SHEFALI SAMDARIA writes from India:

The other day I was reading some post on the whole homosexual marriage fracas and something came up from the annals of memory. We had a double murder in 2004 in Delhi. Two rich, flamboyant homosexuals were murdered by two impoverished men they had picked up from a slum. In addition to exploiting them, they also recorded the sex acts against the will of the two men and later used the photographs to blackmail them into repeated sexual favours. Back then, in 2004, it was not really something I took seriously. How things change in less than a decade! Well, back then, the liberal media bulldozed anyone who dared question the victimhood of these two men. This is a very good article on this double standard.

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FEMINISM is totalitarian by nature. Sex differences exist, therefore they must be repressed. When it comes to women in the military, this means the male service member becomes the enemy. 

Elizabeth Harrington of CNS News reports:

In a memo sent on June 13, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered that all sailors, Marines, cadets and civilian employees have their workplaces searched by June 28.

The “comprehensive visual inspections” of the workspaces conducted by commanding officers will “ensure they are free from materials that create a degrading, hostile, or offensive work environment.” (Continued)

THE logical inconsistencies in the argument for same-sex marriage, including the contradiction between the idea that sexual “orientation” is innate and the notion that it is fluid (as in transgenderism), have been discussed here before. Dale O’Leary at Aleteia does a particularly good job of summarizing them. She writes: (Continued)

I HAVE been hard at work in recent months on two new organizations, the American Traditionalist Society and the Lawrence Auster Society. The websites for both organizations should be up and running soon. In the meantime, I am asking for your support for the continued existence of this site, The Thinking Housewife. It has been nine months since my last fundraiser. If you value this commercial-free site and would miss it if it were to end, please consider donating. Thank you for your support.

JEAN-MICHEL COLO, mayor of a small town in the Basque region, is the first of what will no doubt be many French officials to refuse to comply with Taubira’s law. Colo has refused to carry out an official marriage ceremony for two men. He could go to jail for five years and be fined up to $100,000 (U.S. dollars.) See the story at LifeSiteNews. Colo is quoted as saying:

“I don’t give lessons, I’m not inciting other mayors to follow my example, but I won’t enforce an illegitimate law. My seven councilmen and I are completely in agreement in saying that we will not participate in this charade.”

DANIEL S. writes:

There is much that can and should be said about the mass surveillance of American citizens by the NSA, which has been repeatedly justified by our rulers in the name of combating “terrorism.” That is exactly what it is not about. The Justice Department has made clear to the FBI that surveillance of mosques is not allowed without special permission from a secretive panel, the Sensitive Operations Review Panel. In the same manner, the American government had been repeatedly warned about the extremist, violent views of jihad-terrorists Umar Abdul-Mutallab, Major Nidal Hasan, and Tamerlane Tsarnaev and yet chose to do little about them prior to their attacks on Americans.

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BUCK writes:

Nine year-old twins Zea and Luna introduced President Barack Obama at the White House’s LGBT Pride Month celebration last Thursday.

The two girls took turns reading from their prepared notes: (Continued)