Aussie SSM Advocates Scared of Public Referendum

The government's plan to hold a popular vote on whether Australia should allow same-sex marriage suffered a setback recently when a political party announced it would not support the proposed plebiscite.

The Nick Xenophon Team, which supports marriage equality, said its three senators would not support legislation to authorize the plebiscite, which would effectively become a US 120 million Australian dollar opinion poll without legal weight.

Dangers Posed by Red and Processed Meat

There is danger that eating processed meat can lead to bowel cancer in humans while red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said last 26 October in findings that could sharpen debate over the merits of a meat-based diet.

The France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the WHO, put processed meat such as hot dogs and ham in its group 1 list, which already includes tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes, for which there is "sufficient evidence" of cancer links.

Study Revealed Error In Media's Portrayal of Gender Identity

A major new report was just published in the journal The New Atlantis that challenged the leading narratives that the media has pushed regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

Co-authored by two of United States' prominent scholars on mental health and sexuality, the 143-page report discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences, painstakingly documenting what scientific research shows and does not show about sexuality and gender.

Courageous Judge Blocked Obama's Transgender Rule

A federal judge in Texas has just blocked the Obama administration's order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

In a temporary injunction signed last 21 August, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the federal education law known as Title IX "is not ambiguous" about sex being defined as "the biological and anatomical differences between male and female students as determined at their birth."

BLM Ain't Good At Anything

Black Lives Matter is coming under fire for its lackluster response to the catastrophic Louisiana flooding less than a month after mobilizing crowds to protest the shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge.

In an online video going viral, Baton Rouge resident Jerry L. Washington asks, "Where are the Black Lives Matter and the Black Panthers?"