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It's Okay, Ted
January 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm	(In the News) (church, gay, New Life, Ted Haggard)
Ted Haggard is back in the news.
Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard—a revelation that comes as Haggard tries to repair his public image.Brady Boyd, who succeeded Haggard as senior pastor of the 10,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, told The Associated Press that the man came forward to church officials in late 2006 shortly after a Denver male prostitute claimed to have had a three-year cash-for-sex relationship with Haggard.
Boyd said an "overwhelming pool of evidence" pointed to an "inappropriate, consensual sexual relationship" that "went on for a long period of time…it wasn't a one-time act." Boyd said the man was in his early 20s at the time. He said he was certain the man was of legal age when it began.
Reached Friday night, Haggard declined to comment and said all interviews would have to be arranged through a publicist for HBO, which is airing a documentary about him this month.
Boyd said the church reached a legal settlement to pay the man for counseling and college tuition, with one condition being that none of the parties involved discuss the matter publicly.
It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before these stories hit the news. I'm not surprised, and I don't think anyone who knows what it is like to be in the closet is surprised either.
For those who either don't get it or are still shallow enough to laugh and point—perhaps too loudly—the closet and all the baggage that comes with it is a lonely and claustrophobic place to live your life. What's worse, the more you try to stay in there, bolting the door shut against the real world and perhaps holding your family, your wife, or your children hostage with you, the worse it is when you finally come out. Meanwhile you torture yourself with denial and the instruments you use to enable the denial like booze or pills until the pressure becomes too much. It's like trying to compress water—you can't do it—or it comes out in catastrophic ways.
I don't know Ted Haggard personally, but I know a lot of people like him, and for a while I was in there with him. Fortunately I had a family that didn't judge me—even though I was irrationally sure they would—and I felt strongly enough in my spiritual beliefs that I was able to let go of the community I grew up with and embrace another one that I knew would welcome me. I was fortunate. For whatever reason, real or imagined, Ted Haggard was not. And now he is paying for it. He already has lost something he valued—his spiritual community—and he has endured the hatred, scorn, and mockery that came with his public outing. And while I may have been angry with him for his hypocrisy and his inability to accept the fact that being gay is hard-wired at the factory, so to speak, I always knew what he was dealing with.
So let me say this to him, speaking as one gay man who's been out of the closet since he was 22 and who spent the ten years before that very aware I was in it: it's okay, Ted, to come out now. I don't approve or condone your denials or the harm you've caused your family, your children, your church, or those who believed you when you said it was a one-time thing; but then, we've all done that. The thing you need to do is to make amends. Don't apologize for being gay, apologize for your actions. Don't deny what you are, but acknowledge who you are to those who mean the most to you. What you did in the past must be made right with no excuses, and you must shun the false hope of the religious alchemists who say that you can be made straight. There is nothing wrong with being gay, and besides, you can't turn lead into gold if you're gold already.
Ted Haggard has a lot of growing up to do. Being in the closet keeps you in the dark about what it's like to live in the world as a whole person, and once you get out, the light can be disorienting. That's okay, too. He's going to stumble and perhaps try to get back in. But pretty soon, he will discover that once you get used to it, you stop thinking of yourself in the terms of gay, straight, or whatever. You are just you.
And that's okay, too.
article by Mustang Bobby
cross-posted from Bark Bark Woof Woof
Four Arrested in Northern California Gang Rape of Lesbian
January 1, 2009 at 9:11 pm	(In the News) (Bay area, hate crime, rape, San Francisco)
This undated image provided by the Richmond (Calif.) Police Department shows Josue Gonzalez, 21, who is wanted on a $1 million warrant for gang rape, kidnapping and carjacking. (AP Photo/Richmond Police Department)
RICHMOND, Calif.—Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday.
Officers arrested Humberto Hernandez Salvador at his Richmond home Wednesday night, Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan said. The 31-year-old is being held without bail on gang rape, kidnapping and carjacking charges.
Police on Wednesday also arrested a 15-year-old Richmond boy and a 16-year-old Hercules boy, who were being held at a juvenile detention center on similar charges. Their names were not released.
Josue Gonzalez, 21, turned himself in Thursday after police announced they were searching for him. He was wanted on a $1 million arrest warrant on charges of gang rape, kidnapping and carjacking.
Gagan said Gonzalez asked for an attorney when he turned himself in but said nothing about his alleged role in the attack.
Police would not detail each person's alleged involvement in the attack but said tips from local residents led to the arrests.
Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked on Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a rainbow gay pride sticker. The alleged attackers made comments indicating they knew she was a lesbian, police said.
Authorities have characterized the case as a hate crime. Police said the victim lives openly with a female partner.
The 45-minute attack started when one of the men approached the woman in the street, struck her with a blunt object, ordered her to disrobe and sexually assaulted her with the help of the others, according to detectives.
When the group saw another person approaching, they forced the victim back into her car and took her to a burned-out apartment building. She was raped again inside and outside the vehicle and left naked outside the building while the alleged assailants took her wallet and drove off in her car, police said.
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Executive Producer/Director Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) created Star Wars Rebels with Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past), and Carrie Beck (LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures). They worked alongside many members of the original production team from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
In a fateful confrontation, Ahsoka Tano meets Darth Vader in an epic duel on the dark world of Malachor.
The young Jedi Ezra Bridger and his master, Kanan Jarrus make an effective team with the former clone trooper, Captain Rex.
The rebels find their most formidable opponent yet in Grand Admiral Thrawn.
From embittered enemies to loyal friends: Agent Kallus and Zeb Orrelios.
Descended from a proud warrior culture, Sabine Wren is a deadly fighter and a gifted artist.
An ancient being strong in the Force, the Bendu lends a new perspective to Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger.
The fearsome warrior Maul has a fateful reunion with an old enemy.
With its first-ever weekly CG TV series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the studio broke new ground in facial expression, character movement, and detail while richly expanding upon the stories introduced in the live-action films.
The Emmy award-winning series ran for six seasons, producing over 120 episodes, and introduced Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex and countless other memorable new characters.
One of the Jedi Order's greatest warriors, Anakin Skywalker is a freethinking general in the Republic Army.
The Clone Wars are fought on remote planets across the galaxy, including the clone troopers' homeworld of Kamino.
The deadly assassin Asajj Ventress returns to her home planet inhabited by the mysterious Nightsisters.
A loyal friend and fierce warrior, Chewbacca is a prisoner when he meets Ahsoka Tano on a remote jungle world.
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi is met by an old and deadly foe when the evil Darth Maul returns from exile.
Master Yoda is the oldest and wisest member of the Jedi Order, and proves in the Clone Wars that he has plenty of fight left within him.
As Anakin Skywalker's padawan learner, Ahsoka Tano grows from a headstrong student into a mature leader.
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Republic has a greater influence on the war than most realize.
A series of animated shorts spanning the entire Star Wars saga, Star Wars Forces of Destiny explores everyday acts of heroism that shape the destinies of some of our favorite characters including Rey, Ahsoka Tano, and Princess Leia.
Developed by Lucasfilm Animation, the series features many original actors reprising their roles including Daisy Ridley ("Rey"), Felicity Jones ("Jyn"), Mark Hamill ("Luke"), John Boyega ("Finn"), Ashley Eckstein ("Ahsoka"), Tiya Sircar ("Sabine") and Lupita Nyong'o ("Maz").


Brad Jones says he'd be "very surprised" if his eponymous team's current three-driver line-up changes ahead of the 2018 season.
The Albury-based squad currently fields entries for Tim Slade, Tim Blanchard and Nick Percat, who joined the team in 2017 on a multi-year deal.
While Slade is out-of-contract and Blanchard has openly discussed the possibility of stepping down from full-time driving at season's end, Jones is expecting stability.
"Timmy [Slade] will be here next year and Nick and Tim Blanchard, we're not looking at changing any of that stuff around," Jones told Supercars.com.
Slade has proven a strong fit at BJR since the South Australian joined the team last year and has risen to the challenge of Percat's arrival.
With two events remaining, Slade sits 13th in the standings, with Percat 21st and Blanchard 22nd.
"We've had a pretty rough year for all sorts of reasons, but the thing I like most about having these three in the team is they all like the same things in the car," Jones added.
Blanchard, however, is yet to make a final call on his future, and Jones has his 23-year-old son Macauley waiting in the wings should a vacancy open.
The team owner stressed that the current plan for Macauley is another season of Dunlop Super2, dismissing suggestions that a fourth car could be added for the youngster.
BJR owns the #8 and #14 RECs that are campaigned for Percat and Slade, while Blanchard purchased his own last year, housing it at BJR as the third entry.
Anticipated movements elsewhere may mean a REC is available, but Jones says he's not had any discussions about expanding.
"I don't know where the RECs are at currently, it's just started to come into that silly season, but it's certainly not something on my radar right now," said Jones of a fourth entry.
"We're in the business of running race cars, so I wouldn't say we're not interested, but I haven't spoken to anyone about it.
"If Timmy [Blanchard] decides to step away from the car I'd like to put him [Macauley] in that, but I envisage him doing another year of Super2.
Macauley Jones is currently in his third full Super2 season, winning the recent non-points event at Bathurst and sitting eighth in the series standings ahead of the Newcastle finale.


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Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 22 July 2020
Home » Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 22 July 2020
CA July 2020
Govt to revamp FTA strategy to ensure economic benefits
Monsoon fury in 8 states: Deployment of NDRF teams
Fall in hospitalisations in 2017-18
India Close to limited trade deal with U.S.
China repeats claim on Bhutan's east
House panel: Social security number for migrant workers
HIV/AIDS vulnerable groups petition global fund
Discussions have begun at the highest level leading the deliberations on a revamped strategy on Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), coinciding the External Affair's minister's statement that FTAs haven't helped India build capacity.
The government is recalibrating its strategy on entering into free trade agreements (FTAs) in a bid to ensure that the treaties provide economic and strategic benefits.
Separately, the focus is on alliances with "peaceful" countries, especially those with which India does not have a significant trade deficit.
The finance ministry also has concerns over loss of revenue due to the trade agreements.
What is the concern raised?
Free trade agreements are useful for expanding the country's trade basket.
But most treaties signed by India have failed to help domestic industry and have resulted in higher imports in several product segments, as local players are often uncompetitive.
How will different countries be considered?
There is expected to be greater thrust to FTAs with Australia and the European Union, with the UK and the US among countries with which India will engage more aggressively, while recognising that there is no need to rush into a deal.
There is eagerness to rework the agreements with ASEAN and Japan, as imports are seen to have gained more than exports due to a sharp reduction in tariffs.
India was expected to benefit more on the services front, with software professionals and nurses getting easy access to markets such as Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia.
What has complicated matters is the presence of Chinese companies in ASEAN countries, which use the benefit of lower tariffs to route goods into India.
What is a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)?
A free trade agreement is a pact between two or more nations to reduce barriers to imports and exports among them.
Under a free trade policy, goods and services can be bought and sold across international borders with little or no government tariffs, quotas, subsidies, or prohibitions to inhibit their exchange.
Free trade is the opposite of trade protectionism.
FTA allows businesses in each country to focus on producing and selling the goods that best use their resources while other businesses import goods that are scarce or unavailable domestically.
That mix of local production and foreign trade allows economies to experience faster growth while better meeting the needs of its consumers.
-Source: Times of India
Focus: GS-III Disaster Managment
The monsoon has unleashed its fury in eight states causing more than 470 deaths due to floods and landslides, with the highest toll being recorded in West Bengal, Assam and Gujarat.
The calamity of Floods and Landslides in 8 states has resulted in deployment of at least 70 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) for rescue and relief.
In the current monsoon season, West Bengal has reported the highest flood-related deaths followed by Assam and Gujarat.
In view of the outbreak of Covid pandemic, it is becoming increasingly challenging to maintain social distancing at relief camps.
The UN office for disaster risk reduction (UNDRR) estimates that more than 26 million people globally are pushed into poverty every year as a result of climate change events.
The Centre and states must prioritise disaster risk reduction as disasters are making India's development highly risky and skewed with rising inequality.
The major causes of floods in India are:
Areas affected by Flood in India
Meteorological Factors: Heavy rainfall; Tropical Cyclones; Cloud Burst.
Physical Factors: Large Catchment Area; Inadequate Drainage Arrangement.
Human Factors: Deforestation; Siltation; Faulty Agricultural Practices; Bursting of Dams; Accelerated Urbanisation.
Click Here to read more about the National Disaster Response Force
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology
Latest survey on the state of India's health by the National Statistical Office shows that – Fewer Indians reported ailments or required hospitalization in 2017-18 as compared to 2014.
The NSO Survey shows that the number of Indians reporting ailments dropped by more than 2% points in rural areas and more than 2.5% points in urban areas between 2014 and 2017-18.
Interestingly, the proportion of those reporting ailments and those hospitalized rose between 1995-96 and 2014, according to three NSO surveys on health in this period.
Infection was most common ailment
Infection the most cited reason for hospitalization, one in three ailing people reported having suffered an infection.
Cardiovascular disease was the second most reported ailment, followed by endocrine and metabolic disorders (body's over- or under-production of certain hormones and disorders affecting the body's ability to process certain nutrients and vitamins), and respiratory diseases.
However, when it comes to hospitalization, infection was also the leading cause for hospitalization.
Although, cardiovascular disease was the second most reported ailment, it was the fourth biggest cause of hospitalisation.
Trailing injuries and gastrointestinal diseases were the second and third most reported cause for hospitalization.
A single case of hospitalization costs on average more than Rs 16 thousand in rural India and more Rs 26 thousand in urban areas (a difference of Rs. 10 thousand).
Nearly 86% people in rural India and 81% in urban India are not covered by health insurance. As a result, about four in five Indians pay for hospitalization out of their household income or savings.
More than 13% people in rural areas and more than 8% in urban areas borrow money to pay their hospital expenses.
On average, a person who is hospitalized in India stays admitted for almost 7 days.
But a person admitted to a private hospital is likely to stay admitted for a day more than a person admitted to a government hospital.
Focus: GS-III Indian Economy, GS-II International Relations
India and the U.S. have "almost" finalised a limited trade deal, Commerce Minister said.
Commerce Minister also reiterated what both countries have declared earlier — that the longer-term plan is to work towards a comprehensive trade deal.
As an intermediate step between the imminent limited deal and the comprehensive deal, Commerce Minister proposed a preferential trade agreement with the United States that would cover 50 to 100 goods and services.
The Commerce Minister is of the view that India should also look at an early harvest in the form of a preferential trade agreement so that India could look at an early harvest of maybe 50 or 100 products and services, rather than waiting for the gains of a Free Trade Agreement (which may take several years to conclude).
India's Expectations
India wanted the U.S. to restore its access to the U.S. preferential trading system, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), an end to Mr. Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs, increased market access for some categories of Indian agricultural products and so forth.
U.S.'s Concerns
U.S. concerns during the negotiations have included market access for American dairy and agricultural products, medical devices and a cut in information and communication technology (ICT) import tariffs. The U.S. has also had concerns with India's digital trade policies (for instance FDI in commerce, data localisation).
In other news: US open to talks on security tax burden on Indian professionals
The US has finally agreed to discuss with India differences over a social security tax levied on Indian professionals employed in America – the first step towards reaching an agreement that could allow Indians working in the US to be repaid social security deposits when their work visas expire.
According to an industry estimate, Indians working in the US forfeit almost $1 billion annually in social security tax.
For the first time in almost a decade, the US recently acknowledged that social security tax is a bilateral issue and agreed to discuss it.
Indian workers, particularly information technology (IT) professionals, make social security contributions in the US when they work there, but most of them come back home before they are eligible to withdraw money from their social security contributions.
-Source: Hindustan Times, The Hindu
Focus: GS-II International Relations
China said that it has offered Bhutan a "package solution" to its boundary dispute, reviving a reference to its 1996 proposal for a territory swap to give Bhutan the disputed areas in its north in exchange for the disputed western areas, including Doklam.
Forcing a Border Settlement?
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) also repeated its claim on Bhutan's eastern boundary at Sakteng, which experts warn, maybe a new pressure tactic by Beijing to push Thimphu into concluding a boundary deal.
The boundary between China and Bhutan is yet to be demarcated, and the middle, eastern and western sections of the border are disputed.
Since 1984, when China and Bhutan began talks, the areas of dispute have only included Pasamlung and Jakarlung valleys to the north (what China calls middle) area, and Doklam and other pasturelands to the west.
The eastern boundary of Bhutan, which borders Arunachal Pradesh, has never been in contention.
What is important to note is that according to Bhutan, the Sakteng area in the east was never brought up in the several rounds of border talks with China.
Click Here to read about China's Claims of the Sakteng Area
-Source: The Hindu
Focus: GS-II Social Justice
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour has recommended that the government introduce a social security number for migrant workers, especially those working in the unorganised sectors which are beyond the purview of the labour laws.
The Rationale Behind the recommendation
Such a number is essential to avert situations like the one during the extended lockdown when several lakh workers had to walk back to their homes as they were shut out of employment overnight.
The members felt that the Aadhaar number alone doesn't work. A social security number will not only help in mapping the number of migrant workers and their migration patterns.
The Labour Ministry was unable to give any concrete figures on number of migrant workers.
Detailed records
The panel has recommended that both the State of origin and State where the worker has migrated to should have a record.
They also pointed out that the government's Social Security Code Bill 2019, which is under the committee's consideration provides for a social security fund.
But there are no specific details in the legislation as to who will contribute to the fund and how will it be utilised.
Social security is "any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income".
It refers to the action programs of an organization intended:
to promote the welfare of the population through assistance measures guaranteeing access to sufficient resources for food and shelter and
to promote health and well-being for the population at large and potentially vulnerable segments such as children, the elderly, the sick and the unemployed.
Services providing social security are often called social services.
Deprived of sources of livelihood during the pandemic, sex workers, transpersons, gay and bi-sexual men, drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS have petitioned the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) protesting against being ignored by government and multilateral agencies in coronavirus (COVID-19) related emergency relief efforts.
The petition on behalf of "key populations affected by HIV/AIDS" or KPs have sought allocation of funds to meet their basic survival needs for food, shelter and emergency medical care as many find themselves without work and displaced due to lockdown restrictions accompanying the pandemic everywhere.
The petitioners urge the GFATM to issue guidance to governments to channelise their COVID-19 relief funds to emergency survival needs of KPs.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (or simply the Global Fund) is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to "attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations".
This multistakeholder international organization maintains its secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Global Fund is the world's largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention, treatment, and care programs.
The Global Fund is a financing mechanism and NOT an implementing agency.
Programs are implemented by in-country partners such as ministries of health, while the Global Fund secretariat, whose staff only have an office in Geneva, monitor the programs.
The model has also raised concerns about conflict of interest, as some of the stakeholders represented on the Country Coordinating Mechanisms may also receive money from the Global Fund, either as grant recipients, sub-recipients, private persons (e.g. for travel or participation at seminars) or contractors.