Katy Faust believes the legalization of same-sex marriage and the rise of same-sex parenting has had detrimental consequences for children. She explains why she views the issue not through hate, but as a conflict between adult desires and children’s natural rights. “You don’t have a right to marry somebody else if it means that a child loses their fundamental, natural, God-given, self-evident right to be known and loved by both their mother and father.” “The pseudo-adult rights of gay marriage have always come at the expense of children’s fundamental natural right to be known and loved by their mom and dad.” “These adult rights always genuinely infringe on child rights.” “In the United States, over the last 11 years since Obergefell, we have seen the systematic stripping of children’s right to the two people responsible for their existence.” “We see the scrubbing of gendered terms, mother and father, from our parentage statutes.” “We see a direct connection between gay marriage and child commodification in the world of Big Fertility and the reproductive technology market.” “Just because you really want something, it doesn’t make it a natural right.” @katy_faust @thembeforeus

"The Bicameral Mind" proposes that ancient civilizations were not conscious, that instead they heard voices in their head (of the gods or spirits) telling them what to do. Therefore: spirits are as real as human consciousness, and likewise require the substrate of a mind.