As California goes, so goes... what?

My dear friend Dale (who is supposed to be co-blogger here, but is highly distracted by her new "paradise") has been interviewed by Inside Catholic. Her book is essential reading, and would make a great gift for priest friends, who don't have time to wade through the essential data.

Her arguments come on two levels. The first, the lie:

Right. But once you start to lie, you've got to keep the lie going. So you have the case of a little boy who thinks he's a little girl. So the school has to tell everyone else -- including the kids who know it's not true -- that they should pretend that this little boy is a little girl, instead of explaining that he has a serious psychological disorder which needs treatment.

Every time we speak the truth, that truth will offend the defenders of the lie. In Massachusetts, the Catholic Church can't oversee adoptions because they won't give children to same-sex couples. So with each move we make, we'll come up against this.

You know the line the activists use -- "How does marrying the person I love affect you?" Well here's how. Now we know how it affects us. They don't simply want to have that relationship called a marriage by law. They have to silence everyone who says it's not a marriage.

The second is the truth. Dale's thesis since converting to the Church has been this: If the Church teaches something about how we are to behave, then scientific evidence will eventually back it up, showing that to depart from this teaching is to 1. diminish us as persons, and 2. have adversive physical or psychological effects. The trick is, scientists often have agendas and will present something that isn't true -- for various reasons. Dale has done the "grunt work" for decades, reading "their" material, poring over the research, and nailing the lies. God bless her!

UPDATE: a follow-up piece here. You simply must buy her book.