The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Lilies, the Devil, and Rainbow Colors A Brief History of Our Sacred Symbols Vuk Bačanović Sarajevo’s first Pride march in which took place on 8 September 2019. Participants are marching under the slogan “Ponosno zajedno” (Proudly Together). Photo credit: Antonio Balic This year’s Sarajevo Pride produced exactly what contemporary politics increasingly specializes in: a symbolic scandal. A participant dressed as the Devil marched at the front of the parade, another wrapped Bosnia’s medieval lily emblem in rainbow symbolism, and within hours social media was flooded with warnings about sacrilege, national humiliation, and moral catastrophe. In a country that has survived war, ethnic cleansing, state capture, mass corruption, deindustrialization, and the systematic looting of public wealth, it was apparently a young man with a rainbow flag who finally crossed the red line. Let us set aside, for a moment, the fact that the struggle against discrimination based on whom people share the...

  SURROGACY: AMERICA'S NATIONAL DISGRACE Why is the US the freest baby market in the world? Frank Wright You can buy babies in all but one US State. Anyone can. From anywhere in the world. And they do. Today the  United Nations will call for the global criminalisation  of so-called surrogacy - which reduces human life to a consumer transaction. In this post I ask Why is the US the freest baby market on earth? How was the sale of babies to LGBTQ men begun in the US - 30 years ago Where is the outrage from the right at surrogacy - America’s national disgrace? CONTENTS - OVERVIEW Is surrogacy really a form of human trafficking? It is - even in America. Can pedophiles buy babies - and even run agencies selling them? Yes. Do US courts treat surrogate babies as the property of the buyer? Yes Is the new “reproductive technology” behind surrogacy erasing mothers - and set to replace the family itself? Yes. Plus -  Jordan Peterson  gives his blessing to gay IVF surrogacy...