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Good Bye
Today is my last day at Beliefnet (which I co-founded in 1999). The swirling emotions: sadness, relief, love, humility, pride, anxiety.
But mostly deep, deep gratitude.
How many people get to come up with an idea and have rich people invest money to make it a reality? How many people get to create
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"Steven Waldman Named To Lead Commission Effort on Future of Media In a Changing Technological Landscape" (FCC Press Release)
STEVEN WALDMAN NAMED TO LEAD COMMISSION EFFORT ON FUTURE OF MEDIA IN A CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced today the appointment of Steven Waldman, a highly respected internet entrepreneur and journalist, to lead an agency-wide initiative to assess the state o
posted 11:46:42am Oct. 29, 2009 |
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My Big News
Dear Readers,
This is the most difficult (and surreal) post I've had to write. I'm leaving Beliefnet, the company I co-founded in 1999.
In mid November, I'll be stepping down as President and Editor in Chief to lead a project on the future of the media for the Federal Communications Commission, the
posted 1:10:11pm Oct. 28, 2009 |
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"Beliefnet Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Steps Down to Lead FCC Future of the Media Initiative" (Beliefnet Press Release)
October 28, 2009
BELIEFNET CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STEPS DOWN TO LEAD FCC FUTURE OF THE MEDIA INITIATIVE
New York, NY - October 28, 2009 - Beliefnet, the leading online community for inspiration and faith, announced today that Steven Waldman, co-founder, president and editor-in-chief, will re
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Secularizing the Cross (Christian Activists: Be Careful What You Wish For)
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week, in Buono v. Salazar, about whether a white 6 1/2 foot cross can be displayed in a national park as a tribute to World War I soldiers. Though it's depicted as a classic clash of the secular and the religious, it actually illustrates why Christian act
posted 1:15:51pm Oct. 08, 2009 |
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posted July 16, 2008 at 7:53 pm
There is no reason why same gender couples shouldn’t adopt children. Many have successfully done so and the children are raised in loving homes. Heterosexual couples aren’t automatically better choices.
I totally disagree with McCain’s answer of preferring that children go to a foster home or an orphanage. Where’s the love for those children who need someone to love them and care for them?
posted July 17, 2008 at 10:03 am
==There is no reason why same gender couples shouldn’t adopt children.==
Soooo, fatherless/motherless homes are a benefit to children, is THAT it?
==Heterosexual couples aren’t automatically better choices.==
Especially when you gotta agenda to propagate.
==Where’s the love for those children who need someone to love them and care for them?==
“Someone” = “Anyone????
Love for children is expressed differently by men and women, and THAT’s why a child needs an on-scene father and a mother.
posted July 17, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Yes, love is expressed differently by males or females. But a child who needs love can get it from same gender couples just as well as opposite gender couples. Foster homes and orphanges can’t give individual love as a family can. Fatherless/ Motherless homes? That means that the kid’s are orphans.
How many heterosexual couples split and end up as a “single” parent home? That deprives a child or children of one parent. I expect in some folks version of the “ideal” world, there is the Dad and the stay at home, apron on, Mom. Guess what…an ideal world is one where the children are planned and wanted and loved and cared for…no matter what combination of parents they have.
posted July 17, 2008 at 5:40 pm
==…a child who needs love can get it from same gender couples just as well as opposite gender couples.==
That’s the PR, anyway. Yet, it’s still not true.
A child benefits from an on-scene father and mother, and he is deprived when only a man is there, or only a woman.
==Foster homes and orphanges can’t give individual love as a family can.==
Why not, if those who say they are homosexual can?
== Fatherless/ Motherless homes? That means that the kid’s are orphans. ==
Correct. In the same-sex hoursehold, which is the fatgher and which is the mother?
==How many heterosexual couples split and end up as a “single” parent home?==
Irrelevant. The rule is that the child, in that case, visits with his father/mother, or sees that the father/mother relationship, in others, is important and beneficial.
== That deprives a child or children of one parent.==
Yes, it does, and it’s frowned upon. It is ungodly. The child suffers there, too.
== I expect in some folks version of the “ideal” world, there is the Dad and the stay at home, apron on, Mom. Guess what…an ideal world is one where the children are planned and wanted and loved and cared for…no matter what combination of parents they have.==
The key word there is “combination.” The child needs a father AND a mother. Same-sex couples cannot provide that.
posted July 17, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I see, hetersexual couples splitting up is irrelvant. Interesting. Also there is not always visitation rights given in a divorce, thus the single parent. You mentioned that visitation is the rule…no, there are some cases where the non-custodial parent has no business seeing the child/children and a judge sees to that. Of course that is “ungodly”.
Fatherless/motherless homes mean that the parents have died, thus orphans…but I knew that would be spun. In a same gender household, why does there have to be a MOM and Dad?
And you know that the PR about same gender parenting being fine is untrue how? Personal experiance? Friends or what you have read?
Also find it intresting that you think an orphanage is preferable to a home life with parents. Or that being passed from foster family to foster family is also better than (gasp!) a same gender stable, loving family. In an orphanage, who is the Mom and who is the Dad your idea of the Ideal family? Hummmm.
Like I said above, in an ideal world, children are planned, wanted,loved and cared for …no matter what the parenting combination.
posted July 17, 2008 at 7:16 pm
==I see, hetersexual couples splitting up is irrelvant.==
Who said that?
==there is not always visitation rights given in a divorce, thus the single parent. You mentioned that visitation is the rule…no, there are some cases where the non-custodial parent has no business seeing the child/children and a judge sees to that. Of course that is “ungodly”.==
Those are the complications of law. They do not defeat and destroy the basic necessity, in the best interests of the child, of a mother and a father on the scene.
==In a same gender household, why does there have to be a MOM and Dad?==
Because the father and the mother are part of the basic unit of the family. A child needs the different perspectives. He benefits from them. Society benefits from them. There is nothing in the so-called “same-sex ‘marriage’” that benefits society. There’s nothing Godly about it.
==And you know that the PR about same gender parenting being fine is untrue how?==
Because God made everybody heterosexual. God points out that a child needs a father and a mother.
==…you think an orphanage is preferable to a home life with parents.==
What is preferable is a father and a mother for the child. An orphanage is a Godly substitute, if the only alternative is putting the child in an ungodly situation.
== Or that being passed from foster family to foster family is also better than (gasp!) a same gender stable, loving family. ==
Foster families have a better chance of being Godly.
== In an orphanage, who is the Mom and who is the Dad your idea of the Ideal family? Hummmm. ==
It is a Godly substitute. God tells us to take care of the fatherless.
Since God condemns what we now call “homosexuality” as an “abomination,” so-called “same-sex ‘marriages’” are not the Godly placement scenarios for children.
==Like I said above, in an ideal world, children are planned, wanted,loved and cared for …no matter what the parenting combination. ==
Except that God says that the child is served best by the union of a man, as husband, and a woman, as his wife.
posted July 17, 2008 at 7:25 pm
==I see, hetersexual (sic) couples splitting up is irrelvant.==
When stooping to point to that as “reason” to allow so-called “same-sex ‘marriage’”/adoption, yes.
posted July 17, 2008 at 7:35 pm
==… in an ideal world, children are planned, wanted,loved and cared for …==
That statement is a PR trick to get the answer “true” so that the person making the statement can claim some kind of victory.
The one making that statement — that car salesman’s trick — intends to gloss over the fact that so-called “same-sex ‘marriage’”/adoption is undesirable, as far as the child is concerned. Any ol’ love from any ol’ place is NOT desirable.
posted July 17, 2008 at 7:40 pm
So, if everybody agrees that, “in an ideal world, children are planned, wanted, loved and cared for,” the person making that statement assumes that they automatically accepts so-called same-sex ‘marriage’”/adoption. However, that’s not the case.
Lawyers do the same thing. They get you to accept abroad, commonly-accepted premise, then slap you with another premise that they say must be included in the premise you accepted. I’m too smart for that.
posted July 17, 2008 at 7:42 pm
they automatically accepts >>>>> they automatically accept
posted July 17, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Yeah, yeah yeah…mom and dad are best because “god” said so. I get it.
Tell that to a child who has been passed from one heterosexual foster family to another until she is 18 and on her own. Those foster families are more likely to be “godly”? What a crock!
You’re the one who said that it was irrelavant that heterosexual couples split up.
This world has changed since the “good old 1950′s” when everyone went to church,(and of course believed in “god”) had 2.1 children who always did as they were told by their heterosexual parents, mom stayed home and baked cookies, did all the housework, dad went to work and didn’t help around the house because it was “womans” work, etc. The Men were Men and Girls were Girls. BORING! What is true is there has never been an “ideal” time, as the world has always had it’s problems. I was part of that generation as a kid in a very happy family. My family was different as my dad always helped around the house and both mom and dad worked. However, I’m now happy that things have changed and people can be who they really are. There is no longer the stereotyped 1950′s family…or the perception of the ideal family as seen on TV..Father Knows Best fame.
Families can be as small as a single mom or dad and a child or same gender families, or heterosexual families or grandma and/or grandpa raises a kid and a multitude of other combinations.
posted July 18, 2008 at 8:43 am
==Yeah, yeah yeah…mom and dad are best because “god” said so. I get it.==
It’s good that you do.
==Tell that to a child who has been passed from one heterosexual foster family to another until she is 18 and on her own. Those foster families are more likely to be “godly”? What a crock!==
Still, children in a system are better off with the father-mother model that shows them how the world looks and how to deal with a male’s perspective and a female’s perspective.
==You’re the one who said that it was irrelavant that heterosexual couples split up.==
No, I didn’t.
==This world has changed since the “good old 1950′s”…==
Forced-according-to-agenda change, you mean.
==… when everyone went to church,(and of course believed in “god”) had 2.1 children who always did as they were told by their heterosexual parents, mom stayed home and baked cookies, did all the housework, dad went to work and didn’t help around the house because it was “womans” work, etc.==
Another car salesman’s trick.
You wanna make it seem as though all-a those elements have to be present in order to accept the model of a fatgher and a mother for the best interests of the child. Not all-a them do.
== The Men were Men and Girls were Girls. BORING!==
Soooo, the rest of us are to change cuz you’re bored?????
==I’m now happy that things have changed and people can be who they really are.==
In the case of those who claim to be homosexual, who they SAY they are.
== There is no longer the stereotyped 1950′s family…==
YOU’re the one stereotyping.
==…or the perception of the ideal family as seen on TV..Father Knows Best fame. ==
Things wsere a lot better under THAT model.
==Families can be as small as a single mom or dad and a child or same gender families…==
Not Godly, though.
==… or heterosexual families…==
The way God intended.
==… or grandma and/or grandpa raises a kid and a multitude of other combinations.==
God says that the best interests of the child are considered in and by the male-female as father and mother family.
posted July 18, 2008 at 5:45 pm
“I”, check your post of July 17, 5:40 PM and see who made the statement about heterosexual couples splitting being irrelavant.
“Forced-according- to agenda change, you mean”…No, if I had meant that I would have said that. (reference the world now not beling like the 1950′s)
Things were better under the Father Knows Best model? Yes, on TV. No one actually lived that way. Things that went wrong in families just weren’t talked about. There were the same problems then as there are now, in family situations….some husbands beat their wives, some molested their children, there were alcoholics (moms and dads), there were some families with a parent who was mentally ill (but that was not proper to admit) and there were children who weren’t allowed to be themselves, because they had to conform to a gender model.
And yes, “by god” there were even heterosexual couples that were “ungodly” in more ways then one.