We live in a moment of time when the supposedly science-based mental health and medical establishments have been wooed, bullied, and/or buffaloed into slavish acceptance of any and all claims by troubled teenagers and even children that they have been mistakenly born into bodies of the wrong sex; girls born into the body of a boy and boys born into the body of a girl. The Public Discourse has just published the anguished and heartbreaking stories of five mothers horrified … [more]

On Monday, January 16, 2012, my article “Same-Sex Science” documenting the growing acceptance of false beliefs about homosexuality promulgated in the name of science will be officially published in the February issue of the journal First Things (in print and on its website). This article is extracted from a much longer, original version “Sexual Orientation and Reason: Implications of False Beliefs about Homosexuality.” To summarize these articles, I quote first from the introduction of the shortened version published by First … [more]