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will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2009-11-15
roman catholic "christian" charity towrad gays and poor people
• Catholic Church in Washington D.C. will shut down services to the homeless and the poor if a gay marriage law is passed there.
Edward Orzechowski, President and CEO of Catholic Charities of DC, speaking at the October 26 hearing on Washington, DC's same-sex marriage bill. Today, November 12, the Archdiocese threatened the Council to withdraw services to thousands of District residents over gay marriage. At the Council hearing, was answering questions from Councilmen Phil Mendelson and David Catania. As was discussed, Catholic Charities gets 75% of its money from public funds, and according to Washingtonian, Orzechowski has a[n annual] paycheck of $268,000. As Catania stated, that's taxpayer dollars going to an organization that says it does not intend to comply with anti-discrimination laws.
[for the rest of the story... go here
...or you could watch the YouTube hearings where a DC city council member, David Cantina, [who has a long history of supporting taxpayer dollars being given to Catholic Charites] says he ...finds it offensive that DC Catholic Charities is willing to accept 40 million dollars of government funds, but be exempt from providing services in a fair and equitable manner. They arre threatening to shut down ALL public services if the major funding source [i.e. taxpayers] dont do what the Catholic Church wants.
Perhaps this means the church will then have more money to pay off the victims of pedophile priests.
Edward Orzechowski, President and CEO of Catholic Charities of DC, speaking at the October 26 hearing on Washington, DC's same-sex marriage bill. Today, November 12, the Archdiocese threatened the Council to withdraw services to thousands of District residents over gay marriage. At the Council hearing, was answering questions from Councilmen Phil Mendelson and David Catania. As was discussed, Catholic Charities gets 75% of its money from public funds, and according to Washingtonian, Orzechowski has a[n annual] paycheck of $268,000. As Catania stated, that's taxpayer dollars going to an organization that says it does not intend to comply with anti-discrimination laws.
[for the rest of the story... go here
...or you could watch the YouTube hearings where a DC city council member, David Cantina, [who has a long history of supporting taxpayer dollars being given to Catholic Charites] says he ...finds it offensive that DC Catholic Charities is willing to accept 40 million dollars of government funds, but be exempt from providing services in a fair and equitable manner. They arre threatening to shut down ALL public services if the major funding source [i.e. taxpayers] dont do what the Catholic Church wants.
Perhaps this means the church will then have more money to pay off the victims of pedophile priests.
Labels: BIGOTRY, CATHOLIC CHURCH, discrimination, gay rights, PREJUDICE, social control, TAXPAYER DOLLARS
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2009-11-11
human rights gains
The Church of Latter Day Saints [the "Mormons"] support anti-discrimination law in Salt Lake CityFROM THE UTAH DESERET NEWS:
In a rare public appearance before Salt Lake City lawmakers Tuesday night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported two proposed ordinances protecting gay and lesbian residents from housing and employment discrimination.
An LDS Church representative read a supporting statement at a public hearing before the Salt Lake City Council regarding the ordinances proposed by Mayor Ralph Becker.
"The church supports this ordinance because it is fair and reasonable and does not do violence to the institution of marriage," said Michael Otterson, managing director of the LDS Church's public affairs office.
Otterson added that the statement of support is consistent with the church's prior position on such matters, as well as its stance on marriage. Both are found in the church's August 2008 statement titled "The Divine Institution of Marriage."
In a rare public appearance before Salt Lake City lawmakers Tuesday night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported two proposed ordinances protecting gay and lesbian residents from housing and employment discrimination.
An LDS Church representative read a supporting statement at a public hearing before the Salt Lake City Council regarding the ordinances proposed by Mayor Ralph Becker.
"The church supports this ordinance because it is fair and reasonable and does not do violence to the institution of marriage," said Michael Otterson, managing director of the LDS Church's public affairs office.
Otterson added that the statement of support is consistent with the church's prior position on such matters, as well as its stance on marriage. Both are found in the church's August 2008 statement titled "The Divine Institution of Marriage."
THANKS TO: Pam Spaulding's Pam's House Blend blog.
Labels: discrimination, equal rights, gay marriage, gay rights, human rights, lds, overcoming prejudice, Pam Spaulding, social equity. mormons, social justice
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2008-11-04
gay marriage
The Mayor of San Diego speaks out in favor of gay marriage. His comments are clearly from the heart and in his statement he asserts that as times hange so must social practices.
The Mayor of San Diego speaks out in favor of gay marriage. His comments are clearly from the heart and in his statement he asserts that as times hange so must social practices.
Labels: gay rights, human rights, marriage
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2008-06-30
advertising
Heinz know that mayonnaise hold families together. Although they have pulled an advert from British television, they have managed to keep it online.
"HEY!!! Ain't you forgettin' sumpthin?"
"...Straight home from work, sweet cheeks!"
Watch the Heinz Deli Mayo ad which shows two men kissing. It is the ad agency AMV BBDO's first work for the brand. I already wrote to thank Heinz corp for their surprising inclusiveness. thanks to : Ron's Log for finding this.
Labels: diversity, gay rights, Heinz, marketing
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2007-02-27
bilps + updates
income disparities: The Dreamer ponders how it is that some folks can afford $100,000 entertainment systems while others live in abject poverty. I wonder about this myself.
poverty and wealth: Common Dreams reports that since the coming to power of Bush the Second the number Americans living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high. Since 2000, the number of severely poor has grown "more than any other segment of the population," according to a recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Income disparities, disproportionate burdens in costs of living foisted atop the poor, and lack of basic services such as health care, only serve to make this picture even grimmer.
Small comfort for us on the eve of what Alan Greenspan says is the beginning of a period of economic turbulence. The Dow dropped 416 points today. [Thanks to Officialssay]
global budgets: An old curmudgeon wonders if Social Security is going bankrupt how can we continue to pay for our military adventures in Iraq?
bible belt geography: The neocons continue to push their agenda to divide the Middle East into a bunch of weakened nations likely easily pushed around by oil companies and natural resource barons. So goes the reporting by researcher Seymour Hersh in the latest edition of the New Yorker.
gay rights: Is Cuba becoming more accepting than USA? From USA Today: "We have to abolish any form of discrimination against those persons," said Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly. "We are trying to see how to do that, whether it should be to grant them the right to marry or to have same-sex unions."
Alarcon said he expects Cuba's communist government will soon enact a law to do one or the other. "We have to redefine the concept of marriage," he said. "Socialism should be a society that does not exclude anybody." Unlike, say, a Fundie dominated United States. [Thanks to Towleroad]
flat earth society: Dinosaurs roamed the Earth only 6,000 years ago and apparently, they traveled aboard Noah's Ark. According to Answers in Genesis there is a explanation as to how those huge dinosaurs fit on the Ark.
income disparities: The Dreamer ponders how it is that some folks can afford $100,000 entertainment systems while others live in abject poverty. I wonder about this myself. poverty and wealth: Common Dreams reports that since the coming to power of Bush the Second the number Americans living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high. Since 2000, the number of severely poor has grown "more than any other segment of the population," according to a recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Income disparities, disproportionate burdens in costs of living foisted atop the poor, and lack of basic services such as health care, only serve to make this picture even grimmer. Small comfort for us on the eve of what Alan Greenspan says is the beginning of a period of economic turbulence. The Dow dropped 416 points today. [Thanks to Officialssay]
global budgets: An old curmudgeon wonders if Social Security is going bankrupt how can we continue to pay for our military adventures in Iraq?
bible belt geography: The neocons continue to push their agenda to divide the Middle East into a bunch of weakened nations likely easily pushed around by oil companies and natural resource barons. So goes the reporting by researcher Seymour Hersh in the latest edition of the New Yorker. Partition would leave Israel surrounded by “small tranquil states,” said Shia leader in Lebanon, Nasrallah. “I can assure you that the Saudi kingdom will also be divided, and the issue will reach to North African states. There will be small ethnic and confessional states,” he said. “In other words, Israel will be the most important and the strongest state in a region that has been partitioned into ethnic and confessional states that are in agreement with each other. This is the new Middle East.”Newsblog Moon of Alabama notes further that these plans are nothing new and have been promoted and plotted in neo-conservative circles for some time now, including in the Armed Forces Journal. Although commentator Ralph Peters claims that political re-alignment in the Middle-East would be nothing more than moving around borders that had been created by "self-interested Europeans in the 19th and early 20th century. Thank goodness there are no self-interested Americans meddling with borders and boundaries. That would be awful.
gay rights: Is Cuba becoming more accepting than USA? From USA Today: "We have to abolish any form of discrimination against those persons," said Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly. "We are trying to see how to do that, whether it should be to grant them the right to marry or to have same-sex unions."Alarcon said he expects Cuba's communist government will soon enact a law to do one or the other. "We have to redefine the concept of marriage," he said. "Socialism should be a society that does not exclude anybody." Unlike, say, a Fundie dominated United States. [Thanks to Towleroad]
flat earth society: Dinosaurs roamed the Earth only 6,000 years ago and apparently, they traveled aboard Noah's Ark. According to Answers in Genesis there is a explanation as to how those huge dinosaurs fit on the Ark. Although there are about 668 names of dinosaurs, there are perhaps only 55 different “kinds” of dinosaurs. Furthermore, not all dinosaurs were huge like the Brachiosaurus, and even those dinosaurs on the Ark were probably “teenagers” or young adults.You decide. [From Conservapedia, a new compendium of information developed by 58 home-schooled geniuses who obviously know more than everybody else.]
Without getting into all the math, the 16,000-plus animals would have occupied much less than half the space in the Ark (even allowing them some moving-around space).
Labels: creationism, Cuba, dinosaurs, gay rights, iraq quagmire, neocons, poverty, wealth
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