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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
An unknown woman tried to leave a store on Richland Avenue without paying for several items, including pajama items and a bed comforter. She dropped the items while running to a car, in which she fled.
A vehicle break-in was reported on Aiken Mall Drive on Tuesday. The victim reported that she left her vehicle unlocked and the windows down, and that her purse was stolen.
An additional vehicle break-in was reported on Greengate Circle on Tuesday. The owner reported that the vehicle was unlocked and three swords were missing.
According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office:
Copper wire was reported stolen from a cellphone tower on Old Graniteville Highway in Aiken on Tuesday.
A Beech Island woman reported on Tuesday that someone entered her school classroom, went into her purse and took money out of her daughter's wallet.
A 29-year-old Beech Island man was detained for driving under the influence on Tuesday after officers saw him intoxicated at a gas station. Officers observed damage to the man's vehicle and noticed that a nearby sign had also been damaged. The man, who said he was driving the vehicle, smelled of alcohol and exhibited signs of intoxication. He refused to submit to field sobriety testing or provide a breath sample and was arrested.
Someone reportedly cut off the catalytic converter from a van belonging to a church on Pine Log Road in Langley on Monday.
A burglary was reported on Tuesday at the welcome center on Interstate 20 in North Augusta. A lock box of cash was reported missing.
An additional burglary was reported on Finklin Road in Beech Island on Monday.
A vehicle was reported stolen from Columbia Highway in Aiken on Tuesday.
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Welcome to Stonewall Cymru's website for young people. The site has lots of information about what we do; about a wide range of LGB issues and about how you can get involved with our work.
Stonewall Cymru is a charity working for equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people- at home, at work and at school.
LGB people are entitled to fair treatment in every part of their lives whether they are at school or college or university. They are entitled to fair treatment at work or in any other situation like visiting a hospital or a police station or even booking into a hotel.
We campaign to change laws and to change people's attitudes. This is to make sure that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are treated like everyone else and that they are respected by everyone.
Stonewall was set up in 1989 to lobby against a law called Section 28. Section 28 made it unlawful for local authorities to 'promote homosexuality'. This made local authorities think that they couldn't do anything which made lesbian and gay people normal or positive.
Section 28 had a particularly damaging impact in schools. They thought they couldn't do anything to prevent homophobic bullying because they thought they would be breaking the law. They thought they couldn't say anything positive about being lesbian, gay or bisexual or even provide resources for gay pupils like books, or information about youth groups. This meant that any pupils who were LGB or thought they might be often found that they had no one to talk to, no one to stand up for them if they were being bullied and no access to helpful information.
A group of people came together and set up a campaign to get rid of Section 28, targeting both MPs and the public. They called the group Stonewall. The campaign got a lot of support and Stonewall campaigned for other things too. They achieved a lot of different successes and finally in 2003 Section 28 was repealed. It no longer existed. Unfortunately, after such a long period of time, schools didn't have the information or confidence to start supporting their LGB students straight away and some schools thought they still couldn't support LGB students. So Stonewall started working with schools to help them understand that they should support students, and how they should do it.
Section 28 isn't the only law that Stonewall has helped to change. Over the last decade in particular Stonewall has led the changing of many laws to ensure that LGB people have equal rights to everyone else and to ensure that it is illegal for them to be treated unfairly in any area of their lives.
Although changing laws is very important, it isn't the only thing needed to make sure LGB people are always treated fairly. Stonewall Cymru also works hard at changing the views that some people have about lesbian, gay and bisexual people. A lot of people still have either negative or stereotypical views about LGB people. This means they expect LGB people to look and/or act in certain ways. They can sometimes believe things about LGB people which may not be true. Some people have negative views about LGB people.
Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions. This becomes a problem if someone's negative views about LGB people means that they treat them differently, for example, if a doctor refuses to treat a lesbian. It might also include bullying or harassing someone – or even physically hurting them – because they are LGB.
To help change the way that some people think about LGB people Stonewall campaigns in three major ways:
1. At Home: Stonewall researches many different areas of LGB people's lives to find out what is happening to them and what can be done to improve how they are treated. We use the information that we find to help people (both the public and important decision makers) to better understand the different challenges facing LGB people and how they can tackle those challenges. Click here to find out more about Stonewall's research and how we use it.
2. At School: our flagship campaign has been working to tackle homophobic bullying in Britain's schools since 2005. You might have seen our famous 'Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!' slogan on a bus, tube, billboard or even in your own school! Or you may have seen our film 'Fit' which schools use to tackle homophobic bullying. Click here to find out more about our campaign in schools
3. At Work: Stonewall has a range of different ways of working with employers to ensure that they treat any lesbian, gay or bisexual members of staff in the same way that they treat everyone else- including supporting them if they are bullied and making sure they get the same benefits. Click here to find out more about our work with employers.
For full information about Stonewall Cymru does please visit the About Us section on our main website.


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Georgetown (November 16, 2012) -- The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor women's basketball team could not claw its way out of a second-half hole as the Cru fell to Southwestern University 84-73 in the 2012-13 season opener Friday night in Georgetown. The loss came in the finale of the first day of the Southwestern Tip-Off Classic and drops UMHB to 0-1 on the year. The Pirates are now 1-0 to start the season.
The game was tight through much of the first half, with Southwestern opening up its largest lead of the half at 37-27 with 4:45 remaining in the period. The Cru battled back with a 7-0 run to cut it to 37-34, but the Pirates closed the half with a 7-2 run to lead 44-36 at the half. UMHB would get to within six at 46-40 early in the second half, but Southwestern erupted for an 18-0 run to push the lead to 24 points and would lead by as many as 27 points in the second half. UMHB would not get closer than the final margin the rest of the way.
Taylor Tucker led the Cru with 20 points and 15 rebounds. Samara Williams added 16 points for UMHB. The Cru shot just 32 percent from the field and went 4-19 from three-point range. UMHB out rebounded Southwestern 59-50, but committed 26 turnovers in the loss.
Jordan Owens topped the Pirates with 19 points and Annie Bourne chipped in with 18 points and a game-high 21 rebounds. Audrey Garcia also reached double figures with 15. The Cru held Southwestern to 4-24 shooting from beyond the arc, but the Pirates shot 38 percent from the floor in the victory.
The game also marked the UMHB debut of new head coach Lisa Curliss-Taylor. The Cru will close out the tournament with a 5:00 PM start against Whitworth University on Saturday. Whitworth topped Texas Lutheran 83-64 on Friday. Following Saturday's game, UMHB will return home for a rematch with Southwestern at 5:30 PM next Tuesday.


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Crash injures 2 in West PawletJuly 22,2013WEST PAWLET Two New Hampshire residents were listed in fair condition following a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon.
Vermont State Police responded to the crash on Route 30 around 3:30 p.m. According to police, Ricky Sprague, 56, of Hinsdale, N.H., was riding north near the intersection with North Pawlet Road when he lost control of his 2004 Kawasaki motorcycle.
According to police, the motorcycle slid on its side before striking a wooden fence. Both Sprague and his passenger Joanne Sprague, 50, of Hinsdale, N.H. were taken to Rutland Region Medial Center, where they were listed in fair condition Sunday afternoon, according to a hospital spokeswoman.MORE IN This Just InBy Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli Full StoryBennington College and Middlebury College both top a list for most entrepreneurial colleges in... Full StoryWas the response to an alleged assault at College of St. Full Story
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Anyone up for another alternate file manager thread?
I ended up buying a lifetime Xplorer2 Ultimate license recently, and it cost me only a wee bit more than my DOpus 2-pc license of a few years ago. I couldn't stand Win 7 Explorer any longer (the reasons are legion) even though it has improved in some ways from the XP days, and even though I was hoping to find a satisfying free alternative, I couldn't do it. I tried most of the other pay-fors as well, and almost chose XYplorer but ended up not going that route for several reasons.
I'm liking it more and more the more I use it and I'm very satisfied, but I'm curious about the main reasons folks choose one FM versus another. Or even why people decide they don't want to use an alternative, even a free one!


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WAUWATOSA, Wis. – Badger Kart Club, one of the oldest and largest kart clubs in the country, and Briggs & Stratton, the world's largest manufacturer of small engines in the world, are proud to announce a new partnership. Badger Raceway will now be named the Briggs & Stratton Raceway Park.
"Badger Kart Club is a top notch club with one of the nicest facilities in the country," stated David Klaus, Director – Briggs Racing. "This partnership helps support our commitment to karting, to racing in Wisconsin, and will help to maintain cost-effective racing for Badger's members. We look forward to working together to for years to come."
Badger Kart Club has been a fabric of Wisconsin racing community since it was founded in 1959. 'Briggs & Stratton and Badger Kart Club have a relationship that goes back decades', commented Bingo Emmons, President – Badger Kart Club. "Today's announcement is an extension of this long-standing relationship and a great opportunity for our club and members."


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RIDGEVILLE — Jimmy C. Edwards was dedicated to his chickens.
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Anyone with information in the killing of Jimmy Edwards is asked to call the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office at 832-0300 or Crime Stoppers at 554-1111.
He would wake and feed them. He would collect their eggs. When they were fat enough, he would auction them off.
But after the 64-year-old retiree was found about 20 yards from the coop with three gunshot wounds in the back of his head, his family wondered whether his dedication got him killed.
Edwards arrived at his Ridge Road house late Friday after a farmyard auction. From inside, family members heard his Chevy pull up, then heard two pops — what they thought were firecrackers.
They figured he would first check on the 150 chickens and two turkeys that can fall prey to foxes and opossums. But Edwards never walked in.
His son-in-law instead went outside and found him lying face down. The only sound was the chickens' clucking. Edwards was dead.
"He never hurt anybody," Endsley Grooms, 67, said. "He just went fishing and was always checking on those chickens. It doesn't make sense."
Was someone lurking somewhere in the 4-acre backyard, waiting for him? Did someone ride home from the auction in his truck? Did the killer take something from Edwards? Grooms and other relatives don't have the answers.
The Dorchester County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the homicide just outside town limits, has not identified a suspect. Deputies searched the home and hauled away firearms and ammunition in hopes of eliminating relatives' involvement, the family said.
In his pockets, family members said, deputies found a keychain clip and a convenience store receipt for a bottle of Gatorade. They don't know whether his wallet, which is usually kept in a cubby hole of his truck, was missing. Deputies confiscated the pickup.
"We've got leads that we think are pretty good," sheriff's Chief Deputy Sam Richardson said. "But it's too soon to say whether we have a suspect."
Edwards was not involved in any criminal activity, his family said. He had never been arrested.
His wife died six years ago.
He served a combat tour as a Marine during the Vietnam War. The experience gave him flashbacks, and he refused to speak of it.
He worked for years as an electrician at D.M. Stone Electrical Construction in Summerville. As a symbol of faithful service, he was awarded a pair of limited-edition wire cutters mounted on a plaque.
"He was a people person," said a daughter-in-law, Lisa Edwards. "You could ride from one end of Dorchester County to the other, and no one will say anything bad about him."
In retirement he ventured onto canals and lakes and fished for catfish and bream. Late in his life he joined a nearby Church of God and found salvation.
And for the past year, he shadowed a friend in pursuit of his auctioneering license. He practiced his fast-talking skills at auctions almost every day of the week.
On Friday, he attended an auction in Orangeburg County's Eutaw Springs.
At 10:24 p.m. he called his stepdaughter to say he would be home in a half-hour. He usually grabbed some dinner for her on the way home — a 6-inch cold-cut sandwich from Subway.
He didn't indicate that anything was wrong.
"He said, 'I'll see you shortly. I love you,'" Mary Grooms, 54, said. "I thought he'd say if he had someone with him."
She and her husband were watching television around 11 p.m. when they heard Edwards' Chevrolet Silverado pull into the driveway at 374 Ridge Road.
Endsley Grooms soon heard what he thought were two firecrackers, but he thought nothing of it.
"There's always some kind of shooting going on in this neck of the woods," he said.
He walked out less than 10 minutes later. He shouted. No answer. He shined a flashlight. He saw nothing.
When his wife flipped on the porch light, they saw Edwards' body resting on the brown grass near his truck. Following a 911 dispatcher's instruction, Endsley Grooms grabbed Edwards by the straps of his overalls and turned him over.
But there was no chance to revive him.
He had taken his final breaths near the soil where he had planned to plant cabbage, butter beans and tomatoes. He had been executed, his family said, near the bird flocks that pecked at the feed in their pen.
"He had some eggs that were about ready to hatch," Endsley Grooms said. "He's going to miss it."
Reach Andrew Knapp at 937-5414 or twitter.com/offlede.
Jimmy Edwards, who was fatally shot Friday outside his Ridgeville-area home, was a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War.×
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Title VII, chapter 1 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act), establishes the State Independent Living Services (SILS) program and the Centers for Independent Living (CIL) program. The purpose of these programs is to:
promote the independent living philosophy, based on consumer control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal access and individual and systems advocacy;
maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence and productivity of individuals with significant disabilities; and
promote the integration and full inclusion of individuals with significant disabilities into the mainstream of American society.
To receive federal funding for the SILS and CIL programs, section 704 of the Act requires states to submit a State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL) and obtain RSA approval of a SPIL every three years. The SPIL encompasses the activities planned by the state to achieve its specified independent living objectives and reflects the state's commitment to comply with all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. In states with a separate agency or unit that administers the SILS program for individuals who are blind, the director of that agency/unit, along with the director of the DSU are required to jointly develop and sign the SPIL and cooperate in its implementation.
Approved Federal FY 2014-2016 State Plans for Independent Living
The following table will allow access to federal FY 2014 approved state plans for independent living (SPIL), state plan approval letters signed by the RSA commissioner (in PDF format), and state plan letters in accessible MS Word format. The federal FY 2014 approved VR state plans also are posted on the RSA Web site at https://rsa.ed.gov/view.cfm?rsaform=SPIL&fy=2014.
For people with a slower internet connection, be advised that all of the the MS Word letters and Adobe PDFs are 82KB or less.
Information about the submission of FY 2014-2016 SPIL
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the format for the FY 2014-2016 State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL), which is unchanged from FY 2011-2013. Part I is a series of assurances based on legal and regulatory provisions governing the State Independent Living Services (SILS) and Centers for Independent Living (CIL) programs. Part II consists of narrative sections in which the state describes its independent living objectives, services, activities, financial plans and operational details. The SPIL instrument and instructions are posted below.
By July 1, 2013, the SPIL is to be submitted online through the RSA Management Information System (RSA MIS) at https://rsa.ed.gov, after joint development and signature by the designated state unit (DSU) director(s) and the Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC) chairperson, on behalf of the SILC. Please note that the SPIL includes a signed assurance by the DSU(s) and SILC that the SILC "meets the requirements of section 705 of the Act," including that:
- a majority of its members are individuals with disabilities not employed by any state agency or CIL;
- a majority of its voting members are individuals with disabilities not employed by any state agency or (CIL); and
- no member has served more than two consecutive three-year terms.
Therefore, before submitting the SPIL, you must take any necessary steps to ensure that your state's SILC is constituted in compliance with federal requirements.
SPIL Screening Tool
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) staff will use this tool to review the 2014-2016 State Plans for Independent Living (SPILs). State Independent Living Councils (SILCs) and designated state units (DSUs) are encouraged to consult this tool before submitting their SPILs, to ensure compliance with federal requirements and expedite RSA approval. The screening tool is available for download:
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To enhance the approvability of your SPILs, please ensure that:
SPIL narratives explain how the federal requirements will be met, not simply re-state the Part I assurances, particularly in sections 5 (Statewide Independent Living Council) and 6 (Service Provider Requirements).
SILC activities are consistent with the duties authorized in 34 CFR 364.21(g)(h)(i)(j), especially in sections 1 (Goals, Objectives and Activities), 5 (Statewide Independent Living Council) and 7 (Evaluation). Please refer to the RSA Technical Assistance Circular-13-01, "Federal Requirements Governing Roles and Responsibilities of SILCs," available at https://rsa.ed.gov/policy.cfm (on the TAC tab) or http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/rsa/techassis-circular.html (under 2013).
DSU activities are consistent with roles and responsibilities in 34 CFR 364.21(a)(b), especially in sections 1 (Goals, Objectives and Activities), 2 (Scope, Extent, and Arrangements of Services), 4 (Designated State Unit) and 6 (Service Provider Requirements).
DSU and SILC activities are consistent with the restrictions on the use of federal funds for fundraising, in OMB Circular A-122, Attachment B, Item 17 (for the CILs and SILCs that are nonprofits) and OMB Circular A-87, Attachment B, Item 17 (for the DSUs and SILCs that are part of state government). OMB Circular A-122 is available at http://www.ed.gov/programs/cil/resources.html
DSU, SILC and CIL activities are consistent with the restrictions on the use of federal funds for lobbying, in OMB Circular A-122, Attachment B, Item 25 and OMB Circular A-87, Attachment B, Item 24.
Priorities for CIL network expansion, if additional Part C funds become available through the congressional appropriations process or grant relinquishment/termination, are consistent with sections 722(d) and 723(e) of the Rehabilitation Act and clearly outlined in section 3.2 (Expansion of Network).
Related sections are cross-checked for accuracy and consistency, especially sections:
1.2B (Outreach Plans), 2.1B (Service Provision Priorities) and 3.2 (Expansion of Network );
1.2A (Objectives and Time Frames), 1.3A (Financial Plan Tables), 1.3B (Financial Plan Narratives), and 7 (Evaluation); and
4.1 (Administrative Support Services), 1.3B(3) (In-kind resources) and 5.1A (Resource plan).
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"Egg!" I yelled as my pedals labored against 15 feet of tandem, trail-a-bike and trailer that comprised, with gear and my three sons, a gross weight somewhere north of 500 pounds.
Quinn, my nine-year-old stoker, began shelling another egg by repeatedly smacking it against his bike helmet. From the seat of the trail-a-bike behind him, his younger brother, Enzo, seven, stretched forward and salted my unlikely energy snack. These portable protein bombs often made their way to me missing a few mouthfuls as the boys took a delivery toll—supplementing the chocolate milk that served as their primary fuel—but this time I prayed for an intact shot of energy: We were going to need everything we had to make the 3,819-foot crest.
Collectively, we seemed to have realized this without saying much about it. A typical day saw us on and off our rig a dozen times before noon for plastic lightsaber sword fights, swimming holes and moose sightings. Today, we hadn't broken our cadence once. It helped, I suppose, that one-year-old Matteo had buried himself in the caboose, sleeping off a full night of sleeping. Beth, on the single touring bike I'd loaned her, had replaced her usual back-and-forth riding pattern with a resolute pace off our rear. The ramshackle carnival of conversations we'd been enjoying across Canada had dropped off to a word or two—necessary commands, sometimes a grunt of encouragement. When Enzo would point out a hawk on a fence post or a circling eagle, we'd turn our heads in unison for an appreciative look, exhale a few "ahs," then go back to pedaling.
We'd managed to best some substantial climbs, but in comparison with Obed they were bumps in the landscape. I treated the preliminary ascents and infrequent flats like test runs, working the gears to find the ratio that would ring true to my legs once our final share of free momentum off the rollers ran out.
"Here it comes, boys!" I said, gearing down as the cruelest bit of the Canadian Rockies rose in front of our wheel. I wanted my sons to understand that I needed them as I'd never needed them before, that I had to believe without hesitation in their youth, in the supple hearts crashing around in their chests, in the power of their fresh, lean legs. Instead, I shouted, "All the Jack Johnson songs in the world won't save us now!"
The boys didn't have a clue what I meant.
Neither did I.
I actually started to come out of the saddle—my second-rate-racer's body forgetting for an instant that it was heading up not a peloton but a mule train—then told myself to sit down and do the time, to work with the equipment instead of against it. An out-of-the-saddle sprint would not only sap me, but also probably snap a chain, and maybe fold our whole contraption in on itself.
Obed has no switchbacks. It's a straight climb to a false summit—enough plateau to consider one's cursed existence—then onto the slope where the real work begins. I was busy negotiating the pain and focusing on a spot 2 feet off the front wheel when I heard Beth's voice:
She'd dropped in close behind the trailer and, like a seasoned coxswain for rowers on a faltering crew, was barking timed commands to help us find a pace. In the face of such stark grit and stamina—this trip was way over Beth's head—I had a moment's guilt that, the night before, after she'd drifted off to sleep, I'd shifted some of my heaviest payload into her four panniers. I quickly shook off the feeling, because if we were going to summit without stopping or, God help us, walking, I needed my full concentration (and because I'm a shameful little man who, in my secret heart, always wants to crest first). "Mush," she barked. "Mush!"
We began to slip into a solid rhythm.
"Mush," she cried.
"Mellow," the boys shouted, seeming to argue for a slower pace, which made no sense to me, but I was beyond caring.
"Room!" The boys yelled back.
I got it, located my groove and locked onto it. And on such trippy mantras our pace quickened and smoothed until—rare in life, even more elusive in the saddle—we somehow found that moment when a group, be it paceline, peloton, breakaway or family bike tour, morphs from mere teamwork into a single effort. For a few golden miles, it felt as if a cord were connecting us tighter than coiled steel. I howled with joy, Quinn whooped, Enzo rang his bell and Beth laughed loose and unbridled. Even Matteo was awake.
When the summit sign came into view, I spit in the face of the accumulated years of knowledge that make up the fields of structural engineering and human performance, and stood straight up in an attempt to hammer everything that mattered to me, all my imagined burdens and actual blessings, to the top of Obed. It was irresponsible, even derelict, behavior. But later, Beth would say that when Quinn and Enzo stood up and slashed at the pedals behind me, she'd never felt so proud.
Not one of us could have predicted such triumphs when we wobbled out of the driveway of our Portland, Oregon, home for a shakedown of the bike before starting our summerlong unsupported bike trip around Canada. Rumor had a few neighbors taking bets on a quick return and slightly slower divorce.
We had a friend following us with a vehicle from our front door to the Washington Ferry to work out any kinks. Then the plan was to jettison vehicle support and ride untethered as far as we could before snow chased us home. I figured we'd cover about 75 miles per day, camping about 75 percent of the time, then simply hop a flight home before the autumn leaves lost the last of their brilliance.
This was not wholly unfamiliar territory, at least for me. With 130,000 miles of bike travel banked, it's something of a calling. I've crossed the length of the Australian Outback, half a dozen African nations, been all around America (once even towing Quinn, Enzo and my dad's ashes), rolled through South America on road bike tires, rudimentary Spanish skills and not a lick of Portuguese, and even plumbed the depths of Copper Canyon, Mexico, one winter by mountain bike.
But Beth, my wife, is one of those people who can't decide if spandex is a conspiracy specifically targeting women or is just designed to make everyone look bad, who'd happily ride a singlespeed not to be hip but to avoid learning how to use a shifter. Add to that a son celebrating his first birthday, plus the unpredictability of traveling with kids of any age, and I knew this could turn out to be the most arduous adventure of my life.
Still, we had our reasons—good ones—to tempt fate. Beth and I had always agreed that we didn't want our progeny to become the kind of disaffected kids who grow up trapped in climate-controlled, overscheduled, hermetically sealed childhoods suffering Xbox carpal tunnel and nature-deficit disorder. I guess she figured it was time to put up or shut up. My excuse is that I'm restless and unpredictable on foot—spastic and unwieldy even—but atop a bike, I'm poetry in motion. I fit into the world better on a bicycle.
All I had to do to pull the whole thing off was deliver on the promises I'd made of fresh roadside fruit dripping down chins and full days of sunshine stretched around spring-fed lakes, that we'd for sure see a moose and even venture inside the largest mall in North America, and that I'd somehow keep them safe through one helluva adventure.
We botched it immediately, of course. On the first morning, in a campground in Sequim, Washington, I rose early so that, as a surprise, I could brew gourmet coffee for Beth and hand it to her while pointing out the sun coloring the sky over the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Instead, I knocked the pot off the camp stove and as steaming coffee soaked my fleece pants I danced around in pain, disrobing and squawking obscenities—and our trip officially began with Beth emerging from the tent to find me wounded, pantless and cursing.
"Typical start?" she asked.
"Pretty much," I said. After dressing the injury and redressing myself, then taking a seat in the dirt beside her, I said, "Sometimes there's oatmeal, too."
Then there was our 437-pound rolling contraption, which was actually a stripped-down version of the original monster I'd concocted for the trip: a Santana triple (assembled with couplers), towing a one-wheeled trail-a-bike that would affix to a trailer—my own stroke of genius that would allow our entire five-person family to ride a single conjoined bike. The longest stretch limo in the cycling world. Unfortunately, riding that behemoth a mere 50 yards proved to be the most harrowing feat I'd ever accomplished on wheels. Picture a rolling Bowflex machine that tips from side to side without warning. After a morning of test riding, I was sweating buckets.
Beth was pale. "You're the expert," she said, bravely. "If you think we can do it with this setup, I'll soldier on."
I looked her in the eye. "It's too white-knuckle," I admitted.
She actually did a little victory dance, then said, "When I wasn't terrified, I was panicked."
"I'll undo the couplers," I explained, "and convert the triple to a double. I can muscle all three boys that way. But it means you have to solo on my old touring bike."
We had a moment there. It seemed the whole trip might be off before it was really on. But in the end, Beth simply put her gloves back on and said, "Just remind me how these shifty things work again."


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Clemson University awarded 1,200 degrees Thursday, including the nations first Ph.D. in automotive engineering earned by a woman and an honorary degree to a former astronaut.
Ala Qattawi made history when she walked across the stage to receive her doctorate in automotive engineering and congratulations from President James F. Barker.
Retired Gen. Charles Duke Jr., a former NASA astronaut who was the 10th man to walk on the moon, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
Speaking to the graduates, he quoted from the Dr. Seuss story On Beyond Zebra! in which Conrad Cornelius ODonnell ODell is teaching a young friend the alphabet. When he reaches the letter Z, he draws a new letter he had never dreamed of before, according to the story.
Most of my life Ive lived beyond Z, said Duke, who went to the Naval Academy, then the Air Force before entering the Apollo program.
No matter what career youve chosen, you need to look beyond Z; to seek new knowledge, stay current with technologies, set long-term goals to persevere, Duke said.
It is up to each of us to build a better world, he said. Youll be amazed at what youre going to do.
Barker, in his remarks to the graduates, told them the world needs their enthusiasm, creativity and intellectual courage.
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At the ceremony, Windsor Sherill, professor of public health sciences, received the Class of 39 Award for Excellence. It is presented to a faculty member whose contributions are judged by their peers to represent the highest achievement and contribution to the university and students.
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Things I liked:When I first took my Walther Lever Action air gun out of the box I understood why all of the customer opinions were so positive. The Walther is looks and feels like the real thing. I think that your average Joe would not know the difference. Think of it as an adult Daisy Red Rider made my Mercedes, after all it is made in Germany. The gun is accurate and a kick in the pants to shoot! I have been getting about 70 shots per set of CO2 cylinders. The quality is that of something you would pass down to your kids. Pull out your wallet and get out the card and buy it….DO IT NOW!! You won't regret it! Giddy up cowboy!
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Another Gay Teacher Fired by a Catholic School
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver August 7, 2013 - 4:01pm
A petition is making the rounds to protest the firing of another gay high school teacher, this time in Los Angeles. From the Change.org press release:
Current and former students of St. Lucy's Priory High School will deliver more than 45,000 petition signatures from a popular Change.org campaign asking the Los Angeles-area Catholic school to reinstate ousted gay teacher Ken Bencomo. Supporters say he was fired after photos from his marriage to longtime partner Christopher Persky appeared on the front page of a local newspaper.
I want to separate the question whether Catholic institutions have the right to do this sort of thing from the question whether they should, on either moral or prudential grounds. I am not aware of divorced and remarried teachers getting fired. The axe always seems to fall on those who are somewhat more easily marginalized: unmarried pregnant teachers, gay teachers, etc. Am I wrong about that? Feel free to post examples to the contrary in the comments.
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If every lesbian or gay lay, ordained or vowed religious person stopped teaching at Catholic schools, I suspect we might be surprised at the paucity of good teaches that would result.
I challenge all self-respecting gay or lesbian teacher at these schools to come out and show just how dependent the schools are on the dedication of these "intrincially disordered" Catholics.
The firing of unmarried pregnant teachers is especially egregious. The Catholic Church should not have a policy that you have to get an abortion or get fired.
Very sad.
St. Lucy's is a daughter house of Mt. St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas.
It was named for Mother Lucy Dooley, OSB, prioress in Atchison, 1924-1950.
The opportunities I've had to observe decisions like these being made in Catholic schools invariably have revealed their roots to be in fear of protests, pickets, bad press, and danger to the bottom lines of these schools that, practically, must run as profitable businesses. Hatred and self-righteous persecution never has, in my experience, been a part of it. On the other hand, that fear is aroused by groups (CUFF comes to mind) willing to use those tactics of protest, picket, bad press, and withdrawal of students in order to, yes, attack easily marginalized groups. Those groups bully the schools who, in turn, also become bullies because they respond in fear. Perhaps the question we ought to reflect on is whether good people can do more to help Catholic schools, make it safer for them to resist the pressure tactics.
According to this news story in the LA times, he was fired, not because he was gay - the school had known that for 10 years, and apparently didn't find it objectionable - but because he married his partner. Eduardo, you might consider revising your headline and your post to make this clearer.
(The school also states that, by entering into a gay marriage, he violated his employment contract).
This situation raises the question: did he intend to inform the school he was married? Is it just his bad luck that the local paper published wedding pictures? Did he hope and expect that he could be married(!) without the school community discovering the fact? In short: did he hope and expect to preserve his job after committing a public act he knew, or reasonably should have known, would get him fired?
It's kind of an odd juxtaposition of positions - to both enter into a marriage, and hope one's employer doesn't find out about it - because as I understand it, one of the driving motivations of legalizing gay marriage is that it puts gay men and women on an equal public footing: in theory, they don't have to be secretive anymore about their relationships and commitments. Gay marriage, it seems to me, acknowledges that marriage is, by its nature, a public institution (and indeed, the local paper apparently found it newsworthy).
It can't be a comfortable spot to be in - to have to choose between his spouse and his job.
I would ask this, too: if entering into a gay marriage isn't sufficient religious grounds to merit dismissal from employment by the Catholic church, is there *any* violation of Catholic teaching that should merit it? In the eyes of the church, entering into a gay marriage would be a pretty serious sin. I don't think it's outrageously unreasonable for a religious community to have some expectations for public conduct on the part of its public representatives.
Is firing unmarried pregnant teachers a trend? Does it even merit the use of the plural form? I suppose that teacher in Queens isn't the first Catholic school teacher to find herself in that situation, although I've never heard of it before.
In many (most?) places in this country, women teachers were not allowed to be married. If they got married, they were fired. That changed during World War II.
As recently as 1970, I knew a married woman who was fired from her teaching job at a big suburban parochial school when she got pregnant. The principal, a nun, did not think it was appropriate for seventh graders to be taught by a pregnant woman.
For winning (or losing) minds and hearts, especially young people's, I'll put this incident up against all your New Evangelization and spot you a Ford Focus, three smiles, and a "Who am I to judge?" from Pope Francis.
if entering into a gay marriage isn't sufficient religious grounds to merit dismissal from employment by the Catholic church, is there *any* violation of Catholic teaching that should merit it?
Tough one, Jim P. Off the top of my head, I'd go with shielding sexual abusers of children, which is an actual job-related violation. I'm assuming here that that is a violation of Church teaching. Everything but experience suggests that it must be.
Jim makes a good point. In addition, it appears the pregnant woman may have lied during her job interview, which may have had something to do with her subsequent firing.
On the other hand, a majority of Catholic colleges offer healthcare benefits to same-sex partners rather than firing people when they learn they are in a same-sex marriage:
The Cardinal Newman Society [?] reports on a survey of health insurance and includes his item witout comment:
The group surveyed 453 institutions including faithful Catholic colleges such as Belmont Abbey College, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and The Catholic University of America as well as other Catholic institutions such as DePaul University and Fairfield University....
Fifty-seven percent of the institutions which responded to the survey offer healthcare benefits to same-sex partners. That percentage is up from 40 percent just seven years ago.
- See more at: http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/...
Jim Pauwels: >I don't think it's outrageously unreasonable for a religious community to have some expectations for public conduct on the part of its public representatives.
How could anyone disagree? But of course, the statement is not much for guidance unless one understands what "some expectations" might include. Suppose the teacher was of the view that he was acting out of love, and that he was resolving an issue of his personal standing before God - as he is given to understand God. How does his life as a married man constitute public conduct in any way different form that of any other married man, in terms of public representation. I cannot discern by observation which men I meet in the course of a day are married and which are not, much less how they are acting within their marriage.
The notion, as I read it, that this man's marriage constitiutes bringing scandal on the Church is risible given the use of that excuse to protect for decades paedophiles under direct Church discipline.
Jim Pauwels- yes, the use of the plural is appropriate for Catholic schools firing unmarried teachers simply for pregnancy. Here's two more- note that the Ohio case below is not the one that involved artificial insemination.
I can understand firing someone for a same sex wedding (though I would not do so) because that represents a considered intent to violate church teaching. Firing pregnant unmarried teachers strikes me as both theologically incorrect and inconsistent with the church's prolife stance. Theologically incorrect, because every single employee of every single Catholic school in the country, including the principals who do the firing, commits sins on a regular basis, and if they fired all the sinners they would have no one left. Haven't they ever heard of "let him who is without sin cast the first stone"? And I would certainly say that any institution that claims to be prolife has an absolute obligation to avoid creating incentives to abortion.
But beyond that, I'm losing faith in the American Catholic bishops. Their behavior strikes me as showing self righteous bullying and an attempt to use economic clout to force their views on people who are poorer and weaker. I'm thinking about the Bishop of Santa Rosa firing non-Catholic teachers in Catholic schools unless they are willing to affirm and abide by the Church's teaching on contraception. (After an uproar, I'm thinking Bishop Thomas Olmsted, who said of the tragic Phoenix case "There cannot be a tie in this debate. Until this point in time, you have not acknowledged my authority to settle this question." Doesn't Bishop Olmsted understand that Catholic laity have to answer to their consciences, not just to him, and that for most people, a doctor knowingly allowing a patient to die, when her life could be saved, and when the baby's life cannot possibly be saved, is a huge issue of conscience? I'm thinking about the Catholic bishops demanding, not just that they be completely disjoint from hospital employees getting contraceptive coverage, but that they be effectively able to block the employees from having contraceptive coverage.
I cannot see this kind of behavior as in the spirit of Christ. I also think it is very dangerous to the long term survival of the church. Genuine belief must be persuaded or inspired, not coerced. Attempting to coerce produces only hypocrisy and will backfire in the long run.
Oops, bad editing in my post. I meant to say "After an uproar, the bishop of Santa Rosa postponed his plan to force the Church's teaching on contraception on non-Catholic employees, but he has not abandoned it."
Here we have two men whose lives together have not bothered the administration of this school for some time. They decide to take advantage of a package of legal rights and responsibilities offered to them by the state, so that their lives together might have greater stability. That is all we really know -- everything is pure speculation. Public scandal. He must be fired. The same teacher could have taken the same package of rights and responsibilities in exactly the same fashion, ie, outside of the Church, in front of a justice of peace or judge, and this would cause no scandal as long as his partner is the opposite gender. A civil, non-sacramental marriage of opposite sex couples is indistinquishable, but I've never heard of a Catholic school teacher being fired because he or she chose marriage outside of the Church. Perhaps we should start hunting down these folks too? Where's Tomás de Torquemada when you need him?
Sorry -- left a word out.
"That is all we really know -- everything else is pure speculation."
Jim Pauwels claims "In the eyes of the church, entering into a gay marriage would be a pretty serious sin." I thought that, in the eyes of the church, divorcing and entering into a new marriage would be a pretty serious sin.
Eduardo raises this pretty obvious comparison in his article above: "I am not aware of divorced and remarried teachers getting fired. ... Am I wrong about that? Feel free to post examples to the contrary in the comments."
Is Jim Pauwels aware of any divorced and remarried teachers getting fired from Catholic schools? Is anyone else? If one can get fired for entering into a same-sex civil marriage, surely one should get fired for divorce and remarriage?
The hypocrisy appears to be breathtaking ... and no one has posted a comment acknowledging it, let alone attempting to deal with it!
My kids go to Catholic school; I do not agree with the dismissal here, I don't think the teacher's marriage presents any issues re: appropriate role models; indeed, we want peopel in committed relationshis to get married,
But I would be okay with the transfer of a pregnant unmarried teacher to an admin job with the diocese until after she has her baby. (Then she could come back the next year). I don't aspire for my young daughters to grow up to be unmarried moms, and I would prefer their teacher not model that.
I would much rather my children were taught to practice charity and compassion than intolerance. Firing this teacher seems to me a far greater sin than his marrying another man. The firing appears to constitute "unjust discrimination" and hence violates CCC 2358, viz., "2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition."
For the sake of precision in this post and these comments, it's worth noting that it's not sinful per se to divorce and remarry; if those are the only two facts we have, we don't know enough to know whether or not it's a sinful situation. It would be a sin to divorce and remarry without having the previous marriage annulled. How a Catholic school administration would discern which set of circumstances applies to a particular employee's situation, I don't know, unless the employee volunteers the information.
If the employee does volunteer that he divorced and remarried without getting an annulment, then I wouldn't object if he was held to the same standard as an employee who enters into a same sex marriage. Having said that, it would seem more merciful for the school to offer to work with the divorced and remarried employee to get his situation made right in the eyes of the church. (I suppose an analogous offer could be made to the teacher who had just entered into a same-sex marriage, but needless to say, it doesn't seem likely that the teacher would accept this offer.)
From the school administration's point of view, once a set of circumstances like this does become known, if the school already has a policy forbidding those circumstances, it *must* act - or at the very least, it must explain why it's choosing to set aside its policy. This is why I raised the question about what the teacher had intended to do. It seems likely that he knew that getting married would jeopardize his job. If I was in his situation, I might get married, too, and damn the consequences. But I wouldn't be surprised when the consequences come about, and neither should he.
The LA Times article suggested that he is a popular teacher. There are many schools and school districts that need talented teachers. (Come to Chicago.) I hope he lands on his feet in a school that is able to employ him in time for the coming school year.
I do find it pretty outrageous that a pregnant, unmarried teacher would be fired. Having attended Catholic schools myself, it doesn't surprise me to learn that it's a traditional practice, but we can do better. I think there is something to be said for Irene's suggestion. If it is a high school, my view is that the teacher can actually give Gospel witness by continuing to teach while pregnant, if she is willing to do this. "I am forgiven, I love my child, and life is precious" - sounds like a good Catholic message to me.
Here's a refreshing quote from the retired Bishop of Austin Texas:
Married Priests
"The Church has ALWAYS had them! First thousand years. Today, in the Eastern Church and all the ordained Protestant ministers who have been received into the Church without disruption to their families. This issue could be "solved on Thursday at 2pm with a single pen stroke from the Pope."
"…Millions of Catholics find themselves in impossible situations that cannot be altered … If the Church could find solutions to failed marriages in the second century, shouldn't it try to do so in the 21st?"
"I take exception to the basic organizational thrust of the Catholic Church in the United States as it endeavors to counter the agonizing reality of abortion. In my opinion, the Church must take primarily a prophetic role, not a political one."
Death & End-of-Life Care
"The Church teaches that all life is sacred and must be protected, and that a person should ordinarily live until some disease or accident beyond their control takes their lives. But what about the person who is definitely dying, has no possible hope of recovery, and is in pain and costing $6,000 per day to be kept alive? … We've always had the principle that there is no obligation to extend a person's life artificially … I believe that's one of the changes we have to make."
"A number of states now recognize gay marriage, and a sizable number have changed their state constitutions from prohibiting it. In this area, I am at odds with the administrative posture of the Church in the United States." "The Church is actually saying that if you are gay, you are called to celibacy. Why did they decide that? Not a good choice, in my opinion."
Same-Sex Marriage
"A number of states now recognize gay marriage, and a sizable number have changed their state constitutions from prohibiting it." "I personally see no reason why committed homosexual couples should not enjoy the same legal and tax benefits as committed heterosexual couples."
I could not agree more. There is nothing inherently sinful about same-sex couples enjoying the legal protections afforded them by the state. Any so-called sin is what we assume and imagine is part of the relationship. We should stop doing that.
[excerpt] "I am not aware of divorced and remarried teachers getting fired. The axe always seems to fall on those who are somewhat more easily marginalized: unmarried pregnant teachers, gay teachers "
Of course as you mention in the article, parochial and private schools have the right to hire and fire staff. As for the question of whether or not they should, I would say the in Catholic Schools anyway, teachers – if they profess to be practicing Catholics - should be reasonable (not perfect, but reasonable) examples of how one lives as a practicing Catholic.
With that in mind, divorced & remarried teachers, unwed mothers, and gay teachers – and drunks and drug addicts and wife beaters as well - hardly seem the sorts of examples we would want to parade in front of school children every day.
Nobody is perfect of course, but people with such obvious vices/problems, or folks who have made huge, glaring mistakes in judgment, while they should be forgiven and treated with charity, should not be put up in front of school kids each day, with the implied notion that they are good examples to follow.
Whoops -- for some reason more than the quote on same sex marriage appeared. I only pasted that quote in. The others appeared after I clicked save. They are, of course, interesting, but not all relevant to this discussion. Apologies.
An interesting situation is that most people will say that they believe this or that because they are Catholic. I am in the somewhat peculiar position of stating unequivicably the inverse: I am Catholic because I believe what she teaches. Having studied many religions, I eventually settled on Catholicism about 5-6 years ago, not entirely due to, but certainly favorably influenced by Theology of the Body.
In the past 5+ years of studying the Catholic faith in depth I have come to the unfortunate realization that while no one can safely claim to be an auto-mechanic when he or she doesn't even own a wrench and a landscaper can never get away with claiming to be a doctor, any idiot can claim to be Catholic without ever knowing our faith, and in-fact while preaching nothing but anti-Catholic diatribes. It ought to go without saying that we believe adulterers, fornicators and sodomites need to change their views and behaviors. We do not accommondate someone who is anti-Catholic in his or her beliefs--we teach the truth, founded in Scripture and tradition. And when we *tried* to be foregiving, merciful, indeed *hopeful* that fallen priets would change if given another chance, all we learned is that, as Blessed John Paul II said, "There can be no mercy without justice (and truth)". Truth it seems is only cold and hard to those who disagree with it. For those who understand *why* we believe in Theology of the Body it becomes more than acceptable, more than reasonable. Dare I say it becomes self-evident. For those who don't get it? Well, some folks it seems are just close minded.
But you'd be okay with your daughter growing up plagued by same-sex attraction temptation. Satan comes to us in many forms. Fornication is just one of many sins, but just because the sinner makes a convincing legal argument in a country where paganism is perfectly legal doesn't mean that we, as Catholics, need to convert to paganism--or pay pagans to teach our children their pagan ways. Let the pagans teach in their own schools; its a free country. I want Catholic teachers teaching my children!
Irene Baldwin- I'd be OK with a transfer to an administrative job as well (among other things, teaching is strenuous and women get tired in the third trimester), but in all these cases the pregnant teacher was not transferred, she was fired. That of course means that she loses her health insurance when she desperately needs it. And in terms of the impact on the children, if they know why their teacher was fired (and they probably do, stuff like that gets around) then by the time they are teenagers, if not before, they will realize she could have kept her job if she'd had an abortion and kept quiet about it.
Where are these pagan schools at, because I want to send my kid to Serapis High.
Jack: it is particularly noteworthy that these comments come from the RETIRED ... repeat, RETIRED ... bishop of Austin.
It appears that retirement is directly related to an increase in testosterone in these men.
Mark Pennington: the only thing LGBT people are "plagued" by is the attitude of orthotoxic Catholic such as yourself.
Jim McCrea:
No doubt Bishop John McCarthy has been more daring in his book, given that he is no longer an active bishop. But John McCarthy since his ordination as a priest of Galveston-Houston in 1956 has been a tireless voice for those in need and a courageous advocate of Catholic social teachings. During his twenty-two years as an auxiliary and then diocesan bishop (1979-2001), he continued to be a fearless, pastoral activist for all in need. He was one of the best of the Bernardin era, and his retirement at seventy in 2001 probably had less to do with health than with the passing of that era. More and more his was a lonely voice. Clearly he now goes on strongly at eighty-three. A careerist he was not.
Re: Mark Pennington's comment," But you'd be okay with your daughter growing up plagued by same-sex attraction temptation. " I don't think you catch it like you do a virus. Whether straight or gay, a teacher is obliged ethically and morally to avoid any inappropriate contact with students. It isn't a new problem for a student to develop a romantic or sexual attraction to a teacher; most teachers know how to discourage this type of thing.
Re: Mark Pennington's comment," But you'd be okay with your daughter growing up plagued by same-sex attraction temptation. " I don't think you catch it like you do a virus. Whether straight or gay, a teacher is obliged ethically and morally to avoid any inappropriate contact with students. It isn't a new problem for a student to develop a romantic or sexual attraction to a teacher; most teachers know how to discourage this type of thing.
Sorry for the duplicate comment, I must have hit the button twice. I don't know how to do a delete.
Not to mention newly grown backbone.
For the sake of precision in this post and these comments, it's worth noting that the magisterium of the church currently declares that it is a sin to divorce and remarry: if one has one's previous marriage annulled, then there was no previous marriage, and it would be erroneous to talk of getting "remarried".
Eduardo's observation and question remains: "I am not aware of divorced and remarried teachers getting fired. The axe always seems to fall on those who are somewhat more easily marginalized: unmarried pregnant teachers, gay teachers, etc. Am I wrong about that? Feel free to post examples to the contrary in the comments."
For the sake of precision, it would also help to make a distinction between the sacrament of marriage, and marriage in the civil realm.
I think it is important there be positive gay and lesbian role models in our schools, for all of our children, but especially for our gay children, it must be very isolating for them. Firing that teacher- for getting married- sends a terrible message to the children.
For the sake of precision, it would also help to make a distinction between the sacrament of marriage, and marriage in the civil realm.
Ok, good plan. Go ahead.
Just another gay teacher fired? Not quite. From the article Jim P linked to above, it seems this particular teacher had worked for the Catholic school for many years without incident. Only when he decided to marry his man i.e., when he foisted the issue upon the parish and school, did they let him go.
And so no Eduardo; this was not just another case of white, "sexist, racist, homophones" abusing gays. In fact the parish & school was tolerant enough to allow the man to teach for so many years without problems, as long as he did not rub his sexuality (his sexual issues) in everyone's face.
Irene – "positive gay and lesbian role models" are people who try to live quiet, celibate lives.
Modest, decent people, whether they are hetero or homo-sexual, try not to bother the rest of the world, and they certainly do not shout about sexuality from the rooftop.
Ken- that's a terrible characterization. This man didn't foist anything on anyone, he married his life partner; just like I married the man I love. I think he sets a very good example, when so couples today forego marriage.
Modest, decent people, whether they are hetero or homo-sexual, try not to bother the rest of the world, and they certainly do not shout about sexuality from the rooftop.
Yes, modest, decent people would never send out wedding invitations, or allow a wedding picture to be published in the newspapers. Why, because it is really just an announcement that they are going to do filty things in bed on their wedding nights! What is more disgusting than a man and a woman flaunting their sexuality? And they wear special rings so that everyone can tell they are married! Of course in New York City, husbands and wives have been known to hold hands while walking down the street! Or even kiss godbye when one drops the other off somewhere in the car. I personally am offended and usually shout, "Get a room!" And also, some men and women I know have actually sent out birth announcements when they have had babies, as if we didn't know how that happened. Men and women, when winning an award, often brazenly thank their husband or their wife in public. We all know they are having sex, but do they have to rub our noses in it?
And so no Eduardo; this was not just another case of white, "sexist, racist, homophones" abusing gays.
If there is one thing I cannot bare, it is calling someone a homophone.
The tricky part is figuring out what kind of violation a man marrying his boyfriend is. Not going to Mass or Confession is also a violation, but I doubt a school will fire even their Catholic teachers for this, let alone their non-Catholic teachers. Many claim that the prohibition on homosexuality and same-sex marriage can be derived from natural law, but in practice very few without a religious background that holds this position accept these arguments.
If there is one thing I cannot bare, it is calling someone a homophone. Piece!
I don't know about y'all, but the main lesson I've taken away fromn this conversation is that David Nickol needs to comment here much, much more than he has been. :-)
I'm curious. Have Catholic school teachers ever been fired--should they be fired--for moral offenses that do not fall within the area of sexual behavior or fertility/birth control? For pride, violence, bigotry, greed, cruetly or any other offenses against the 10 commandments or the two great commandments? It does seem at time that the hierarchy defines morality primarily in terms of sexual morality. Genuinely curious--not trying to be contentious.
Well, a faculty member at Regis HS here in NYC just got fired because he was arrested on drug charges.
Is recreational drug use considered a moral offense? I know its illegal, not sure where it fits in re: morality. But definitely doesn't set a good example.
Some more cases:
"Bronx Catholic school principal Frank Borzellieri fired over ties to white supremacist group."
"A Queens Catholic-school teacher says he was fired for breaking a previously unknown 11th commandment — thou shalt not appear too ladylike in class!"
"A domestic violence victim has come forward this week after being fired from her teaching job at a San Diego Catholic school because she was deemed a liability for having an abusive ex-husband."
"A jury found an Ohio archdiocese discriminated against a teacher fired after becoming pregnant via artificial insemination, leaving legal experts expecting an appeal they say could have a much wider legal impact."
Yes - Good one David N!
Interesting that a priest in Rhode Island is reported to have sent a letter to the 26 state Senators who voted to legalize same-sex marriage, telling the Catholics among them that they should go to confession before receiving Communion.
For those of you Senators who are baptized Catholics, I invite you to go to the Sacrament of Confession to receive God's Mercy and Forgiveness for your grave sin of voting against God yesterday, so you'll be able to receive Holy Communion again in the Catholic Church....
Senator Algiere, you betrayed your own Catholic Faith and your constituents in voting for sodomy yesterday.
See more at: http://www.rifuture.org/priest-to-legislators-i-will-campaign-against-yo...
My understanding is that the Church does not teach that the goal of the civil law is to enforce all aspects of divine or natural law. Thomas Aquinas wrote:
Reply Obj. 3: The natural law is a participation in us of the eternal law: while human law falls short of the eternal law. Now Augustine says (De Lib. Arb. i, 5): "The law which is framed for the government of states, allows and leaves unpunished many things that are punished by Divine providence. Nor, if this law does not attempt to do everything, is this a reason why it should be blamed for what it does." Wherefore, too, human law does not prohibit everything that is forbidden by the natural law....
Again it must be observed that the end of human law is different from the end of Divine law. For the end of human law is the temporal tranquillity of the state, which end law effects by directing external actions, as regards those evils which might disturb the peaceful condition of the state. On the other hand, the end of the Divine law is to bring man to that end which is everlasting happiness;
I-II, Q. 98, Art. 1
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.