Social Issues

A reader named Andrew Beckwith, a lawyer and president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, sent the following e-mail in response to my earlier post on religious liberty. I post it with his permission:

Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center have successfully transplanted a liver and kidney from one deceased HIV+ donor and transplanted them into two HIV+ recipients. The LA Times reports: The transplant surgeries, which used organs donated by the family of an HIV-positive woman, ended a 25-year stretch in which the organs of HIV-infected people willing to donate them were rejected for use in transplants. The experimental procedure follows the 2013 enactment of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, or HOPE, which repealed the ban on using such organs for transplantation.

Saudi Arabia have announced plans to execute homosexuals who ‘come out’ publicly on social media.  According to Oraz, a Saudi newspaper, prosecutors in the city of Jiddah are introducing the death penalty in response to an increase in prosecutions of people practising homosexuality in Saudi Arabia over the last 6 months. Washingtonblade.com reports: Okaz reported that Jiddah authorities have prosecuted 50 cases in which men allegedly dressed as women.

As President Obama explained in his Townhall in Cuba...

From ISIS marches in Germany to refugees "doing normal manly things" to women in Sweden, UKIP leader Nigel Farage confronts Angela Merkel and her peers in the European parliament over their dreadfully misguided immigration policies.