Number of Teen Girls Identifying as LGBT Plummets Suddenly:

The number of teen girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual has plunged rapidly over the last four years.

According to new data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a whopping 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual in 2021. By 2025, that figure had fallen to 17 percent.

Those identifying as bisexual alone fell by half -- from 26 percent to 13 percent. 

While researchers agree the statistics show a significant downward turn, they emphasize that the exact causes of the decline remain unclear.

However, plenty of speculation has begun. Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, wrote on X, "Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID."

Glenn Stanton, the Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, spoke to CBN News about this sudden shift away from LGBT identities. 

He believes the dramatic decline is a natural correction following an artificial spike in these identities, arguing that these sexual labels are often adopted for social or experimental reasons rather than being inherent truths. 

He states, "LGBT and T and all those things are not really things. They're sociopolitical identities that young people seem to identify with because it's the hip thing to do or because they want to be experimental or because they're confused about who they are." 

When it comes to the binary nature of sexuality, Stanton highlights what he sees as hypocrisy within the LGBTQ agenda, noting that the "LGB" identities rely on a sexual binary that newer transgender or queer concepts have rejected. 

He explains, "The LGBTQ community is not really a community... The letters fight with one another like crazy... LGB... are fundamentally binary." 

He says the recent 180-degree shift in teen identities exposes the truth behind all the political rhetoric. "You can take a beach ball and push it under the water and say it belongs under the water, but it needs pressure to keep it down there. What we're seeing in culture today is that pressure cannot sustain itself. That beach ball is coming back up."  

Stanton concludes that this is a chance for Christian believers to focus on sharing the biblical worldview, which is a "more beautiful and true story about male and female and about the beauty of men,women and boys and girls.

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Z-Repost of a Memory:

Z-Repost of a Memory:

( Saturday, 29 June 2024)

Z

I am writing this short letter to remind you that I am in love with you.With as much love for you as the dancing bee has for the cherished pollen from stunning flowers.

Much of the recent times where I feel pressured by the circumstances of our lives comes from my poor inner life. Years ago, I used to read whole chapters of the Bible gaining some solace, some peace, much mercy and much grace for a troubled person like me. With prayer about all kinds of troubling things, whether trifling, minor or major would set my feet upon a solid Rock. 

Now more of my God Habit is being rushed through like a quickly burning-petrol- soaked rag in a blustery wind. Oh, the sand- laden rock strewn wilderness. 

Perhaps it's because I have believed I don't need to read a few chapters and some heart- felt prayerfullness, instead I read a short paragraph with a few lines of prayer.

I know you are experiencing stronger physical pain mixed with an emotional pool of feelings about a number of recent events.

I don't want to add to your pain; instead I aim to ease it.

Your horrifying experiences lately have been a drain on your emotional and spiritual inner core. I know that--in part-- I am to blame for those diminished reserves.

I long for your mind to be relieved and released from as much of the mental pollution as possible. Shouldering the burden with you, replacing it with smiles, cool summer breezes on a 25 degree days,laughter like a waterfall gushing over rocks and good company of like-minded souls. 

I wish for you to enjoy yourself as necessary as possible with your family of children, gathered for your enchantment. All engaged, swirling about you on extraordinary day like a celebration of life from God.

To enjoy a feast of delicate seafood, icy waters and crisp conversations. 

With my love B.

Post script:

Over the past 3 days, I have read many chapters and knocked on the heart of God.

at June 29, 2024

 The Noble Savage:

 

The field was long dominated by a myth.

Postwar anthropology, inspired by Rousseau and Marx, held that "savages" were peaceful and cooperative. Violence, hierarchy, and inequality were supposed to be diseases of civilization, invented by property, colonization, and markets. Abolish those, and the natural harmony of man would return. 

Then a kid from rural Michigan went to check.

In 1964, Napoleon Chagnon, one of twelve children from a poor family in Port Austin, traveled to the Venezuela–Brazil border. He went to live with the Yanomamö, roughly 20,000 people scattered across the Amazon rainforest, largely untouched by the state, by markets, or by modernity. 

He would return nearly thirty times over the next three decades. His 1968 book, Yanomamö: The Fierce People, sold nearly a million copies and was translated into fifteen languages. 

But this is what he actually found:

Raids between villages were routine. Infanticide was common. Women were regularly abducted and traded after violent conflict. Headmen, as a rule, were killers. 

Chagnon mapped Yanomamö genealogies using early computer methods, learned the language, and lived inside the villages for months at a stretch. The data was not hearsay. 

A particular finding broke the field.

In a 1988 paper in Science, Chagnon documented that the unokais, men who had killed in raids, had on average more wives and more surviving offspring than non-violent men of the same age. 

In a state of nature, violence was being reproductively selected for. The Rousseauian premise ran backwards. 

If violence, hierarchy, and inequality were what civilization produces, they should be rare where civilization is absent. 

Chagnon found the opposite. 

Where the state, the market, and modern institutions had never arrived, up to 30% of adult male deaths were violent. The men who killed were the men whose lineages survived. In the modern United States that figure is under 1%. 

The reaction was immediate. Marshall Sahlins, one of Chagnon's former graduate teachers at Michigan, turned on him. 

Terence Turner and Leslie Sponsel circulated a warning to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) describing "an anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad, though not, perhaps, a Joseph Mengele." Salesian missionaries in the region joined the coalition. 

What Chagnon had found could not be answered on its merits, so the man who found it became the target instead. 

Then came the book that ended him.

In 2000, journalist Patrick Tierney published Darkness in El Dorado. He accused Chagnon of triggering a measles epidemic through vaccine experimentation, arming rival factions to stage conflicts on film, cooking his data, and behaving as "a war criminal or even a genocidaire." 

The New Yorker ran Tierney's companion article the same month. Chagnon's career effectively ended before any serious investigation reached a verdict. 

But every serious charge eventually collapsed. 

The vaccine complied with WHO protocols. The measles epidemic predated Chagnon's arrival. Venezuelan physicians, the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Michigan, the American Society of Human Genetics, and the U.S. Department of Health each investigated. 

Each reached the same verdict: no crime, no cover-up, no fraud. Jane Hill, who chaired the AAA's own inquiry, wrote privately that Tierney's book was "a piece of sleaze, that's all there is to it." 

The AAA task force issued its own report in 2002 anyway, condemning Chagnon for prioritizing his research over the Yanomamö. 

Raymond Hames had already resigned from the panel mid-inquiry, and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a National Academy of Sciences member, quit the AAA in protest. 

Three years later, the AAA membership voted to rescind the report. 

In 2012, Chagnon was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The following year, Sahlins resigned from the Academy over it. 

The noble savage myth outlived the twentieth century's political movements. 

Today it powers the decolonial framework that dominates the humanities and much of political discourse. The claim is unchanged: violence, hierarchy, and inequality are artifacts of property, civilization, and colonization, and would vanish once those were abolished. 

Three decades of Chagnon's evidence showed the claim was wrong. 

In the absence of the institutions the utopians wanted to destroy, human beings behaved more violently than within them. 

The discipline that could not answer his data answered his character instead. 

That is what an intellectual monoculture does when evidence contradicts its premises. It goes after whoever brought the evidence.

 

by Unknown Contributor.

 

 

 

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Something Fundamental is Changing:

For decades, contempt for men has been treated very differently from contempt for women. “Men are trash”. “Women don’t need men”. Masculinity is “toxic”. Fathers are optional. Male suffering is either ignored, minimised or blamed on men themselves.

But the pushback is getting louder, and broader.

Writers such as Ingrid Jacques and Jenny Holland are questioning the growing normalisation of hostility towards men. Lisa Britton has put the alternative beautifully: rather than constantly denigrating men, our societies should thank men for what they do for their families and communities...

This is much bigger than a few provocative social-media posts and media articles. It's time to challenge the intellectual machinery that allows anti-male prejudice to masquerade as equality.

In The Relentless War on Masculinity, I call this the Four Horsewomen of Modern Feminism:

Misandry — contempt, hostility and prejudice towards males.

Gamma Bias — magnifying female disadvantage and male wrongdoing, while minimising male disadvantage and female wrongdoing.

Gynocentrism — placing female experiences, interests and wellbeing at the centre while treating male needs as secondary. Gynocentrism elevates the moral importance of females, while devaluing males to a lesser status.

Gaslighting — telling men that the disadvantages they can see and experience aren't real, don't matter, or are simply products of their own “privilege”.

These four forces reinforce one another, undermine healthy relationships, and weaken our societies. Chapter 3 of my book argues that they must be recognised and challenged if we are serious about addressing the problems facing boys and men.

But pushing back against feminism must not become an excuse to hate women. That simply reproduces the poison with the sexes reversed.

The destination is not misogyny or misandry. It is Mutual Respect.

Men are not defective women. Masculinity isn't a pathology. Fathers aren't optional extras. Boys deserve encouragement rather than suspicion. And male suffering deserves the same compassion we rightly extend to females...

As I wrote in my book, boys and men are equally deserving of respect and dignity, and flourishing ultimately requires men and women to collaborate:

 

 More here

 

We must stridently challenge misandry. Question ideological feminism. Celebrate good men. Defend boys. Value fathers. And build something better together.

#Misandry #Feminism #Masculinity #MenAndBoys #PositiveMasculinity #Fathers #GenderEquality #CelebratingMasculinity

 

 

 by Celebrating Masculinity 

 

 

 

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Atheism vs Christianity:

Atheism leaves you in Despair.

Christianity gives you Hope.

By Digital Anvil.

Final Comment:

I've never seen atheism cure a crazed drug addict,making him  into a responsible,loving husband.

I've seen a hurt,broken idiot transformed into a active, upright citizen involved in activities with local, national and global reach and impact.

Psychology tells you who to blame and sometimes why. Christianity tells you  how to forgive and how to go beyond the next step with hope,courage and wisdom.

 

 

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