This article was posted on July 20, 2021, at Church Militant.
While anti-family forces ramp up their efforts, pro-family forces must ramp up theirs. To that end, experts at a pro-family conference this weekend in
the Pelican State discussed the ongoing war in the sexual revolution. Church Militant’s William Mahoney has a few highlights from the event.
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse: “The purpose of the summit for survivors of the sexual revolution is to try to enlist more people in pro-family activism.”
The overarching theme of the 2021 Survivors’ Summit in Lake Charles, Louisiana,
was established in the opening presentation titled “Understanding the Global Sexual Revolution and Confronting the Sexual State.”
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse:
The Ruth Institute has a dream that every child be welcomed into life in a loving home with their own mother and father married to each other, so that
every child can have a relationship with his or her own parents unless some unavoidable tragedy takes place to prevent it.
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, who gave the opening talk, is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which hosted the event.
The Ruth Institute is a global interfaith coalition equipping Christians to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Dr. Morse: “It’s the same playbook for how they push out junk science to make a point that isn’t true. And we have here in the room people with expertise
who are in a position to refute that stuff.”
Opening talks on Friday were followed by a fourth annual awards dinner that honored Sharon Slater as activist of the year, Katy Faust for her book of the year, Them Before Us, and Baptist pastor Walter Hoye as witness of the year.
Hoye was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to 30 days in prison for standing on the sidewalk near a Planned Parenthood abortuary in California with a sign,
“Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help.”
Hoye gave the keynote address: “Black and Pro-Life in America.”
Pastor Walter Hoye: “Black Americans are facing irreversibility. … We came from big families, but that’s not true anymore. And it’s at the point now
where we’re getting to the point where we’re going to be facing irreversibility.”
Medical experts included the president of the American College of Pediatricians, a representative of the Catholic Medical Association and executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs.
There were also legal experts, therapists and personal survivors of the sexual revolution like Walt Heyer, a man who
once lived as a woman.
Walt Heyer: “We are so reluctant to be bold and be truthful about the fact that no one can change their gender, there are no transgenders,
nobody transitions. Gender dysphoria is only a symptom of something deeper; it’s not a diganosis.”
The Ruth Institute will be publishing the presentations and panel discussions in the coming weeks.
In the coming days, Evening News will offer highlights of the Ruth Institute’s Survivors’ Summit,
as well as discussions with featured speakers.