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Bob Dylan: A Prophet in Blue Jeans?
Townhall.com ^ | August 13, 2014 | Harry R. Jackson, Jr

Posted on 08/13/2014 2:06:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

In 1964 Bob Dylan wrote the amazing classic tune, “The times they are a changing”. Some of the words went like this:

“The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast…

Rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin’."

Fifty years after Dylan’s riveting verses, special interest groups’ claims about both the nature and dynamics of marriage are changing more dramatically than any of the social phenomenon of the 60’s. For years, the argument for deeply altering an ancient institution was framed entirely in terms of individual “rights.” We were told homosexuals possessed an inherent right to have their relationships deemed “marriage,” end of story.

Faithfully following this strategy, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activists steered clear of discussing children and their wellbeing. But recently, there has been a tactical shift by LGBT advocates, who are now choosing to feature select children front and center. According to Reuters, “Lawyers are recruiting same-sex couples who have children [for gay marriage cases], putting interviews with kids as young as seven in court filings, and organizing media events featuring teenagers.”

A growing number of academics suggest that children who grow up in households headed by homosexual couples fare “no worse than children raised by heterosexual couples”. The University of Southern California’s Timothy Biblarz and New York University’s Judith Stacey concluded, “No research supports the widely held conviction that the gender of parents matters for child well-being.” Stacey even went so far as to suggest that homosexual parenting may be superior: “I suspect, for the reasons of selection effects, the children of gay male co-parents will wind up having probably the best parents.” These conclusions were based on their 2010 review of 81 studies.

However, not everyone agrees. The University of Texas-Austin’s Mark Regnerus endeavored to study the effects of parental same-sex relationships on children’s long-term outcomes. He found that children whose parents were in same-sex relationships were far more likely to be depressed, use drugs, have multiple sexual partners as well as engage in other self-destructive behavior. Unsurprisingly, Regnerus and his study were viciously attacked and dismissed as irrelevant. Some of the criticism was valid from a purely technical standpoint: most of the children Regnerus studied were from broken families, which he compared to intact heterosexual families. The problem with this criticism (and with the 81 studies Stacey and Biblarz reviewed) is that intact homosexual families are a statistical anomaly; studying their effect on children is like studying Prince George, heir to the British throne, to learn about English parenting outcomes.

A study of 500 gay couples over several years done by San Francisco State University found that the majority had sex outside the relationship with the partner’s knowledge. In their older study, The Male Couple, behavioral scientists Dr. David P. McWhirter and Dr. Andrew M. Mattison noted that only 4.5 percent of homosexual males studied were sexually monogamous. According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University entitled Number of casual male sexual partners and associated factors among men who have sex with men: Results from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance system, 76 percent of the homosexual men studied had had at least one “casual” sexual partner in the past year. The families Regnerus studied were likely much closer to the typical experience for children living with a parent in a homosexual relationship than the studies reviewed by Stacey and Biblarz. So if LGBT activists are angry that Regnerus didn’t compare “apples to apples” in his research, it is because so few “apples” actually exist in the gay community. In fact, if we take living with married biological parents as the ideal for children, the homosexual equivalent literally does not exist.

While select homosexual couples may be capable of creating a stable home environment, it remains that these couples are just a tiny fraction of the population engaged in homosexual behavior. Homosexuals themselves, in turn, represent just a tiny portion of the general population. For better or for worse, homosexuals are allowed to adopt children in all fifty American states. The fitness of homosexual parenting is not really what is being debated in the argument over the definition of marriage. Redefining marriage is just the first step. Stacey herself has said, when questioned directly about marriage itself, “I would say that children certainly do not need a mother and a father.… There is no evidence that three parents would not be better than two.” The next frontiers in the marriage battle will be a combination of school curriculum debates and the attempts to normalize an “anything goes” family definition. Parents must be vigilant and engage in the educational process at every level. If families engage in our democracy, balance and sobriety are on their way.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; nuclearfamily; samesexadoption; smashthepatriarchy; waronmarriage
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1 posted on 08/13/2014 2:06:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMalmwupji8


2 posted on 08/13/2014 2:16:21 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Kaslin

In before the ‘Dylan Can’t Sing’ crowd shows up with their inanity.


3 posted on 08/13/2014 2:23:42 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village)
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To: Michael.SF.

...well, he can’t...


4 posted on 08/13/2014 2:29:54 PM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: Michael.SF.

I didn’t get that? Would you please stop mumbling and actually move your lips and tongue when you talk?


5 posted on 08/13/2014 2:32:03 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (I don't have a soul, I'm a soul that has a body. -- Unknown)
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To: Kaslin

I saw a white ladder all covered with water.


6 posted on 08/13/2014 2:32:58 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Michael.SF.

. . . and before the “Dylan was/is a total flaming lefty” crowd shows up with their insanity.


7 posted on 08/13/2014 2:39:37 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.)
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To: Kaslin

Dylan is a guy who writes songs. He stopped caring what people think of him around 1965.


8 posted on 08/13/2014 2:46:06 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Kaslin
I saw Bob Dylan's picture on a magazine cover a few years ago, and I thought it was Vincent Price.

He does have a way with palindromes, though.

;^)

9 posted on 08/13/2014 2:48:34 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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To: Disambiguator

huge fan, up to the album with Lay Lady Lay...

I don’t give a crap if he was a lefty, I loved his singing and his melodies...and his lyrics, which for the most part could be interpreted a number of ways.


10 posted on 08/13/2014 3:02:41 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Emmett McCarthy

He hated hippies. Hahahahah.

He’s a genius with lyrics and feel.

It’s hard catching the lyrics but when you’re listening to what he’s sung it’s just breathtaking or soul searching.

He reminds me of Johnny Cash in a way.


11 posted on 08/13/2014 3:08:16 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: Michael.SF.

I like his singing.


12 posted on 08/13/2014 3:11:26 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin

“All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone” are pure poetry.


13 posted on 08/13/2014 3:16:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin
Stacey even went so far as to suggest that homosexual parenting may be superior

I don't know about superior, but Rosie O'donnell's son told her that he'd really like to have a dad.

14 posted on 08/13/2014 3:24:58 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: trisham
I like his singing.

I am a big Dylan fan, his song/poetry skills are excellent. I do enjoy his singing as well, but often times a Dylan song in the hands of another can be excellent, as well as better than Bob (sorry, Bob).

You mention "Watchtower", that is at the top of everyone's list.

This one deserve to be near the top: "I want you" - Sophie B. Hawkins (From Bob fest)

Excellent, as well as sensual.

15 posted on 08/13/2014 3:33:27 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village)
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To: Michael.SF.

I love that there are other versions of his songs, because to me that means that those who listen to his lyrics find their own interpretation of his work, and make it personal. I think that is the quality of all great art, not only that it speaks to us, but that as time goes on, we find new meaning to his words.


16 posted on 08/13/2014 3:43:35 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin

BookMark


17 posted on 08/13/2014 3:47:39 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Kaslin

18 posted on 08/13/2014 3:52:26 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

Not bad for 73.


19 posted on 08/13/2014 3:53:55 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Dick Vomer

He and Cash were very good friends, The folkies got mad when he went rock/electric. The hippies got mad when he came to Nashville to make a country album with his friend Johnny Cash. An album where the guitar parts were played by Charlie Daniels in his “pre-famous” days. 1969. Dylan never cared who liked him.


20 posted on 08/13/2014 4:00:22 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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