Richard Genck

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. This article was originally shared on The Free Press, by Jamie Reed on February 9, 2023 I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.  For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious …

This article was originally posted at: https://bridgetphetasy.substack.com/p/slut-regret See also: Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought Upon opening Louise Perry’s new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, I’m moved to tears by the dedication: “For the women who learned it the hard way” Unlike many other people who have read and reviewed Perry’s work, reading her book wouldn’t be some academic exercise in contemplating how liberal feminism has let women down. It wouldn’t be evaluating what those poor sluts over there have endured in the wake …

This article was originally shared on the Institute of Economic Affairs by Christopher Snowden. The general secretary of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady, said last year that Britain is a country in which ‘inequality soars’ and ‘social mobility has hit reverse’. The Guardian tells us that Britain is ‘Europe’s sweatshop’, a country where workers put in the longest hours in the EU. And it is a perennial lament that ‘the rich get richer while the poor get poorer’. Taken together, these assertions encourage a council of despair about the prospects of workers in the UK today, but they are all empirical …

Originally posted on Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) My teenage daughter has decided that she is “trans”. So have all her friends. Not some of them. Not most of them. Every. Single. One. She had never heard of trans, and had no signs of gender dysphoria,  until she was moved to a new, cool trans-friendly school by her unsuspecting, politically liberal parents. There she met a group of geeky (or dare I say nerdy?), smart, slightly (but not very) gender nonconforming, artsy kids. As I understand it, they all discovered  “trans” together. The old  “cis” friends were swiftly discarded …

You would not think we’d need an intensive historical seminar to help explain why transgenderism is obviously a very bad, destructive, anti-scientific, miserable ideology. But apparently we do so here it is:

How do I know if it’s revelation from God, the devil, or my own thoughts? I often hear personal revelation used as an excuse to disobey the council of prophets, apostles, and other Church leaders. I hear excuses like:  “Well, it was just the Church’s spokesman, not the prophet himself.” “This one time my stake president was wrong or a bad person, so I get to do what I want.” “Okay, fine, it was the prophet, but it was just the prophet, not all of the apostles and prophets together.” “Why didn’t it have the letterhead of the Church at …

Original article by J. Max Wilson One of the key doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that we have living prophets and apostles today who are authorized by God to receive revelations for the church and for the world. The scriptures are full of stories of how the people of the church rejected the messages of the living prophets, often justifying themselves by appealing to the words of previous prophets. Even Jesus was rejected by appealing to Moses or Abraham.As President of the Twelve Apostles, Ezra Taft Benson warned: “Beware of those who would set up …

Original Article: Watchmen on the Tower – On the Limits of Prophetic Fallibility by  J. Max Wilson Some of the responses to my recent post about rejecting living prophets by following future prophets have predictably raised the issue of prophetic fallibility. Among those members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who have decided to publicly oppose the apostles and prophets of the church, prophetic fallibility is almost invariably invoked to justify their rejection of the policy or teaching they find objectionable. It’s their catch-all defense for disobedience. Question: How can you, a believer, reject the words of the prophets of …

The coronavirus has been going on for a few days at the writing of this article, which many could write off as nothing more than a bad flu season. Then, something significant happened for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A 5.6 earthquake hit Salt Lake City UT, and just a few miles away the trump of the Angel Moroni was broken off. Many are speculating about the earthquake being referenced in this scripture, or that, but I think the greater significance is felt more personally. If God is preaching sermons through national disasters, a worldwide pandemic that is …

Written by Annie Holmquist for Intellectual TakeoutOriginal Article A few years ago, my church nursery had an influx of little boys, all born within a few months of each other. Nursery duty in the weeks before that cadre outgrew it was, well… energetic. Everything was visibly quieter when they left. The possibility of some baby suffering a concussion via a toddler wrestling match was replaced with petty squabbles between the next group of up-and-coming youngsters, most of whom were girls. Yes, cat fights exist even among toddlers. Anyone who worked in the nursery during those years could see firsthand that the …