mafamily

From CitizenLink: A Kentucky commission has announced its support of a gay and lesbian group suing a T-shirt company owned by a Christian man who declined to print the group’s shirts because the message, he said, violates his faith. Blaine Adamson, who owns Hands On Originals (HOO) in Lexington, Ky., refused to print T-shirts for the […]