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Depriving Children of a Mother Isn't Something to Celebrate

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his “husband” Chasten recently created a stir by announcing that they had adopted newborns Penelope Rose and Joseph August. In a rather uncomfortable photo-op, the two men are pictured in a hospital bed as if one of them had just given birth, despite the glaringly obvious fact that neither of them ever have or ever will. Not pictured, somewhere, out of frame, Penelope and Joseph have a mother who recently brought them into the world. And they will grow up without her.

But what is the response coming from mainstream media and fawning Twitter followers? “Beautiful!” “Wonderful” “Hope for the future!” If the future is children being raised without a mother (or without a father) in order to fulfill adults’ desires, then the future is not as rosy as people claim.

Placing the desires of adults over the needs of children should not be normalized and it certainly should not be celebrated. These two little ones will grow up with anything money can offer, but what they will be missing is something that money can never buy: a mother.

Adoption is a beautiful thing because it brings healing to tragic situations. In every adoption, a child has lost his or her parents, whether through death, abandonment and neglect, or a mother’s difficult choice to place her child for adoption in a sacrificial pursuit of her child’s best interest. Whatever the circumstances leading to a child’s adoption, the loss of one’s biological parents is a tragedy.

Join the #HelpNotHarm Campaign!

Children shouldn’t be sterilized.

They shouldn’t be mutilated.

And they shouldn’t be left to deal with the regret that follows.

Yet right here in America, that’s what’s happening to children who are struggling to accept their God-given bodies. Instead of real, compassionate help, they’re met with hormones and a scalpel.

Our children are in danger. At an age when they can’t even buy cough syrup over the counter, they’re being pushed to stop puberty, take cross-sex hormones, and even prepare to amputate healthy body parts. This shouldn’t be happening.

That’s why today we are pleased to announce the launch of an important new initiative by Family Policy Alliance with full support from Minnesota Family Council: Help Not Harm.

Help Not Harm is our answer to the gender war on our children. We have a vision of a country where children are offered real help, not the harm of experimental hormones and surgery. A nation where wounds are healed, not created. A place where children have room to embrace the person God made them to be – not pushed to change their entire body.

But to get there, it will take all of us. 

Help Not Harm gives you the tools you need to get involved. When you visit the Help Not Harm page, you’ll find opportunities to:

• Take action by signing the petition that asks leaders to protect children from dangerous transgender interventions
• Share the truth with friends using ready-made social media posts and hashtag #HelpNotHarm
• Learn about the realities of transition and get equipped with the facts

Unwoke: Why Our Culture Needs Manly Men

Our culture sees masculinity as just a feeling - a bad feeling. MFC's own Jack Bittner shares why our culture needs manly men to rise up!

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