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USCCB Opposes Violence Against Women Act.
Lisa Fullam March 11, 2013 - 1:27pm
On March 6, the USCCB issued a statement expressing "concerns" about the Violence Against Women Act, saying the in the end, the USCCB could not support it.Why their concern, you might ask? Surely the USCCB opposes violence against women?You guessed it: it's about same-sex marriage. This is from the USCCB press release:
All persons must be protected from violence, but codifying the classifications sexual orientation and gender identity as contained in in S. 47 is problematic, they wrote. These two classifications are unnecessary to establish the just protections due to all persons. They undermine the meaning and importance of sexual difference. They are unjustly exploited for purposes of marriage redefinition, and marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman with each other and with any children born from their union, said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California; Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco; Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana; Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore; and Archbishop Jos H. Gomez of Los Angeles.
Here's what gets to me: the rates of domestic violence in the US are horrific. About 1.3 million women are assaulted by a domestic partner every year. One third of female homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. One in four women will be victimized in her lifetime. Children are often witnesses to domestic violence: boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to become abusers themselves.What does the VAWA do? According to the WaPo,
the bill provides $660 million over the next five years for programs that provide legal assistance, transitional housing, counseling and support hotlines to victims of rape and domestic abuse.
Advocates for abuse victims credit the Act with a sharp decline in the rates of abuse since it was first signed into law in 1994. According to The National Domestic Abuse Hotline,
Victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking have been able to access services, and a new generation of families and justice system professionals has come to understand that domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking are crimes that our society will not tolerate.
But the mere fact of explicit inclusion of lesbians is enough for the USCCB to say, in effect, "OK, let's cut all those programs. Let's fire the lawyers, let's discontinue the counseling, let's get rid of the transitional housing that gives women and kids a safe place to go. Not if lesbians would be recognized as people who might be in need of those services too."
You know what? It seems to me that it really doesn't matter that the abuse victim might be gay. Abuse is wrong, regardless of gender. It is a crime that cries to heaven for help. But the USCCB continues on down that road to Jericho and walks right on past that woman left beaten up in a ditch. She's only a woman, after all, and what if she's--gay? Helping her might redefine marriage, somehow.Here's the kicker. The USCCB issued "When I Call For Help: A Pastoral Response To Domestic Violence Against Women" in 2002. One of their practical suggestions was that women could call the National Domestic Violence Hotline. It's funding? Yup--it was first established by the VAWA. Thanks guys.Ordinarily, one should not blog in anger. I'm angry. This is outrageous.
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Quelle surprise! Hierarchs can't bring themselves to support measures that would combat violence against women.This fear and detestation of all things feminine is so primitive with these guys.How can any of us think that the conclave will produce any change???
Lisa, Your allusion to the wo/man on the road to Jericho is on point. That was the greatest prejudice of the times of Jesus just as anti-gay is today. Just ask Pat Robertson. I hope no one would consider an American Pope after this.
Lisa, I don't believe you provided a link to the full USCCB statement. It is here:http://www.usccb.org/news/2013/13-046.cfmTo complete the picture: the statement indicates that the US bishops have supported previous iterations of the Act, and state unequivocally their opposition to violence against women. Apparently, it is new provisions in this new iteration of the Act (including another provision not highlighted in Lisa's post) that the USCCB finds objectionable.It's reasonable to ask, "Why were these new provisions inserted? What circumstances mandated the addition of these provisions that serve as poison pills in the eyes of the USCCB?" The statement concludes by noting that both houses of Congress have already passed the 2013 Act. Certainly, it will become law. This is not a case of a statement in service to a lobbying effort to prevent passage; it is already passed. Nor does the statement urge President Obama not to sign the Act into law. The USCCB's call to action is (to quote from the statement), "Now that Congress has acted to change the law, we urge future action to revisit these concerns in the months ahead."I don't read the statement as being equivalent to the USCCB saying (to quote from Lisa's post), OK, lets cut all those programs. Lets fire the lawyers, lets discontinue the counseling, lets get rid of the transitional housing that gives women and kids a safe place to go. Not if lesbians would be recognized as people who might be in need of those services too. Rather, it reads to me as a statement urging Congress to tweak some unjust provisions in a fundamentally just and necessary law.Finally: I don't know precisely what it means for the USCCB to "not support" something. It may not be the same as actively opposing it.
Catholic couples church marriages have dropped by 50% and if just Anglo Catholic marriages were counted the drop would be increased significantly. Bishops... Guess where the Anglo Catholic couples are getting married now? On Beaches, parks, lawns and the city hall basements, lined up right behind the SS couples. Where are the bishops 'concerns' about that?
@ Jim, Surely they could have said that then. "We support the law with reservations, in light of the body count," or something. But no. And finally, doesn't this STILL seem to violate the Catechism's own language of no unjust discrimination against LGB folk? And opposing violence against them?
Last year they went after the Girl Scouts. ( Link to the 2013 Girl Scouts Silver Dollar: http://www.girlscouts.org/something_big.asp ) WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) Stop the Violence campaign:http://www.wagggsworld.org/en/take_action/violenceStop the Violence: Speak Out for Girls' Rights Girls in every country across the world are being subjected to many forms of violence this is wrong and must stop.Girls have the right to live free from violence and the fear of violence. They need to be aware of their rights and find the voice to create a global movement and actions to end violence.Building from a whisper to a shout, we need to talk, join together and inspire action around the world.
Bill M., I don't think the American cardinals are alone in their notions about women.In an article in Mother Jones today, a reporter describes the leading contenders and quotes Commonweal's assessment of Scola, the frontrunner:". . . feminism is responsible for homosexuality, because the more women act like men, the more men are likely to want to have sex with other men." http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/who-would-be-greenest-new...
The American bishops could have adopted the hopeful language in the current America editorial "We pray for a pope who begins a conversation with the words, In listening to the experience of our brothers and sisters who are homosexual....
Its an empirical fact that women who are divorced or unmarried are more than twice as likely to be victims of violence. Given that fact, a law which funds some programs to ameliorate violence and at the same time undermines marriage is far from an unmitigated good.
But the good news is that, while the bishops are doing their thing, Catholic women religious are working hard to protect domestic violence survivors, end human trafficking, and promote the dignity of women, children and men.Catholic religious sisters, through NETWORK, are celebrating the passage of VAWA. The NETWORK website has a link where you can, if the Spirit moves you, thank the elected officials who voted "Yes".http://www.networklobby.org/
"@ Jim, Surely they could have said that then. We support the law with reservations, in light of the body count, or something. But no. And finally, doesnt this STILL seem to violate the Catechisms own language of no unjust discrimination against LGB folk? "Lisa, here is what I take to be the key passage in the USCCB statement:"Among our concerns are those provisions in S. 47 that refer to sexual orientation and gender identity. All persons must be protected from violence, but codifying the classifications sexual orientation and gender identity as contained in S. 47 is problematic. These two classifications are unnecessary to establish the just protections due to all persons."So what the USCCB objects to is the codification of the terms "sexual orientation" and "gender identity". Why the USCCB doesn't want those specific terms included, is not really clear from the statement. I assume that there is some legal strategy at work here; possibly those terms as defined in the Act would set a precedent that could be exploited by future laws and regulations in a way that the USCCB would deem unjust. Not being an attorney or a legislative wonk, I'm not really sure what the implications are; I'm just speculating. But I do read this as a technical/legal objection (in service to a moral viewpoint, to be sure). I don't think we have enough information to know whether this objection is misaligned with the Catechisms's injunction regarding unjust treatment of homosexuals.
@Jim,I think we disagree. I think that to "not support" a measure that funds critical needs is to oppose funding for critical needs. The link to sexual orientation is clear from the text of the bishops--they fear that including lesbian and trans people will "undermine the meaning and importance of sexual difference. They are unjustly exploited for purposes of marriage redefinition." That seems clear to me. It's about same-sex marriage, along with legal recognition of trans people.By the way, it is estimated that 50% of trans people are the victims of rape or assault by an intimate partner. 50%. Isn't that enough for the USCCB to say: "we have qualms about the language, and want to say so, but we will stand with our LGBT brothers and sisters against rape and murder"? If rape and murder aren't enough, what would be?And just imagine how this press release and USCCB statement must feel to LGBT people in our Church. Imagine being told that the bishops won't support the VAWA because it might include you.
And who is the president of the USCCB that just showed such diplomatic (non)sense?Cdl Dolan, supposedly a papabile....
Although I do not think that it is necessary of even helpful, I can understand why a statement such as this is signed by Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades Chairman, Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youthand Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco Chairman Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of MarriageBut, what stake do these chairmen of these respective committees have in the issue? Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton - Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development ??Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore - Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty ??Archbishop Jos H. Gomez Chairman, Committee on Migration ??How is the issue related to domestic justice and human development, religious liberty, or migration?
Bruce, I heard the opposite: that single women were safer than married women, because the first victimizer (except for suiscide) is the spouse. But maybe that's only for murder cases. Not sure. Second-hand unverified information....
Lisa, I believe that your anger might be displaced. Doesn't the fault lie with the supporters of the bill who insisted on these controversial additions to the law, compared to the earlier 1994 version? The main objections have been three: this point about sexual identity; the new version gives visas to illegal immigrant women who are domestically abused; and, with the noble goal of combating the high rate of violence against Native American women, it gives tribal courts jurisdiction over such cases, but with the consequence of leaving defendants in such cases without due process rights. At first it appeared that the law would fail in the House because of objections over these issues, despite the fact that its opponents were willing to support it if they were removed or modified. Yet its supporters refused. In other words, the bill's supporters were willing to let the whole thing fail just for the political optics of having their opponents appear to be opposed to a law fighting violence against women (thus feeding the "war against women" narrative), even though they could have had a nearly universal consensus behind a more moderate law. In other words, they are the one who were playing politics with women's lives, while the opposition was motivated by legitimate concerns raised by issues in the bill.
It's a sad day when the obsession against gay marriage leads the US Bishops to oppose the Violence Against Women Act. Something similar happened in a recent statement directed to the armed forces provisions for gay couples.I think the Bishops need to rethink their strategy here. There needs to be a focus on the dignity and rights of homosexuals. The current strategy is likely to loose the bishops the support of even those of us who oppose gay marriage.God Bless
It seems that according to the tortured logic of the USCCB, the way to support harmony in marriage is to do nothing about violence against lesbians. This is so clearly outrageous that I actually wonder about the mental capacities of our bishops. Was this decision prompted by madness, stupidity or both?
Ann asks "this decision prompted by madness, stupidity or both?"Forget whatever comes from the USCCB...The USCCB is advised by the same lawyers who opposed ACA accommodation because it left out Taco Bell franchisees from claiming a 'religious liberty' health insurance exemption on the birth control coverage .A 'religious liberty' exemption for the non- covered workers in policies Taco Bell would never give to the minimum wage counter people. The USCCB lawyer opinions would get them expelled from the Tea Party as radicals for pushing the wingnut agenda too far. .
Where were these Excellencies until March 6? The Senate passed the bill 7822 on February 11, and the House passed it 286138 on February 28 after earlier rejecting, 257166, a version that would have been more to the liking of these worthies. Notice large majorities for the passed bill in both houses. And now, well after the fact, those stalwart defenders of whatever put forth the wan statement that "we urge future action to revisit these concerns in the months ahead." Fat chance!It's a reverse trifecta: troglodytic, ineffectual, and late.
Naturally Catholic Bishops will comment against a bill that bolsters the notion of gay marriage. The secular government includes references to gay marriage in a law called "Violence Against Women Act", the Catholics object, and some on Commonweal cry "foul" - against the Bishops of course.To those bemoaning all this; what would you have the Catholic Church say about gay marriage?
"To those bemoaning all this; what would you have the Catholic Church say about gay marriage?"We do not believe in same sex marriage but we applaud this law and any other action which reduces violence against women.
" ... what would you have the Catholic Church say about gay marriage?"What they say in all of those countries where it is legal: we may not like it but those countries have it. They aren't forcing us to perform it and we won't prevent them from imparting secular benefits, rights and responsibilities ... all paid for by all citizens ... to the people who take advantage of it.In other words, act like adults rather than whining kids whose ball lot wants aren't accepted by the rest of the players.
"The link to sexual orientation is clear from the text of the bishopsthey fear that including lesbian and trans people will undermine the meaning and importance of sexual difference. They are unjustly exploited for purposes of marriage redefinition. That seems clear to me. Its about same-sex marriage, along with legal recognition of trans people. By the way, it is estimated that 50% of trans people are the victims of rape or assault by an intimate partner. 50%. Isnt that enough for the USCCB to say: we have qualms about the language, and want to say so, but we will stand with our LGBT brothers and sisters against rape and murder? "My reading of the USCCB statement is that its view is that the objectionable language isn't necessary to provide protection. Their statement says, "All persons must be protected from violence, but codifying the classifications sexual orientation and gender identity as contained in S. 47 is problematic. These two classifications are unnecessary to establish the just protections due to all persons."Is it your understanding that, prior to inserting this new language into the Act, lesbians and trans's weren't accorded any protection under the Act (or perhaps under other laws)?If the USCCB is correct that the problematic classifications were inserted for reasons that are extraneous to according them protection - then why were they inserted?
In other words, the USCCB continues to deny reality for the sake of biologically-disabused theology.Lesbians and trans people exist. They are discriminated against. By men. By ecclesiastics. By other women. By society. By this church. Here and now.Denying that doesn't mean that it isn't true.
Jim P.,Our society had to expand via the 15th & 19th amendments the lofty sentiment of the Declaration that "all men are created equal" in order to make explicit that rights belonged to racial and ethnic minorities, to former slaves, and to women. Even with those amendments in place, it has taken a long and still unfinished struggle to achieve the promised equality. Why is that? I think it is because, for reasons I need not characterize here, powerful interests are determined to prevent it and are willing to use any excuse or omission to do so.If my own protection against violence was at issue, I would want the law to be redundantly clear that it was meant to cover me as well as others. Classifications are only "problematic" and "extraneous" when they apply to people one still hopes to marginalize.
Isn't this just part of the new intellectual argument certain natural law obsessive people in the church are promoting, namely that there are no homosexual persons, just homosexual acts?To grant homosexuals a distinct status (that is not explicitly grounded in behavior) indeed supports the new emerging viewpoint of most people (i.e. "born that way") that has been defeating the church's preferred model, which is foundational to natural law.This is what drives me nuts about the natural law obsessives: the pristine beauty of their *model* is more important to them than the actual people who are the exception to this idol they worship. It is better that souls are warped, families torn apart than it is for them to acknowledge that however beautiful their idol is, it doesn't match up with God's actual creation.
And I use the word "idol" deliberately. Robby George et al are so vested in their *ideas* I really think they have lost sight of actual Christianity.
Re Ann Olivier's post: You've nailed it, Ann. Bravo! Jim P., In the real world people don't talk "ecclesiatic," or other convoluted tongues.
What I don't understand is why a fetus has human dignity and a gay man or lesbian does not. Aren't human being human beings? Why would the church consider some people as lesser beings?
"Jim P., In the real world people dont talk ecclesiatic, or other convoluted tongues."I don't think there is anything particularly "churchy" about the language used in the USCCB statement. But in the real world, people certainly do talk "ecclesiastic", when it is appropriate to do so. I'm given to understand that in various other parts of the real world, people talk "philosophic", "techie", "legalese", "business-speak", "street", and all sorts of other ways of talking that are appropriate to those mileius.
I hope the next pope can choose better language than the USCCB has for addressing the world. Then he will not need Jim Pauwels to run around after him explaining that he did not intend to imply that he cares more about doctrinal purity in legal documents than about living and dead human victims of abuse. The USCCB could have fooled me.
Jim Pauwels, here are the four places in the act where "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" appear. It seems to me that the USCCB hasn"t done an effective job of explaining why Congress should change any of these. "(39) UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS The term "underserved populations" means populations who face barriers in accessing and using victim services, and includes populations underserved because of geographic location, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, underserved racial and ethnic populations, populations underserved because of special needs (such as language barriers, disabilities, alienage status, or age), and any other population determined to be underserved by the Attorney General or by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, as appropriate.""(13) CIVIL RIGHTS."(A) NONDISCRIMINATION.No person in the United States shall, on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity (as defined in paragraph 249(c)(4) of title 18, United States Code), sexual orientation, or disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 [etc]... "(19) developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs and projects to provide services and responses targeting male and female victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, whose ability to access traditional services and responses is affected by their sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in section 249(c) of title 18, United States Code;...""SEC. 304. CAMPUS SEXUAL VIOLENCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, AND STALKING EDUCATION AND PREVENTION.(a) IN GENERAL.Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092(f)) is amended(1) in paragraph (1)(A) in subparagraph (C)(iii), by striking the periodat the end and inserting , when the victim of such crime elects or is unable to make such a report.; and(B) in subparagraph (F)(i) in clause (i)(VIII), by striking and after thesemicolon;(ii) in clause (ii)(I) by striking sexual orientation and inserting national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity,...To avoid a lengthy quote, I'll explain that "undeserved populations" defines categories of people for whom grants will be made to programs which propose to provide victim outreach and support. It doesn't seem to me that Catholic Charities would have any objection to providing outreach and support to victims of violence regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.If he USCCB does see a problem in these changes. i think they need to spell it out.
"Jim Pauwels, here are the four places in the act where sexual orientation and gender identity appear. It seems to me that the USCCB hasnt done an effective job of explaining why Congress should change any of these."I agree that more explanation could be given. I said as much in my comment above (3/11/13, 2:52 pm).
Jim Hohman wrote "This is what drives me nuts about the natural law obsessives: the pristine beauty of their *model* is more important to them than the actual people who are the exception to this idol they worship"In "First Things", of all places, David Bentley Hart argues that the view that natural law is evident and binding on all people is not correct. He sees it as a useful argument only with people who believe that a Supreme exists and, beyond that, believe that natural law ( and, particularly, natural law as interpreted by the Catholic Church) provides a correct understanding of what their Supreme being requires of them."Denounce him, if you wish, for the perversity of his convictions. Still, after all hypothetical imperatives have been adduced, and all appeals to the general good have been made, nothing would logically oblige him to alter his ideas. Only the total spiritual conversion of his vision of reality could truly change his thinking.To put the matter very simply, belief in natural law is inseparable from the idea of nature as a realm shaped by final causes, oriented in their totality toward a single transcendent moral Good: one whose dictates cannot simply be deduced from our experience of the natural order, but must be received as an apocalyptic interruption of our ordinary explanations that nevertheless, miraculously, makes the natural order intelligible to us as a reality that opens up to what is more than natural. There is no logically coherent way to translate that form of cosmic moral vision into the language of modern practical reason or of public policy debate in a secular society. Our concept of nature, in any age, is entirely dependent upon supernatural (or at least metaphysical) convictions. And, in an age that has been shaped by a mechanistic understanding of the physical world, a neo-Darwinian view of life, and a voluntarist understanding of the self, natures laws must appear to be anything but moral."So "natural law forbids this" is not a slam-dunk argument with non-Catholics. http://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/02/is-ought-and-natures-laws-1
Here are links to articles responding to Hart:http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/03/01/natural-law-de...
"I hope the next pope can choose better language than the USCCB has for addressing the world. Then he will not need Jim Pauwels to run around after him explaining that he did not intend to imply that he cares more about doctrinal purity in legal documents than about living and dead human victims of abuse. "I don't run, and in this case, I've barely explained. Essentially, what I've done here is (a) locate the bishops' statement; (b) read it; (c) understand it; and (d) quote it. And, I suppose, (e), not stand on my head to put the worst possible interpretation upon it. If that is what apologetics consists of, then then it's a good deal simpler than I had been led to believe.
"What I dont understand is why a fetus has human dignity and a gay man or lesbian does not. Arent human being human beings? Why would the church consider some people as lesser beings?"I take it that the church's point in its statement is that human beings are human beings - and all are entitled to protection.
David Gibson - in the Catholic Twilight Zone, gays are *intrinsically disordered*. Thus, a fetus has human dignity; so does a gay person but with limits (the old must live as brother and brother or brother and sister, etc. routine).And this is based upon a concept of *natural law* that we know with 100% certainity (just like we did in terms of racism, slavery, democratic rights, role of women, etc.).Noah Millman in the link above probably does the best job of focusing on the weakness of *natural law*.....it begins with a view of reality that is a certain way and not open to reason, science, debate, questioning, etc. nad posits that this view is from God, of course. It really puts the lie to Aquinas and his *faith seeking understanding*.
"If my own protection against violence was at issue, I would want the law to be redundantly clear that it was meant to cover me as well as others. Classifications are only problematic and extraneous when they apply to people one still hopes to marginalize."If your own protection against violence is at issue, and existing laws don't provide adequate protection, why would piling this law atop existing laws make a difference?If legal language is problematic for legal reasons, it should be fixed. That can be noted without imputing bad faith to the people who want to fix it.
From this point forward if anyone wishes to discuss this topic with me, they must first take up, in a substantive manner, Matthew Shadle's comment of 3/11/13 3:15 pm.
Matthew Shadie's argument is based wholly on a conjectural reconstruction about motivations: he thinks that proponents of the bill introduced language about gender and sexual orientation as part of a plot to make their opponents look unfeeling (whereas, he claims, said opponents are motivated by "legitimate concerns.") At best, he thinks the situation went down according to the plot of a sitcom; at worst, he thinks there was some sort of grand conspiracy. He basically says that we shouldn't fault the bishops for not wanting to guarantee protections for lgbtq people, but should instead fault those seeking such protections for putting the bishops into a position where they look bad. The point of the bill is to protect people from abuse, but guys like Shadie shift the victimhood around so as that it instead pertains to people whose protection is already enshrined.
Claire,Your info for single women may be correct, but its probably better thought of as single and without child and not cohabiting. Here's the info for what is called 'intimate partner violence'. You will notice that marital status is conspicuously absent.http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National).pdfIts an obfuscation to hide this empirical fact: The results showed that cohabiting couples had a higher rate of assault than did married couples. These findings persisted after controls for age and socioeconomic status were introduced. Violence was also more severe in cohabiting than in married or dating couples. Here are some resources for you to check.Jan E. Stets, "Cohabiting and Marital Aggression: The Role of Social Isolation" Journal of Marriage and the Family 53 (1991):669-680; Richard J. Gelles, Intimate Violence in Families, 3rd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: 1997); Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher, The Case for Marriage (New York: Doubleday, 2000): Ch. 11 pp 150-160
Jim Pauwels, Lisa's post is about the USCCB statement. Matthew Shadle's comment is not about he USCCB statement but his own objections to the new law.The USCCB statement raises only two issues:1. The addition of sexual orientation and gender identity in the four paces I identified in my comment.2. The lack of a provision that would have prevented last year's loss of the trafficking grant by USCCB.Mr Shadle doesn't mention (2) at all but introduces two other issues that aren't in the USCCB statement. He spends most of his comment in an ad hominem argument about the motives of the people who passed the law. Now that I have met your requirement that I "must first take up, in a substantive manner, Matthew Shadles comment of 3/11/13 3:15 pm" will you reply to my comment of 3/11/13 9:17 pm?
John Hayes --That natural law theory cannot be separated from religious belief is belied by the fact that the most influential of all natural law philosophers was Aristotle. Check out Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue". Then check out, for instance, Hobbes (atheist) against Locke (deist), Philippa Foot (?) against John Finnis (Catholic), or Edward Feser (Catholic) against Grisez (Catholic).One should not talk about "natural law theory" as if there has been only one, consistent set of theories. Far back into history there have been many, starting with the Aristotle and the Stoics, and going forward into the middle ages and the modern and contemporary times. Right now there is a lively argument going on even among self-identified Thomists as to whether or not the "new natural law" theorists (who include Finnis and Grisez) should be called Thomists at all.Talking about "natural law theory" as if it were one body of work with cosistent conclusions is like talking about "American music" as if there were only one kind, as if jazz were the same thing as bluegrass or Charles Ives or Leonard Bernstein or rock. It would be really silly to reject them all.
David Bentley Hart recently wrote something about natural law and present politics - http://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/02/is-ought-and-natures-laws-1
What theists or non-theists believe about natural law has no bearing on the obligation of a natural law argument to be rational and based on evidence. If it is not an actual argument that is based on reason and evidence, it is not a natural law argument, no matter who says it is.
Thank you, thank you, Lisa.Regarding the loss of the trafficking grant, John Hayes
Oops, posted out of time.Regarding the loss of the trafficking grant, John Hayes quoted some time back a court decision prohibiting the church from using public monies to impose its beliefs on citizens. I thought that a powerful argument.
Ann Olivier wrote: "Then check out, for instance, Hobbes (atheist) against Locke (deist), Philippa Foot (?) against John Finnis (Catholic), or Edward Feser (Catholic) against Grisez (Catholic)."I think that your examples confirm that here are many "natural laws" - just as there are many systems of philosophy. That is different from the idea that there is a natural law that is binding on all persons. I think that Hart's point is that anyone is free to reject your "natural law" unless they are already commited to your premises. In "Humanae Vitae", Paul VI said:"No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. It is in fact indisputable, as Our predecessors have many times declared, (l) that Jesus Christ, when He communicated His divine power to Peter and the other Apostles and sent them to teach all nations His commandments, constituted them as the authentic guardians and interpreters of the whole moral law, not only, that is, of the law of the Gospel but also of the natural law. For the natural law, too, declares the will of God, and its faithful observance is necessary for men's eternal salvation."That is natural law as interpreted by the Magisterium. Paul qualifies his statement with "No member of the faithful could possibly deny..." and Hart points out that non-Catholics who do not share the same premises as Catholics will not necessarily arrive at the Magisterium's interpretation of natural law - or even the belief that any binding natural law exists.
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Lisa Fullam is associate professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).


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Think we will ever see that in the New York Times? "White Hispanic" indeed. A honest conversation about race means that when the newspaper of record sets a racial narrative because one of a person's parents is "white" while the other parent is not, then why does not that same newspaper of record treat Mr. "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" the same way? President Obama has a "white" mother; Mr. Zimmerman has a "white" father. Pres. Obama's father was African; Mr. Zimmerman's mother is Hispanic. An honest conversation about race means that honest commentary on hypocrisy isn't stifled. It is a shame when cowards on either side of the political spectrum silence or refuse to have an honest conversation because of misguided political correctness.


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- This tutorial is obsolete. iRedMail-0.8.6 and later releases have Dovecot Master User enabled for all backends (OpenLDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL) by default, what you need to do is adding new master user with below command:
# htpasswd -b -s /etc/dovecot/dovecot-master-users-password master_user master_password
Then you can login via IMAP/POP3 to access user 'email@example.com's mailbox as "email@example.com*master_user" with password "master_password".
- master_user must be in valid email address format. e.g. email@example.com. It doesn't need to exist.
- Not all encryptions work on different Linux/BSD distributions, so if you cannot login as master user, please try different password encryption first. For example: on Debian 7, crypt() encryption (htpasswd -d) and SHA encryption (htpasswd -s) work, but MD5 (-m) doesn't.
This tutorial describes how to enable Dovecot Master User in Dovecot-1.2 or Dovecot-2.x.
With Dovecot Master User:
- it's able to log in as other mail users.
- It's also possible to directly log in as any user using a master password, although this isn't recommended.
- You can also use Dovecot Master User to sync mailboxes with "imapsync" between two servers which both running Dovecot as IMAP server.
Please visit Dovecot wiki page for more details about Master User:
- Dovecot-2: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers
- Dovecot-1: http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers
Important notes:
- With below settings, Dovecot Master User works with Dovecot-2.0 with or without ACL plugin enabled.
- Dovecot Master User works with Dovecot-1.2 without ACL plugin enabled.
- Please make sure accessing other's mailbox is legal under the law in your country.
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- Please append below lines in your Dovecot config file: dovecot.conf. it should be /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (Linux or OpenBSD) or /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (FreeBSD).
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# Master user. # Master users are able to log in as other users. It's also possible to # directly log in as any user using a master password, although this isn't # recommended. # Reference: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers auth_master_user_separator = * passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-master-user-password master = yes }
- For different backends:
- If you're running OpenLDAP backend, please update /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf (Linux or OpenBSD) or /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf, add mail=master_user, in user_query like below:
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- If you're running MySQL backend, please update /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf (Linux or OpenBSD) or /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf, add '%u' AS master_user in user_query like below:
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- If you're running PostgreSQL backend, please update /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf (Linux or OpenBSD) or /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf, add '%u' AS master_user in user_query like below:
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- If you have auth_default_realm = domain.com in dovecot.conf, the master user name will be rewritten to email@example.com if it's not a valid email address, and authentication will fail. Please either use a full email address as master user, or disable auth_default_realm setting.
- User name master_user and password master_password is just an example, please always choose a different name and password. Using random strings is a good choice. You can get random string with below command (replace '15' by a larger integer if you want longer string):
$ eval </dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | (head -c $1 &>/dev/null || head -c 15) 86S09THpo2jFJAb
- It's now ok to restart Dovecot service to enable Master User.
Steps for Dovecot-1
- Please append below line in your Dovecot config file: dovecot.conf. it should be /etc/dovecot.conf or /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf (FreeBSD).
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NORTH AUGUSTA — North Augusta will be adding a second Walmart to the city with a completion date set for next fall.
The new location will be on Highway 25, right off exit 5.
Confirmation of the project was announced on Wednesday during the North Augusta AM Connection meeting at the North Augusta Community Center. The announcement was part of a slide show displaying the city's growth to U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.
"They're working very quickly to get things underway," said City Administrator Todd Glover. "We may even get some dirt moving by the end of the year. I would say we're looking at about a year of construction."
The new Walmart will be a 160,000-square-foot store, complete with an auto center and fuel center. The shopping center project will also include 34,000 square feet of retail space with restaurants such as Firehouse Subs, a Mexican restaurant, and a Japanese/sushi restaurant.
In addition to Walmart, North Augusta will also be making several other changes. A second Zaxby's location will also be added off exit 5.
According to Glover, Bojangles is in the early stages of moving from its gas station location on Edgefield Road to the building left behind by Huddle House on the same road. Waffle House will also be moving to the other side of Exit 5 behind McDonald's on Georgia Avenue.
While there are no set timetables for these projects, Glover is excited about the anticipated growth.
"The point I'm making is that these are all new developments in North Augusta. We're not closing down other businesses to make room," Glover added. "Also, we're taking existing, unused buildings and putting thriving businesses in them. So I think these are very positive signs for our city."
Derrek Asberry is a beat reporter with the Aiken Standard news team and joined the paper in June. He is originally from Vidalia, Ga., and graduated from Georgia Southern University with a journalism degree in May 2012.
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woodley without a doubt, story is a shadow of his former self in my opinion.
T Wood no doubt. Story would not be able to get inside for the takedown. Rick's brawling style would get him clipped and shutdown.
Story has come out and expressed interest in this matchup as well. I hope he gets the fight.
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CFCA sponsors never cease to amaze us! They're continually accomplishing everyday miracles through their compassion and support for people around the world.
In just one example, the Woodmont Christian Church youth group used a creative combination of cake and coffee sales, a Raise Funds Raise Hope campaign and a matching grant from the church's outreach committee to raise more than $8,000 for CFCA's project need fund.
These funds will help build two houses for families in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala.
"When we return [to Guatemala] in 2014, our group would be very honored to meet the families and see the homes that were built with love from Nashville," Emmie Thomas wrote to us in an email.
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COLUMBIA -- South Carolina health officials say one clinic in Mount Pleasant received a batch of drugs used for steroid shots that have been linked to a rare form of meningitis.
The Department of Health and Environmental Control said Friday that no cases of fungal meningitis have been reported in South Carolina. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about three dozen people in six other states have contracted meningitis. Five of them have died.
The CDC says Intervene MD is the clinic in South Carolina. Officials say they have notified 177 of the 189 patients who got spinal steroid injections from the clinic to discuss their health and the symptoms of meningitis.
DHEC says residents dont need to worry unless they have heard from the clinic or the agency.
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One week ago, Google Blog announced an official tool for building themes for iGoogle. "Now, you too can capture memories and images on your iGoogle homepage by building a custom theme. We've just released our new tool for creating iGoogle themes. It's an easy way for iGoogle users to spruce up their personalized homepage without needing to know how to use XML, etc. All you need is an image, and we'll provide the rest."
The idea is great as people will always like to see a personal photo on their homepage. As usually, iGoogle managed to make another mistake: the theme creator page has been down until today.
Now that it's finally available, you can see the tool is very basic and it only lets you upload an image, choose a header text color and a theme color. It's very difficult to crop a photo so that a certain region is visible, the color palette doesn't include too many options, you can't find the themes you've created to apply them to other pages and you need to accept a license agreement after creating a new theme.
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text: GL Jeff nailed it on the rules. The replay Singgles showed didn't show enough info to call, but one they replayed clearly showed the first one no hands on the ground and the 2nd one his hand was close if not on the ground at the time of the strike. The reason Ross was putting his hand down will always be speculation, but when the knee started no hands were on the ground. In the end we get to see it again. The ref had to make a split second call and replays and the rules backed it as his call


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'levitated mass' sculpture: los angeles
What: Levitated Mass
When: TBA
Where: LACMA, The Resnick North Lawn
The real story of Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer—a 340-ton granite 'megalith' on a 456'-long slot constructed on LACMA's North lawn—may perhaps be in its journey.
While the piece was conceived in 1968, it wasn't until decades later—in Riverside County, California—that Heizer discovered 'an appropriate boulder'.
One of the largest megaliths to be moved since ancient times, the concept recalls the ancient traditions of carving stones using primitive tools, while at the same time relying on the appreciation of abstract forms in modern art—both of which used feats of engineering to make them a reality.
Check out its gut-wrenching, highly orchestrated transport at The Journey to LACMA.
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By john from USA on 2009-06-28 19:16:18Things I liked:The feel and look of this weapon
Things I would have changed:nothing
What others should know:This hand gun is a blast to shoot. Just pull the trigger and empty the clip as fast as you can shoot. I love the realness and the feel of this gun. Very hard to put it down. Get plenty of BB's and Co2 with extra clips.
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By Kelsey from Canada on 2012-07-27 22:24:11Things I liked:There is some heft to this gun, made in Japan, and the blowback is strong for the first magazine, but that is about it.
Things I would have changed: This gun is similar to a colt single action army after about four full magazines; you have to cock the hammer with your thumb because the blowback action becomes non- existent. Unlike the cybergun witness who's blowback is strong and true to the last shot! Just as well, the safety is in the wrong place, and the piercing screw is an eye- sore (do what switchingtomac did on his ppks). I really don't like how the PLASTIC mag also acts as the chamber; the propelant nozzle is flush with the back opening of the magazine where you put the bb's in. The bb is propelled out of the front of the magazine into the barrel. Bad design!
What others should know:I got this gun at Cabelas in Canada for $100 when I should have paid maybe $60 at the most. This gun couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. I would only use this as a garage plinker for when it's raining and you can't shoot more powerful guns outside.
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Hey all,
Have had this sitting in my email to look at for a few months now. We eat Primal/Paleo as a family. We have 5 kids ages 10 to 7months. I have a couple blogs that I have made to help others out. You can check out www.NapClan.com. I just finished posting our daily meals as we did the Whole 30. I also have four full weeks of meal plans for the Whole 30. For those of you that don't know the Whole30, it is super strict Paleo program for 30 days to just rid your body of all the junk. http://whole9life.com/2012/01/whole-30-v2012/ I also have a blog that I keep all my recipes on if you just want to browse around at www.iCookFree.com.
We all feel so much better eating this way. Everyones bodies are functioning better and are stronger. My husband is down to his college volleyball playing weight and I am back in my smallest pre-preganancy clothes with only 15lbs to go before I reach my college weight as well. The kids are happy and I have seen their palattes change. Just get rid of all the no-no foods in your house. When they are hungry, show them the options. But if they know that there is a box of cereal in the cupboard or a stash of cookies in the pantry, they can hold out for a long time. You just need to completely remove the temptations and give them a couple weeks to adjust.
Good luck on your eating ventures!!! Stop by the blog and leave me a comment or any questions if you have any.
Question: how do you handle food for kids in social situations ie a sleepover at friends house, neighbor gave candy, etc.?
I have been reminding myself 80/20 is great (and dd's diet has been nearly 100% primal since we went gfcf a few weeks back andpredominantly tf before that) so if she has pizza or a piece of candy, it's not going to destroy her . . .
I just have this extra stress with it coz we havent yet figured out what caused her bad food reaction a while back, and we have been doing GAPS to heal her gut and hopefully resolve some of the ASD symptoms.
So I dont want to be crazy overcontrollng about what she eats or make her feel socially isolated (always the different one who doesnt get the goodies), but I am genuinely concerned about setting back her gut healing or having another food reaction.
I may not be the best person to answer this (I'm really the only one in my family who is eating primally) but since no one else has... I think you should do whatever you have to to give the GAPS diet a chance to work. If your dd has food allergies you have to protect her. Maybe offer alternative treats, or try to avoid those situations for a while, if you can. My dd doesn't have any noticeable allergies, and I try to limit her sweets, wheat etc. mostly at home I try to just offer meat, veggies, eggs... and fill her up before she thinks of cereal, pasta, etc. I don't stress too much at social situations, just try to keep her from going crazy. she actually self regulates fairly well. We tell her that "sugar bugs" are going to eat her teeth (to get her to brush), and she will say she doesn't want too many sugar bugs... anyway, good luck. hopefully some others will have more concrete advice.
Wanted to resurrect this thread. How is everyone doing? Me, not so great on the Primal front. I went into a depressive tailspin and good eating flew right out the window. I'm just getting back into eating well. The other day I made something really simple for dinner but it was divine. Caramelize an onion in olive oil, throw in some cubed pork (mine was a steak-type thing with a bit of bone), and then toss in 1" chunks of fresh asparagus. Flavor with salt and a bit of ground ginger. Really really tasty.
SAHM to DS BuggaBoo 12/07, and DD Doozer 03/10. Sharing life with The Hubby since 01/05.
Nice! Sounds divine...
I cook really simply. Ground beef browned with cumin, salt & pepper & stir in some spinach at the end. I eat it as is, or sometimes with salsa & sour cream,
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Doing well. I did a Whole30 (strict paleo for 30 days) and felt so great! Of course, when my 30 days were up, I reintroduced chocolate, and dairy, and wine.... Still feel wonderful though.
JayGee, that's awesome!
Okay, kind of a TMI question. I love being primal and how it makes me feel, but I often fall off the wagon due to depression/lack of motivation/lack of energy. Whenever I introduce myself back onto a low carb Primal diet I get a bladder infection. Does this happen to anyone else? What could be causing it?
SAHM to DS BuggaBoo 12/07, and DD Doozer 03/10. Sharing life with The Hubby since 01/05.
Don't know, but if you are getting recurrent infections, it's worth getting your Vitamin D level checked and sunning or supplementing to get to a blood level of 50-60 ng/ml.
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So we started paleo when I was 3 months postpartum. Now I'm 19 months, and I have yet to get my period back. While I've been trying to not look a gift horse in the mouth, we've been thinking about TTC, and I'd like to know that everything is in working order and be able to establish a schedule.
With my other two kids, I got it back by 12 months.
For a while my weight dropped pretty low (BMI 19 - so low, particularly for nursing, but not underweight), but it's been back up to around BMI 21 for several months now. DD is still nursing, but she's been night weaned for 6 months, and I'm regularly away from her (without pumping) for 12 hour stretches. My others were nursing much more frequently at this age, with AF long since returned.
I'm not eating purposefully low-carb (I suspect I'm low-carb about 50% of the time, and moderate-carb the rest), nor am I trying to lose weight/body fat. I'm pretty sure I'm eating enough calories (I'm maintaining my weight). I don't think adrenal fatigue is the issue. I'm not sedentary, but I don't exercise excessively by any stretch of the imagination. I rarely get sick (and never get sick, despite working with sick people, when I don't cheat on the paleo), and have adequate energy in general.
I think the last pregnancy may have depleted my reserves a lot - I lost a bunch of weight during my first trimester, and basically only regained to my prepregnancy weight, then dropped quite a bit more after the birth.
Any thoughts?
DS born 6/03, DD1 born 9/06, DD2 born 10/10, DD3 born 4/14.
If you are still nursing, this is not uncommon. Tribal folks use lactation amenorrhea & avoidance of intercourse to space children 3-4 years apart because moms need to replenish their nutrient stores.
Use this time to boost your zinc, iron & magnesium, get your D level checked and catch up on sleep as much as possible. Since your new baby will rely both on your reserves & your diet to build his/her body, it is really important that you get replete before conception. It will also help your egg quality.
So nutrient-dense foods like liver, gelatin, oysters, grass-fed lamb & beef, eggs, salmon & dark leafy greens will help rebuild your stores. You may also want to take a Magnesium supplement, since it can be difficult to get enough from food sources.
If you suspect that you have any gluten sensitivity, best to go completely gluten-free, so your gut can heal, otherwise you won't be absorbing all the good food you are eating!
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I am currently 13 weeks pregnant and follow a mostly paleo/primal diet. Curious if anyone had issues with milk supply while eating this way. I hear talk of low carb kiling your milk supply but I don't eat that low carb.
mom to DS 9/8/8 , married to my best friend since 10/15/05 , ,, After TTC #2 for a really long time we're expecting #2 in December! Hope to , Doula in the Indianapolis area, PM me if you want to talk!
Glad to have found this thread (via search) and hope you will consider joining and participating in the Primal/Paleo group. It's kind of quiet over there!
I've been casually primal (didn't really know it had a name when I started) since late June. I just had a feeling that I should start avoiding grains. Since then, I've been moving the rest of the family to a mostly-primal style. I'm not super strict and refuse to be--I'm not giving up coffee or my glass of wine. And, I haven't gone through and thrown out a bunch of existing food. We'll just use up the non-primal stuff slowly and not buy more. I don't have any health problems such as diabetes or high cholesterol/blood pressure, but I do want to lose about 10 more pounds--lost about 10 in the first few weeks of doing this. DH also doesn't have health issues, but diabetes and depression run in his family and those are both linked to a conventional SAD diet.
We don't do totally organic/pastured because of cost. We eat mostly meats of various kinds, some dairy, eggs, vegetables of all sorts (avoiding the really starchy ones though), all fruits, nuts & nut butters. I'm easing into coconut oil and lard for cooking.
I like Mark's Daily Apple a lot; the forums there are full of information. I also love Gary Taubes--his books are the ones I recommend to folks I talk to about low-carb/primal because his writing is so precise and he has references for every assertion.
Read a tasty-sounding pancake recipe recently on MDA...mash up ripe banana. Add an egg and some almond butter. Blend. Cook like pancakes, but turn carefully as they are delicate. Haven't tried these yet as I need to get some smooth almond butter for the kid who doesn't like crunchy stuff.
Slowly making my way through this. Wasn't going to post but this could have been written by me. Everything from starting in the summer, not being super strict, where I am health-wise, and my admiration for Taubes' well researched books. My moderate approach includes raw dairy. I've lost 10lbs, which I don't do easily, and my digestion has improved GREATLY by cutting grains. Now back to slowly plugging away....
I just had a baby (5 days ago) and am healing very well. This is our 3rd baby boy. He's healthy as a horse and I'm recovering very well. I'm not strictly paleo/primal, but have noticed that with each child that our diet improves overall and that my recovery is better.
Loving wife to DH mama to DS1 3/13/09 , DS2 4/20/11 and DS3 1/12/13 Professional and attempting to while
Primal family here as well. We have been eating this way for a few years now and it seems to be working wonderful for our family! Thanks so much for starting this !
Hi all you primal eaters,
It is grate to hear what you are all doing. Here in north california the pine pollen is comming on and my mother and I are going out often to gather enough for a year hopefully. It is our first year we pland enough to catch the pine polen as we are new to the area. Last year I had my first experiance with the acorns and did a lot of self teaching as well as learning with my survival skills teaching Uncle, but I think it is good for every one to get a few seasonal wild foods into their diet, not just for survival. Making acorn flour edible is a time consumming prosses with picking, drying crushing (I use a hollow stone and punding rock) and leaching the tanens, it might not be for every one who has acorns but if you want, start looking around your home inviroment. What would be easy for your family? Maby berries, roots, nuts, or wild hearbs. Eating the foods out of our marshes, forest, hills ect. is not only local, but free and the foods areadapted for where we live!
When gathering wild foods of cours allways be sure of what your picking and that it is a place free of polution.
Happy spring Foriging
You can eat pine pollen? That's a new one to me! Black berries, dandelion greens, rarely mushrooms are all I have gathered. I have gathered acorns and made flour years ago. It was fun. Made me feel connected to ancient women :)
I need some help mamas. I am almost 24 weeks pregnant, and having the hardest time with food lately. I went through about 3 weeks where I was starving all.the.time, and all I wanted to eat was carby, sweet, and generally non-primal/paleo foods (think breakfast cereal, sandwiches, and the like). Needless to say, I've gained way more weight than I wanted to, I feel yucky, and I know I need to haul my big ole body back on the wagon. My DH is going out of town for a few weeks, and I will be here with the kids, which brings me to my biggest problem: feeding 5 kids on a fairly tight budget while keeping myself on the wagon. I would totally appreciate any suggestions, encouragement, or inspiration.
Sweet potatoes! If your budget is really tight you can eat white rice (fairly benign as far as "anti-nutrients" go). You are pregnant. Don't be too strict with yourself. Don't worry about eating too many carbs. Root veggies, bananas... Trust your body, and try to relax about food. Give yourself healthy options as much as possible. Good Luck!
Sweet potatoes! If your budget is really tight you can eat white rice (fairly benign as far as "anti-nutrients" go). You are pregnant. Don't be too strict with yourself. Don't worry about eating too many carbs. Root veggies, bananas... Trust your body, and try to relax about food. Give yourself healthy options as much as possible. Good Luck!
This. With my first pregnancy all I wanted was noodles, and ate way more rice noodles than I liked, but it was truly what I craved. Eggs are great too...if you can stomach them. So many ways to prepare them, and a cheap protein. I agree about trusting your body and relaxing.
Mama to F (3/09) and S (3/11); and never forgetting my babe gone too soon (4/10).
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Thank you mamas. I do try to listen to my body, but sometimes I wonder if I really need to eat sweet potatoes, cereal, peanut butter and jelly, and a cookie all in the same day, lol. Part of it is managing the prep work along with everything else that goes along with having 5 children. I did better today: eggs scrambled with spinach and bacon (cooked in kerrygold) for breakfast, big salad for lunch, cheese and salami for snack. Bad parts: too much chocolate (thank you kind, thoughtful neighbor) and turkey sandwich.
Thank you for the encouragement. I will keep working at it.
I know this question has a relative answer, so please bear with me. Is there a chart or formula that gives a ballpark figure on how much you need to eat during pregnancy? Sometimes I feel like I just don't really know what an appropriate amount of food is, and I think maybe I overeat unintentionally. Yes, I eat when I am hungry, but how much is *really* necessary? I am aware that mainstream people tend to think in terms of calories, but IMO, nutrition is so much more than simply calories, so I don't want to focus simply on that aspect.
A a related question: do any of you use a tracking app like sparkpeople or myfitnesspal to keep track of what you've consumed/need to consume?
The wisdom I've always heard was 300 extra calories/day when pregnant, and agree that nutrients are more than calories. I haven't seen anything beyond that, although the Brewer diet advocates some pretty defined nutritional guidelines during pregnancy. I didn't fallow it, but definitely fell into the "overeating" camp (although arguably that's the case when I'm not pregnant too).
I use myfitnesspal intermittently and find it does help keep me honest/realistic, which I need given that I'm not an eat-to-live kind of girl.
I hope this helps a little bit!
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Hi, I'm looking at switching us to paleo starting today with my grocery trip. We do have some pasta, potatoes, oats, and flour stocked up in the house so my plan is switch breakfast, dinner, and snacks over first then after a month switch the lunches too. This is mostly for DH as he has digestive troubles sometimes and his weight stays very high, but also both of us have our energy drop like a rock and get headaches if a meal is delayed or skipped. I don't want anyone to find it a burden, so I'm making lots of apple chips, sweet potato chips, kale chips, and jerky, plus keeping chocolate and nuts and fruit (dried and fresh) around. Maybe I can find or make some coconut yogurt. I'll try some of these recipes I see for almond flour and coconut flour for baked stuff but I'd rather just serve other things mostly.
Hi JamieCatheryn, what you are describing is classic carbohydrate addiction. I had the same problems before I switched to low-carb. Low-carb changed my life and I highly recommend it. There are many resources available (books, food plans, support groups) if you want to transition.
I spent a few years eating "naturally" and it did nothing for my carb addiction; I was still eating a lot of fruit, honey, milk, and vegetable juices that prolonged my misery.
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The laws of physics could still be there and the city simply be upheld by the Word of God, like everything else.
The reason for no hunger is because the last couple of chapters of Revelation say that the trees will produce 12 crops of fruit every month. To get a plant to be that fruitful, you're talking about no more carbon-14 and possibly the elimination of ultra violet light as well. Isn't 12 crops of fruit every month a fresh crop about every two and a half days?
The sun, moon, stars, and planets will likely still be there because the last couple of chapters talk about outsiders that'll bring their glory and honor into it and the Spirit and Bride bidding people to come and take of the water of life freely.
Outside of the city are some pretty shady characters, according to Revelation 22, so for their benefit and to avoid killing them the way that the ark killed someone in the Old Testament that tried to steady it, the glory of God will likely not extend very far beyond the city although I know that's absolute heresy for the traditional views of the New Earth.
I know that some [without many experiences with the glory of God in Pentecostal settings] would wonder about whether the glory of God [turned up full blast] would still do that to a sinner that touched it (or that level of it) since we're no longer under the ministry of condemnation, but think of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5. Peter's body, in that one chapter in Acts, is a good foreshadowing of how intense the power of God can be on that future city to where people even getting within the distance of him of his shadow were being healed. It's not that God did anything to slap Ananias and Sapphira. That's just simply how pure that He is and His purity is deeply corrosive to any sin being in His Presence. So, the Blood of Jesus had to become our righteousness. But that's not yet the case for those that haven't embraced Him.
We've got examples in North America, Europe, and Asia that cities can get very, very, very big.
You said that there would be no electromagnetism. Yet a city that's that big that's emitting that much light and sound, and that has that many transparent metals and jewels would have to be emitting electromagnetism and light on every conceivable spectrum that you could think of as light and sound would pass through that metal and all of those gems. The whole place would have to be behaving like a strobe light. And without electromagnetism you can't have the plants working or any mortals on the planet. What you've probably got is all of the forces of nature being brought to their proper levels so that everything's functioning at the right frequency and everything is complimenting everything else rather than chipping away at everything else as we have in the current eon of imbalance.
Christians within the city will likely be immortals,
but that's not 100% certain although that's inferred by many of our theologies with the idea that the immortality of Christians happens before or at the same time as the wicked are being judged by the Lake of Fire judgment.
I'm seriously starting to question whether anyone is immortal on the New Earth besides Christ Jesus. The word "immortality" is conspicuously missing for me in Revelation 20 when the resurrection of the just and unjust is taking place.
Although I don't believe that anyone or that very many in that day would die from any type of diseases or accidents because the greatest possible healthcare will exist in that day.
OOOOOOORRRR . . . .The earth is restored to it's original state before the fall as it was in the garden and spirit becomes dominant over physical. The New Jerusalem . .it's you. Remember when Paul said we are "grafted in". Spiritually, we are all Jews with renewed minds . . .which makes up a "new" Jerusalem. 12,000 from every tribe . . . in God's pattern, when things are multiplied the number of themselves, it's speaking of entirety and completeness. Remember the Scripture that states that the Holy Spirit was given as "earnest"? A portion of the whole . . .a downpayment . . .it's just a fraction.How many people were in the upper room when the Holy Spirit was poured out? Why do you suppose it was important that we needed to know it was 120? Unless God has a deeper message there . . .one that is connected to "tithe" of 12,000 maybe? I mean if you think about it . . .if you did this with the US and said we're going to require 12,000 people from each state. . .that wouldn't be an honest assessment because each state is of a different size. You want to take the population in Texas and take the same number from Vermont?This again, is Jesus establishing a new government in his kingdom. (12, the number for government). And Scripture states that this "kingdom" does not come by observation, it is "within you." You are the New Jerusalem . . .you are a gate of pearl . . .you are used to usher others into the kingdom of Christ. The Sabbath. Not about mental labor, all about spiritual rest.
We agree AMEN!! GOD makes it possible NOW!
Quote from: rosered on December 05, 2008, 02:22:14 AM We agree AMEN!! GOD makes it possible NOW! 9 " Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. --Zech 9
1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. --2 Peter 1
Quote from: rosered on December 05, 2008, 02:22:14 AM We agree AMEN!! GOD makes it possible NOW!ya Know sis..we Know Christ talked In Parables to the The Multitude..., for mine twas the MOUNTAIN of Sinai, which was the Problem,.that which was the Shadow of the which IS the REALITY...Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. SEEMS our friend also HAd a problem with the Impossible ..the RICH MAN( of the LAW)Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. GEE ALL THINGS are possible sis..BUT not with MEN( FLESH)Mar 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men [it is] impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. the problem with the YOUNG pharisee in Math 9..BUT ITS curableHbr 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
GREAT MESSAGE!!!Colossians really jumps out here . .that one verse . . . Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: I think this is the difference between those that claim things in Revelation are yet to happen and those that see it's already happened . . . in order to "see" it as finished, we must first see ourselves as "translated into the kingdom". For the kingdom does not come by observation . . but it's WITHIN. Which is how things are to be read . . .FROM WITHIN. In other words . . .the destruction we assume is for the earth . . .FROM WITHIN I'm seeing it as "my" earth. The flesh profiteth nothing . . .dwelling on the literal thinking isn't where the dominion is. It's the stepping stone on the path to the dominion, but it's not the destination where dominion resides.May the Kingdom COME where God's will IS DONE.


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Hulk Hogan has a lot of defenders coming out of the woodwork this weekend, but he seems to be his own worst enemy (although I'm not saying that Brooke Hogan's attempt at iambic trimeter is doing him any good, either). The Hulk reposted the following tweet yesterday:
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Myron T. Steele, who teaches the Law School short course Advising The Board Of Directors In a Mergers and Acquisitions World, is a partner at the Delaware law firm Potter Anderson & Corroon and the recently retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. Previously, he served as a vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has presided over major corporate litigation, LLC and limited partner governance disputes and writes frequently on issues of corporate document interpretation and corporate governance. Steele has published more than 300 opinions resolving disputes among members of limited liability companies, and limited partnerships, and between shareholders and management of both publicly traded and close corporations.
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Brandon Lee Meyers, 20 assault and battery second degree, criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, assault and battery third degree
Eric Valentine, 30 criminal domestic violence
Bradley Edward Calhoun, 23 shoplifting, possession of marijuana
Christina Thieme, 51 driving under the influence
Jonathan Keith Burke, 35 driving under suspension second offense, failure to pay child support
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David Wayne Nicholes, 54 disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Christopher Ray Pardue, 26 disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Richard Scott Vanorden, 54 disorderly conduct/gross intoxication
Joseph Cole Morrison, 19 simple possession of marijuana, possession of less than 1 gram of methamphetamine of cocaine base first offense
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National retailers Target, Walmart and Toys 'R' Us, among others, are planning to open Thanksgiving night to get a jump on the traditional Black Friday sales -- but not in Massachusetts, where the state's blue laws prohibit Thanksgiving openings. Massachusetts shoppers will get their chance to shop starting at 12:30 a.m. Friday at some stores.
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La Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux (RACJ) on Thursday released to MMAWeekly.com the results of its doping controls for UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz.
The RACJ confirmed that six fighters were tested and all six drug tests returned negative results, but the results arent without their own form of controversy.
Unlike most North American athletic commissions, the RACJ would not release the names of the fighters that were tested, noting that, analyzed substances are information of a confidential nature. Doing so detracts from the transparency of the results.
It is standard practice that athletic commissions test both main event fighters at mixed martial arts events, so it wouldnt be a stretch to think both Georges St-Pierre and Nick Diaz were tested, but the RACJ would not confirm that.