Posted January 29, 2010, Updated February 21, 2010
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.” Emile Zola
What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. Luke 12:3
Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, lead sponsor of the bill, has suggested the full House vote might not take place until February of next year.
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Disparate impact is a type of legal case filed against an employer with an employment practice that does not appear to be overtly discriminatory but is nonetheless discriminatory in practice. Lawyers Tweak ENDA Language - By Kerry Eleveld – Advocate.com
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Vatican Cardinal on Gays and Transsexuals: 'No Heaven for You!' – David Gibson – Politics Daily * December 3, 2009 - To protect the sanctity of Marriage Equality and LGBTIQ human and civil rights around the world, we need knowledgeable LGBTQI people, professionals, researchers, and scripture scholars regarding human sexuality not to allow any such statements like Cardinal Barragan's go unchallenged [MSK]. Read more
WATERGATE (AGAIN)?
RC hierarchy child sexual abuse “cover-ups” ordered by Benedict XVI to avoid public outrage & criminal charges falsely accused gay priests WATERGATE? – MSK – December 17, 2009 – Revised January 15, 2010 ..."Protect children and the entire world will be safe.” We the public have been made aware of the global harm to children by Benedict XVI and the hierarchy, we are responsible to protect children. I mean no harm or disrespect, but when and how do we become responsible to protect children. As Catholics, we know in the end we all will be judged severely on how well we protected children. It is vital that each and every Catholic individually learns to facts about the child sexual abuse cases and about human sexuality and not collude with the harm being done by our silence... WHEN DO WE START PROTECTING CHILDREN?!?! - Read more
Pope Blasts U.K. Anti-Discrimination Laws CBS NEWS - In Speech, Benedict Raises Fears that Vatican Could Be Prosecuted for Stances Against Gays – February 2, 2010
Pope condemns gay equality laws ahead of first UK visit - Riazat Butt - guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1, 2010 - Pope Benedict XVI has condemned British equality legislation for running contrary to "natural law" as he confirmed his first visit to the UK later this year. Read more
Galileo Condemned As Heretic - Misinterpretations Of The Bible - Homosexuality? Natural Law? Benedict XVI? - Kids Are Being Hurt!!! MSK - October 18, 2009 (revised) February 2, 2010
New Ways Ministry Symposium - Pastor "Comes Out" March 1997 - Holy Family Parish - Sparta, Michigan USA – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - ...It was at the New Ways Ministry Symposium, March 1997… that I felt a strong moral obligation, as any decent human being would and most especially being a priest to draw public attention to this form of child abuse [to children who grow up to be gay] that is allowed to continue blindly around the world under the disguise of religious fervor [MSK].
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
All Politics - Watergate 1973 - Ripping Open An Incredible Scandal
(TIME, April 30, 1973) -- The denials, the evasions, the secretiveness, and, yes, the lies, all had failed. The Watergate case was breaking wide open. A 10-month campaign by some of the highest past and present officials of the Nixon Administration to cover up their involvement was crumbling. Read more - CNN TIMEWATERGATE: The Nixon Conspiracy Laid Bare - Read more - TIME – December 02, 1974
Inside Watergate's Last Chapter – Read more - TIME – June 05, 2005
Nixon Quits! | The Daily Mirror | Los Angeles Times - August 9, 2009
The Times' editorial on Nixon's resignation says: "He departs in disgrace, the victim of a thirst for power that was his strength and his frailty. It was a power he used with effectiveness and imagination in many areas, including development of the new relationships for the United States and China and the Soviet Union. But it was a power that corrupted him, leading him to abuse his authority to the point of obstructing justice, encouraging him to justify any means for the end of maintaining himself in office." Read more Photo
Pope hits out at 'unjust and offensive' accusations over Boffo resignation – Richard Owen in Rome – Times Online – February 9, 2010 Photo
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
"Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well-considered, and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit." Erik Erikson
Dr. Caitlin Ryan: Reducing Risk and Promoting Well-Being for LGBT Youth: The Critical Role of Family Support - November 16, 2009 - podcast
Sexual orientation is less about sex and more about LOVE, being one with another human being. Attachment Theory - LOVE and RELIGION – April 30, 2009 -Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - Read more
Protect children and the entire world will be safe.
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Ignorance about human sexuality is harmful to children.
The Science Of Sexual Orientation - 60 Minutes – 2006 - CBS News - Read more – video clip
SEX, LIES, & GENDER – The Story of the Intersex Soldier - Explorer / National Geographic Channel – read more
Know thyself – Plato
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. - Luke 6:40-42
POWER OF SOCIAL NORMS
Sexual orientation is not the only continuum that makes up the complexity of human sexuality, there are others. However, allowing the powerful effects of social norms that are ignorant about human sexuality to continue out of fear only perpetuates the harm to generation after generation. The powerful strength of social norms to influence a person or a whole group of people should not be underestimated, as demonstrated by this video clip from Allen Funt's "Candid Camera." Social norms can be so powerful that they can get entire groups of people to agree to go against truth and logic. This video clip is quite humorous. But it is not humorous the kind of serious harm caused to very young children and the life threatening situations even death to many others that is promulgated and perpetuated through the ignorance and fear of social norms not based on truth and facts regarding complexity of human sexuality. Read more
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
By Philip Zimbardo - Stanford University
“Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts.”
Important note: I mean no disrespect to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children. Kids are being hurt!!!
Functional Anatomy of Humor: Positive Affect and Chronic Mental Illness - J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19:358-362, November 2007 -http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/19/4/358
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