"Would parents who hesitate to let their kids eat preservatives or nonorganic eggs consent to block the complex hormones that begin to flood kids' bodies at puberty?" I'd say that parents who force their kids to eat like that are even MORE likely to jam them full of hormone treatments that wreak havoc on a child's body, mind, and soul.

"It is likely cause not effect." This is a mere assertion. You have no idea if this is true or not. It is what you believe, no more.

That story is a distortion-fest, ripe for a "fact-checking."

Uh, LonPenn, you might want to read the details of the years-long ordeal the fire fighters had to face in order to vindicate those liberties. You are know for speaking out of ignorance here...do somehting to shed that reputation and put a little thought into your comments before you click the "post" button.

Lie.

"planned parenthood was created to address that problem" What a flat-out lie.

Yeah, good one, Lon. Sure, I don't care about the child. How ridiculous. No, actually, I do care about the child. That is why I am concerned about these women distorting his mind and lying to him about the existence of his father. As a society, we should not promote motherless and fatherless homes. And we certainly shouldn't rewrite biology textbooks in order to prop up the mockery of marriage and parenthood. And we shouldn't celebrate the conscription of children into a massive social experiment as if they are lab rats. No matter how good a mom is, she can NEVER replace a dad and vice versa. Is that really hard to comprehend, Lon?

When the State has the power to redefine words and institutions on behalf of small, but wealthy and powerful, special interest, the State has too much power.

No one is saying that anyone should force anything on anyone, K. But that doesn't mean society must celebrate the arrangement descibed in the story. Leftists like you seem to think that the mere existence of another opinion means that the person holding that other view is trying to "force" it on you. The Left is far more likely these days to use the coercive power of the State to force people into compliance with a worldview. That is not really debatable. Just take the issue of marriage -- it is the Left that is using the courts and other undemocratic means to force the rest of us to surrender to the ridiculous idea that two men can be "married" when that relationship cannot meet the bare definitional requirements of marriage.

(cont'd) To say that both a man and a woman is not necessary in the creation and nurture of a child is firstly a denial of bare biological facts (do we need to have "the talk?") and secondly a rejection of how human civilization has been propagated. Notice what has happened where meaning has been drained from marriage and children treated as if they didn't need both parents -- yeah, you get demographic disaster in Western Europe...and you get Detroit. Sure, we've survived until now, but Europe is already in a tailspin, and we are not far behind. Mostly because we have obliterated marriage and the family and we are doing more damage by the day. The idea that a child can have "two moms" who deny the existence of his father is part of that