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Nurture, nature, or what you know?
My first serious encounter with the idea that gender identity is deeper than a simple chromosomal definition came from a patient more than twenty years ago that was identified as a female from birth, but discovered after decades of marriage that her pelvis contained undescended testicles, and no ovaries or uterus. The country doctor who…
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Genius Sometimes Hates Company
I’m a genius. I don’t need you to acknowledge it because it is true. You can accept my statement as truth because I have never lied to you, so we are good Here’s the thing- as a genius I know that telling kids that gay people exist when said children are very small will not…
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Does American Evangelicalism attract abusers or create them?
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2022 I copied the main text of this from a guy on Facebook, and I give my conclusion at the end “ William Gothard of Hinsdale, IL; Dr. Doty Murphy of Arkansas (now deceased); Ravi Zacharias of Atlanta, GA (now deceased); Benjamin T Mather of Montrose, PA; Dr William Flynn Walker of…
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The way it goes…
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 It is a dentist’s office and I am in his chair. The spot light over the chair doesn’t work, and before I come into this particular bay it takes twenty minutes of playing with the drill, I hear it from the other bay (where I am on hold), to get the…
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If I got paid to be be honest…
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 This is my first post, and so it behooves me to state here at the outset that this blog is about me being honest. I am going to write my thoughts naked, as it were. No one really cares about what Ed thinks, but the fact is that I do want…