Judge ends enforcement of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. military to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting an end to the ban on openly gay troops.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. military to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting an end to the ban on openly gay troops.
Our previous item on the placement practices of the Catholic Diocese of Chicago can be looked at from the perspective of the Nobel prize in economics awarded for work in job matching. Why might priests who have been credibly accused of child abuse be assigned to churches in neighborhoods where there are a relatively high proportion of minorities, and relatively low income?
The pattern shows that the 97 priests, credibly accused of sexual abuse, who could be tracked served at approximately 60% of the Chicago parishes from 1917 through 2009. …the assignments seem to cluster in the less-wealthy parishes and in those that primarily serve minority communities.
Today is the 12th anniversary of the death of CBS News about the current deaths by suicide of victims of bullying.
The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia
We urge you to acknowledge the contribution of so many LGBT people, often partnered, to the ministry of the church, and to promote rigorous and prayerful study of the issues involved in the light of present knowledge.
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The threat of a single fundamentalist pastor to burn Islam’s holy book in a tiny never-heard-from-before church in Florida made international headlines recently. This incident broke open the raw areas in our collective consciousness where freedom of speech, religious conscience, and common decency meet. But it also reflected back to us our deep tendency to blame others for our ills.
The truth of universal force is recognized by science as a physical fact; it becomes in poetry a spiritual law. It follows that the delight of the poets centres no longer in permanent scenes, but dwells rather on those constantly shifting and successive manifestations of power which forever struggle to shadow forth to us the ideal beauty that lies beyond our senses’ ken.