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Twitter is among the worst offenders when it comes to Big Tech censorship. Hiding behind vague and ever-changing policies, the Big Tech giant is known to have been 'shadowbanning' conservative accounts for years. During the 2020 election race, Twitter suppressed damning stories about the Biden [...]

Has equality for women been achieved? You’ll hear quite different answers to this question depending on whom you ask. But here’s something we can all agree on: in the West, by almost any measure, today is the best time for women to be alive. This [...]

Once upon a time, if Former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson tweeted that a law before the Victorian parliament constituted the ‘biggest threat to our democratic freedoms in Australia’s entire legislative history’, someone may have heard. But the current modus operandi is not to hear [...]

The New South Wales Government is currently inviting comment on draft legislation entitled the Children’s Guardian Amendment (Child Safe Scheme) Bill 2020. The legislation has been drawn up in response to the work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and [...]

Here’s an interesting insight into how the game of politics is played. Regarding the Victorian 'Suppression (Conversion) Bill' where the MPs stated the "government (had) also led 21 face-to-face discussions, including with faith groups" a ministry mate of mine -- under a freedom of information [...]

“Removing healthy breasts is irrevocable and unconscionable,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., in response to the California Department of Insurance stating insurance companies must pay for the breast removal of teenaged girls “transitioning” to boys. Further, these operations are no longer [...]

Are we now in the end times Scripture speaks about? Just a few days ago, I was asked if I thought we were living in the last days. I get asked this quite often. I replied as I usually do by saying four brief things: [...]

The polarisation of medicine and medical defence organisations. The mutually exclusive “affirming” pathways for children wishing to change sex represent a clear ethical divide in which it is essential for medicine, not activists and not governments, to be decisive and authoritative. There is no neutral. [...]

By Leah Russell. A few weeks ago, the Victorian parliament passed the Suppression Practices Prohibition Bill in the Lower House, and it looks set to sail through the Upper House and into law unless there is a massive outpouring of protest. This Suppression Practices Bill [...]

The new Australian Medical Association Code of Conduct (COC) that takes effect as from 1 Oct 2020 is not a code of ethics, but it could easily be interpreted as such with legal penalties for transgression. Concerns include It subjects itself to law Freedom of [...]

John Anderson AO, an icon for the abandoned cultural conservationists in Victoria, tweeted earlier this week: https://twitter.com/JohnAndersonAO/status/1338292637321740288 That wasn’t a headline we read anywhere. And it’s not the first time he’s raised his deep concerns. In August 2020 in an interview on SKY News [...]

‘Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.’ ~ Romans 12:2 This is part 4 of a multipart series exploring the ideas around the secular ideology of Critical Theory in the book ‘Cynical Theories: How Universities Made [...]

The militants seeking to destroy Lyle Shelton are coming after all of us: One hates to do it, and one hates to sound like a broken record, but really, I told you so! Indeed, a number of us tried to tell you. Many of us [...]

A High Court in the United Kingdom ruled it unlikely that minors suffering from gender dysphoria are able to give informed consent for hormone-blocking drugs. Ruth Institute Founder and President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., was greatly encouraged by this ruling. “Keira Bell, one of [...]

The cultural and overall societal impact of the deluge of sexual assault and harassment accusations has only just begun to be realised. Already, careful observers -- both men and women alike -- are noting that the broad and fuzzy definition of "harassment" can encompass behaviors [...]

While Christian Porter has delayed the introduction of the Religious Freedom Bill until 2021 due to COVID-19, the Attorney-General Jill Hennessy has sought to make hay while the sun shines. Hennessy has introduced the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 into the Victorian [...]

Under the guise of preventing harm from what is commonly known as "conversion therapy", the Victorian Labor government has tabled the Suppression Practices Prohibition Bill 2020. The harm argument is central to the bill, so assessing what the Bill defines as "harm" should be at [...]

What tumultuous times are they in which we live? Not so longer ago in Australia, it was a criminal offence to engage in homosexual sex. But if a proposed bill in Victoria regarding ‘conversion therapy’ is passed, it will be a crime to persuade -- [...]

Ruth Institute praises judge in clergy sex abuse case, calls on Church to laicize offending priest. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Fr. Michael Guidry’s conviction and 10-year sentence for child molestation handed down in 2019. Ruth Institute Founder and President Dr. Jennifer [...]

Religion and sex don’t mix. At least, that’s the narrative of the sexual revolution: religion is prudish, even oppressive, and ruins the sex lives of religious people. But I came across some recent (2019) research that challenges this narrative. In fact, it flips this narrative [...]