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Jenn, Sarah, and Alexandra, thank you for your comments. Jenn it is 16x20 oil on canvas.
C&Cs always welcome
I realized this Morning I hadn't posted the finished coal fields. Well I decided to take a pic in the frame. I dropped it and tore a hole in the canvas. I am heartbroken. I spent the day researching repair. Hopefully I can fix it enough to hang at the November show.
Here it is before tear.
Karen, do not dispair it is fairly easy to repair a tear In canvas and if you get on u tube there will be any number of helpful and not so helpful hints. We have repaired a nasty rip in. A big canvas from damage from fork lift truck. It was not completly perfect but almost and it was a big nasty tear. Fortunately the painting was big and high on a wall to be seen far up high.
Just smooth it out as much as possible and try and get all the edges smoothed the smoother you can get it the easier ( do not cut edges) it will be to add a patch on the back and retouch the painting if nescessary. I need to ask my friend who did it what the steps were as I can't remember what glue we used or if it was gesso on the back and I don't want to steer you wrong.
I have to say the coal fields look great. I would never have thought to do a painting of such a subject yet you made them beautiful.
Jen C & C's always welcome
Karen, I agree with Jen. You made something that is usually seen as a blight on the landscape powerful and beautiful. I like, too, that there are plants in the foreground that catch the light.
Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.
Hello Karen! Your addition of color to your train tracks & station is really setting the mood for me. It's coming along well! I'm sorry about the mishap with your Coal Field painting. I'm sure it can be repaired to your satisfaction ~ Jen is right...don't cut the torn edges. It's needed to "knit it" back together. Very fine painting & subject...all is not lost!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
Hello Karen,
that painting speaks volumes to me so I hope the tear is soon repaired to your satisfaction. I can imagine how you are feeling :-(
feel free to make constructive c/c...no digital alterations please
Thank you Jen, Nealey, Alexandra and Sarah for your help and encouragement. I started the patch process today. Fingers crossed.
I think the train station is done. I'll let it sit and decide if I need anything.
Well done Karen. In fact you have two paintings in one if you cut (not tear!!!) it down the centre!!!!
Karen, your paintings just get better and better. I really like that the viewer is standing looking down the track. It is a timeless and peaceful painting.
Good luck with the patching.
I thought you might like to see these two profipen drawings I made a long time ago......the buildings are still the same but shops have different names. Drawn plein air, the first one is an area called Scotgate and the other is Red Lion Square Sat on a tombstone to draw that.
I couldn't show the whole of the drawings as they are slightly larger than my scanner.
Sarah, the patterns and textures and perspective are all so pleasing to the eye in this plein air drawing.
Thanks Alex......all done freehand and measuring by eye.
Couldn't draw such large areas like that today as the traffic has dramatically increased since then and pedestrians walking by do tend to get in the way!!!!
Karen, your Train Station is just a PERFECT painting. The little building has fine detail ~ wonderful!
Sarah I am enjoying your pen drawings of the "English" buildings. The architecture is so different than where I live.
Sorry I havn't been making any "art" lately. I had to have another surgery today bacause the cancer under my eye was growing back. Can't wait til the swelling & pain go away!
Sarah, Wonderful drawings. I have a real problem with Architecture and perspective but these are perfect.
Nealey ,ouch! Nasty thing to have so close to your eye I hope it all settles down again soon.
So sorry to hear about your eye area problem Nealey...I can empathise a little as my daughter is having eye surgery yet again in a few weeks time.
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In America's Next Top Model Cycle 17, Episode 6 "Coco Rocha", the All-Stars got in the the end zone for a flag football beach challenge. How can you top bikinis + models + beefy hunks from the NFL? After posing for some fierce photos on the beach, the ladies had a "bitch fight" photo-shoot with supermodel Coco Rocha and learned what it's like to be around a professional. No offense, Ty-Ty.
In lieu of a traditional recap, we'll be ranking the girls (and judges — we see you, too!) based on their charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent (oh wait, that's another show). Check out our ANTM Power Play below, starting with the Top Model loser.
Ranking: 14, Coco Rocha
What was Coco's publicist thinking? Poor thing had to spend all afternoon with duos of frightened modelstants clawing at her, and then Tyra's team of stylists forced her into a Shakespearean frock for the judges table. So not glam.
Ranking: 13, Nigel Barker
Nigel had the job of babysitting the top models while they frolicked around in bikinis and eye-sexed football players. We can only imagine what his therapy bills must look like.
Ranking: 12, Alexandria
Called: Bottom two
Alexandria misinterpreted the flag football challenge as an opportunity to go bat crazy. Who knows if it's the pig tails or the fact that she seems to have more than a few personalities up in her, but we've skipped being "so excited" and gone straight to being "so scared." And don't even get us started on this girl's photo-shoot. She looked like she was auditioning for The Real Housewives Of The Asylum.
Ranking: 11, Bre
Called: Eliminated
The top model pressure has finally gotten to Bre. She spent most of this episode screaming and flashing her upper thigh and the camera. Even Coco was traumatized, and this is a woman who makes her career on looking "ugly-pretty." We'll miss you Bre.... but we'll take comfort in the fact that you'll probably pop up in our nightmares.
Ranking: 10, Dominique
Called: Winner
Everybody loves themselves some Domino, but there's just no excuse for those giant pants. We can only assume she's stashing a bunch of liquor in there to get through the week.
Ranking: 9, Lisa
Called: 2nd
Lisa chose this week to tell us about her life as a poor orphan (or something, we weren't paying close attention), and then took out her fury on some innocent NFL players who were forced to witness her running. But nice stunnah shades, girl!
Ranking: 8, Tyra Banks
Congratulations, Tyra. You win, okay? Everyone noticed your obsession with suspenders and now the entire top model crew are wearing them. You've created a trend. Are you happy?
Ranking: 7, Shannon
Called: 7th
We're just relieved Shannon didn't end up crying about Baby Jesus during this episode. Her head is in the game and she's ready to play! Well, until nudity is involved, in which case she's ready to pray.
Ranking: 6 , Angelea
Called: 4th
We seriously cannot get through an episode without one of the modelstants breaking down into tears, and this week it was 716 herself. Luckily, Jay reminded her that she used to sleep at a bus station, and everything was okay again. The hood bitch is back! Also, Tyra told Angelea that she looked like the Bride Of Frankenstein. That's as close to a compliment as you're gonna get from Ty.
Ranking: 5, Bianca
Called: 3rd
Everyone in the house still totally hates Bianca, most of all Lisa –– so Bianca took her down to Chinatown in the football challenge. Not to take sides, but YOU GO GIRL!
Ranking: 4, Laura
Called: 8th
Laura was way more fun back when she was shoving hot dogs in her mouth. Then again, she was kind of adorable running around the beach with that innocent smile on her face. Girl is growing up before our very eyes –– she might even hit puberty soon!
Ranking: 3, Kayla
Called: 6th, mini-challenge winner
Duh Kayla's gonna rule at the flag football challenge. And according to her, it's because she's a lesbian. It's kind of in her skinny genes. Not only did Kayla win the game, she also unintentionally flashed her butt to the camera so many times it was considered Not Safe For Life and had to be blurred out.
Ranking: 2 , Allison
Called: 5th
Alison is literally incapable of making any noise other than a chirp. When she was asked to scream by Jay, the tiny peep that escaped her mouth made us seriously concerned that a cat was being strangled by Tyra somewhere off stage.
Ranking 1, Andre Leon Talley
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Adult education lead teacher Marilyn Norfleet said, after June 25, the only way GED tests can be taken are on computer. No more paper tests will be accepted at the Jones County site. All tests will have to be completed on computers, and those tests have to be taken in Bibb County.
Norfleet said there is nothing she can do about the switch to computer testing, but she is working with officials of the adult education program in an attempt to allow students to take the computer tests in Jones County.
The current version of the GED test is expiring at the end of 2013, and starting in 2014, there will be a new test. The big news is all portions of the tests that have been taken so far will expire at the end of the year.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. still needs an ambitious agenda to make American products competitive overseas.
Biden tells an annual conference of the Export-Import Bank that American workers can still compete with anyone in the world when the playing field is level. He's citing intellectual property theft as an impediment and said it must stop.
Biden said part of his job when he travels abroad is to be, in his words, an "extended chamber of commerce." He said he makes no apologies for fighting for American companies.
To stay competitive, Biden said the U.S. must reform its immigration system, maintain its presence as a Pacific power and invest in economic infrastructure.
The Obama administration is about halfway to its goal of doubling American exports by 2015.
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An Aiken woman reported on Tuesday that she left her purse in a cart at a store on Richland Avenue. When she returned to the store, her purse was no longer in the cart. A cell phone was reported missing with the purse.
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A burglary was reported at a home on Stormbranch Road in Beech Island on Wednesday. The owner reported electronics, a safe, documents, money and bonds missing.
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Michael Jeffery Hamill was born October 27, 1975 in Moore to Shelby Hamill and Fara Lynn (Fuller) Wheeler. He passed from this life July 22, 2011 in Grant at the age of 35. Jeff had lived in the Rattan area for the past 25 years. He was a member of the Victory Assembly of God Church in Rattan. Jeff enjoyed spending time with his kids, cleaning his car, playing drums & OU football. Jeff was preceded in death by his grandparents: Sid & Ellen Hamill. He is survived by his children: Jagger Dylan Hamill, Talyn Anjalee Hamill, & Cash Weiland Hamill all of Hugo, Oklahoma; father: Shelby Hamill of Rattan; mother: Lynn Wheeler of Oklahoma City; brothers: Scotty Hamill of Oklahoma City and John Massey of Blanchard; as well as many other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at Mills & Coffey Funeral Home in Antlers. Family and friends may send online condolences at www.millscoffey.com.
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Summer officially arrived early Friday morning, but let's face it, none of us looks at the calendar and says June 20 or 21 is the start of the summer.
Most people I know mark the beginning of summer by Memorial Day weekend or the day that school gets out for the academic year. Similarly, summer ends and fall begins when school returns the next academic year.
Winter and spring become trickier to define, as they fall during the school year.
I've always paid attention to the seasons. I love winter in the mountains, where the cold slaps you in the face like a snowball. I also love the colors of spring and autumn in the mountains.
I tend to divide my world into football season, basketball season, baseball season and hurricane season. I enjoy busy football, basketball and baseball seasons, but my heart sinks at the thought of a busy hurricane season.
Hopefully, Okaloosa County and the surrounding areas won't be in a storm path this year. It would be nicer if every named storm blew harmlessly out while still at sea, and none of our neighbors anywhere in the country had to face nature's wrath.
As a kid, I always enjoyed the summer. Maybe that's because I wasn't a very good student and I've always preferred being outside playing than being cooped up inside hitting the books.
Driving around town the past few days, I've seen some moms with their kids at Twin Hills Park, but the local baseball fields, tennis courts and outdoor basketball courts are empty. And the local sports camps do a good job of getting the kids outside and playing, but it's not the same as it used to be.
There was a time when kids didn't need a controlled environment to encourage an active lifestyle or participation in sports. Back in the day, we would play ball from the early morning until late afternoon, only breaking for lunch.
If it got too hot, we might go inside for an hour or two to cool down, but those times were rare. We were lean, tanned and never worried about being overweight or overheated.
With all the talk in the news about childhood obesity being on the rise, there's no better time than summer for kids to get active.
In addition to playing baseball during the summer, I loved to ride my bicycle, climb trees, fish and swim when I was a kid. I even found time to go to the local tennis courts and hit a ball around with my buddies.
Some of my best memories of youth and dearest friendships forged were spent on endless days too quickly gone.
I know the world is different today than it was when I was a boy. Computer games and video games have replaced real baseball. And why should a kid go outside and sweat on the tennis court when you can play tennis in the comfort of your own home on your Wii?
Yes, summer and being a kid sure has changed a lot.
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Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-Banner Elk, NC) was sworn in to the United States House of Representatives Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, to serve the people of North Carolina's 5th Congressional District in the 113th Congress.
Foxx committed to using her time in Congress to build consensus around fiscally responsible solutions to America's debt crisis that respect hardworking North Carolina families and pave the way for economic growth and private sector job creation.
"Confronting America's debt crisis head-on is the responsibility of this Congress," Foxx said. "Millions of Americans are still out of work, small businesses are struggling to create jobs, and big government tax-and-spend policies aren't helping.
"This is an historic moment for our country. It is my hope that together the members of this Congress will seize the opportunity to accomplish bold, comprehensive tax and spending reforms that correct our debt mess and restore prosperity to this, the greatest nation on earth.
"It is humbling to have been again entrusted by North Carolinians with the responsibility of representing them in Congress. Not a day goes by when I am not thankful for the opportunity to serve local families and do my best to shape a more efficient, effective government on their behalf. The oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States is not one I take lightly."
Foxx also cast her vote for Congressman John Boehner (R-OH) to continue leading the House of Representatives as its Speaker. Boehner's nomination was approved by a House majority.
For the duration of the 113th Congress, Foxx will continue her service on the House Rules and Education & the Workforce Committees. On the Rules Committee, Foxx will serve as Vice Chair of the full committee. For the Education & the Workforce Committee, Foxx, a career educator at both state and community colleges in North Carolina, will again lead the Subcommittee on Higher Education.
In addition to those committee posts, Congresswoman Foxx was elected by her colleagues to serve in House leadership for the 113th Congress, in the capacity of GOP Conference Secretary.
The 5th District of North Carolina that Foxx serves in the 113th Congress is comprised of the counties of Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin, and portions of the counties of Catawba, Davidson, Forsyth, Iredell, and Rowan.


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A veteran newspaper reporter, newspaper editor, and magazine writer, Mr. Leccese covered politics and government in Massachusetts for more than 25 years and won several New England and Massachusetts Press Association awards.
He has worked as a correspondent for The Boston Globe, political reporter for the Fitchburg Sentinel, editor-in-chief of The Tab Newspapers, State House bureau chief for Community Newspaper Company,\ and was the founding editor of Beacon Hill: The Newspaper of Massachusetts Government. His freelance reporting and writing has appeared in publications including The Columbia Journalism Review, The Quill, The Boston Phoenix, Commonwealth, and State Legislatures, and he has been a contributing editor at Boston Magazine. Mr. Leccese has taught journalism and writing at Boston University, Northeastern University, and Boston College. His primary areas of interest are public affairs journalism and online journalism, and his research is focused on political blogs.
He was the recipient of the 2011-2012 Emerson College Stanley and Helaine and Miller Outstanding Teacher Award.
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IRVING (November 12, 2012) -- Baylor men's basketball junior Cory Jefferson and freshman Isaiah Austin were named Phillips 66 Big 12 Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively, on Monday. A panel of media members selected the honorees for their performances in games played during the season's opening weekend.
Jefferson and Austin combined to sweep the Big 12 weekly awards for the fourth time in program history. Perry Jones III and Pierre Jackson did so on Jan. 16, 2012, and LaceDarius Dunn and Ekpe Udoh were honored on Jan. 4, 2010, and again on Feb. 15, 2010.
A Killeen, Texas, native, Jefferson entered the season with one career start in three years at Baylor, but his role has increased significantly with the Bears sending three forwards to the NBA after the 2011-12 season.
Jefferson averaged 22.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 4.0 blocks to lead Baylor to wins over Lehigh and Jackson State over the weekend. He had career highs with 26 points and 13 rebounds in Friday's 99-77 win over Patriot League-favorite Lehigh, and Jefferson followed that performance with 14 points, seven rebounds and a game-high six blocks in Sunday's 78-47 win over Jackson State.
Jefferson led the team in minutes played in both games and shot 78.3 percent from the field, converting on 18-of-23 field goal attempts. His nine dunks in Friday's season opener were one shy of Quincy Acy's program record.
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Austin's honor gives Baylor 11 Big 12 Rookie of the Week honorees since the start of the 2009-10 season – the Bears had 13 Rookie of the Week winners in the league's first 13 years. Jefferson is Baylor's 11th Big 12 Player of the Week selection since the start of the 2007-08 season, and the Bears had only seven such honorees in the previous 11 seasons.
No. 19/18 Baylor returns to action when it travels to the ESPN Charleston Classic, which runs Thursday through Sunday at Carolina First Arena in Charleston, S.C. The Bears open tournament play against Boston College at 2 p.m. CT Thursday on ESPNU.


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Catholic Responses to the New Boy Scouts Policy
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver June 6, 2013 - 2:30pm
Here's an intersting article on the reaction of various religious groups to the new Boy Scouts policy, admitting gay youth Scouts but still prohibiting gay people from adult roles in the organization. It's hard to imagine why a Christian, even one who believes homosexuality to be a sin, would favor barring gay boys and young men from even participating as a member in a youth group like the Scouts, and yet some churches have taken that position. The response to the new policy by the National Catholic Committee on Scouting is more encouraging, but some of the reponses by individual Catholic priests and even a bishop are baffling and disturbing:
A Catholic pastor in Bremerton, Wash., the Rev. Derek Lappe of Our Lady Star of the Sea, wrote an open letter to his parishioners announcing that the parish would cut its ties with the Scouts and develop new youth programs of its own. "I am very aware that my objection to the change ... is increasingly considered bigoted and backward," Lappe wrote. "But I won't put public opinion ahead of the good of the boys and young men in my parish."
In the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake, the pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church notified local Scout leaders that the church would no longer sponsor a Cub Scout pack and Boy Scout troop. In a letter conveying the decision, the Rev. Brian Grady wrote that it would be "not only unjust, but immoral" for straight boys to have to share tents on camping trips with gay Scouts.
And in Arlington, Va., Catholic Bishop Paul Loverde issued a statement saying the new membership policy "forces us to prayerfully reconsider whether a continued partnership with the BSA will be possible." "It is highly disappointing to see the Boy Scouts of America succumb to external pressures and political causes at the cost of its moral integrity," said Loverde, who predicted the policy change will bring "continuing controversy, policy fights and discord."
However, the National Catholic Committee on Scouting — which works with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to coordinate the church's involvement in Scouting — has taken a more positive view of the policy change. "We should be encouraged that the change in BSA's youth membership standard is not in conflict with Catholic teaching," Edward Martin, the committee's chairman, wrote last week in an open letter to Catholics involved in Scouting. Martin, an Eagle Scout with five children who've been Scouts, said his committee would form a task force to work with Catholic dioceses and parishes on how best to go forward in light of the change.
"Our youth don't want to leave Scouting. Scouting is still the best program around," Martin wrote. "Let's continue this important journey together."
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By my tally, just discrimination now includes:
- Marriage
- Adoption
- Teaching
- Military
- Priesthood
- Being a member of a church choir
- Scouting
and unjust disrimination includes:
- ?
One really needs to read the entire letter from Fr. Lappe of Bremerton, WA. It is frightening:
He dredges up every possible discredited theory for same sex attraction -- for example boys not engaging in enough "rough and tumble play." You mothers out there seem to be the primary cause gayness, according to Fr. Lappe -- overprotecting the boys and being emotionally unavailable to girls.
In his great compassion for confused adolescents who think they are gay, his parish has programs that will "cultivate authentically masculine and feminine identities." I am not sure what exactly that means -- but I guess it means roughhousing and team sports for boys. Heaven forbid a young boy plays with a doll in Bremerton.
One might laugh at the absurdity of Fr. Lappe -- except we know the real damage this sort of stuff has done to kids. Hopefully the increasing acceptance of gays in our culture will insulate kids from self-hatred which Lappe's ilk have historically instilled.
Jack - this is the document that Fr. Lappe seems to rely on for that part of his letter. (This link is to an excerpt; the entire pamphlet doesn't seem to be available for free on the web; but the content in this excerpt seems to be of a piece with Fr. Lappe's letter.)
It is published by the Catholic Medical Association, whose name certainly sounds as though it is an august and mainstream Catholic organization, and perhaps it is, but it seems to have fewer than 1,000 members, which is not what I would have expected from an august and mainstream organization for doctors, dentists, and other healthcare professionals.
I'll just remark that the approach to homosexuality and treatment advocated in this pamphlet - that with appropriate interventions and treatments, homosexuality can be healed - doesn't seem mainstream. I have no informed opinion on the heated question of whether mainstream science has succumbed to political correctness on homosexuality.
Whatever the merits, or not, of the Catholic Medical Association, its pamphlet, and Fr. Lappe's endorsement of them, I think his policy is wrong. If a teenager thinks he may be gay, and wants to be a scout, he should be able to be a scout. I just don't see why scout membership or activities would need to depend on sexual identity. Nor do I know of anything in Catholic teaching that would discourage or prohibit it - in fact, Catholic teaching would encourage other scouts to stand in solidarity with their gay peer, istem.
After you have had a double vodka martini (up, dirty with many olives) read the comments to the letter.
I wonder if the parishioners were consulted about any or this, or whether the priest simply dictated this dissolution of the parish's BSA troop (humor me ... I can always hope, can't I?) Has there been any kind of an outcry about this unilateral action? What has the local ordinary said, if anything?
The Catholic Medical Association point person on gay issues and the main author of that pamphlet is a Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons.
He's a dangerous man and not just because he thinks he can "cure" gays:
"A Pennsylvania psychiatrist whose evaluation led Bishop Robert Finn to keep the Rev. Shawn Ratigan in ministry is an adviser to a group that supports priests accused of sexual abuse.
ere: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/16/3270664/psychiatrist-who-examined-r...
Richard Fitzgibbons, who examined Ratigan in January after disturbing photographs of children were found on the priest's computer, is an adviser to Opus Bono Sacerdotii, according to the group's website. The nonprofit organization provides services to accused and imprisoned priests, including financial, legal and emotional support.
After his evaluation, Fitzgibbons told Finn that Ratigan was not a pedophile and that his pornography problem was a result of loneliness and depression, according to a report commissioned by the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese.
Finn relied on Fitzgibbons' opinion in his decision to send Ratigan to a Vincentian mission house in Independence, where he remained a priest and allegedly continued to take lewd photographs of children, the report said"
Bishop Guglielmone, the USCCB liaison to scouting is quoted:
The compromise was to add a sentence to the requirements for being a Scout that explicitly said no Scout would be rejected for reasons of sexual preference alone. It seems fairly clear that the National Catholic Committee on Scouting gave tacit approval to this compromise to prevent a full lifting of the ban.
Bishop Robert Guglielmone, the USCCB episcopal liaison for the National Catholic Committee on Scouting (NCCS), told me that the Church can "live with" this compromise.
"I kind of expected that this is the way the vote would go," Bishop Guglielmone told the Register. "I'm not particularly encouraged by it, but I knew it would happen eventually. As the policy change is right now promoted, we can live with it. Unfortunately, there are many people who are interpreting this policy to go much further than it actually does, particularly in the secular press."…
"My concern is that we have well over half a million young people in the program," he said, "and most of those kids are going to stay no matter what happens. We have a real obligation to stay in dialogue and to stay connected to the program."
Added the bishop, "The leadership of the BSA has made it very clear that they intend to hold the line on adult leaders, but they also said they would hold the line on this issue, so where this could go, I don't know. That's why I feel it's imperative for the Church to continue to be involved. And if it gets to the point where some of our basic issues are threatened — such as being able to pick leaders for Catholic chartered groups or in diminishing the role of religion and God — then we will have to re-evaluate our participation in the program at that time."
The wording of the resolution seems almost custom-made to appeal to Catholics, separating as it does being and behavior. On that level I don't object to it. The idea of a boy being removed from a fraternal organization devoted to cultivating character and morals at a time when he's struggling with sexual identity seems cruel and contrary to the principles of scouting.
Perhaps a little more tolerance would be beneficial:
Most people with liberal sensibilities often call for "tolerance" without really appreciating what that entails in a liberal democracy such as ours.
Tolerance, if it is a civic virtue, requires that we believe that those with whom we disagree are mistaken. For when a fellow citizen and I agree, we don't tolerate each other. We agree. Yet, ironically, many in our society believe that judging another to be mistaken – whether on religious matters or issues involving the propriety of one's sexual powers – is itself an act of intolerance.
Under this definition of tolerance, agreement, rather than disagreement, becomes a necessary condition for being tolerant. In that case, tolerance is turned on its head, and has become, paradoxically, intolerance.
Many often claim that we ought to be skeptical about the confidence we place in our own judgments on matters over which reasonable people disagree. But it is precisely on those issues that some are the most judgmental, unforgiving, and punitive. They seem, ironically, to emulate the very sort of closed-mindedness and dogmatism that they often attribute to what they pejoratively call "Christian fundamentalists." While claiming to reject institutions and ways of life that exclude those who are different, they do not practice what they preach, and in fact make it a point to exclude those that do not toe the party line.
I respectfully disagree. I do not think that tolernace presupposes agreement as a necessary presupposition for peaceful co-existence. We are all able to distinguish the language of disagreement from the language of intolerance in the culture wars today. It is the latter that is problematic and which impedes civil discourse.
After his evaluation, Fitzgibbons told Finn that Ratigan was not a pedophile and that his pornography problem was a result of loneliness and depression, according to a report commissioned by the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese.
Whether or not what Ratigan is a pedophile, it can't be clearer that possessing child pornography violates Article 5 of the Dallas Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Possession of child pornography is an express instance of abuse as defined in that document.
According to the provisions of Article 5 in the Charter, Ratigan must be removed from ministry, and dismissed from the clerical state if warranted (and how can it not be, given his track record?), for a single violation of possession of child pornography.
Perhaps it's not Fitzgibbons' role to call out Charter violations, although it strains credulity that an expert consulted on Charter violations wouldn't be familiar with the provisions of the Charter.
Tolerance can have a paradoxical effect, i.e., requiring someone to tolerate that which they find politically, morally, or economically, intolerable, is a form of intolerance. Googling on the subject, I found this article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that includes a catalog of various forms of tolerance. Perhaps it might illuminate some of the issues under discussion here. Excuse the length. I have highlighted some possible talking points. I excerpt from the article; the whole thing is here: Toleration, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
2. Four Conceptions of Toleration
The following discussion of four conceptions of toleration is not to be understood as the reconstruction of a linear historical succession. Rather, these are different, historically developed understandings of what toleration consists in that can all be present in society at the same time, so that conflicts about the meaning of toleration may also be understood as conflicts between these conceptions.
1. The first one I call the permission conception. According to it, toleration is a relation between an authority or a majority and a dissenting, "different" minority (or various minorities). Toleration then means that the authority gives qualified permission to the minority to live according to their beliefs on condition that the minority accepts the dominant position of the authority or majority. So long as their being different remains within certain limits, that is, in the "private" realm, and so long as the minority groups do not claim equal public and political status, they can be tolerated on pragmatic or principled grounds—on pragmatic grounds because this form of toleration is the least costly of all possible alternatives and does not disturb civil peace and order as the dominant party defines it (but rather contributes to it); and on principled grounds because one may think it is morally problematic (and in any case fruitless) to force people to give up certain deep-seated beliefs or practices.
The permission conception is a classic one that we find in many historical writings and in instances of a politics of toleration (such as the Edict of Nantes in 1598) and that—to a considerable extent—still informs our understanding of the term. According to this conception, toleration means that the authority or majority, which has the power to interfere with the practices of a minority, nevertheless "tolerates" it, while the minority accepts its inferior position. The situation or the "terms of toleration" are hierarchical: one party allows another party certain things on conditions specified by the first one. Toleration is thus understood as permissio negativa mali: not interfering with something that is actually wrong but not "intolerably" harmful. It is this conception that Goethe (1829, 507, transl. R.F.) had in mind when he said: "Tolerance should be a temporary attitude only: it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to insult."
2. The second conception, the coexistence conception, is similar to the first one in regarding toleration as the best means toward ending or avoiding conflict and toward pursuing one's own goals. What is different, however, is the relationship between the subjects and the objects of toleration. For now the situation is not one of an authority or majority in relation to a minority, but one of groups that are roughly equal in power, and who see that for the sake of social peace and the pursuit of their own interests mutual toleration is the best of all possible alternatives (the Augsburg Peace Treaty of 1555 is a historical example). They prefer peaceful coexistence to conflict and agree to a reciprocal compromise, to a certain modus vivendi. The relation of tolerance is no longer vertical but horizontal: the subjects are at the same time the objects of toleration. This may not lead to a stable social situation in which trust can develop, for once the constellation of power changes, the more powerful group may no longer see any reasons for being tolerant (cf. Rawls 1987, 11, Fletcher 1996).
3. Different from this, the third conception of toleration—the respect conception—is one in which the tolerating parties respect one another in a more reciprocal sense (cf. Weale 1985, Scanlon 1996). Even though they differ fundamentally in their ethical beliefs about the good and true way of life and in their cultural practices, citizens recognize one another as moral-political equals in the sense that their common framework of social life should—as far as fundamental questions of rights and liberties and the distribution of resources are concerned—be guided by norms that all parties can equally accept and that do not favor one specific ethical or cultural community (cf. Forst 2002, ch. 2).
There are two models of the "respect conception," that of "formal equality," and that of "qualitative equality." The former operates on a strict distinction between the political and the private realm, according to which ethical (i.e., cultural or religious) differences among citizens of a legal state should be confined to the private realm, so that they do not lead to conflicts in the political sphere. This version is clearly exhibited in the "secular republicanism" of the French authorities who held that headscarves with a religious meaning have no place in public schools in which children are educated to be autonomous citizens (cf. Galeotti 1993).
The model of "qualitative equality," on the other hand, recognizes that certain forms of formal equality favor those ethical-cultural life-forms whose beliefs and practices make it easier to accommodate a conventional public/private distinction. In other words, the "formal equality" model tends to be intolerant toward ethical-cultural forms of life that require a public presence that is different from traditional and hitherto dominant cultural forms. Thus, on the "qualitative equality" model, persons respect each other as political equals with a certain distinct ethical-cultural identity that needs to be respected and tolerated as something that is (a) especially important for a person and (b) can provide good reasons for certain exceptions from or general changes in existing legal and social structures. Social and political equality and integration are thus seen to be compatible with cultural difference—within certain (moral) limits of reciprocity.
4. In discussions of toleration, one finds alongside the conceptions mentioned thus far a fourth one which I call the esteem conception. This implies an even fuller, more demanding notion of mutual recognition between citizens than the respect conception does. Here, being tolerant does not just mean respecting members of other cultural life-forms or religions as moral and political equals, it also means having some kind of ethical esteem for their beliefs, that is, taking them to be ethically valuable conceptions that—even though different from one's own—are in some way ethically attractive and held with good reasons. For this still to be a case of toleration, the kind of esteem characteristic of these relations is something like "reserved esteem," that is, a kind of positive acceptance of a belief that for some reason you still find is not as attractive as the one you hold. As valuable as parts of the tolerated belief may be, it also has other parts that you find misguided, or wrong (cf. Raz 1988, Sandel 1989).
To answer the question which of these conceptions should be the guiding one for a given society, two aspects are most important. The first one requires an assessment of the conflicts that require and allow for toleration, given the history and character of the groups involved; and the second requires an adequate and convincing normative justification of toleration in a given social context. It is important to keep in mind that the (normatively dependent) concept of toleration itself does not provide such a justification; this has to come from other normative resources. And the list of such resources, speaking both historically and systematically, is long.
Very well said. Tolerance does not imply agreement. it implies accepting that people with differeing opinons come to them from an honest disagreement with oneself.
Margaret, thanks for that article. But which model best describes the situation between the homosexual community and religions that cling to a traditional morality?
Alan, very well said. Tolerance does not imply agreement.
I may have mistaken Bruce's point, but I believe he also said this?
As a Catholic, a wife of a Cub and Boy Scout leader, mother of three boys and a Cub and Boy Scout leader myself, I cannot begin to express how insulting and nonsensical this statement is:
"the Rev. Brian Grady wrote that it would be "not only unjust, but immoral" for straight boys to have to share tents on camping trips with gay Scouts."
What exactly does he think is going on at these campouts????
First of all, no Scout should ever be "forced" to share a tent with any other Scout with whom he feels uncomfortable or unsafe. That shouldn't happen and if it does, there are other problems in that unit that have nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Second of all, my family has friends who are gay and my sons have all said they would have no problem sharing a tent with a gay Scout. Again - what does he think is going to happen in that tent? We've been on enough campouts to know what happens in tents (The walls aren't very thick and boys aren't very quiet.) Let's see.... they might be playing cards. Or talking about Star Wars. Or Mythbusters. Or Duck Dynasty. Or school. OR they might be working on a report for a merit badge if they're at summer camp. Oh yes, they might also be, oh, I don't know, SLEEPING. If anything inappropriate or immoral is happening in that tent, then there are problems with the Scouts and/or leadership of that unit that have nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Third of all, way to insult the leaders. That's why we have leaders. This is why we have mandatory Youth Protection Training. And several more levels of leadership training, much of it mandatory before a leader can take a group of Scouts out on a campout. If the leaders aren't paying attention to what's going on with the Scouts under their care, there are problems with the leaders that have NOTHING to do with sexual orientation.
I seriously wonder what some of these people are thinking before they open their mouths or take their thoughts to a keyboard. What a bizarre way to villify a group of people for merely exisiting as our loving Father created them. What an insult to the volunteer men and women who commit themselves to leadership, serving our youth. And what an insult to the Scouting Youth who choose to participate in a program so that they can develop strong character and their duty to God, Country, themselves and others. Perhaps some of these priests could learn a thing or two from actually spending time with our Scouts - because reading many of these comments, it's clear they have no clue, or at least, very little regard for the leaders and members of our program in the first place.
JP: Well, the section I highlighted, "qualitative equality," which is a subset of Point 3, the "respect conception," would seem to most clearly accomodate differing views between traditional and liberal views on homsexuality--a live and let live attitude on each side as long as one side doesn't encroach on the basic views of the other. But we are not there.
Rather, it appears that we are in a state of moving from Point 1, the "permission conception," to something else. Point 1 being: 'According to it, toleration is a relation between an authority or a majority and a dissenting, "different" minority (or various minorities). Toleration then means that the authority gives qualified permission to the minority to live according to their beliefs on condition that the minority accepts the dominant position of the authority or majority," i.e., Don't ask, don't tell. What is the something else we are moving toward? Of course, I don't know that. There are enormous regional and demographic differences. [Let's bracket the likelihood that scouting from its original days had homosexual boys in their troop and had homosexual leaders as well].
Given the quotes from local sources in Eduardo's post, we might agree that large regional and perhaps sub-regional difference here would include, on the one hand, Southern, ex-urban, rural, and some suburban areas, who are not ready for openly gay scouts to appear in their troops. While urban, Northeastern, Callifonia, and parts of the Midwest, etc., probably are ready. It is interesting to note that the head of the National Catholic Scouting movement seems prepared to stay in the BSA. And as we know, the Mormons intend to stay, while the Baptist following their ecclesiology will likely allow each congregation to decide for itself. So this is not simply an issue of religious views, but of traditional vs. liberal.
To digress a bit: Given these regional and/or demographic difference, it might be prudent to leave these matters to states and local authorities. It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court rules on DOMA and the California, Prop 8, cases now before it. Will it be Roe all over again?
The burden of Bruce's remark about a litte more tolerance goes for both sides of this question. I say that as a regular reader of the univocal coverage on this subject by the NYTimes.
Margaret - I agree that we're moving from #1 to something else. Your description "a live and let live attitude on each side as long as one side doesn't encroach on the basic views of the other." sounds to me as though it might be more like #2 than the part you highlighted in #3. I think #2 is a pretty apt description of some of the multicultural urban local communities found on the North Side of Chicago along the lakefront - different cultures and/or ethnicities living in more or less "live and let live" respect (usually). There are a lot of gay residents up and down the lakefront who are part of that stew. I note that part of #2's description includes, "This may not lead to a stable situation in which trust can develop." Again, that rings true to my experience living on the North Side. It's not ideal. As Christians, we should set the bar higher. Sounds to me like #4 is where we should strive to end up. This is where homophobia is the big obstacle, I guess. Homophobic-driven behavior doesn't seem capable of achieving esteem of the other. I really think it's incumbent on all of us to shine sunlight on homophobia among Christians whenever we encounter it.
I recently went camping with youth and I have to say that boys and girls slept in separate tents. Common sense tells you that the reason is that it is thought unwise to put in the same tent teens who might be attracted to each other. Do the people who have no issue with gay teens sharing the same tent also have no issue with teenage boys and girls sharing the same tent, and if they do, how is it different?
Not that it would stop me from recruiting gay teens, but I think that the logistics are not entirely straightforward. Am I confused?
The Girl Scouts have always been inclusive and it has been nothing but a good thing.
In the light of Rev. Derek Lappe's comments, what are the responsibilities of church parishioners in voicing their opinion about those comments? On one hand, it seems to me, the Church continues to differ from its parishioners on issues like homosexuality. One the other, if the Church moves too fast, it would isolate the conservative parishioners and would need to provide justification for the turnabout on its own moral teachings. Then, is it not the role of the parishioners to be the catalyst for any change on views such as homosexuality? Your thoughts.
Claire --
It seems to me that there is a big difference between boys and girls sharing tents and straight boys and gay boys sharing tents. The girls would on some level be inclined to accept advances by the boys, but straight boys especially young ones, are positively disinclined to accept sexual advances from other boys.
I'm NOT saying that gay scouts would be more likely to cause sexual problems than straight boys. It would be unfair to think that gay boys are less respectful of boys than straight boy are respectful of girls.
Ann, what about gay boys sharing the same tent with other gay boys? That's what I meant.
Claire, your question presupposes that gays inevitably act out when they're sexually attracted to others because they have no self-control. Do we assume that straight people have no self-control? Then why does anyone assume that gays don't either?
Angela, we have doubts about the self -control of teenagers, and that's I think why usually teenage girls and boys do not share sleeping quarters in the same tent. Why should gay youth be assumed to have more self-control than straight youth?
"...a live and let live attitude..."
The problem with this is that it's almost always a cover for a live and let die attitude.
Alan, I believe homosexual behavior is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I believe homosexual behavior is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I don't think it is either of those - it's simply a statement of fact as to what you believe (I assume).
The question of tolerance comes up in what you say or do next.
I think Jim Dunn got it right: Tolerance does not imply agreement. it [requires] accepting that people with differing opinons come to them from an honest disagreement with oneself.
I don't think its worth quibbling over "opinions" vs. "beliefs"
Claire, if you can't trust two gays occupying the same tent to behave themselves, then bunk a gay kid with a straight kid. Problem solved.
Claire --
It seems to me that a pair of gay boys in a tent with some straight ones pose no more problem than a pair of gay boys in a school's boys room or in the gym showers. The assumption behind all this fear-mongering is, I suspect, the same old stereotype of gay males as creatures who simply cannot control their sexual natures. Unfair.
There have undoubtedly been gay boys in the scouts for generations. Did they tempt straight boys before? Nobody is saying they did, so i assume that in the past there was no big problem about their sharing tents. So, unless gay boys have changed, there is no reason to assume the gays will make noticeably more sexual problems in the future. Are future problems possible? Sure. But they're no more likely than they were in the past.
What concerns me most about this brouhaha is the feelings of the gay boys when they read that so many people consider them to be sexual monsters even at their tender young ages. No wonder suicide is so common among gay children. Sad, sad, sad. No, tragic.
" ... and unjust disrimination includes:"
Everything about healthcare that the USCCB doesn't want to do.
I believe heterosexual behavior resulting in excess population is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I believe that enforced celibacy is immoral in that is contravese the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I believe that trying to require women to carry children that they do not want is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I believe that forbidding divorced and remarried Catholics access to the Eucharist is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I believe that denying the Eucharist to any non-CatholicChristian who presents her/himself to a eucharistic minister is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
I believe that imposing a narrow, religiously biased definition of marriage on a population that does not agree is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
" ... and unjust disrimination includes:"
I think that a Catholic archbishop in Uganda protested the provision in a law that would punish homosexuality with the death penalty. So the Catholic church institution believes that executing homosexuals because of their being homosexual is an unjust discrimination. I suppose that that could be considered a start.
. . . I believe homosexual behavior is immoral. Is that the language of disagreement or intolerance?
Unless a Boy Scout (and the age range is 11 to 17) is married, according to the Catholic Church, any sexual behavior is immoral. And since somewhere above 80 percent of all heterosexuals engage in sexual intercourse before marriage, the odds are very high that most Boy Scouts (even if they are all heterosexual) will engage in immoral sexual behavior in their lifetime. Let's not even think about the odds of 11- to 17-year-old boys engaging in masturbation alone or in (perfectly heterosexual) groups.
I think a good case could be made (based on Catholic thinking) that most heterosexual behavior the Church considers immoral is worse than homosexual behavior. In any case, even in orthodox Catholic thinking, homosexuals do not have a monopoly on sexual sins.
The difference being, of course, that the Boy Scouts are now implicitly sanctioning acting on desires the Chuch considers harmful, leading young men away from a mature expression of sexual desire.
Following on David Nickol, the Catechism (2352) says about masturbation "To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability."
Which is probably a good way to think about.other sexual activity, as well.
As 2358 says, people with "homosexual tendencies"..."must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided"
Which I think means you shouldn't exclude kids from scout troops or parish activities simply because they experience same-sex attraction.
If kids with either same-sex or opposite sex attraction act out that attraction, I suppose there could be situations at which the only practical solution is to separate them from the scout troop or impose restrictions, but I would ponder the advice of 2352 first.
The Boy Scouts are now implicitly sanctioning acting on desires the Church considers harmful.
Don't think so. As I understand it, the BSA hasn't changed its policy that sexual activity isn't something that Boy Scouts do - regardless of whether their attraction is opposite sex or same sex.
I assume some heterosexual Scouts have had problems meeting that standard in he past.
Boy Scouts don't date girls? Don't kiss them? Don't take them to dances? You assume all heterosexual activity between boys and girls is harmful--that's not what the Church teaches.
I didn't say those things, Mark. I reported what William Perry, the President of the BSA said:
"the resolution reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and that any sexual conduct, heterosexual or homosexual, is contrary to the virtues of Scouting."
Wayne Perry
But, John, you're avoiding the issue, as is the BSA. The Church teaches that it is important for young men to develop a mature expression of sexual desire, and this change in policy severely restricts the ability of Scout leaders to do that in a way that accords with Church teaching.
For the BSA, and those who support this change, to hide behind the fig leaf of being against some vague notion of "sexual conduct" is an intentional dodge.
I think Mr. Proska is suggesting that within BSA it is OK for gay scouts to act their orientation in ways that are less than genital contact, in other words it may be OK for gay scouts to hold hands, dance together, go to a movie together, etc. I don't know for sure what BSA means by "sexual conduct", but I have to think they really won't be out to stop gay kids from going to a movie together. Sexual conduct for the BSA is probably something much closer to something directly involving the genitals. It would be silly for the BSA to regulate anything less.
Even assuming a very conservative acceptance the teaching of the Church on homosexuality as contained in the Catechism, I think it is similarly silly for the Church to be preoccupied with adolescents who may be expressing same sex attraction through activities short of genital contact. For example -- I think it would be silly to prohibit a teenager at a Catholic school from bringing a same-sex date to a school prom. The catechism says LGBT people are called to chastity. A gay teenager can certainly be chaste and a have a same sex prom date. Just like a straight teen can. Better for the school to emphasize the universal call to chastity than get hung up on whom one may be tempted to be unchaste with.
Is it so hard to believe that Scouts, whatever their sexual orientation, are serious about the values they are learning to live by: trustworthy, loyal, etc? Or that they really are more interested in outdoor activities than those that might occur within a tent?
If a tent is a problem, there is nothing sacrosanct about a two-person tent. There are plenty of one-, three-, and four-person tents that would probably reduce to zero the number of incidents that this thread is so concerned about. My own preference for camping is a tarp, which is delightfully open to the night and eliminates the dampness that accumulates on tent walls from a sleeper's breath. There's very little privacy under a tarp. The whole creation is right there with you, including insects.
There is also, I think, adult supervision at campouts, and although we have learned that that is not as sure a warrant for good behavior as we once believed, it is something.
These are young people who are growing up. Remember how it was? By all means, give them good counsel and good example. But they will find their own way and make their own mistakes. And most of them will turn out no worse and maybe even a little better for them.
The Church teaches that it is important for young men to develop a mature expression of sexual desire, and this change in policy severely restricts the ability of Scout leaders to do that in a way that accords with Church teaching.
Mark Proska,
Are you saying that accepting gay scouts will somehow prevent or interfere with boys becoming heterosexual? Are you saying the result of the Boy Scouts' new policy will mean that there will be more homosexuals than there otherwise would have been, because the Boy Scouts will allow boys to be gay when they otherwise would have "developed" into heterosexuals?
The Church teaches that it is important for young men to develop a mature expression of sexual desire, and this change in policy severely restricts the ability of Scout leaders to do that in a way that accords with Church teaching.
Mark Proska,
One more thought. When you say, "restricts the ability of Scout leaders to do that," what do you mean by "do that"? (The sentence doesn't make sense if read closely.) Are you saying that it is the task of Scout leaders to help Scouts develop into heterosexuals?
Without going into any detail that might scare the horses or cause delicate women to faint, I specifically remember some "horsing around" that took place on a boy scout campout that involved genitals and ammoniated toothpaste. (No, you probably DON'T want to know.)
Was that homosexual behavior? It was between males, orientation unknown. Was it sinful? Does anyone really care? Is it anyone's business?
Sexual conduct for the BSA is probably something much closer to something directly involving the genitals.
Mr. Marth—
That is my suspicion as well, and I think it's an abdication of responsibility. The BSA's responsibility—our responsibility—begins well before that.
I agree that a prom-bound teenager without same sex attractions can be as unchaste as a prom-bound teenager with same sex attractions. The difference being, of course, that, according to Church teaching, only one of the teenagers is engaging in an activity that is ordered to the Good.
David Nickol—
No and No.
David Nickol—
Change "do" to "foster" and No.
Well, well. And all these years I've thought stannous fluoride was the recommended additive.
Mr. Proska, you write:
I agree that a prom-bound teenager without same sex attractions can be as unchaste as a prom-bound teenager with same sex attractions. The difference being, of course, that, according to Church teaching, only one of the teenagers is engaging in an activity that is ordered to the Good.
According to Church teaching, how can either couple's unchaste activity be "ordered to the Good" ?
Let me be clear, I believe the Church's teaching on sexuality and LGBT issues are woefully in need of "development". The teachings are rooted in outdated psychology and non-contextual and ahistorical readings of scripture.
That being said -- even if one accepts the current Church teachings on LGBT issues -- I am very concerned about the attitude of Fr. Lappe and what I think you are implying. It comes very close to suggesting the Church's approach to gay adolescents and gay people in general is that we must push them towards "reparative therapy" to convert them to heterosexuals. The damage that has been wrought by parents forcing gay kids into such programs is well-documented. See here for example:
Depression and suicide are far too real for gay teens. If the Church is really going to accept "with respect, compassion, and sensitivity" and avoid "every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard, " then it must run as far away as possible from discredited reparative therapy and the bad psychology behind it (much in evidence in Fr. Lappe's letter).
FWIW - I think what Claire is calling out is a real complication for scout leaders. The way I see it playing out is that no heterosexual scout will want to share a tent with the gay scout, as the former's reputation at school and among his peers will henceforward be in tatters. (I'm not supporting that dynamic, just describing what I expect would happen).
Also, I suppose scout leaders will need to expend considerable energy in preventing scouts from bullying the openly gay scouts in the troop. I don't doubt that's a problem that leaders have been dealing with already; just from talking to scouting leaders around here, I believe that the former policy wasn't universally enforced.
In spite of those complications, it seems clear that the former policy was unjustly discriminatory, and it's better to make scout leaders' lives more complicated than to keep the former policy in place.
Regarding Mark Proska's hypothetical of a dance: I suppose boy scouts still go to boy scout camps for the summer, and may invite the girl scout or campfire girl camp across the lake for a dance on Friday nights? It doesn't seem completely far-fetched to me. More complications for the scout leaders.
Mr. Marth--
Sorry, I omitted an important claue. It should read, "...only one of the teenagers, in the very act of attending the prom with a member of the opposite sex...."
I did gather that you find the Church's teaching deficient, but I understood the premise of this thread to be how the Church should respond, not whether the teaching was True. Maybe one of these days we'll see a thread on this blog that questions Church teaching, but it seems the editors are reluctant to go there.
i am not familiar with Fr. Lappe, or reparative therapy, but I understand that Father Harvey's Courage ministry is in accord with Church teaching.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
National Newspaper Week – Oct. 6-12 – is a good time to offer a fresh perspective on the newspaper industry.
To paraphrase what Mark Twain said about the premature printing of his obituary, let me say that the reports of the death of newspapers in our state and nation are greatly exaggerated.
While the printed edition continues to be the core product, many newspaper media companies today also offer news in a variety of digital options: websites, text alerts, mobile sites, social media sites, apps and more.
And regardless of how your news is delivered, it still originates with your local newspaper.
As a matter of fact, South Carolina today has more than 100 newspapers, including 16 dailies and 93 vital community newspapers.
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A recent survey conducted by the National Newspaper Association through the University of Missouri School of Journalism has a few points I'd like to share:
71 percent of the respondents read a community newspaper at least once a week.
(A similar study done by the Newspaper Association of America found that seven in 10 Americans read the paper in print or online each week. And it is important to note that 59 percent of young adults ages 18-24 read newspaper media weekly.)
More than 70 percent believe the accuracy and the coverage of their local paper is either "good" or "excellent."
69 percent agreed that newspapers provide valuable local shopping and advertising information.
Newspapers are part of the fabric that builds strong communities across our state.
From high school sports to weddings and obituaries, from police coverage to reporting on government, from grocery ads to want ads: Newspapers are there looking out for their readers.
One of the prime functions of newspapers in our democratic society is to be the watchdog of government and people in power. And South Carolina newspapers are doing their jobs.
From an unreported tuberculosis outbreak in Greenwood to the hacking of tax records from the Department of Revenue, newspapers broke the stories and stuck with them to uncover all the facts.
A newspaper challenged the secrecy of the state Department of Public Safety to obtain records relating to the DUI arrest of an elected official. Another newspaper persistently reported on the hiring practices of a school district that resulted in numerous friends and relatives of the school board chair being hired. The paper also reported that the son of the board chair routinely used district vehicles to run personal errands while on the clock for work. Newspapers have been vigilant in reporting on the misuse of political campaign funds and instances where public officials and employees use public money as if it were their own.
Like all businesses in these tough economic times, newspapers have had to deal with cost-cutting measures. Still, daily and weekly newspapers remain the only true mass media in almost every market in South Carolina.
The times they are a-changin', but you can still get a newspaper delivered to you for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That's a lot of bang for your buck.
Bill Rogers is executive director of the S.C. Press Association, the trade group for South Carolina's more than 100 newspapers.
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