By Staff, World News Magazine
WNS – Traditional marriage has a unique proponent in Doug Mainwaring, the openly gay co-founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots, who lives with his ex-wife to co-parent their two adopted sons.
Mainwaring divorced his wife to explore his homosexual desires, but in a piece for Public Discourse he explained how he discovered over the course of a decade that “creating a family with another man is not completely equal to creating a family with a woman.” He also found that “denying children parents of both genders is an objective evil. Kids need and yearn for both.”
Mainwaring went on to explain that to do what is best for his children, he moved back in with his ex-wife and has denied his sexual impulses. Rather than feeling repressed, he believes it has led to psychological health and his family’s flourishing.
Men who make their homosexuality the dominant aspect of their lives diminish other aspects of their lives socially, familially, emotionally, and intellectually, Mainwaring wrote.
“Gay and lesbian activists, and more importantly, the progressives urging them on, seek to redefine marriage in order to achieve an ideological agenda that ultimately seeks to un-define families as nothing more than one of an array of equally desirable ‘social units,’ and thus open the door to the increase of government’s role in our lives,” Mainwaring wrote.
Mainwaring is quick to admit that his opinions don’t take root in tradition and religion, but in his experiences. He said he wholeheartedly supports civil unions for homosexual couples. It’s same-sex marriage he doesn’t agree with.
“Genderless marriage is not marriage at all,” he wrote. “It is something else entirely. Marriage is not an elastic term. It is immutable. It offers the very best for children and society.”
Transgender Student Sues
Baptist College Over Expulsion
RIVERSIDE, CA – A transgender student is suing California Baptist University for expelling him in 2011 after he claimed he was a female despite his male anatomy.
Domaine Javier had been accepted into the school’s nursing program for the fall of 2011, but the university retracted the acceptance after he revealed that he was transgender in an episode of MTV’s True Life. The university said he was expelled for “committing or attempting to engage in fraud, or concealing of identity.”
This week Javier filed a lawsuit in Riverside, Calif., against the California Southern Baptist school, claiming it violated California’s civil rights act and breached its contract. He claims he lost about $500,000 in scholarships and future wages because of the expulsion, since he had to delay his career plan for a year. He had received a $3,500 dean’s academic scholarship from the school.
In the nursing program application, Javier was asked to check either male or female, and he checked female, even though he had been born a male. Javier said he had identified himself as a female since he was a toddler and started presenting himself as a girl at 13. She had attended Catholic schools in the Philippines before immigrating to California ten years ago.
Javier’s lawyer, Paul Southwick, said he did not lie about his gender because he identifies as female. He also claims that Javier did not break the school’s contract because it did not specifically mention transgender students.
California Baptist University allows students who are not Christian, but asks every student to sign a contract pledging to attend weekly chapel services, take courses in biblical studies, and abstain from drugs, alcohol, and “sexual conduct outside of marriage.”
California law does not allow employment, housing, and other businesses to discriminate based on sex or sexual orientation, however private universities are not generally covered. California Baptist University has not responded to requests for comment.
Obama Administration
Wants DOMA Divorce
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a legal brief submitted Feb. 22, the Obama administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which says marriage can only be between one man and one woman.
“The law denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite-sex couples,” government lawyers wrote. “Because this discrimination cannot be justified as substantially furthering any important governmental interest, Section 3 is unconstitutional.”
The government’s position comes as no surprise. Congress adopted the law, which governs federal agencies, in 1996. When Edith Windsor filed a constitutional challenge, the Obama administration declined to defend the law. The district court ruled in Windsor’s favor, declaring the act unconstitutional.
Phoenix City Council Abolishes Gender
An ordinance passed by the Phoenix City Council last night forces the city’s businesses, charities and churches to consider hiring transgendered people and requires them to recognize any gender expression, even if that means allowing a man to use the women’s restroom.
The bill, which passed 5-3, claims to protect against discrimination based on sexual preferences in public accommodations, housing, employment, and city contracts. But it also treads on the religious beliefs of business owners and organizations.
“When we looked at this law, we saw a number of problems for businesses, families, and churches,” said Aaron Baer, communications director at Center for Arizona Policy. “It creates a lot of potential situations that force people to violate their religious beliefs, businesses are open to frivolous law suits, and women and children are exposed to uncomfortable situations.”
Teaching Intelligent Design Goes on Trial in Ohio
The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments in late February in the case of a science teacher fired for talking openly with students about his Christian faith and theories of intelligent design.
John Freshwater taught at a middle school in Mount Vernon, Ohio, for 20 years before the school board accused him of teaching Christian beliefs in class during discussions of evolution and homosexuality. The board also accused him of insubordination because he refused to remove a Bible from his classroom.
The school board fired Freshwater in 2009. Two lower courts have ruled in the school district’s favor. But Freshwater’s attorneys, supported by Charlottesville, Va., civil liberties group The Rutherford Institute, argue the school board violated the teacher’s constitutional rights.
The state Supreme Court agreed to hear part of Freshwater’s case, allowing him to argue it is unconstitutional to fire someone without clear guidance on what teaching materials or methods are acceptable. His attorneys claim Freshwater’s discussions about intelligent design were part of the school’s secular education program.
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Raises Pandemic Threat
Gonorrhea, a highly drug-resistant sexually-transmitted disease, is on the rise in the United Kingdom, causing health officials to worry it might soon explode into a global health threat.
In 2011, UK doctors diagnosed 21,000 cases of gonorrhea, a 25 percent increase. A third of the cases occurred in gay men and another third in people who had already contracted the disease before, according to a report the country’s Health Protection Agency released in February.
“We are seriously concerned about continuing high levels of gonorrhea transmission and repeat infection,” said Gwenda Hughes, the HPA’s head of surveillance on sexually transmitted infections.
Although the increase in cases is cause for concern, the bigger fear is its resistance to previously effective forms of treatment. In 2008, scientists found a strain of the disease that was resistant to all recommended antibiotics, according to Reuters. Health officials all over the world have now documented cases of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
Groban Flees Set of Racy Show
Singer Josh Groban left the set of Jenny McCarthy’s new TV talk show earlier this month after discovering that go-go dancers would be a part of the taping.
The 31 year-old star, who just released his fifth album, was scheduled to make an appearance on the debut episode of McCarthy’s VH1 show, but walked out just a few minutes before taping began, saying it was too racy for his tastes.
“He did show up, [but] I think the go-go dancers [his team] took a look at and thought they were a little too sexy for their taste,” McCarthy told Access Hollywood Live.
According to the Christian Post, McCarthy brags that her show is modeled after Playboy After Dark, a show made by the pornographic magazine that shares its name.