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Who among us could have guessed a few years back that today gender ideology would be the clearest, most divisive matter of contention separating the American left from the right? To those reasonably grounded in reality, the notion that gender is fluid, that a Supreme Court Justice would be unable to define the word “woman,” that men can give birth, and that children can and should be mutilated if they are confused about their own gender identity is not only sheer lunacy, it is barbaric. But the left’s commitment to those ideas is total; it’s the hill on which they...

Abortion warps one of the most natural loves in the world – that of a mother for her child. But many in the media, along with abortion activists and organizations, missed the irony as they took advantage of Mother’s Day to call for unrestricted abortion.The pro-life movement recognizes that motherhood begins at conception, when another human life begins to grow inside of a woman. But, according to organizations like Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, abortion allows women who are already pregnant to choose motherhood.“Happy Mother's Day!” Planned Parenthood Action tweeted on May 12. “It’s important now more than ever to...

FULL TITLE: He was born a girl and she used to be his babysitter: So why IS transgender boy Bobby, 19, marrying 31-year-old Donna? A teenager born a girl but living as a man has defended now dating his mother's 31-year-old best friend. Bobby Fransis Barnes, 19, from Worcester, has found romance with mother-of-three Donna Price - who used to be his babysitter. Bobby, who works as a barber, is waiting to have female-to-male chest reconstruction and sex-reassignment surgery on the NHS as soon as possible. As a child, Bobby used to cut off his pigtails and rip off his...

CALLER: It's called "How to Get Married ... by Me, the Bride." It's a little girl. And then the book is actually by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap. RUSH: Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap? CALLER: Yes. RUSH: Okay. CALLER: And it just came out this year, and I started reading it to the girls I was babysitting, and I'm horrified by what is in it. It basically completely redefines marriage. It says that you can marry anything, basically. It says you can marry an animal; you can marry a flower; you can marry your dad. It says you can marry...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a pass on a Washington state case about the rights of a gay parent. The high court has refused to stop a lesbian from seeking parental rights to a child she helped raise with her partner. Justices might have used the case to clarify child custody disputes in nontraditional families. But they declined without comment. The Washington state Supreme Court said Sue Ellen Carvin is a "de facto parent" and could pursue parental rights with a girl who is now 11 years old. The girl's biological mother, Page Britain, said that could...

Former Warren County teacher, Pamela Rogers is back in jail after making further contact with the teenager she’s been forbidden to talk to. Rogers served several months in jail for having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student. Police told the Southern Standard newspaper that Rogers contacted her teenage victim just hours after her most recent court appearance and then later sent the boy a pornographic video of herself. The paper reports that Rogers is being held without bond. Right now Rogers has seven years of probation, but if she is found guilty of the latest violations that deal could...

Slay bells are ringing outside a $3 million brownstone on East 18th Street in Manhattan, where, rather than your typical jolly St. Nick, a skinny, bloody-bearded Santa holds a knife in his left hand and the severed head of a doll - blood gushing from its eye sockets - in the other. This 'tis-the-season-to be-creepy display - which has drawn no small amount of community ire - can be found in the front yard of Joel Krupnik, 58, and his wife, Mildred Castellanos, 43, who said they are protesting the commercialization of the Yule season. In another touch of Christmas...

A 31-year-old Aurora man who posed as a teenager was charged in connection with 18 sexual assaults of underage boys and girls, Aurora police said Monday. Due to his youthful appearance, police said that Zuri-Key Latifbay McGhee had been passing himself off as being 13 to 15 years of age. Police began their investigation when the parents of a 14-year-old boy came forward after he told them he had been sexually assaulted by McGhee starting in 2002 and continuing into 2005. McGhee was arrested while living in an Aurora home with an 11-year-old boy and the boy's parents. Police said...

An 18-year-old woman accused of pretending to be twin 12-year-old boys and simultaneously dating two adolescent girls will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine her competency to stand trial in San Mateo County Superior Court. Lakesia Michelle Mason pleaded not guilty in March to 13 counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14 for her alleged relationships with a 13-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl. She denied the special allegations of substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14 and allegations that the offenses were committed in more than one jurisdiction and that...

After a San Jose police officer pleaded guilty this morning to allegations that he molested his 11-month-old daughter, attorneys in the case described for the first time the videotaped evidence of the incident that led to his arrest last week. Stephen Gallagher, 49, was arrested on Feb. 2 after the child's mother reported the encounter that occurred the night before, while Gallagher was babysitting, at her home in unincorporated Morgan Hill. Deputy District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro said the mother installed a security camera commonly known as a "nanny cam'' because she suspected Gallagher of drinking alcohol around their daughter. Addressing...