Blog Heap o'Urantiana Links 24 May 2016

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Links regarding faith and belief
and men, women, marriage, and family life,
also sciences, the spritual and the 'supernatural,'
and, of course, Jesus of Nazareth.

Healing Ourselves

Advanced Melanoma Skin Cancer Survival Rate Jumps from 1% to 40%
Good News Network Tue 2016-May-24 11:45am

For patients with a deadly skin cancer who previously had few treatment options, a drug that will boost their immune systems has shown great promise.

After 655 patients with advanced melanoma received the drug pembrolizumab, a new study showed 15% of people in the trial had no sign of cancer three years later, achieving total remission.…

Man and Woman

Outrageous Gender Dictates
Big Fur Hat, IOTW Report Tue 2016-May-24 3:47pm

…The most offensive part of the new policy is that, under the Obama administration’s federal guidance:

School districts must allow biological males and females to spend the night together in the same hotel room on field trips;
Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates with one or more women; and
School officials cannot even tell those young women or their parents in advance that their new roommate is a man, without risking a federal lawsuit.

The plain wording of the Obama administration’s diktat is clear enough, yet it has not been reported, even by conservative news outlets.…

It Gets Tens of Thousands for Nonsense and Lies
Nickarama, Weasel Zippers Tue 2016-May-24 11:58am

A “transmasculine” teacher at an Oregon elementary school has been awarded $60,000 by her school district as compensation for harassment she claims to have suffered on the job, including being referred to by the wrong pronoun.…

Cites Daily Caller