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I would like to win an ipad. It's been my uncles wish to have one for quite a while and i would love to give one to him these holidays.
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Enter now to win the iPhone, iPad, or iPod of your dreams from iMore!
iPad mini, they are minificent!
I would love to have a Ipad for my daughter that has asperger's,spd,hyperlexia,and speach delay.
I would like to win an ipod touch 64GB because my family dosent earn much money and i really want some thing special for my birthday.It is 12/25 honestly , and that would be the greatest gift ever !
I want the iPad! First, I can't afford it and it's a really great gadget ever made! :) Hopefully this is open to Philippine residents. Merry Christmas everyone & a Happy New Year :)
iPhone 4...just so I can get the "Psych" skin :P
i would love an ipod 5 please, everyday i go to apple.com and stare at it, because that's all i can do cant afford one right now, too busy with college. And finding a job is not easy. :D thankyou.
new iphone please!
I would love an iPod Touch 5th generation :)
I would love to recieve iphone 5 cause it's the most amazing iphone yet,as apple says and i too agree with them.It's a standardised device with most amazing applications and what to talk of it's smartness.Simple,sleek,thin,tall and more mentally skilled it's most amazing and i want to be amazed by it.That's why i would love to have iphone 5
I want a apple Ipad Mini, because i never win a price in my life and i want this for Xmas. :D Thanks. Merry Xmas!
I really bad want an iPod so i can stay in touch with my cousions in seattle WA, I want to be able to text my cousin with Autisum and does not talk! Please choose me!
you already HAVE an IPad!
I want an iPhone 5 because I don't have any Apple products and I never touch them. Poor me.
Well... why I would like to have an IPAD3 3G? Because, it's more useful than the majority people thinks.... I don't have a job and I don't have money to buy it.... And I realize that most of people use it to organize their life! I would like to have it to take notes when I'm attending a meeting, conventions, and more. I'd be very fast to do some things that usually take me a lot of time!
would love to get an iphone 5 for my birthday on Christmas Eve..
I want an iPhone never experience any apple products it would make my Christmas Merrier if you could give me one and let me experience its magic :)
ed an ipad mini so bad because i dont have a computer so every day i have to do homework on a library computer and the library is 3 blocks away
please give me an ipad mini
I would like an iPhone 5 please, happy holidays
An iPad mini, so that our girls little hands can do big things on it!!
iPad 2 or iPhone 5, love the design, feature, definetely want it so much!!! :)
I would like the iPad 4, why? Because im always on the go and i get tired of carrying my laptop around everywhere i go. The iPad would be perfect for me to do my school work on, stay in touch with my friends, play games while im riding the subway in NYC and keep my niece busy when im babysitting her.
i want iphone 5 ............please:).......
i want iphone 5 because i have never use touchscreen phone but i know that the iphone is one of the best touchscreen phone.....:)..
i love an iphone 5 because i think i can get access through apple products and get general information about this product .
I'd love an Ipod Touch! I can find many ways to implement it into my teaching!
I would love an Ipod touch... it would make running so much smoother then my dinosaur of a MP3 player!! Thankyou!!!
"We'll announce winners each week when we announce the next way to enter. That's it. That's all."
Hm, people are entering their comments since Dec 3 and still no winners announced.... Only one word to say: scam!
I would love a iphone 5 or a ipad mini surprise me please!!!!!!!!!!!
would love a new ipad!!!
I really want an iphone 5 because I always wanted one since the first one came out. I never really had the money. This all I want for Christmas.
iPad for my wife…she's a musician and loves garageband!
i want iphone 5 please.......i just love it....
Dec 22nd, and its my birthday :)
never had an 'apple' before, cost me a fortune just to think of having 1 of it,
iPad? iPhone? if only I can have any..
good luck for all!
some might call the iphone 5 a 5*2 rectangular box. but i under stand its value and if i get i would make sure to make best use of the thinnest,lightest....(there's a long list of iphone 5 s features).and also christmas and new years coming and i'd be glad to show it off to my friends. guys please i want it...................................................................................................................................................................
Please i want iphone5 because i love it and i we mark use of it
Please i went and iphone 5 give me give me it we be the best christmas ever
i really want an iphone 4s, so i can communicate better to my relatives. an i also want it because it is user-friendly!!thanks :)
Iphone 5 please because some swine stole my handbag last week with mine in it
I would like an ipod touch please and if i dont get one i can always try again but i hope i do im one of the kids in my school that dont have an electronic that you can get on the internet with.
iPhone 5 please :) always dreamed about it!
i phone is a master piece and hence to own latest i phone would be a dream come true for me!!!
I want an Iphone 5 or Ipod touch
\ I've been using the Nokia lumia 610 for 3 months now and i'm completely dissatisfied with windows phone and nokia. It just damn sucks. There are absolutely no apps that run on it,its very laggy,no video download like itunes,marketplace is very small,no good games,it just suck.I'm sick windows phone.
While the Iphone is awesome. Ios is the best.Its just one awesome phone
Ipod is the best entertainment device in the world.
i'd like an iphone 5 coz my x mobile got washed of in my washing machine
White Iphone 5, please.
I would love to win an Ipad because with this I can communicate with my relatives, friends and my dad abroad. And I think receiving an Ipad for Christmas from you WILL BE THE BESTEST GIFT EVEEEEER!
hey i would absolutely love an IPhone is would be amazing im 16 and i still dont have my own phone and two of my best friends live in melbourne and others plus my grandparents live 7 hours away so i only get to see them maybe once a year so face time would be awesome to chat to everyone i know thaty im one in 3803 people entering this but i never have won any competitions ever so this may be my chance thanks
I'm going to sound hideously materialistic, which is definitely not the look I'm going for. But I've always had to put up with (I know, people have it a lot worse than this) phones that do nothing but the bare minimum. So I find myself constantly rushing around, checking emails, setting alarms, writing in calendar dates. When it would all be so much easier if I had all that in one place. So because of that, and iPhone of any description would be a lifesaver.
I would like an iPod Touch please.
iPad for my wife… musician that loves Garageband
I want just an iphone 5
White iphone5 is awesome :O ... BTW merry christmas :) <3
I'd love having a smart phone .. iPhone 5 Meets my best, i seriously started dreaming of it @ nights ..
iPad easy to carry
I would like an Ipod touch 4 pleeeaseee ! Thank you! :)
I would like an Ipod touch 4 to give It to my sister for her birthday :D , pleeeaseee ! Thank you! :)
Hello! I'm Katrina. I'm so much inlove and addicted to the gadgets that apple has. I've been dreaming of an iphone since the day that the iphone 4-4s was released, unluckily I couldn't buy because It's expensive and I don't have a money and. I would love to have the iPhone 5! :( I like it because, it's so cool! It has a wider screen(perfect for my fingers), to cool to use, especially the applications you can download from the apple store, i love it. I like it also because, the device or the iOS device thing, works fast, it doesn't crashes, and it doesn't hang. One thing also, is that you can always sync your photos, music and everything..,everytime you accidentally deleted your files from the computer. So pleasee, i want an iphone 5 the color black one :(( im so jealous everytime i see people holding an iphone 5. :((( iphone (iphone5) is on my wish list for how many years and i've been waiting for it :(( I will be the happiest girl in the world ever if I will win this contest cos like in my entire year, ive been thinking what it feels like to have an iphone!! By the way, I'm loving the ipod touch 5th gen! :) You're so cool apple!! Apple forever!! Thanks!
i want the new iphone 5 (white) because i live in damascus syria and here the iphone 5 is so expensive and we only have it contract free and my parents don't have that much money to bye me one and i never had an iphone or an ipod or any apple product so please let me win it
ipad mini please!!! this my dream christmass gift ever
I dont have a smartphone, i just use a samsung gt s 3115. Would be Awesome if i get iPhone 5/ iPad mini or any of the apple product
i would love to win the iphone 5, simply because they are rare in Jamaica and very expensive.I cannot afford to buy one here and so i would love to win one. I dream day and night about this superb phone and would love to get my hands on one, Thank you
Really Really hope to get an i phone 5.Its really an honour too win <...>God Bless
u just try to give me anyone from ipad iphone or ipod becuase still i didn't have any single mobile and my all friends have tablets in their hand...i feel jelious and shame .....:)
i want ipad mini, because my daddy didn't have a lot of money to buy me an ipad mini. I really really want this, please. thank you so much
i would really appreciate an iPhone 5 as im really in love with the features it provides !! and im sure the features,the style and the sleekness is the best if compared to all the other phones , so i would really like to have one myself :D
I would like to win an iPhone 5 because I never had the opportunity to have this kind of iOS !
I'd love iPod Touch . It's because I've have been longing to have an iPod touch from its third generation and its fifth has already come out . I don't want to live always without iPod Touch before my 50s , I want it in my teenage :D
an iphone please i kinda need it
I would definitely have to say the iPhone 5! My mother got me one for Christmas on Craigslist (trying her best to get me what I wanted..) and it turned out to be a fake phone. Completely heartbreaking! and not to mention a waste of $500. I was so close to getting this gift, so actually winning it would be incredible..
I would really love a new iPhone5
Happy New Year! :)
i would love to have an iphone 5 :D
Ipad. As a youth leader I would like to take on trips to download all the pictures that the kids take on their phones so that we can put them all together.
I Would Like An Ipad 2 For My Neice That I Have Been Raising. She Is Only 4 And I Would Love It If I Got One :') It Would Mean The World To Me And My Neice!!! She Wanted One For Christmas And I Couldnt Get It Becuase I Dont Have Enough Money. So Please!! I Would Want To Have An Ipad 2!!!! PLEASE! :(
I would really really love an i phone 5 in white but if not any color is okay I have always really wanted one please please
i have a really crappy mytouch q and would love an iphone 5 or 4s but i cannot afford it.
Hey I would love an iPhone 5 as I have been entering competitions all over the internet and not won a single one! :( plz pick me!
I would like the new IPhone 5 because everyone around me has an apple product but sadly not me yet! They are expensive....
I have got to get rid of this blackberry!! I want an *iphone* please
i would like to win the iphone 5 because my friends always want to invite be places but i dont have a phone and im hardly ever at home so they call th house phone and they get angry at me i just wan to solve this problem
i want and iphone5 and iknow that i we win it
I would love an iPhone 5!
Would love "Ipod" 4G or 5G.
Reason: Never was able to purchase one, and craving it for a long time.
I would love the iPhone 5 because I need a new upgrade on my phone and because I have always wanted an iPhone
i'd like the iphone5 please. i think iphone is pricey but the quality is superb fantastic. but if i can only win some then i don't have to spend more bucks. it's all in one phone, intenet, social media everythings great so i want one
ios is comparably different to other apps thats why i want.
iphone 5 is so fast as human thinks
Happy New Year!
I would love to own an iPhone 5 because................
Back in time, I was a bright student but then I got addicted to internet giveaways! I wasted my time but still couldn't win any prize!
That year , I failed and I ruined my whole life!
That is why, I want to prove to my parents that internet giveaways aren't fake!
I have to win this iPhone 5 anyway!
i would like to have the ipad because i love the graphics
Now why would I like an ipad? hmm, where do i begin? well, I know for certain that my 4 year old niece who lives with my and my mum would get a real thrill using it. I'd be able to read books to her, she could play games on it, she'd be able to look at her photos of her mum and dad who are overseas for 2 months, I'd be able to watch movies, listen to music, listen to podcasts, play games and lots of other exciting things I can't really imagine at the moment. I have heard so much about them, I think it would be really cool to explore everything the ipad has to offer. so, fingers crossed.
i want the iphone 5 :/
I'd love to win an free ipod touch or iphone considering i got no gifts for the holidays. it would really mean alot if i won this and even if i dont thanks for giving me the opportunity to even win it. and good luck to all the other people trying to win.
Sorry I'm very late but I'd love an iPhone 5 because of all the great stuff you can do on it & it can help you will many things.
Thank you & happy new year :) xx
I Want The IPhone Because My Mom Can't Afored It and all my friends even have it i beg you
Please Please I Want One So Bad I Told My Mom I Wanted To,Enter And See If I win Please please let it be me please
Hello! I would like a iPad mini so that, for once, I can make my brother jealous of the cool gadget I got. :)
The iPhone 5 because first of all,.. All I do is give and expect nothng in return and I think it's time for me to get something for myself
i would love to have an iphone 5..i'm from the philippines and people here are going crazy over iphone....it's stylish, and very useful in everyday life....being student what i do is i transfer my pdf files, which are my reviewers, into my iphone and read them at school..it's fun and handy in that sense..
The iPhone 5 please!
I would absolutely love the iPad Mini :D Happy New Year! Many Thanks :D
I would love to have a white iPad mini because I've been wanting one since the day they got out :) thank you for this contest
Hello. To be honest with you, I really really want an iPad mini. Eversince I never liked gadgets that much. I never asked my parents to buy me the latest cellphone, laptop, etc. But when I saw the iPad mini, it caught me. I instantly liked it. I never owned an ipod, iphone or whatsoever high-tech gadget because I thought I don't need it. But when I saw the iPad mini, I realized it could offer so much more. The features are amazing and I believe I need one. The design is perfect, the connections are ultra-fast and the iPad mini is truly incredible. I know I can't afford it myself right now and I don't want to ask money from my parents. Hoping I could get one for myself. Nothing is truly impossible! God bless! Happy New Year and keep giving people happiness!
- Rachel, the iPad mini lover :)
iPhone 5 please! The phone i have now if cracked and water damaged, and I can't upgrade until July. I also need it for on-the-go school needs.
I didnt get anything for christmas, so it would be nice if i won an iPhone5. :)
iphone 4s in white 16 g cause ive never had one before and my upgrade isnt until april of 2013
i would like a brand new iphone 5 because i nerver had an iphone before thanks
i want an ipad mini to play multiplayer games with my bro :)))
It would be nice if I could with an Ipod touch 4th generation because I can't afford to pay bills for anything else. Odds are against me but it would be nice to win once in awhile.
I would love to win an Iphone 5, it doesnt even matter which iphone generation it is! I've never had a phone, because my parents cant exactly afford it. And at times when i need to call them, i cant! I've been trying to save up money to buy a phone, but its gonna take a longgg time! I would really appreciate it if i could win an iphone! Thanks! :D
I would like to win an Iphone 5 because having the phone will help me connect to my family and friends. I will be able to get into touch when I need them.:) I need one...
I want an iphone 5
ever since the first iphone launched i wanted to have it but couldn't,
the only time i could use a smartphone is when me n my friends sit together and develop apps ( my friend has iphone 4 )
it would be a wonderful present for my dear Hubby =)
i want iphone 5 because its the best phone ever.....i want it please..!!!!!
IPad Mini please! I currently have an ipod and the screen is horribly cracked and it would be nice to have a bigger screen! Thank you! :D
I would love to win an ipad, to replace my 1g ipod it would be the best gift ever
hope i will win the iphone 5 becouse im lucky and i like music :)))
ipad for me pls a lot i want so gime :)
I would love
for god to bless me with a iphone 5 or iphone 4 .Thanks for all your help imore .HAPPY NEW YEAR and have a great day
wow,automatically reasonable. this is a most have for everyone who loves technology.
I would love an iPad! it appeals to the geek in me and has been on my wish list for a very very very long time. Thank you,
I've always wanted a smartphone but never had the money.... I wish I had an iPhone;( good luck everyone!
I would like a i pad mini never won anything thanks
Never had a smartphone, or any apple device, so I'd like to have one :) thanks
I would like an iphone5 white please. I want to give this for my mum for her birthday please.. She always wanted one of the iPhone.
Thank you Imore.
IPhone 4 s
There very nice phones! I could never afford one myself. And having a iphone would be great and would help me a lot! Thankyou i hope you read this! :)
Iphone 5 is the greatest thing in thi tehnology life................
THANK YOU in advance for my new iphone ! I love Apple products and will be so happy and grateful when I receive it ! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you ! :)
i want an iphone 5..its my dream to have..only apple products serves the best and still number one in our hearts.......
because all my friends have iphones ipads i am not that much rich so thats why i am taking part in this contest i pray please i need it
It would be cool to win an iPhone 5. I'm a high school student and hopefully getting accepted to university. I'm trying to put my money aside for that so I cant afford an iPhone 5. Any who congratulations to who wins and good luck to those who have entered!!
Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays!!
i want an blue ipod touch 5 please because it has 4 inches and has retina display and good for racing games and i hope i win
i want an ipad mini. i love ipad and i don't have just iphone. love Apple.
I Would Like A Iphone 5 Because I Have No Othef Way To Communicate With Family Or Friends. OR A Ipad For School Bur I Would Be GrateFull For Any One Cause I Didnt Get Any Thing For Christmas
Thank u If Yu Took Your Time To Read This :)
I want a iphone5 because it has every thing (gps,siri, Emojis,etc) basically the perfect headset.
I like ios 6 because its very convinient! And its camera is so great! I i wish to have an iphone 4s!
I would like an iphone 4s because its very cool! And its camera is awsome! And i really really wamt it!
i like to have iphon5
I would greatly appriciate an Ipad, my mom just left for korea, for a year, and I have no way of keeping in contact with her, and I would like to be able to talk to her. Thank you.
can i please win an ipad mini. all of my friends have all these new cool things but my latest technology is a gameboy advance sp. if i win it would be great. thank you.
I would like an iphone plz
An iphone plzAn ih
Omg I'd love the iphone5. Im a single mom of 6 it's kinda high.
nice site!!!!
i want a android cause i have no phone :(
hi imore i know im late on posting this but i just got my computer fixed and i wanted to know if i could get a iphone 4s. I have never had a phone and my birthday is coming up in a few days and i dreamed of haveing a phone. I also would really like this because it will help me be able to contact my mom while im at school and or if i need to call her a emergency. So if you could please help me out this will be wonderful! Thank you for taking your time to read this letter and please pick me!
Hi i never used a iphone in my life i would like to win a iphone 3or 4 or anything that u will offer thankz
Cool initiative guys!
Obviously I would find it really cool to win an iPhone 5, the iOS device is would really like. I have been playing around with developing for iOS devices, and had a 3 year old iPod touch. However, it has just broken down, and with no remainable warranty, and no money from an insurance, this leaves me without an iOS device. Therefore it would be really cool to be able to win an iPhone 5, as money is unfortunately as issue stopping me from getting one at the moment. Good going guys! Cheers, Bart
I want the iphone 5,i want to have the best phone in the world.
iPhone 5, please. Because once you go iPhone you can't go back!!
Anything would do!!! But if I really have to choose it would be the Ipod Touch 5th generation for my sister's birthday. Me and my family don't have the money to get her anything this year. :(
Yep! A iPhone 5,It's spectacularly thin and light,it's beautiful like most Apple products and that larger display is such a welcome improvement,It's powerful, and noticeably faster.I will choose the white and silver model and I think it's the prettiest gadget I like to ever own.
ipad please!!1, would love to give a ipad to my mom, idont have the money right i just got done paying her air playing tickle for see could go to state side to visit the family, im current and the navy.
Iphone 5 the next best thing to happen to iMore, to me and to the world. Thanks Steve Jobs and thanks iMore
dear imore/apple
i am in desperate need of an ipad 4 .the reason why i need this device is that my family really cant afford that type of merchandise and i always wanted an ipad since it ever came out and ever year since that day i always asked my mom for one. Every time i asked her i got this same answer "sorry josh i don't know where you think im get money for this thing your asking for "and every time i go through a process with me ending up explaining to her what it does and what i will do to work for it. And every time when the holidays come i hope one of my gifts to be an apple ipad ,but i really grateful for the ipod touch she got me .i have had it for awhile now and its sorta worn down but i will never get rid of it because its speical to me because it was my first apple product EVER !!.Another reason why i need an ipad is because i moved frequently back to Michigan and left my high school friends behind and would love to see them and really the only way i can see them clearly is on that big retina display because most of them have iphones, i can face time them.another reason why i need an ipad is for my gaming craves(times when there's nothing i mean nothing to in the house and it raining or something)also i love gaming.Another reason why i need this ipad is that i think it will get me into reading more because i have been away from reading for a while and i would love to read from an ipad rather than a book.another reason why i need this ipad is because it will make me smile through all the work i just put into this comment...pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i neeeeedddd iiiiittttt .....just noticed
this is from a month ago -__________-
i will like the new ipad for my little brother
A new Iphone 5, so I can finally connect with the people I love
I have No iphone ,No ipad, No,Ipad 4 Nothing If in Case i win i Like to have an iPHONE ........................I Thought that my price will be not mine ,,,,........ So pls !!!!!!!!!! MERRY !!! MERRY !!!MERRY !!!MERRY !!!MERRY !!!MERRY !!!MERRY !!! Christmas ..... May God Bless you .... And Me also,,............. Thanq..........
Hy everybody I would like to fine an iphone 5 form my work, I'm a computer programmer sudent and i wold this iphone to developep app for iphone and try it in thhe iphone that you will give .
Thank you !!
I would love the iphone 5 I really love apple products. If I win I want an iphone
the ipod touch is what I would like.
I would just love the ipod! <3 I am a musician and I believe the new ipod is the best device to carry tons of music with you and make your daily routine like a movie... along with the right soundtrack! ;)
Thank you very much!!!
Have only dreamt of owning an apple device and it's still a dream!!Don't have the resources to buy an ipod even. But i know once i stand on strong ground then won't be filling this up again!!..i just want an ipod to listen to music...and especially while jogging in order to lose weight!! :)
I would love Ipod touch in blue.
I only have Itouch 4 8gb and that is really less storage
A true treat and help for me would be the iPad mini. I am currently a stay-at-home-mom who is always running to service my three children. I need the mini so I can write, read, and study for the GRE as I am wanting to go back to school.
i would love iphone 5 i have always wanted a good phone i have 18 years old and till now i use nokia 3310 mobile that even you dont remeber i wish to win iphone 5
Pleas may I have an ipad retina, as I have never experienced an apple product so it would be a great first. Thanks
I would like a IPhone because I am very poor!!!
I would like to have the new iPod touch because it looks very light.. I would imagine holding it in my hand. It looks really cool.... Blue is my favorite!!!!!
I would like the iPhone 5 please.because i dont have any mobile phone. i like only iphone 5.
An ipad or an ipad Mini black OR white. because we could have the whole family use it. I can use it for my blogging and cooking websites, my husband could use it for Home Depot tool reviews, watching movies at night when I'm trying to sleep (the TV doesn't have earphones), and whatever else he does. My 12 kids could use it to play games, and do homework. We NEED one of these, they've (my husband and kids) been asking for one forever, and they've come up with some pretty cool things they'll use it for.
Ha I would love it if I could have a amazing I phone 5 please
Have I nice day
I phone 5 . pretty please with a cherry on top
I would like to win the new ipad, i'm a student and need a laptop and think this would be perfect, its exactly what i need for class being light weight and easy to use.
I want it because i am not that financially sound to owe on to be frank but yes it is the most durable and blend of the best hardware and software
I would like to have a ipad because its an amazing product which im dying to use it but not in a position to afford it.
Well they all look nice and I would choose the itouch because I don't have anything apple its small and I think it would be really cool and a dream to own one
i want an iphone 4
I would like a iphone 5, because i have a phone a ipod, its gets annoying having to carry both around, and the battery life on my current phone is horrible.


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A schoolteacher teaches and that is why the law is a schoolteacher! ........... Get it ?????????????If correctly studied in accordance to law and as spoken of by Jesus, David, the OT Prophets and NT Apostles it will teach what is not taught anywhere in any church that I have ever seen in person or online........ and that is a real lot of them. Doug
Quote from: Livelystone on May 10, 2009, 12:29:23 PMA schoolteacher teaches and that is why the law is a schoolteacher! ........... Get it ?????????????If correctly studied in accordance to law and as spoken of by Jesus, David, the OT Prophets and NT Apostles it will teach what is not taught anywhere in any church that I have ever seen in person or online........ and that is a real lot of them. Doug I get it. Blessings...
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[Quote70sevensSay the truth, then I will get it. And sad to say I knew that you would not but it is not me you argue with.FYI this happens to be a law that Jesus is quotingMat 18:16 But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.And Peter uses another law (No one witness may be used to establish the truth)2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.[/i]And Paul uses another one 2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truthSo you see...... it is Jesus and His Chosen Prophets and Apostles you are arguing with and not meDoug
I will not explain other verses that you quoted.
Dream 'interpretation' sites always crack me up and this one is no exception. The woman dreams of feeling HEAT/FIRE and that means she's mad at her boyfriend??? Er, maybe not......roflol Blessings.....
I do wonder about there being a time in the future when it would be necessary for God to step in and END this world, because of man taking things too far. Perhaps going over a line that shouldn't be crossed, maybe having to do with cloning perhaps? Or... who knows? Mankind messing around with DNA somehow trying to make man immortal... the thought of "they shall seek death and not find it" pops in my mind. Or perhaps something else entirely that we haven't even begun to think of yet... That it would be extremely merciful of our God to step in and end it. I see it more as a mercy thing than anything else. There is some wacky science out there. Perhaps in the future, people will try to take the "playing God" thing way too far and create creatures that should not have been created. Who knows??! I've never been that interested in end times stuff... but I do wonder about God possibly stepping in at some point in the future if things just get beyond out of control and people are going too far over a line that God has drawn.This line of thinking also makes me wonder about the flood... is it true? did God really destroy the earth before? And if so, maybe it was because they were much further advanced than present time man and THEY had started going too far over the line. Think how long the early people lived... what like 900 years or whatnot? Think of what could be accomplished in that long of a lifetime. Perhaps all of our "technology" of today is just starting to scrape the surface of what pre-flood days people were up to. Seriously. We think they're all walking around technologically inferior... perhaps we are the inferior ones today. Perhaps our technology is nothing. Who knows. If the earth was cleansed, there would be no evidence of THEIR technology. hmmm. Well just some things that I think about.
I think the pre flood culture did have some advanced science. According to the bible they were trying to build a tower into heaven, that must have been an incredible feat, seeing how difficult it is today to build our tallest buildings.The pyramids is another example of their great skills.
Comet Caesar?WW, you said in another thread that some calculations (yours?) indicate a return/change around 2016. What do you (and others) think that looks like? What's happening?
I know there are various POVs, interested in hearing some.
Rapture? Physical/literal return of Jesus? His return "only" in a spiritual sense within His children/Sons of God? So resurrection/taking on incorruptability and restoration begins? Or first, tribulation/armageddon/judgment/temporary punishment, then restoration? Is everyone's judging instant? What happens at the end of this age and the beginning of the next, whether it's 2012, 2016, or.... Are there as many thoughts on this as marbles in a bag? Does an ex-drill sergent make a good therapist? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdLruOIKmA


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Actually, it is only the second time in school history that is true. The only other four-year stretch without a losing record for Jones County was 1986-89 when Bubba Williams was head coach and the Greyhounds were 5-5 in 1986, 6-4 in 1987, 7-5 in 1988 and 6-4 in 1989.
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Federal Aid - Campus Based Programs Some of the federal financial aid programs available to students are called campus-based programs. These programs are unique in that the federal government gives KentStateUniversity a certain allocation of funds for the programs each academic year. KentStateUniversity then distributes, or awards, these funds to students based on financial need, priority processing of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by March 1, and availability of funds. The following are campus based programs:
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Arinna Weisman has studied insight meditation since 1979 and has been teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered by the great teacher U Bha Khin. She is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley. She is co-author of the book, A Beginner's Guide to Insight Meditation, and a contributor to Women Practicing Buddhism; American Experiences, edited by Peter Gregory and Susanne Mrozik.
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Degree Programs in Economics. Susquehanna University has two degree programs in economics. The bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree is a liberal arts degree earned in the School of Natural and Social Sciences. Requirements for the B.A. degree appear in that section. The bachelor of science (B.S.) degree is a more technical degree and is earned in the Sigmund Weis School of Business. It integrates extensive business administration background into the study of economics.


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Orlando Science Center's exhibit halls feature a vast array of exciting interactive experiences! Learning has never been so fun with these hands on educational exhibits. From down to earth explorations in natural science to the high-tech world of simulation technology, everywhere you look, you'll find educational and entertaining opportunities to explore, experiment, and discover.
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The mummies have arrived!
With a special security detail that included Orlando Police and black-suited agents, the mummies were transported to Orlando Science Center amid a press conference that included remarks from Michel Champagne, Incoming Board Chair for Orlando Science Center and Vice President at Bright House Networks; Orlando City Commissioner Robert Stuart; and Marcus Corwin, President of American Exhibitions, Inc. and Producer of Mummies of the World: The Exhibition. The presentation concluded with the official signing over of the mummies between Michel and Marcus.
The nationally recognized Mummies of the World: The Exhibition will make its debut at Orlando Science Center on Saturday, June 13. It is the largest exhibition of real mummies and related artifacts ever assembled, showcasing a collection of naturally and intentionally preserved mummies. This compelling collection, presented with reverence and dignity, includes ancient mummies and significant artifacts from around the world.


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Things I liked:This is a great gun for a great price (got it on sale a couple weeks ago). I only wish I'd bought this before I bought my RWS 34P Striker - could have saved myself over $200. This is much shorter and lighter, but comparable in power, accuracy, and build quality. Much easier to lug around than the 34. The red dot sight is very nice. The adjustable stock/buttpad is also a nice feature, but anything past the first stop seems awkward.
Things I would have changed:Add some open sights (fiber optic or peep) in case you want to remove the red dot. The carry handle is not really functional with the red dot attached. Also add flip-up covers to the red dot so they don't get lost. The Weaver rails on the forearm are right where you hold the gun. If you mount a flashlight and/or a laser, it may be tough to grip it comfortably. Put a laser on and had to shift it to the left side and as close to the muzzle as I could get it.
What others should know:The easiest way to cock this rifle is to slap the muzzlebrake as shown in the video review on the website. Otherwise the short lever makes it difficult. It's also hard to find a case for this with the red dot attached. It won't fit in the Plano scoped case for my 34P.
Things I liked:The short length, the handle, the power and accuracy, the extendible butt plate, and the trigger. Really love the red dot.
Things I would have changed:Nothing.
What others should know:This gun isn't a toy and should not be used by children.
Things I liked:The Red Dot is awesome, its very accurate and its coated to work in low light conditions and the batteries were free. The red dot light intensity is adjustable by a regulator knob, and the windage and elevation are also adjustable. This Red Dot came pre-mounted on the gun so no assembly was required. Also, 250 pellets came with this gun for FREE. Whats also cool is that this gun is shorter than most, so it fits easily in transport cases. The stock is extendible by pushing a button, so you can extend it if you want during shooting, and retract it if you want when you transport it or put it away. The butt plate has rubber on it, which protects it from scratches if you drop it or place it on the ground. The gun itself is very confortable to hold, and the trigger is also very nice. This gun is the only gun I've ever used or seen that actually has a handle, which make it much more easy to hold with just one hand. I found this gun to be very accurate and very powerful. When you shoot this gun, it feels like your holding and shooting a real assault sub-machine gun. How real this gun feels is my favorite part. When I show this gun to people they always say something like, "cool" or "awesome"!
Things I would have changed:I wouldn't change anything. This gun is just awesome.
What others should know:This gun is not a toy, its very powerful and the pellets deeply penetrate wood blocks. Don't give this to a 13 year-old, and if you do, please supervise them. I fired it against a car floor mat and the pellets went thru the mat and entered the wood behind it. Pieces of the mat got stuck inside the hole left in the wood block by the pellet. This is true for any air gun though, regardless of power.
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jobprogress -- Cross-toolkit UI progress tracking
When doing complex processing that has to report progress indication to the user, things can get complex quick. Often, we don't know beforehand how many work unit our processing will have, because knowing it depends on another work unit for which the progress should also be reported to the user. One example of such situation is processing files after having collected them. When we start the process, we don't know how many files we'll collect, so it's hard to set a maximum value on our progress bar. jobprogress handles that.
Also, most of the time, we want to run our task in a separate thread so the GUI stays smooth. jobprogress takes care of synchronizing the threaded task and the GUI.
For now, only PyQt is supported, but the toolkit specific layer is pretty thin, so it should be easy to add new toolkits.
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The schools are out and your application for summer vacation has been approved from your boss. It is time to start the packing and hit the road. Before you do that, you need to make sure that you are ready for the trip. It is only by proper planning and organizing that you will be able to enjoy a comfortable and hassle-free summer travel. If you fail to do that you may end up exhausted, irritated and longing for the quiet comfort of home.
Below are some of the points you need to keep in mind while planning your family vacation trip:
Preparing your RideYou will be dependent on your ride to take you and your family from your home to your vacation destination safely and securely, therefore you need to make sure that your vehicle is up to the mark and ready to take any challenge. Besides getting it thoroughly inspected from a motor mechanic, you also need to pack it up with emergency supplies and tools, like a pressure gauge kit, emergency light, tire jack, first aid kit, water and munchies.
Packing your SuitcasesYou cannot spend your summer vacation in just one dress, and you might also need to carry other personal items with you on your trip, so make sure to grab a suitcase with you that's sturdy and spacious. Suitcases give you the freedom to take a lot of personal items, clothes, jewelry, footwear, kid's supplies, and food items. Some of the modern suitcases come with extra pockets and extra protection, so you can pack a lot of stuff in them and still carry them around quite comfortably.
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver April 24, 2013 - 11:17am
The obituary for the mother of a (Methodist) female gym teacher at a Catholic high school in Ohio mentions said gym teacher's female partner. Gym teacher is promptly fired. Maybe Cardinal Dolan should get Bishop Campbell on the horn and explain to him that Catholics are supposed to "try our darndest to make sure we're not anti-anybody." (HT Balloon Juice)UPDATE: Here's a link to the obit. It's just sad. And, to be honest, I'm sick of this stuff happening in my name as a Catholic. At some point, doesn't toothless dissent become complicity?UPDATE II: Here's a very moving interview with the teacher. I wonder what impact this firing will have on the young students' relationship with their church. I don't even know this woman and it's testing mine.
And here's Bryan Fischer, defending the termination. My mom has always said you can tell a lot about someone by who their friends are.
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Abe:Christ established His Church to teach, admonish, inspire, brace up, and be our Rock in this earthly life. The guy who fired the woman did exactly what he was supposed to do. We all have our sinful tendencies; mine are alcohol and drugs. But I'm not going to whine and snivel about getting fired for being under the influence (actually I'm retired). I never did because I control my tendencies; it's all any of us can do. This isn't rocket science, it's just common sense.Of course, this woman is a Methodist, and the Methodist Church caved a long time ago, and survives as a hollowed out shell, devoid of anything but the cheap emotional values of the libertine glitterati.
Thanks for the response, Bob. I find your views to be highly informative and appealing; is there a newsletter I could subscribe to? BTW, what kinds of drugs are you into? GHB?
"Therefore sexual orentation alone is not a Christian basis for employment termination."I agree."Those who then go on to speculate on so called lifestyle and the individual sexual practices that other people *may possibly have* engaged in, without very specific evidence of such acts, have their minds in the gutter."It's possible she was interviewed by the boss, or even that there was something like a formal hearing, in which she was asked about her situation, and she answered truthfully. But I don't think we know these specifics. (Nor am I sure that we have a right to know them).
"On its face, its like a parody of draconian lack of compassion"Yes, as a parent of a school age child, I think the firing of a teacher for this particular reason sets a terrible example and sends an awful message to children. But I'm trying to think through parents' rights in these situations, which I haven't seen discussed above. And as someone with children of my own, this is kind of important to me.I think parents have a right and duty to educate their children according to their own values. And I know there are all kinds of limitations to that thinking (some parents have really bad values). I'm sure there are people in this country, for example, who do not think it is a good thing that I am educating my own children in a parochial school. But, fortunately,what those people think doesn't matter I get to decide for myself how to educate my children. ;I guess I would like to know how the parents of the children in the school feel about it this firing, because I think the views of the parents should be given great weight.
" It means were not asking a prior question, which is what kind of human being finds out about something like this from an obituary and then fires the deceased persons daughter in less that two months? On its face, its like a parody of draconian lack of compassion. Why not take this up at the end of the school year?"Here is what I think is a big part of the disconnect: folks who don't think that what the teacher did (live with a partner, even in violation of the school's standards for its teachers) was particularly wrong, find this an astonishingly un-compassionate act on the part of the school.Let me suggest this thought experiment: suppose that, instead of having a partner, her offence was that she had embezzled $100,000 from the school. Someone reports her to the authorities. She is called on the carpet. She doesn't deny the facts, but pleads, "For pity sake, my mother just died - we just buried her. Please, can't you let me stay on until the end of the school year?" Should a principal be swayed by this plea for compassion?I expect that criminal court judges here these sorts of extenuating pleas at sentencing hearings, all the time.Of course, embezzling money isn't a very similar offence to what this poor woman did. So let me suggest this alternative: suppose that her offence is that, in addition to teaching at the school, she also runs a side business as a madam for a ring of prostitutes. She is reported to school authorities, and is called on the carpet. She pleads, "I'm a good teacher; my students and colleagues love me; my evaluations are excellent. What I am doing on the side has no bearing on my ability to teach. What I do in my own time is my own business, and as it happens, nobody is hurt by these extracurricular activities. And besides, my mother just died." It is possible that everything she says here is true, and yet I'd think that a lot of people would still believe that the principal would be justified in firing her immediately.(I think the reports indicate that the firing wasn't immediate; there was something like a two month period before she was terminated, and those two months may be important in understanding this situation; but let's set that aside for now.)I can imagine that a reader who is plowing through this comment is rolling her eyes at these crude comparisons of what this teacher did - after all, living with a partner seems pretty benign, whereas embezzlement and organized prostitution are pretty serious crimes. But that is the point: living with a partner in a homosexual relationship is not benign, as the church weighs these things: it's a pretty serious offence.
From what I have read, this teacher never discussed her relationship or homosexuality with her charges and conducted herself in her job in firm accordance with Catholic teaching. Truly a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" sort of scenario. We do not even know whether she was given a choice about having her partner's name associated with hers in the obituary. I speak from first-hand experience: I was very moved when, without my ever asking or saying, my older brother chose to write my father's obituary so that it listed my partner as my spouse.Here's an interesting question: are any concerned parents trawling the obituaries and ensuring that teachers who married a divorcee are driven out of teaching when their spouse's obituary is published and it becomes clear the deceased spouse was formerly married? Why are there no such stories? I guess single mothers and gays are the worst of the worst, and other adulterers get a pass?
"Its possible she was interviewed by the boss, or even that there was something like a formal hearing, in which she was asked about her situation, and she answered truthfully."It's also possible she was interviewed, answered truthfully, and was told it wasn't a big deal. Then suddenly it is. Has the principal violated a morality clause by doing this? And would a concerned parent not have the right to know it?Are you suggesting a double-standard here, Jim? And if so, is that itself a termination offense? Not that we have any right to know ...
Jim P-- My point was just that even most people who might applaud firing the woman will feel distaste at a story that includes the words "found out about it in her mother's obituary and immediately* fired her". Absent some evidence of danger to her students (and, remember, it's not like she's been out campaigning for marriage equality -- they had to find out from her mother's obituary), compassion dictates waiting a couple of months until the summer, whatever it may dictate beyond that.* I've taken the word "immediately" from your description above, but "quickly", "soon", etc. would be fine. It seems to have been < 2 months, with < 2 more months left until the end of the school year.
Jim P: Since we wrote at the same time and I did not see your 9:26 am post, let me post my question directly to you: is marriage to a divorcee a serious offense? is gluttony a serious offense? Is greed a serious offense? If I run for political office and my published tax returns indicate that I'm not charitable at all and I press for unjust tax regimes that arbitrarily punish the poor and benefit the rich because I am a proud promoter of Rand-ian values, is that a serious enough offense to warrant my dismissal?
But that is the point: living with a partner in a homosexual relationship is not benign, as the church weighs these things: its a pretty serious offence.Jim Pauwels,Why is it more serious than being in a second marriage when the first was valid "in the eyes of God" and only a civil divorce was obtained? A huge percentage of "married" people in the United States are in second (third, fourth, etc.) marriages. Why is a heterosexual adulterous relationship less serious than a same-sex relationship?
"Why is it more serious than being in a second marriage when the first was valid in the eyes of God and only a civil divorce was obtained?"David - right. There was a pretty similar discussion about these things a year or two ago on dotCom, when a little girl was not allowed to register for the new school year at the Catholic school she had attended the previous year, because her mom is living with a partner, and it became known to the principal or the bishop. This situation raises many of the same questions.FWIW, yes, in the hypothetical situation in which a heterosexual Catholic school teacher is divorced but does not not pursue an annulment, and then remarries - that seems to me to be a case of roughly the same magnitude of offence (to the extent it's possible to judge these things). But of course, the church provides a different remedy to that hypothetical situation: go get the marriage regularized. If that teacher were to refuse to do that, and if this principal or whoever it is that is setting and enforcing these moral standards in Ohio wants to be consistent, s/he would apply the same harsh remedy to that teacher. Not that my judgment counts for anything on these matters except as it pertains to myself.
"compassion dictates waiting a couple of months until the summer, whatever it may dictate beyond that."Mark, I don't say you're wrong. (FWIW, I wouldn't have fired her at all, which possibly would make me a bad choice to be a Catholic school principal).How long is long enough to be compassionate? I dunno. I'd like to understand more of the timeline and more of the circumstances, although it feels really intrusive to inquire about this poor woman's life in this depth. As a couple of points of comparison on the compassion scale, I think the expectation in corporate America is that, when a parent dies, an employee should be allowed to have some time off - maybe as much as a week or even a little more. Not that we would look to corporate America for any sort of standard of Christian compassion.There was a case in the Rockford, IL diocese about ten years ago in which a parish choir director was fired for having a partner. In his case, he was called on the carpet, he told the truth, and he was fired on the spot. I was outraged, as I had met him and liked him, and besides was an admirer of the work he was doing in the parish (he was *really* good). I.e I had all the same reactions that this woman's students are having now. Here is a link to one account of that case in Rockford. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=3262... is why I think this two month timeframe (or less than two months - do we know how long it was?) could be important: I'm speculating that she was called on the carpet, she told the truth, and they gave her some time, at least a little time, to think about her choices. If that's the way it played out, then I think we give the school at least a better grade than the Rockford Diocese did with Bill Stein - although that's setting the compassion bar about as low as it can go, so it may not be saying much.
" let me post my question directly to you: is marriage to a divorcee a serious offense?"I assume your scenario is short-hand for the one that David Nickol presented. My reply to him, a couple of comments above this one, contains my views on it.
I am writing to the Bishop to voice my objection to his scandalous treatment. All of like minds might do the same -just to say we did something in the face of such blatant un-Christ action and real discrimination.Or maybe just throw in theh towel...?
Fire all the sinners. Only Jesus should be allowed to receive money in exchange for labor.
Watch the video.Fired immediately at the end of the day on Holy Thursday after having been shown the anonymous letter some weeks before. No comments or conversation in-between.The cowards.
The whole incident stinks to high heaven. We all know well there is one rule for the bishops and connected clergy, and another for the laity. They might have followed "their rules" but the bishop demonstrated a complete unawareness of Jesus's example.
FWIW, yes, in the hypothetical situation in which a heterosexual Catholic school teacher is divorced but does not not pursue an annulment, and then remarries that seems to me to be a case of roughly the same magnitude of offence . . . Jim,I am not talking about people already on the job who divorce and then remarry. I am talking about people who come to the job after perhaps years of being in a second marriage. Are we to believe that all non-Catholc employees of Catholic elementary and high schools must be in their first marriage? I don't know, but I find this extremely unlikely. Also, I find it extremely unlikely that Catholic Charities expects non-Catholic employees who apply for jobs to be in their first marriage. Many branches of Catholic Charities advertise themselves as Equal Opportunity Employers. Employers aren't even allowed to ask those applying for jobs if they are married, let alone ask them if they are in their second (third, fourth, . . . ) marriage.It seems very much to me that Catholic organizations who simply cannot discriminate against people in second, adulterous non-marriages nevertheless reserve the right to discriminate against same-sex couples. Now, of course, any employee of a religious organization that is considered "ministerial" can be hired and fired for religious reasons, but I don't think Methodists working as gym teachers in Catholic schools are "ministerial."
Another contender for the award for the person who best exemplifies the old saw, "the meanest man I ever saw/was always just within the law."And for those of you posing the question Why is it more serious than being in a second marriage when the first was valid in the eyes of God and only a civil divorce was obtained? the answer is simple, even if it makes your decision to stay within the church uncomfortable: The church can make divorce right if the parties seek the church's intervention. The church has no way to make "living as a normal gay person" right within its current doctrinal framework.
It is unfortunate that this case has already received so much publicity. Otherwise, Bishop Campbell could follow tried and true procedure and move Ms. Hale to another high school in the diocese without telling anyone in the new place anything about her. But I don't know, maybe that option is only available for those who transgress with children.
...evidence of danger to her students...The simple argument is that knowledge of her living arrangement is dangerous to her students' moral upbringing. And all the comparisons to other sinful living arrangements does nothing to justify hers.
Simple arguments are easy and fun to make. Mine is that knowing a respected and effective teacher is in a committed relationship with another person of the same sex will help students to avoid an ugly and hateful stereotype and thereby advance their moral upbringing.Bonus simple argument: Seeing her fired will increase students' hunger and thirst for justice.
And knowledge of the principal/bishop's lack of effective compassion is dangerous to their moral upbringing as well. The principal and bishop are not "going to the margins" but circling the wagons.
The church can make divorce right if the parties seek the churchs intervention. The church has no way to make living as a normal gay person right within its current doctrinal framework.Barbara,This from you???No, the Church may be able to grant an annulment or otherwise regularize the situation of those who divorce and remarry, but not every marriage can be annulled, and we know it is the position of Rome that annulments are far too easy to obtain in the United States. And of course if people don't seek annulments, they can't get them. So if a divorced and remarried couple is in a "regularizable" situation, but they don't choose to do anything about it. They are still living in adultery in the eyes of the Church. Just because their situation might be able to be "fixed" doesn't mean it's okay. Also, not everyone is a Catholic. This woman was a Methodist working for a Catholic school for the past 19 years. Does the Catholic Church verify that all of its non-Catholic employees are not divorced and remarried? I don't think so!As for same-sex couples, they can make their situation right within the Church by not having sex with one another. I wonder if anyone from the Church asked the teacher in this situation if she and her partner have sex! There is no Church rule that I know of that says two lesbians or two gay men can't live together in a partnership. What is prohibited is sexual behavior.
Abe:You're almost as funny as a dead fish on a slab of ice.
David, the church isn't going to change the way it treats gay men and women. I don't understand why others seem so intent on denying this reality.
"the church isnt going to change the way it treats gay men and women"Why assume that? The church has changed its stance on other things, like slavery, the death penalty, religious liberty. Can you imagine abolitionists saying, "the church will never change so why even try".
Write to the bishop, folks... and maybe your own bishop as well denouncing this.
a respected and effective teacher is in a committed relationship with another person of the same sexThat is the problem; I could not have said it better myself.
Bruce: if they're not having sex, then it's like St Gregory and St Basil. Barbara: among the teenagers who form my catechism class, I have the impression that not a single one is against gay marriage. That's their generation's attitude. Once we're all dead and they are the church, why would they not change the way it treats gays?
I don't know if Bob Schwartz is intentionally provocative, tongue in cheek, or actually believes what he wrote about this being "another lash of the whip" if the school did nothing to a teacher with a 19 year tenure whose lifestyle had been at least implicitly tolerated and whose teaching was apparently successful with no student complaints. Whatever, it is impossible for me for one to really dialogue with you, Bob, when you use imagery like that and/or have that kind of causality. I will not post again here, so you can have another word, if you wish, but enough on this for me ....
Jim Pauwels, modified: "That her mother died is sad. Many persons mothers have died, and thus its something that elicits powerful emotions of sympathy in a great many people. That the death also caused an obituary revealing her Jewish identity to be published that in turn led to her dismissal is a mildly interesting causal chain. But the general aura of sadness around the story doesnt really have any bearing on this schools employment standards for teachers."
Bob Schwartz modified; "To accept this womans Jewish identity and lifestyle as normal and valid, and to allow her to continue teaching in a Catholic school would indicate that the Catholic authorities at said school do not really believe in the Catholic faith, and that being Jewish and participating in Jewish ritual activities is just fine, thank you very much. To cave on this issue would be another betrayal of our Lord, another lash of the whip, another nail through His hands. Just saying"
Holy moly, intelligence lacking pervasive compassion is not intelligence at all. It is little more then arrogance in the service of ignorance. Rules in a vacuum at not rules at all. They are merely purely scientific observations. The earth goes round the sun. How one feels about that or its consequences on human emotions does not matter. None at all. It simply is.The notions we propose when turned into absolutes that affect our ability to live our lives are another matter altogether. There is no such thing as the perfect human being and, consequently, no such thing as the perfect human notion. As for the final, unequivocal interpretation of a religious text, I strongly suggest leaving that responsiblity to God. Why in God's name would you or anyone else want that level of responsiblity?
"Watch the video."Ouch. I hadn't realized that picture of the teacher in the Columbus Dispatch story landing page was actually a video link. Her explanation pretty much trashes my sunny hopes that she had been treated with some compassion, or that there was some due process involved in he termination. This is just wrong.Barbara wrote: the church isnt going to change the way it treats gay men and women. I would reply that the church isn't going to change its doctrines on marriage and homosexuality. But it has an urgent imperative to treat all persons, including persons with a homosexual inclination, and including its employees, with compassion and to avoid all instances of unjust discrimination. It's hard to conclude here that the church didn't fail.Rita's comment up above is on point. There are many people who are homosexual who work for the church, and they are treated as decently as other church employees. The church didn't need to fire - should not have fired - this woman as harshly as it did.
"Jim Pauwels, modified: That her mother died is sad. Many persons mothers have died, and thus its something that elicits powerful emotions of sympathy in a great many people. That the death also caused an obituary revealing her Jewish identity to be published that in turn led to her dismissal is a mildly interesting causal chain. But the general aura of sadness around the story doesnt really have any bearing on this schools employment standards for teachers."Fr. O'Leary, I take it this is your point: "If this woman is Jewish, it's okay to fire her because Jews can't work for the church, but if her mother has just died, then all bets are off."I don't agree, but thanks for illustrating the perennial nature of Godwin's Law.
"Bruce: if theyre not having sex, then its like St Gregory and St Basil."Or Holmes and Watson, i.e. roommates who are dear friends. "Partner" connotes something different than a Holmes/Watson relationship.
I dont agree, but thanks for illustrating the perennial nature of Godwins Law.Jim,Godwin's Law states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." I will leave the question as to whether Fr. O'Leary is being fair to you open, but he did not mention the Nazis or Hitler.I would like you or someone else to explain to me what threat is present with an extremely discreet Methodist lesbian gym teacher with a record of 19 years causing no problems that is not present with a Jewish gym teacher who does not hide her Jewishness. The lesbian either does not agree with (or simply ignores) the teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. Students who come to know and respect the teacher are apparently in some kind of danger because (I suppose) knowing and respecting someone who does not hold to "orthodox" views might influence a student to question what he or she is being taught.Now, suppose the teacher is a Jew. Jews do not accept the most basic premise of Catholicism or any other Christian denominationthat Jesus was the (their) Messiah (whom they rejected and continue to reject), God incarnate, and the Second Person of the Trinity. There are various opinions on sexual morality among Christians, but the identity of Jesus is so fundamental that all Christians agree on it. Why would not the presence of a kind, intelligent Jewish teacher be considered a more significant danger to Catholic students than a lesbian Methodist? If you look back over two thousand years of Christian history, you will see that Jews were considered a threat. The 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia goes to some length to justify this:
It was for the laudable reason of protecting social morality and securing the maintenance of the Christian Faith, that canonical decrees were framed and repeatedly enforced against free and constant intercourse between Christians and Jews, against, for instance, bathing, living, etc., with Jews. To some extent, likewise, these were the reasons for the institution of the Ghetto or confinement of the Jews to a special quarter, for the prohibition of the Jews from exercising medicine, or other professions. The inhibition of intermarriage between Jews and Christians, which is yet in vigour, is clearly justified by reason of the obvious danger for the faith of the Christian party and for the spiritual welfare of the children born of such alliances.
I think comparing Judaism and homosexuality is at least somewhat fair. And it seems to me students are much more likely to consider converting to Judaism because they respect and admire a Jewish teacher than they are to convert to homosexuality because they like their gym teacher!
For those who see this termination strictly in terms of the mean old church with outmoded, unjust, and insensitive views, just how would you propose the leaders of the church go about changing its long held conviction about sexual morality?The same way they employed a United Methodist without changing its long held conviction about papal primacy and teh Real Presence.
"I would like you or someone else to explain to me what threat is present with an extremely discreet Methodist lesbian gym teacher with a record of 19 years causing no problems that is not present with a Jewish gym teacher who does not hide her Jewishness ... And it seems to me students are much more likely to consider converting to Judaism because they respect and admire a Jewish teacher than they are to convert to homosexuality because they like their gym teacher!"Being a Jew is no threat to anyone or anything that I know of. Being a homosexual is no threat to anyone or anything that I know of. And in my view, and I'd like to think, in the view of the church, a homosexual person who abides by reasonable ethical standards should be able to teach at a Catholic school, or at least should receive the same opportunity and consideration to teach at a Catholic school as anyone else.Your point about "converting" someone to homosexuality is why O'Leary's comment doesn't really work.So here's my attempt at an explanation: when a Catholic school teacher lives in a sinful, quasi-marital arrangement, it can't help but communicate the message to students - impressionable kids whose moral views and understandings are still being formed - that sinful, quasi-marital arrangements are just fine and perfectly acceptable alternatives to actual marriage. And in the larger, diverse culture in which the church is situated, perhaps the culture comes to decide that those sinful arrangements really are perfectly acceptable alternatives, or perhaps whatever problems these arrangements pose to the culture are not so grave that the society needs to formally restrict or ban them. But a Catholic school sustains and preaches a different (and, by its lights, better) set of values than that of the surrounding culture. The Catholic church tries to carve out a bit of space for itself amid the surrounding culture where its members can actually abide by the values it believes in and preaches.Catholic schools recognize that marriages, and quasi-marriages, are moral arrangements with moral implications, and they are also public arrangements with public implications. By those Catholic lights, her happiness and satisfaction in her arrangement, and her discretion in shielding it from the view of her students (at least for a time), don't override the fact that it is sinful and is sending the wrong message.Ultimately, that she is stricken with grief at the loss of her mother doesn't override the key fact, either.None of this is to say that she shouldn't be treated with respect and compassion. She should. I think the school, or whoever it was that terminated her, should be criticized for how it handled this.Now, could the school decide that, even though her public arrangement is problematic, it can be tolerated? In my view, yes. I don't think that schools have to insist on moral perfection on that part of its employees.But I also don't think Catholic schools are wrong to hold their employees to certain standards of ethical conduct. According to the standards of this particular school, her living arrangement is unethical. She violated an ethical expectation of her job. And as I stated in one of the first comments, I'd be surprised to learn that she wasn't aware of this already.
BRB, gone to get baptized. That's just how moved I am by this school's witness to truth.
Jim,Why do we respect the woman's right to be a Methodist teaching at a Catholic school. Does that imply that it is acceptable for Catholic school students to consider switching to another Christian denomination? Why do we not treat Jews the way the Church did for nearly two-thousand yearsas people who deny Christ? Why is it now acceptable to disagree on the most fundamental of doctrinal questions and embrace people of non-Christian religions, but it is forbidden to treat people who do not agree on Catholic moral principles as individuals who have a right to their own moral views?It seems to me the Catholic Church's disagreement with a Methodist whose conscience tells her a lesbian relationship is acceptable is much less profound than the Catholic Church's disagreement with a heterosexually married Jew who denies the divinity of Christ. Which is closer to the heart of common Christian beliefthe forbidden nature of homosexuality or the divinity of Christ? It seems to me it's a no-brainer.We have "evolved" to the point that the Catholic Church now finds acceptable that others who disagree with it on matters of faith may be tolerated, but that children must be protected from those who disagree on matters of morals. Of course, "conversion" is an issue. I am quite sure that many people out there concerned about lesbian teachers have in the back of their minds that if their daughters like and respect a lesbian teacher, they are at some risk of engaging in lesbian sex and becoming lesbians. It is totally wacky, but the belief that gays and lesbians "recruit" in ways both subtle and direct is widely believed by the kind of people who would unceremoniously fire a lesbian gym teacher after 19 years on the job.
In addition to exhibiting a grievous lack of compassion and basic due process, this is a failure on Catholic moral grounds, in two senses:1. First, the Church has no qualms about people of the same sex (or opposite sex, for that matter,) living together. None. If it did, there would be no houses of religious. (And for opposite sex couples, it would not be recognized that sometimes those remarried without benefit of clergy should continue to live together for the benefit of the kids.) The issue is entirely about whether such couples or groups are sexually active. Unless there was solid grounds for believing that this woman is sexually active--at least by asking her--then the firing is unjust. Her sexual orientation is actually immaterial here--if she is unmarried and living with another person, the question under Catholic moral teaching is about sex, not about living arrangements.2. And it is unjust in another way as well. Does the school routinely quiz all faculty about their sex lives? For example, are straight couples asked about their practice of contraception? Does the school routinely quiz the faculty (including the priests, if any,) about their practice of masturbation? If not, it seems that this woman has been subject to "special" treatment because she lives with a woman. You might say "masturbation is a private matter, and does not set a bad example for the kids." Well, this woman's sex life is also a private matter, isn't it? Again, her living arrangements are not prima facie problematic. You might say "we don't know whether couples are practicing contraception or NFP, or if they're infertile or subfertile." Right. But the possibly sexually illicit practices of straights are not investigated, are they? Meanwhile this poor woman is presumed to be living in sin. If they want to enforce Catholic sexual norms, they should do so in a fair manner rather than persecuting gay people. Isn't this phenomenon, at least possibly, the reason Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery? The gross bias of the accusation? Here too. Gross bias of the kind condemned by Catholic teaching.
In his three years of teaching, Christ spoke incessantly of justice, compassion, and mercy, and of treating others as we wish to be treated ourselves. In all that time, he seems to have cautioned his hearers not at all about the "horror" of men living with men and women with women. Who shall we say then, in this current case, has departed further from the words of Christ?Are we seeing yet another ill consequence of the child abuse scandal, people now so fearful of appearing lax that they will resort to acts of uncharity and plain cruelty to shield themselves from the charge?
Christ established His Church to teach, admonish, inspire, brace up, and be our Rock in this earthly life.Isn't something missing in this list? I forgetremind me again: what's this Sunday's gospel about? Abe alludes to it...
"The principal of Bishop Watterson High School has released a letter that states: Documents support termination. You were not terminated for being gay but for the spousal relationship publicized in the newspaper which is against church teachings. "This gives a new meaning to the old idea of Publishing the Ban(n)s.
Barbara: can you live with this?" ... the church isnt going to change the way it treats women. I dont understand why others seem so intent on denying this reality."
The quote that Jim McCrea quotes a couple of comments above this one can be found in this news story:http://www.myfox28columbus.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/... includes this statement by the diocese:"Personnel matters remain confidential by policy of the Diocese of Columbus, and thus cannot be discussed in specific terms by diocesan staff, even cases that are working their way through grievance procedures and/or have gained significant publicity. "However, what can be said in general terms is that all Catholic school personnel at the outset of their employment agree that they will abide by the rules, regulations, and policies of the Catholic Diocese, including respecting the moral values advanced by the teachings of Christ. "The Catholic Church respects the fundamental dignity of all persons, but also must insist that those in its employ respect the tenets of the Church. Personnel who choose to publicly espouse relationships or principles that are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot, ultimately, remain in the employ of the Church."
"In his three years of teaching, Christ spoke incessantly of justice, compassion, and mercy, and of treating others as we wish to be treated ourselves. "He also spoke some very challenging words about marriage. He also spoke some hard things about discipleship. We're called to be much more than compassionate - we're called to be disciples.
Were called to be much more than compassionate were called to be disciples.And how will people know that we are Christ's disciples?If we have love for one another.
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