Read more“It’s often noted by people on the left that conservatives don’t understand systemic oppression because they think of everything as an individual case. They fail to accept the larger picture that all of those cases create. I agree with this. But the corollary is that sometimes people who are left of center can fall prey to only seeing the systemic and missing the individual. I’m certainly guilty of that.”
Minidoc from Just Facts: In America, Women and Men Receive Equal Pay for Equal Work
Read more“You know what temptations are, you know how real they are. Yet I am commanded by God not to move in that direction, but to honor Him, because He wishes to live in this body. So whatever you are battling, here’s what I say to you: invite Him to live within you. That is to be His residence. And then let the One Who occupies that building tell you how to manage it and how to live with it.”
Minidoc from Just Facts: Thomas Jefferson, Human Rights, Racism, and Slavery
Read more“In the middle of one session, Andy put down the toy truck, held onto a Barbie, and said, ‘Mommy and Daddy, you don’t love me when I’m a boy.’ When Andy was 3, his sister with special needs was born, and required significantly more of his parents’ attention. Andy misperceived this as ‘Mommy and Daddy love girls. If I want them to love me, I have to be a girl.’ With family therapy Andy got better. Today, Andy’s parents would be told, ‘This is who Andy really is. You must ensure that everyone treats him as a girl, or else he will commit suicide.'”
