| MercatorNet | May 18, 2017 |
‘Non-binary’ pair get the Piers Morgan treatment
The British TV host gives them a grilling.
Sexual revolutionaries tend to get a free pass from major media, but you have to feel sorry for the two “non-binary” people “interviewed” by celebrity television host Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain yesterday. With his trademark aggression he interrogated Fox and Owl (yes, those are their non-committal names) in a style worthy of the Stasi.
The questions themselves were fair enough though: What does it mean to be non-binary? Why do I have to take such made-up identities seriously? Where does it end – to a contagion spreading among schoolchildren? To Morgan’s right to call himself “a black woman” if that’s what he feels like?
Answers were sometimes evasive. Race was a touchy subject. A transgender suicide statistic was cited but British figures were not known. However, Fox and Owl seems pleased with the publicity and posted the video on YouTube, asking everyone to share it.
And they made Morgan a gift of a newly-minted book, illustrated by Fox, Are You a Boy or are You a Girl? It’s intended for kids aged 3 and up – and that really is the most useful information to come out of the interview. Look for it in the kindy library before you enrol your child.
May 18, 2017
Conscientious objectors to killing were often regarded as traitors during last century’s great wars. Today they tend to be seen as heroic figures, prepared to endure disgrace and even punishment for their non-violent beliefs.
Ironically, refusing to have anything to do with abortion or euthanasia – ways of killing that do not even have the excuse of national or self-defence -- could soon make a doctor or nurse a professional pariah, as a Swedish midwife already knows, to her cost.
Yet between two articles today we hear solid arguments for doctors to speak up for and hold fast to their right to practice their profession without violating their deeply held conscientious beliefs.
Read more in Michael Cook's interview with Sydney law professor Michael Quinlan, and in excerpts from a paper by the late, outstanding bioethicist Edmund Pellegrino.
Carolyn Moynihan
Deputy Editor,
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