Defend the Family Like Your Life Depends on It!

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.Founder and President

The Ruth Institute

Midwest Catholic Family ConferenceWichita, KS

August 5, 2018, 2-3:00 PM

Life in Louisiana:

Two seasons.

From June 1 through November 30:

Hurricane Season

Rita: 2005

From December 1- May 31:

Crawfish Season

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I know you are upset:

◼ We feel as if the solid

ground is shifting

under our feet. But:

◼ Indirect victims,

Innocent clergy.

◼ Direct Victims,

including children,

adolescents, and

subordinates. 7

The Final Battle:

◼ ‘The final battle between the

Lord and the kingdom of

Satan will be about Marriage

and the Family. …whoever

works for the sanctity of

Marriage and the Family will

always be fought against and

opposed in every way,

because this is the decisive

issue.’

OUTLINE

◼ Part I: Information about the Sexual

Revolution

❑ What is the Sexual Revolution?

◼ Contraceptive Ideology

◼ Divorce ideology

◼ Gender Ideology

◼ Part II.

❑ Help your family

❑ Help the Church.

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A good and decent society should:

1. Separate sex from babies.

The Contraceptive Ideology.

2. Separate both sex and babies from marriage.

The Divorce Ideology.

3. Wipe out all differences between men and

women, (except those explicitly chosen by individuals.)

The Gender Ideology.

Individual 45 minute talks on these 3 topics.

Ruth Institute podcasts: on “The Sexual State”

➢ Culture of Death:

http://www.ruthinstitute.org/podcasts/culture-

of-death-the-sexual-state

➢ Divorce Ideology:

http://www.ruthinstitute.org/podcasts/divorce-

ideology-the-sexual-state

➢ Gender Ideology:

http://www.ruthinstitute.org/podcasts/gender-

ideology-the-sexual-state

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Contraceptive Ideology:

Sex is sterile, and an entitlement.

Harvey Weinstein Theodore McCarrick

Ashley Madison: “Over 41 million

anonymous members!”

The Divorce Ideology:

Kids Don’t really need their own

parents.

The Ruth Institute has a dream:

that every child be welcomed into a

loving home with a married mother and

father.

The Ruth Institute has a dream:So that:

Every child can have a relationship with his or her

own parents, unless some unavoidable tragedy

takes place to prevent it.

Every adult, without exception, can know his or her

cultural heritage and genetic identity.

When these rights are violated, we call this a

structural injustice to the child.

Competing Worldviews:

➢ Every child (and hence every adult) has identity rights and relational rights with respect to their parents, and adults have obligations to provide these things to children.

➢ Every adult has a right to the sexual activity they want, with a minimum of inconvenience, and children have to accept whatever the adults choose to give them.

Why is divorce or parental separation

so hard on kids?

Risks for children of divorce: Getting sick Dying at a younger age

Falling behind in math Fewer close friends

Smoking Suffering academically

Needing Ritalin for ADHD Not finishing high school

Losing contact with grandparents Having a stroke

Drug or alcohol abuse Early sexual activity

Engaging in criminal activities Sleep problems

Getting divorced

as an adult

Less

parental supervision

Not finishing college Not attending church

Doubting parents’ religious beliefs Feeling a lack of compassion from their

church

Persistent feelings

of loneliness

Thoughts of suicide or violence

“Effects of Divorce on Children”

Dr. Pat Fagan

40 closely typed

pages.

333 footnotes.

Gender ideology: A good society

should wipe out all differences

between men and women.

Except those the individual explicitly

chooses to bear.

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The gender ideology:

morphs from “feminism” to “transgenderism.”

Banned: Father-Daughter

Dances Required: Gender Neutral

bathrooms

Gender Ideology:

The body is not really significant.

◼ Bruce Jenner: Note

the stereotypical

image of

“femininity:”

Just one problem with

The Sexual Revolution:

❑ 1. Separate sex from babies.

◼ Sex does make babies! ◼ 2. Separate both sex and babies from

marriage.

◼ Kids do need their parents! ◼ 3. Wipe out all differences between men

and women, (except those explicitly chosen by individuals.)

◼ The body actually is significant!

The Sexual Revolution:

Is irrational and impossible.

It cannot stand on its own. It requires: forcepropaganda

A totalitarian ideology that no Christian should have anything to do with.

The Final Battle:

◼ For all our problems,

the Catholic Church is

the last institution

holding out against

the Sexual

Revolution.

◼ The Evil One wants to

take us down.

Part II: What you can do to help.

◼ Part II.

❑ Help your family: Learn and

understand what is going on!

❑ Help the Church.

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The Sexual State: How Elite

Ideologies are Destroying Lives and

why the Church was right all along.

◼ forthcoming from TAN

publishers August 23.

◼ Kind of an unfortunate

subtitle: why the

Church was right all

along.

◼ Take a flyer.

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The Sexual State:

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Help your family!

◼ Understand the Sexual

Revolution.

◼ Identify the propaganda!

◼ Support each other.

◼ Pre-Order this book

today.

◼ Regular price $27.95 +

shipping.

◼ Today only! $25, includes

shipping and autograph!31

Help the Church:

Change the playing field

The S-L-O Method

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Review the “S” and “L.”

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S = Support the whistleblowers

◼ Provide housing

◼ Alternative employment

◼ Friendship

◼ Letters of reference.

◼ We can do this whether the bishops change

any of their policies.

◼ We change the incentives for the church

institutional structures.

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“James,” McCarrick’s 20-year victim

◼ 11 years old

◼ Tried to tell his

parents: no one

believed him.

◼ Even his sister was

shocked when he told

her this past June.

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L= Listen to Victims and

whistleblowers

◼ What if people had listened to James? At

least, his life would have been better.

◼ We can do this whether the bishops change

any of their policies.

◼ We change the incentives for the church

institutional structures.

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Sign our “petition:”

We believe you, James.

◼ Tell this anonymous man, now 60 years old,

that we believe him.

◼ At the top of the Ruth Institute Facebook

page.

◼ https://www.citizengo.org/en/164970-we-

believe-you-james-and-are-sorry-no-one-

listened-we-pledge-do-

better?tc=fb&tcid=49867645

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Let’s talk about the “O.”

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Can you help your bishop if he

needs support?

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Can you confront your bishop if he

is doing wrong?

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Either way, for the laity, the

answer is the same:

Organize!

S-L-O

O= Organize!

Whom do we organize? Victims and

Survivors of the Sexual Revolution.

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◼ Children of Divorce

◼ Reluctantly Divorced

◼ Refugees from the

Hook-up Culture and

the Gay Lifestyle

Post-abortive Woman

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◼ You already are

aware of the Post-

Abortive Woman:

◼ She is already making

a difference.

How many Victims and Survivors?

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Suffering Bystanders are “Victims and Survivors” too.

How do we organize the Survivors

of the Sexual Revolution?

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◼ Form Book Clubs

◼ Educate and equip

yourselves.

◼ Meeting regularly

◼ Forming networks.

◼ Setting aside time for

activism.

◼ You will be ready!

Form a book club

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◼ We provide tools.

◼ Take one of these

invitation cards with

you.

Form a book club: We

provide curriculum.

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Join us on-line

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◼ On-line, monthly, with

special expert guests.

◼ Take the post-card to

remind you to contact

us.

◼ We will get you

started.

Alpha Males Like the Sexual Revolution

We have it on good authority that the

Church will survive (even our own

corruption.)

What future shall we build together?Evacuation from Dunkirk, June 1940

What future shall we build together?

“If we fail…..” “then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties,

This was their finest hour….

and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

Let this be our finest hour.