From the Ruth Institute podcast page.

An update on the federal trial on California’s Proposition 8

The MP3 file is here. (from 1/19/2010)

Topics:

• what is the prop 8 federal court trial about?
• what is at stake in the prop 8 trial?
• what is the only argument in favor of SSM?
• what is the purpose of marriage?
• what is the end goal of the marriage redefiners?
• what would happen if sexual orientation were protected like race?
• what happens to people today who disagree with SSM?
• does SSM diminish the biological basis for assigning parenthood?

Reponding to Ted Olson’s pro-SSM arguments:

• traditional marriage violate the Equal Protection clause
• people have a right to demand respect from other people
• children don’t need a mother and father
• there are no differences between same-sex and opposite-sex couples

Understanding same-sex marriage

The MP3 file is here. (from 1/21/2010)

Topics:

• how did Dr. J get interested in the marriage issue?
• what got the pro-marriage Prop 8 movement started?
• what do we know about the federal judge in the prop 8 trial?
• how will the school curriculum change if SSM becomes legal?
• how same-sex unions are a stepping stone to legalizing SSM
• how SSM empowers the state to regulate private relationships
• children have a right to a relationship with their parents
• how SSM threatens the rights of free speech and association
• how the purpose of SSM differs than the purpose of TM
• how SSM expands the state’s power to coerce individuals
• how the province of Quebec opposes heterosexuality as normal
• SSM’s goal is the elimination of sex differences
• how the SSM agenda is an extension of third-wave feminism

Wonderful stuff. I really, really like listening to her talk about these things!

Dr. J’s wonderful blog is here.  Please give it a visit! She has really been writing a lot of her own thoughts into her posts lately. It’s very fun and engaging!

It’s too bad that more single women don’t talk about the things that Dr. J talks about. Do you know what single Christian men think of when a single Christian woman comes along and starts talking about the role of husband/father, marriage and children? He thinks about marriage and children, of course, and it’s fun to talk about things like that.