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Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse 663 S. Rancho Santa Fe Road Suite 222 San Marcos CA 92078

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meanie, they dont have to refute my

arguments, or even make any arguments of

their own.

The subject of my original article in The

Blaze was my claim that removing the

gender requirement from marriage would

result in the state insisting that mothers and

fathers are interchangeable. I believe thatthis will impact men and women differently,

and that the net result will be the further

marginalization of fathers from the family.

I still believe that to be true. I still believe it

will be a very bad thing for society. I am not

ashamed of this belief, in spite of GLAADs

rather ham-handed attempt to shame me

about it.

The most telling point though is that Think

Progress did not even bring up the question

of whether redefining marriage will

marginalize fathers from the family. They

just changed the subject.

The war against women is another

example. The so-called feminists presume

to speak for the entire female sex. Anyone

who disagrees with their preferred policies ismaking war against women. The HHS

mandate requiring every employer to

provide contraception, sterilization and

abortion-inducing drugs is, in their fantasy

world, part of the war against women.

Do you see the assumptions they have

slipped in? Every woman values zero-cost

contraception more than anything else. No

woman anywhere in America has the

slightest moral qualms about abortion-

inducing drugs. No woman in America has

any loyalty to any religious body. There are

no social conservative women.

Ahem. Most women are surviving just fine

paying for their own contraception or using

natural methods that dont cost anything.

Many women are deeply troubled by

abortion-inducing drugs. Evidently the self-

proclaimed champions of the female sex

have not seen the inside of a church in a

long time, since many, many congregations

are dominated by women. And, by the way,

the social conservative movement is filled

with women, including the pro-life

movement, the abstinence education

movement, and the movement to popularize

natural family planning.

Once again, the lifestyle left has turned a

whole series of important questions into

assumptions: pregnancy is an illness that

ought to be prevented; women want sex to

be a sterile recreational activity, and religion

is unimportant to women.

This is the Rosetta Stone: the point of the

racket from the lifestyle left is to distract the

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Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse 663 S. Rancho Santa Fe Road Suite 222 San Marcos CA 92078

www.jennifer-roback-morse.com email: drj@jennifer-roback-morse.com 760/295-92782007 No part of this document may be reproduced or disseminated in any way without the expressed written consent of theRuth Institute.

reader or listener from the substance of the

discussion. Keep changing the subject so no

one has a clear picture of what is at stake in

the argument. Keep making nasty-sounding

attacks on people, so that a) no one wants to

get involved in an argument with the

lifestyle left, be they feminists or gays, b)

people become willing to concede whatever

the lifestyle left is asking for, just to makethe annoying clamor go away, and c) people

will start to shun the victims of the attack,

thinking that they must be at fault somehow

for bringing this on themselves.

So think of this tactic as a noise-bomb. Once

the noise starts, you are deafened and cant

think straight. Youve got to be prepared

with ear protectors. Or think of it as a smoke

bomb. Once your eyes are burning, it is toolate: you cant see and you are stumbling

around in the dark. The only defense is to

put on your goggles as fast as possible.

Recognizing this tactic quickly is the

equivalent of putting on your ear protectors

or your goggles. Once you are on the look-

out, you will see beyond any shadow of a

doubt that this change-the-subject strategy is

very common. The entire lifestyle left usesit, not only the gay left, but radical

feminists, the pro-abortion crowd, the whole

lot of them.

Forewarned is forearmed: once you can

identify the diversionary tactic, you will not

be victimized by it anymore.

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is an

economist and the Founder and President of

theRuth Institute, a nonprofit educationalorganization devoted to bringing hope and

encouragement for lifelong married love.

She is also the author of77 Non-ReligiousReasons to Support Man/Woman Marriage,Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to

Raise a Village andSmart Sex: Finding

Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World.

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