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Married Fatherhood
For FAIR’s Substack, Ian Rowe writes about the importance of married and actively engaged fathers.
Marriage must become known as the institution that first bonds the father to his spouse, the original commitment, even before children are present.
For young men on Father’s Day, this is the takeaway message: Marriage is the social institution, however imperfect, that imposes a moral obligation—and privilege—on a father that no other institution can replicate to be a strong role model for their children and, even as the collective presence of married fathers at my son’s baseball game showed, for other children as well.
From Pride to Alienation
For FAIR’s Substack, Nevline Nnaji writes about ostracization and cultural degeneracy within the modern LGBTQ movement.
As a woman who openly critiques gender ideology in my creative work, I have to say that I do not feel safe or welcome at Pride.
My feelings about Pride reflect my deep alienation from LGBT culture as a whole, as its heavy emphasis on queer theory, kink, and overall dysfunctional behavior have nothing to do with being same-sex attracted.
The deranged political climate masked in clownery, coupled with aggressive substance and alcohol abuse at most Pride events, cultivates a degenerate atmosphere that I want no part of.
Deconstructing the LGBTQ+ Backlash
For FAIR’s Substack, Monica Harris writes about why conflating identity groups based on a shared sense of victimization doesn't promote tolerance or understanding.
The reckless conflation of LGB interests and values with those of TQ+s not only threatens to undermine the valuable progress made by the gays, lesbians, and bisexuals; it also unnecessarily alienates heterosexuals and others who embrace the binary nature of sex and feel compelled to protect children from subject matter they lack the developmental grounding and maturity to digest. Unless and until LGBTQ+ advocates adopt a more measured approach that respects moral sensitivities and common sense social boundaries, the backlash we are seeing will continue—and intensify.
A Constitution, If You Can Keep It
For The Washington Free Beacon, FAIR Advisor Robert P. George writes a review of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again by Yuval Levin.
No matter the color of their skin, the homeland of their ancestors, or the religious doctrines to which they subscribe, Americans can hold, and have held, that "all men are created equal"; that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"; that there are no natural superiors and inferiors among human beings; that all citizens have a right to participate, and to do so on terms of equality, in our republican civic order; that the national government should be one of delegated and enumerated (and therefore limited) powers, not of general jurisdiction; that the states should possess and exercise "police powers" subject to prohibitions and limitations of the Constitution; that there should be a separation of the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, allowing these branches to function independently; that fundamental civil liberties—freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly—and principles of due process and equal protection should be strictly protected.
The Three C’s
For her Substack, FAIR in the Arts Fellow Rosie Kay writes about covid, cancellation and cancer.
My cancellation story you may know, and if you don’t, I can signpost you to a link. A cancellation attempted or successful is similar to a bereavement. The internal framework of your entire life collapses and collapses quickly and totally. The death of my father felt like a wall of my life had collapsed and I wasn’t sure what else that wall was holding up. When I lost my company, I discovered that the other walls around me collapsed too. One has to re-evaluate everything and everyone in your life, who is or is not a friend, who is an enemy, who distances themselves quietly, who may prey on your vulnerability, and who actively goes out to join in some kind of ‘pile on’ against you, as if for sport. It is entirely disorientating and dizzying. I was lucky to be enveloped by a small team of trusted old and new supporters. Friends who called and kept a check on me, knowing just how much my dance company meant to me, and new friends who helped me work out the strategy of going forward and hopefully surviving.
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