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Scholars at Johns Hopkins University released a new report on Monday which argues that there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that lesbian, gay, or transgender people are born with this sexual orientation or gender identity. "The idea there that sexual orientation is fluid, that people change as people grow," Lawrence Mayer, a co-author of the report and a scholar-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's psychiatry department, as well as a professor of statistics and biostatistics at Arizona State University, told The Christian Post. "There are probably some people that identify as hetrosexual [sic] that then later on identified as homosexual,...

One Republican has joined eight Democrats in creating the first Transgender Equality Task Force in Congress. Created by the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and chaired by Rep. Mike Honda, D-CA, the task force held a hearing yesterday to discuss challenges, especially violence, that transgender advocates say are prevalent among transgendered Americans. According to the description below the Human Rights Campaign's video of the two-hour forum, the event consisted of two panels. The first was about "the lived experience of transgender victims and educating on the scope of violence experienced by transgender people." The second panel included "HRC President Chad Griffin...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 29, 2007Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A future legislative hearing on late-term abortions that Kansas lawmakers plan to hold August 31 will feature a prominent psychologist who has played a role in the state debate. Dr. Paul McHugh will attend the hearing and provide his perspective on the late-term abortion records he previously examined.McHugh is the former head of the psychology department at Johns Hopkins University. He reviewed abortion documents after former state attorney general Phill Kline charged late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller with doing illegal abortions.Kline obtained records and McHugh reviewed them and found all of...

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TOPEKA, Kansas, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A respected psychiatrist who was to be one of the primary witnesses against the infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller has broken his silence about the case, claiming that Kansas’ new attorney general failed to contact him, despite a supposed in-depth investigation into the case conducted by the attorney general.  “I expected to be contacted by someone,” said Dr. Paul McHugh, a graudate of Harvard, who was the chairman of psychiatry at John Hopkins University from 1977-2000. Instead of waiting any longer, however, the psychiatrist chose to come forward and make his professional findings public, believing...

Renowned Psychiatrist Witness in Notorious Late-Term Abortionist Case Breaks Silence: Threatened by Kansas Attorney General Attorney general claims he contacted psychiatrist, which psychiatrist denies By John JalsevacTOPEKA, Kansas, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A respected psychiatrist who was to be one of the primary witnesses against the infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller has broken his silence about the case, claiming that Kansas’ new attorney general failed to contact him, despite a supposed in-depth investigation into the case conducted by the attorney general.“I expected to be contacted by someone,” said Dr. Paul McHugh, a graudate of Harvard, who was the chairman of...

During the tumultuous final weeks in the life of Terri Schiavo, the young woman who died in a Florida hospice in April, press reports in the nation’s media typically focused on the bitter conflicts among members of her family over her treatment, disagreements among consultants over her state of consciousness, and the increasingly intense arguments in legislatures and the courts over her guardianship. Since her death, the case and the story of her death and dying have been mined for their bearing on our ongoing culture wars and for the debate over the place of “values” in our politics. In...