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Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:19PM (#35630765)
> What we can agree on, however, is that God (or the pre-natal endocrine environment, if you prefer) makes certain people different, and that those people should be able to participate in social institutions like marriage consistent with their biology.

I mean, no, we can't agree on that restrictive phrasing.

Even to the extent we might agree that biological differences might sometimes be socially relevant, there is no special biological privilege to pre-natal effects.

(But mostly this seems to be appealing to the flawed “born different” premise for legal rights.)

Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by rayiner on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:50PM (#35635790)
“Born different” is the central premise of Obergefell. It states: “Far from seeking to devalue marriage, the petitioners seek it for themselves because of their respect—and need—for its privileges and responsibilities. And their immutable nature dictates that same-sex marriage is their only real path to this profound commitment.” The Human Rights Campaign, for its part, defines “sexual orientation” as: “An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.”

What I hear you saying, however, is that DeSantis is correct. Liberals really are using “accept people how God made them” as a pretext to teach kids “you can choose to be who you want to be.” If that is the case, we really do have an ideological war on our hands against the malign forces of secular humanism coming for our kids.