A sexpert who believes that sexuality is defined simply by pleasure and penned a graphic ‘how-to’ article for men on masturbation is about to publish a children’s book about how babies are made.
The homosexual rights community is getting behind the book for its positive portrayal of the dozens of alternative methods that can be used to create a new human life (about 30 according to the author). The author intends that his “book for kids about sex,” aimed at pre-schoolers through to 8-years-olds, will also be accompanied by a teacher’s resource to assist its implementation in a school setting.
Written by Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, What Makes a Baby is what the author calls “my response to the fact that books about where babies come from leave many of us out.” The book is designed to include “all kinds of families - regardless of how many people were involved, what the orientation, gender identity, or other make up of the family is, or how it came to be that way.”
... Silverberg disparages traditional stories that tell what he calls a “nice story (mommy + daddy + intercourse = you!)” adding, “more and more of us are acknowledging the help we get to bring children into our lives. That help might be a doctor, fertility clinic, adoption or foster agency; it might be a turkey baster and a friend; it might be a sperm donor or a surrogate.”
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Every child has exactly one mother and one father. Just because a lesbian partner uses a turkey baster for the insemination, that doesn't make her (or the turkey baster) the baby's daddy.
No doubt the gay community, especially those who manufacture babies, will embrace this book. And perhaps a handful of gay allies will blindly go along with it as well. That doesn't make the entire concept any less delusional or any less harmful to the children they're manufacturing.
This is what is meant by homosexuality being a mental disorder. Unable to accept that which all of the world has rejoiced over for all of civilization: that the union of a man and a woman is the only way babies are created, and that babies are literally composed of the parts of that one man and one woman.
And even more disordered is the fact that rather than participate in this miracle of nature, they prefer to degrade it to make themselves feel better about their decision to participate in their self-absorbed, non-procreative activities. Pathetic.
No child has ever been created without the participation of one man and one woman.
"Written by Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, What Makes a Baby is what the author calls 'my response to the fact that books about where babies come from leave many of us out.'"
Basically, biological facts make them feel left out. That's too bad, because every child is made by a man and a woman. Silverberg supposedly wants to talk of sperm, eggs, and uteruses "without gendering them or the bodies they reside in or come from." How this is possible without stupefying children into utter ignorance and feeding them wild myths is beyond me.
"The book is designed to include 'all kinds of families - regardless of how many people were involved, what the orientation, gender identity, or other make up of the family is, or how it came to be that way.'"
Surely the book will include these stories. After all, Silverberg is tired of the "nice stories," i.e. a man and woman in love have sex and their children result. He wants kids to know about the ways in which people get "help" to bring children into their lives. Well, these stories fit the mold.
http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2011/02/amy-alkon-where-was-his-right-to-choose.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_gal_is_rubber_robber_DCGfEDf4vcBl12VJaiIo2N
Going through the tabloids to see examples of children thriving with their mothers and fathers. I see this type of story way to often. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/accused_baby_beater_to_face_homicide_mKLtzIlklRBRtYVyQ4xbpM
"The book is designed to include “all kinds of families - regardless of how many people were involved, what the orientation, gender identity, or other make up of the family is, or how it came to be that way.”
Redefining family in lock step with redefining marriage.
Don't worry everyone. It's not hurting anyone!
@JR -
The beater was NOT the father. This is a classic case where if the father had stayed around and married the mother, the kid would have had a lifetime protector. 70% illegitimacy rate in the African American community where marriage is actually discouraged through Welfare laws.
This is the reason why we need marriage. Kids need both their mom and dad.
Same-sex couples have nothing to do with this because they don't procreate.
Regarless of religion or ethical beleifs, these types of families do exist. Children are created this way. You can't change that. Wouldn't you want to teach your children about the world as it is???
Silverberg must really hate traditional marriage. My girlfriend and I support traditional marriage, and we're major opponents of same-sex "marriage" or whatever GLAAD calls it.
Watch out, Silverberg. Fire and brimstone on the way.
--Victor Golf Charles
Truly sickening.
Cpmment#3 is a red herring and has nothing to do with the blog.
Resist -An earlier Post story and a NY Daily News story reported the killer was the father. Perhaps, sadly enough, the mother did not know who the father was. I guess that is something for Harry Jackson and other black pastors to blame on the existence of gay people.
JR -
It's not blaming gay people that's the issue; can you not think of yourself and your ilk for a second?
The point is that if the father took responsibility for the rearing of the child he created and married the mother, the child would not have had to suffer at the hands of a stranger.
The purpose of marriage is to promote responsible procreation through the lifetimes union of men and women; same-sex couples are inherently irrelevant to that purpose.
Great comments from my fellow marriage supporters.
Ash, I agree with you. And I do hope Silverberg includes those examples of family creation in his book. After all, they are certainly "Ways to Make a Baby."
Yep, Barb. He says he wants to include stories, regardless of "how it came to be that way." It seems that the stories I linked to apply.
And, if you can teach a child that a woman got her friend to make a "donation," and then impregnated herself with a kitchen utensil, then the stories in my links aren't much more dramatic!
No matter what, each child is the product of one man and one woman. And only marriage supports and encourages that man and woman to take equal responsibility for each there and for their child.