Don’t Worry Be Happy, Indoctrinated Kids, Indy Crime – American Family Association of Indiana
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
A new poll called the American Family Survey 2022 finds a very significant difference in happiness among differing worldviews.
Liberals, particularly liberal women, between the ages of 18 – 55 are significantly less likely to be happy and satisfied with their mental health in contrast with their conservative peers. Liberals are about 15 percentage points less likely to be “completely satisfied” with their lives.
University of Virginia Sociology Professor Bradford Wilcox observed that two family factors have a lot to do with this gap: marital status and family satisfaction. Given that conservatives aged 18-55 are about 20 percentage points more likely to be married, as well as 18 percentage points more likely to be satisfied with their families, the lesson here is obvious. Marriage and family are strongly linked to happiness and to positive mental health.
I would note that there may also be a faith difference and benefit here too. Research from George Barna has found that conservatives are twice as likely to have attended a church or a religious service during the past week as liberals (62% vs. 35%). Conversely, liberals are twice as likely as conservatives to be categorized as “unchurched.” (40% vs. 19%). Pew Research has found that Americans who are active in their faith are more likely to describe themselves as “very happy.”
It seems that the happiest people in America are those who are the least likely to be following the self-absorbed, anti-family, secular cultural messages of our day.
Not Just New York or Chicago Crime Problems
You may have heard that the coffee chain Starbucks has been closing a few stores in several large cities due to crime concerns. This will now include Indianapolis. Next week the Starbucks on Monument Circle will close. According to the Indianapolis Star, IMPD officers have been called to the store at least 11 times since the start of the year.
It’s Indoctrination – Not Natural Outcomes
An upper-middle-class Washington, DC suburb school corporation in Montgomery County, Maryland began a survey in 2019 of its students regarding sexuality. Part of this involves an item called a “gender support form.” In less than three years, the percentage of students who identify as transgender has increased by an astonishing 991%. This is a jump from 35 students to 423 who are gender confused and think they are “transgender.”
Many have raised questions as to whether parents have been notified of how their children have filled out these forms. (Schools tend to keep such information from parents.) The real question parents should be asking is “what on earth is being taught to children to make them identify this way at such an astonishing rate?”
The Unraveling of Marriage
A new report from a marriage research organization (MAST) finds a symptom of marriage decline among America’s youth. An overwhelming 8 out of 10 teenagers aged 15-19 years old say that they expect to cohabit before they marry. Nearly all say that they want to get married someday.
One would assume that almost all the 95% who say they want to marry also want a happy, successful, and lasting relationship.
The problem for these youth is that numerous studies have consistently found that couples who live together before marriage have a higher rate of divorce than those who do not cohabit before the wedding.
Many think that the rise in cohabitation is a result of a desire to avoid divorce, as a “trial marriage.” Most couples who cohabit never make it to the altar. Rather than avoid divorce, however, they often have similar pains of a divorce with a breakup after having bonded physically, financially, and in other ways by living together as if they were married. This emotional distress may bring extra challenges into a marriage relationship when it does happen.
A Troubling Trend
A year ago, a Portland, Indiana man with a criminal record of burglary and theft, admitted to setting fire to the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jay County. He told police that he did it because he thought the church “was at fault for Covid.”
The reason I mention this is because that incident is just one of 224 attacks on Catholic Churches in the past two years. It is unknown how many protestant churches have been vandalized. Since the Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs decision at least 73 pregnancy resource centers have been attacked, almost all of which are faith-based centers.
One might think that there is a story here about a rise in bigotry against people of faith, but don’t expect any national media to do a significant story on it, even though they claim to revere tolerance, compassion, and coexistence. Likewise, don’t expect the Department of Justice to do much about it. They are too busy arresting pro-life activists who pray outside abortion clinics.
America is very blessed to have religious freedoms that are unknown to millions around the world, but no country’s specific freedom is ever permanent if hatred of it is cultivated year after year.
In Their Own Words:
“A lot of my colleagues that work in psychiatry and emergency medicine are seeing a sharp rise in marijuana-related psychosis. European data shows that there’s a fivefold increase risk of first-episode psychosis with what they described as high potency THC, which generally is about 10%. So, we are really in uncharted waters here [in Colorado, with THC potencies of between 40 to 60 percent], with all these states going down this pathway.
The NIH came out with a paper last week showing that kids that are exposed [to cannabis] in utero tend to have psychotic-like episodes by the time they’re 10 years of age. Poison control calls are skyrocketing across the country in states that have both medical and recreational [cannabis] programs, particularly in the zero to five age group. . . Children will accidentally get a hold of edible cannabis products that often look like candy.” – Dr. Ken Finn, President of the American Board of Pain Medicine
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