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Joan Blades describes herself as, among other things, a “nature lover” and a “mother.” She is also a co-founder of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org and a regular contributor to the liberal blog The Huffington Post. In a recent post, Blades wrote about an article she read in her local paper. It described a group that supports the kind of measures Blades expected liberals like Huffington Post readers to support: health care for children, “fair wages,” and flexible work schedules for moms. What Blades found surprising were some of the comments that came into the paper’s website. One person “reasoned”...

I have unmarried friends who equate the pitter-patter of little feet with the screeching horror of bombs falling; who think a dirty diaper should warrant an EPA toxic site designation. When adorable babies cruise by in their strollers, the rest of the world may go all gushy, but these friends remain unmoved -- possessed only by the desire to get out of there before the stork drops a package on them as well. These are friends who wish to remain child-free. In our parents' era, this attitude would have immediately labeled them as communists or lesbians. (Come to think of...

The Gay Gamete Project was developed as a means to ensure the genetic survival of homosexuality;to assure that the decline in homosexual procreation does not result in our eventual extinction. Homophobic Guidelines: The FDA has been in the process of promulgating national regulations that would prohibit clinics from accepting sperm from homosexual applicants since 1999. The decision will likely be finalized before 2003. Due to these homophobic guidelines as well as those proposed by the ASRM, it is unfortunately necessary for gay men to lie about their sexual preference and sexual history in the application and interview process. Gay men...