{"id":609,"date":"2008-05-21T07:39:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=609"},"modified":"2008-09-28T07:22:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T14:22:02","slug":"adrift-down-the-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/adrift-down-the-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift Down the Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three news items for you to chew on.<\/p>\n\n\n
Most Americans Say Divorce is Morally Acceptable<\/a><\/p>\n

A record 70 percent of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable, according to Gallup\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2008 Values and Beliefs survey. That’s an 11-point increase from seven years ago.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Of the poll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 16 ethical issues rated for moral acceptability, divorce topped the list, followed by gambling, embryonic stem-cell research, homosexuality and abortion. Extramarital affairs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d often a cause of divorce \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are at the bottom of the list, with just 7 percent of Americans finding them morally acceptable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

By what moral law and standard do my fellow Americans make this judgment? (At 70%, that includes a lot of real — as well as nominal — Christians. Wow!)<\/p>\n

And why does that moral law and standard make extramarital affairs so unacceptable?<\/p>\n

OK, here’s the second story:<\/p>\n\n\n
Boston Doctor Offers Sex Change Treatment to Kids<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Norman Spack, a pediatric specialist at the hospital, has launched a clinic for transgendered kids \u00e2\u20ac\u201d boys who feel like girls, girls who want to be boys \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening his doors to patients as young as 7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

So Doc Spack is catching lots of flak. I wonder if it’s coming from any in the 70% mentioned above. And why.<\/p>\n

Now from the Mail Online<\/i> (UK), the third story:<\/p>\n\n\n
Fathers aren’t needed say MPs: Commons decides IVF babies can do without a male role model<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n

Fathers were last night effectively declared an irrelevance in modern Britain.<\/p>\n

The requirement for fertility doctors to consider a child’s need for a male role model before giving women IVF treatment was scrapped by MPs.<\/p>\n

In a free vote, they swept away the rule despite impassioned pleas that the Government plan would “drive another nail into the coffin of the traditional family”.<\/p>\n

Labour rebels said it would send entirely the wrong signal to society as Britain faces a crisis in responsible parenting. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, had warned it would remove the father from the heart of the family.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three news items for you to chew on. Most Americans Say Divorce is Morally Acceptable A record 70 percent of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable, according to Gallup\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2008 Values and Beliefs survey. That’s an 11-point increase from seven years ago. […] Of the poll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 16 ethical issues rated for moral acceptability, divorce topped … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16,8,10],"tags":[640,638,547],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-days-of-noah","category-politics","category-religion","tag-homosexuality","tag-moral-law","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-9P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}