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CHRISTIANITY AND LGBT PEOPLE: A TEACHING SUMMARY
The following is an article I wrote a few years ago that I would like to reprint here:
Recently, I was asked to give an interview on a public listener sponsored radio station that largely has as its audience rather politically progressive people, most of whom can be expected to have an understandable disdain for anything "Christian."
Given the fact that most of the organized Church has been so enmeshed with the interests of the State, tenaciously adhering to the status quo, and has embarrassingly been in the vanguard of historically providing "justification" for the oppression of all sorts of minority groups, such as women and, in the not too distant past, Afro-Americans, I very much welcomed this invitation, and sought to show how Christianity has been perverted by its all too frequent identification with Americanism, militarism, and capitalism; how there was absolutely nothing in the Bible that condemns same-sex love and, in fact, the Bible actually affirms same-sex love. I clearly wanted to dispel the false notion held by many that Christians are a bunch of harsh, censorious, judgmental people, and sought to credibly present the Gospel, both in and of itself, as well as present it in the context of the lives of LGBT people and same-sex love.
I made the distinction, first suggested to me by my friend Bishop Leland Somers, between the Christian Church and the Constantinian Church, the latter initiated when Constantine, in the fourth Century, made Christianity a State religion. We have yet to recover from that debacle.
The Christian Church extols the only Gospel to be found in Christianity: the Gospel of grace, and those who are Christians indeed seek to be agents of God's grace in this world to try to make the earth, in the words of St. Augustine, "a colony of heaven." The Constantinian Church, on the other hand, has historically aligned itself with Empire and the oppression of others for assorted psychological and/or social and/or political and/or material gain.
The Christian Church, comprised of the world wide body of believers who seek to live out the Gospel, should have no affinity with the Constantinian Church; to the degree that Christians who belong to Christ find themselves within its clutches, I strongly urge that they flee those churches and/or denominations, and either find a Christian church that reinforces our need and Godly mandate to live out the only Gospel to be found in Christianity: the Gospel of grace (God's unmerited favor to us), faith (trusting God over and above seen circumstances), love, peace, reconciliation, and inclusiveness or, absent that option, form their own worship communities, or even, if necessary, worship God alone "in spirit and in truth," thereby avoiding the toxic, soul-destroying, churches that have aligned themselves with Empire and oppression that are diametrically opposed to Jesus' Commandments for us to love God and to love others, including our enemies, as much as we love ourselves.
The following, although not a literal rendering of my responses to the questions asked of me, which followed a conversational style, reflect what I said on that program, and I thought you might find them of interest, and might want to adopt some or all of them in your interaction with others who feel that God can't possibly love LGBT people, and who have a distorted view of Christianity, tragically given how it has been portrayed in the mainstream media, and how much, if not most, of the organized Church has been "infiltrated" by the influence of those who really belong, and are best consigned, to the Constantinian Church.
How do you define Christianity?
The Gospel means: Good News! The good news is that we are God's children by God's grace alone (unmerited favor) and we appropriate that grace through our abiding faith (implacable trust) in God (i.e. trusting God over and above seen circumstances), love, peace, reconciliation, and inclusiveness! That's the only Gospel to be found in Christianity.
Unfortunately, we are primarily exposed to the false gospel of legalism, perfectionism, and exclusion, a false gospel that is diametrically opposed to the good news, to Christianity itself. Far too many propound the gospel of genital placement, rather than the Gospel of Christ; ignore such egregious sins as unjust war, poverty, and disease.
That's undoubtedly why so many intelligent, sensitive, and decent people want nothing to do with Christianity, and even resent it (and who can blame them?), because so many have never been exposed to it, either by word or by deed, and relate it to a harsh, censorious religion which is diametrically opposed to what Christianity really is. In Christianity, all of the Commandments are fulfilled by loving God and by loving others! These are the only Commandments Jesus gives us! We are to never judge or condemn others! (Mt. 7:1; Romans 2:1)
What are some of the basic Bible quotes you've heard used by religious leaders to demonize LGBT people?
First of all, a tribal society, living on the edge, and surrounded by enemies must be "fruitful and multiply" if it is going to survive! Therefore, under those conditions, there is no premium placed on homosexual activity! However, we are no longer a tribal society living on the edge; it's inappropriate to blindly translate the cultural practices of ancient societies to contemporary society as to do so cheapens the Bible; is intellectually and spiritually dishonest; the Bible never makes such a claim for itself. Biblical principle of freedom from yokes of bondage must always trump biblical practice!
Gen. 19-The Sin of Sodom: It has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality. It has to do with attempted gang rape! One would have to assume that all the men of Sodom were gay, which is foolish on its face; if the 2 angels that visited Lot had been women, I doubt that the homophobic religious leaders would be condemning heterosexuality. Whenever Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned in the Bible, homosexuality is never mentioned as its sin. Inhospitality and not taking care of the poor were its major sins! In Jude, in the NT, in referring to Sodom and Gomorrah, "giving themselves over to fornication" and going after "strange flesh" are mentioned, but "strange flesh" probably meant the men seeking to gang rape angels and not human beings.
Lev. 18:22-"Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination." If homosexuality were being condemned here, beyond the fact that women would have also likely been included in the prohibition, all that the writer would have had to write is, "Thou shalt not lie with a man. It's an abomination." Everyone knows what "to lie with" means, and they certainly knew its meaning.
To add, "as with a woman," only makes sense if we understand the inferior status of women in that society, so that it was viewed as shameful, an abomination, for a man to act like a woman. Also, these laws in Leviticus are part of the purity laws in the OT that don't apply to Christians. If we really want to follow the OT law, we couldn't play football, as we couldn't touch the skin of a dead pig; we couldn't wear mixed fibers in our clothes; we couldn't be near a menstruating woman; we couldn't eat shell fish; we would stone adulterers to death; we would stone to death those who work on the Sabbath etc. I don't hear homophobic religious leaders seeking to impose these laws on others! At least, not yet!
Romans 1:27-32--- But they never read Romans 2:1 that provides the context for the above passages. Also, in Rom. 1:26-27, "against nature" (para physin in the Greek) is also used when God brought the Gentiles into the fold (Romans 11:21-24). This term is probably best translated as "unexpected," or "something not done in the usual way."
Also, you'll notice that the men and women spoken of here "gave up" the natural use of the member of the opposite sex. They "gave up" what was natural for them and then engaged in sexual behavior that was unnatural for them. Paul is not talking here of homosexuals, but of heterosexuals who gave it up and acted in ways that were not natural to them so as to worship pagan deities, after they had first turned their backs on God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-'Malakoi" is frequently mistranslated "effeminate," as it means "soft," and is used elsewhere in the Bible (in Luke) to denote soft clothing. In this context it probably means "people with soft morals" or "people who lack courage." There is no warrant to translate it as effeminate.
It's important in this context to point out that the word, "homosexual," never appears in any biblical manuscript, as it is a term coined in the late 19th Century. The first time it appeared in an English translation of the Bible was in the 1946 RSV. It is translated from the Greek word, "arsenokoitai," which is an obscure word that does not seem to be found in other Ancient literature, and that seems to only have been used by the Apostle Paul. It literally means, "male beds."
In the context Paul uses that term it seems to be where male cult prostitution is practiced-e.g. heterosexual and homosexual sex in homage to assorted pagan deities, such as those related to fertility, to have the crops grow. Paul undoubtedly wrote the Book of Romans from Corinth where there were many pagan religions, such as the fertility cult of Aphrodite, where such pagan deities were worshipped in this fashion, so it's most likely that it is to that practice that he's referring, and is not in any way condemning same-sex love, or even dealing with sexual orientation.
Nowhere is same-sex love condemned in the Bible! In fact, it is affirmed, most notably in the case of King David (called "a man after God's own heart") and Jonathan. Even a cursory reading of their relationship in 1Samuel shows David to have been either bisexual or a gay man!
Moreover, if homosexuality was so important, why is it not mentioned in the Ten Commandments; why did the prophets never write about it; why didn't Jesus ever condemn it? If it were that important, don't you think that it would have been mentioned in at least one of these contexts?
Why are most organized Christian church members not accepting LGBT people at their services, while other organized Christian church members are leaving when their church does accept LGBT people?
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister said something that is, unfortunately, all too true. He said that no matter how big the lie, if it's repeated often enough, people will come to believe it!
Most professing Christians, and others, have been sold a bill of goods by most clergy and their followers in most of the organized Church. The lie that same-sex love is condemned by God because it's in the Bible has been repeated so often, that it has become a virtual axiom that has erroneously come to determine in the minds of many one's standing with God, and has also come to be defined as "immoral," and people have come to believe that lie.
All too many clergy use their pulpits to distort the Bible to be in accord with their own prejudices, and neither they nor their followers seem to see any contradiction between their demonizing Gay people, and presenting and living the Gospel of Jesus, which is diametrically opposed to their hateful and discriminatory rhetoric and/or actions.
Moreover, many fail to realize that even if the Bible condemned LGBT people and same-sex love, which it most definitely does not, civil society in America lives under the U.S. Constitution and not the Bible! Since when do we let others' interpretation of selected biblical passages determine what civil rights accrue to others? There is absolutely no justification for denial of full and equal civil rights, including the right to be civilly (and sacramentally) married, to LGBT people, either constitutionally or even biblically!
In addition, black and white thinking, having an "us against them" mentality, gives many people certain psychological, social, and material benefits. Creating out-groups helps bring members of the in-group together; it gives many people who are uncomfortable with ambiguity and the many grey areas of life "the illusion of certainty" in life; homophobic rhetoric is likely to make members of the in-group feel morally superior at others' expense; such rhetoric may well garner more money in the collection plates. (I would really love to know how much money is garnered each time a mailer is sent out by religious homophobic leaders to their constituents soliciting contributions to "fight against the homosexual agenda." I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's in the millions of dollars.)
Since it's no longer politically correct or socially acceptable to any longer publicly discriminate against women, or Afro-Americans as occurred by many clergy and other professing Christians in the not too distant past, LGBT people have become the enemy de jour, and are blamed by certain professing Christians for everything from "the breakdown of the family" to Hurricane Katrina.
It's very important for professing Christians and all others to realize that just because one attends church, or just because one is called "Reverend," and has his or her collar turned around, doesn't necessarily make that person a Christian! Just because I go into a garage doesn't make me a car!
I truly hope that some or all of these points, although perhaps familiar to many of us, can be of use to you as you witness to others the truth of the Christian life as it relates to the living out of the Gospel, and as it relates to the fact that God makes LGBT people whom, like His other children, He chose before the worlds were formed (Ephesians 1:4-5) to be His own possession, and whom He loves like crazy!
CHURCHES MUST FORFEIT TAX-EXEMPT STATUS
I firmly believe that no church or religious institution, homophobic or not, should enjoy tax-exempt status for a variety of reasons; I see no reason why civil society should directly or indirectly financially support the practices of religion and worship. If churches truly had faith in God to provide for their needs, tax-exemption would be neither necessary nor desired!
Regarding homophobic clergy and churches, by enjoying tax-exempt status, the public is helping to support hateful and exclusionary rhetoric and discrimination, and affirming the second-class status of LGBT people that often results in the sufferings, suicides, assaults, and even murders of LGBT people.
About six months ago, I wrote a post entitled, Churches Must Forfeit Tax-Exempt Status that I want to reprint here:
As I've often contended, there are two venues in which civil and sacramental rights for LGBT people must be fought: the courts, and homophobic churches the influence of which cannot be underestimated. In the latter venue, peaceful and continual picketing during services of selected homophobic churches in each city or jurisdiction, showing how their false gospel of exclusion is antithetical to the Gospel of grace, faith, peace, reconciliation, and inclusiveness, should be undertaken.
When you hit, or threaten to hit, discriminatory institutions in the pocketbook, we might reasonably expect them to tone down their hateful rhetoric and discriminatory actions; withholding funds, such as removing churches' tax-exempt status, can be a major way of gutting the homophobic rhetoric and actions that exists in many, if not most, denominations and churches, because those churches would then lack sufficient funds to bankroll the prevention of equal civil rights as has hitherto existed. For the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to give just two examples, to enjoy tax exempt status is, in my opinion, a profound injustice!
I am a Christian who is quite theologically conservative, and not only don't I see any warrant to prevent same-sex marriage, or justify any type of homophobia, in the Bible, I am also adamant about the need for the separation of Church and State.
Currently, the Church and the State have become so enmeshed with each other that most "conservative" churches extol as virtues Americanism, patriotism, militarism, and capitalism. Indeed, most of the institutional Church is a handmaiden of the State, and often parrots the ideology of the power elite in secular society, and does so by calling it "biblical."
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth! If anything, the Bible, particularly in the New Testament, subscribes to anything but capitalism, as can be easily seen when reading Acts 2:44-45; Acts 4:32-37.
In any case, it's a profound tragedy that it's quite likely that if you ask the average person to say the first word that comes to his/her mind when the word "Christian" is said, "Love" is not likely to be that word! We're far more likely to hear words such as "sin" and "discrimination," thanks to the perversion of the Gospel of grace (the only Gospel to be found in Christianity) that exists in most of the institutional Church.
It is crucial that discrimination, be it in the religious or secular arena, be taken to the judiciary, and not pathetically taken to the public to win their votes on this or any civil rights matter! And, we must do our best to remove public funding of church and para-church organizations.
After all, if clergy within denominations and churches really have faith in God to provide for their needs, they don't need tax-exemption to help fund their operation!
RELIGIOUS HOMOPHOBIA AND MARRIAGE RIGHTS IN MEXICO CITY
As I wrote a long time ago, almost always, whenever I've contended with professing "Christian" homophobes, once each of their points seeking to justify discrimination against LGBT people was successfully refuted, and they had no further rationalizations for their homophobia to present, their gloves came off and their vitriol was anything but "Christian."
Notice Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez' hatred in the cited article when he calls Gay men "faggots!" And there are professing "Christians," clergy, and even someone like him who was elevated to the rank of Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, who seem to feel no compunction against using such hateful epithets and in advocating discrimination against Gay people; in this Cardinal's case, even going so far as to assert bribery as contributing to the Court's righteous decision.
Whether it's in Mexico City, California, most of the United States, many parts of Africa, or anywhere else in the world where LGBT people are demonized, discriminated against, viewed as second-class citizens, and even imprisoned and executed, it must be asked why so many professing Christians and clergy are not loudly speaking out against the bearing of false witness and downright discrimination against Gay people done "in the name of God" or for any other reason.
How is it possible for anyone who calls him/herself a disciple of Christ, a disciple of the One Who commanded us to love and not judge others, to call him/herself a "Christian" and yet affirm prejudice and discrimination that leads to the untold suffering of countless LGBT people?
The fact is that there are thugs who call themselves Christians, and are given tacit, if not explicit, permission to manifest that thuggery by all too many denominations and congregations, all the while falsely appealing to the Bible and to God to justify their hateful prejudices.
Indeed, what has gone a long way in having many intelligent, decent, and sensitive people not even consider Christianity as a viable way in which to navigate their lives, have been the thugs, as well as the silent, cowardly, people within most of the institutional Church, who have been in the vanguard of denigrating LGBT people by seeking to deprive them of the dignity and civil rights that heterosexuals enjoy both within the institutional Church as well as in civil society.
And it has been the thugs who profess to be "Christians" who have the temerity to seek to impose their own prejudices and flawed biblical interpretations upon civil society, and who rail against those who demand equal rights for all of God's children!
It must be hammered home in any and every venue possible that no disciple of Christ can explicitly or tacitly countenance discrimination against LGBT people for to do so disqualifies them from calling themselves "Christians!"
In this connection, the following is an excerpt from an article that appeared yesterday regarding same-sex marriage rights in Mexico City, an article that I hope you read in its entirety:
Reporting from Mexico City — Gays in Mexico's capital today can marry and adopt children, broad rights that go beyond anything offered in much of the world and enshrined now by a remarkable series of rulings by the nation's Supreme Court....
As gay marriage languishes in California, the state's law in limbo, the Mexican Supreme Court voted overwhelmingly this month to uphold the capital's same-sex marriage statute as constitutional; to require such unions to be recognized across the nation; and to permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children.
The court hewed to Mexico's strict separation of church and state and said the constitution did not indicate that marriage had to be defined as the union of a man and woman. To deny gay couples the right to adopt, the court said, would amount to discrimination....
The fiercest resistance to same-sex marriage has come from the influential Catholic Church.
Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, archbishop of Guadalajara and one of the most senior prelates in the nation, in recent days made especially harsh comments widely seen here as offensive. His statement set off a firestorm in a country where, by law, the church is not supposed to get involved in politics.
Calling same-sex unions an "aberration," he said, "Would you want to be adopted by a pair of faggots or lesbians?"
He went on to accuse Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, of bribing the justices to force them to go along with gay marriage.
THE LACK OF STANDING TO APPEAL THE OVERTURNING OF PROP. 8
UPDATE, 8/18/2010
Enter tiny Imperial County, the state's poorest, where voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition 8 and where officials say they will be harmed if same-sex marriages resume. Because the county issues marriage licenses, county officials say, it has standing other Proposition 8 proponents might lack.
The county tried unsuccessfully to intervene in district court, but is still trying. It is joining Proposition 8's main proponents in appealing Walker's ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
UPDATE, 8/17/2010.
Gay couples who had been gearing up to get married in California this week had to put their wedding plans on hold once again after a federal appeals court said it first wanted to consider the constitutionality of the state's same-sex marriage ban.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals imposed an emergency stay Monday on a trial court judge's ruling overturning the ban, known as Proposition 8. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker had ordered state officials to stop enforcing the measure starting Wednesday, clearing the way for county clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
ALSO SEE Here.
This is a very heartening article entitled, Who has standing to appeal Prop. 8 ruling?
Please read this article in its entirety, but part of it reads as follows:
Ironically, it is a legal doctrine fashioned by conservatives that may provide a decisive victory to the supporters of marriage equality for gays and lesbians and end the litigation over California's Proposition 8.
For decades, conservative justices on the Supreme Court have ruled to limit who has standing to bring a claim in federal court. In cases involving civil rights, environmental protection and the separation of church and state, the court has ordered that cases be dismissed because the party pursuing the case had no legal standing to do so....
The result of all this is likely to be that gays and lesbians will be able to marry beginning Wednesday, when Walker's temporary stay expires. There then will be consideration of the case, over the next couple of years, by the 9th Circuit and ultimately by the Supreme Court.
But if those courts follow well-established law, they will need to dismiss the appeal on grounds that those who filed it have no standing. The outcome, then, will be that marriage equality will exist in California, at least unless and until in some other case, some day, the Supreme Court comes to a different conclusion.
If the higher courts adhere to established practices, based on conservative and long-held principles, the appeal of Judge Walker's decision may well not even be accepted by those courts, let alone sustained by those courts should those courts agree to hear the appeal of his decision.
Moreover, by the time that the appeal reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, same-sex marriage will be firmly established in California, and it then becomes very unlikely that that court will invalidate the many same-sex marriages that will occur in the interim.
DON CHARLES: THE GENDER MONOLOGUES: FRANKENGENDER
Check out: The Gender Monologues: Frankengender by my good friend, Don Charles.
Here's an excerpt from his incisive and liberating post, a post that I strongly urge you to read in its entirety:
A lot of people say that "gender reassignment" effects a 100% cure for the Transsexual person. A cure for what, I'd like to know? Induced inferiority? What benefit does a target of bigotry derive from conforming to the twisted values of a bigoted society? And how does society benefit from having its corrupt value system affirmed?
No cure has been effected! On the contrary, the disease (transphobia) has been rendered more virulent. People of blended gender keep falling into its predatory grasp. Transfolk are still being driven to mutilate perfectly good human bodies because the world they live in rejects the gender God has attached to them. Worse, they're still being driven to commit suicide for the same reason. Either way, violence is being done to the Transgender body! Either way, Transfolk are following the urge to act on socially-imposed self-hatred.
Whenever I make pointed observations like this, I get emails. Nasty, vituperative emails! Acid-tongued individuals claiming to represent "the Transgender community" keep trying to sell me bottles of snake oil. Their wares are odious enough, but their sales technique is even more objectionable! After they're done cursing me out, labeling me an oppressor and fictionalizing my personal life . . .
Trying to fit into a binary gender world is severely traumatic for them; they run to psychologists and physicians, pleading for peace of mind. In much the same way their predecessors pathologized LesBiGay status in years past, these opportunistic and narrow-minded health professionals slap a disordered label on transsexuality. Convinced that they must be freaks of nature, their patients readily accept this diagnosis; but that's hardly relevant when the diagnosis is wrong!
I submit that "gender dysphoria" is nothing but a convenient way to avoid challenging transphobic social norms. Patients find it easier to change their transsexual anatomy than do battle with a world (and a self-concept) that recoils from it. Doctors find it easier (not to mention far more lucrative) to recommend expensive and painful "sexual reassignment" than to confront their own binary gender bias.
The message all should hear and take to heart is that transgender people are not "mistakes," not "deviants," not "freaks," and are not only normal, but are made in God's image!
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DON CHARLES: PULLING DOWN THE PANTIES OF SEX AND GENDER OPPRESSION: MY TRANSGENDER IDENTITY MANIFESTO
I received the following comment castigating my post regarding my firm belief in the God-given normality of Transgender people! The title of my post was Transgender People Are Not "Mistakes. I urge you to read that post and the ensuing comments.
A commentator, radicalbitch, wrote the following in response to that post:
Frankly, Jerry and Don are idiots.
I'm beyond fed up with gay men and crossdressers pontificating about things they have absolutely no knowledge about..it's same patriarchal bullcrap that arrogant men always engage in.
If you lack all knowledge of actual, transsexed people who are BORN neurologically intersexed and REQIURE maximum body correction to bring mind and body into congruence then STFU.
I was born a hermaphrodite, Pope Ratzie says I was born an abomination, a violation of god's will. Good thing I'm not and never have been a christian and know better. No, was I not born a mistake but rather a special daughter of the Magna Mater. You, on the other hand, can stay the hell out of my identities, my life and cease and desist spreading misinformation and out and out freakin lies about women such as myself.
Crossdressers suffer a mental disorder, people born transsexed have a neurological intersexed condition, a medical condition. The treatment for that condition reaches close to 100% cure and that is surgical and hormonal correction. It is not an option, it is not a choice and the medical condition has absolutely nothing in common with the mental disease of transvestism which is what Don has.
The following was my response to her:
Hi radicalbitch: Why you resent it when I say that transgender people are not mistakes is a mystery to me. Moreover, you assume that I am gay, which I'm not; you assume that Don is a transvestite, which he's not. You are wrong on these counts, as you are wrong on the other issues you mention, such as I don't doubt that you are a woman. Moreover, being a hermaphrodite is one thing; being transgender is usually quite another, as the latter deals with gender expression regardless of genitalia. Although I'm not a particular fan of Ratzinger, even he doesn't say that you were "born an abomination, a violation of God's will." I do understand your anger, but it seems to me to be misplaced. Best wishes, Jerry.
Don Charles beautifully addressed the likely motivations and nature of this comment, and with his kind permission I am posting his insights here:
When did you or I ever write about intersex people, Jerry? When did we discuss individuals born with indeterminate genitalia (the rare condition incorrectly identified as "hermaphroditism")? We explored transsexual identity in our essays. We talked about the normalcy of having gender identity and biological gender that don't match. If you have intersex genitalia, there's at least a partial match! When I refer to transsexual anatomy, I mean men with vaginas and women with penises, not people with combined male and female sex organs. Most transsexual folk do not have indeterminate genitalia! Most intersex folk do not have a gender identity conflict! Those are two different states of being, and we didn't confuse them. "Radicalb*tch" does confuse them, and she's probably doing it deliberately so she can justify attacking you. If she's having some kind of functional problem with her intersex genitalia, that's completely unrelated to our discussions of gender identity. Don't get drawn into an argument about a subject you never even addressed!
It's an old debate trick, for an adversary to lure you into discussions of an irrelevant topic you're not well versed in, and try to make you look stupid. I don't know much about intersex people and their issues, but I do know that many of them resent having their genitals "corrected" during infancy. That practice, which was widespread until very recently, resulted in children being raised as girls when they actually were boys, and vice-versa. In other words, there's usually no dire health concern that justifies surgically altering intersex genitalia. I would argue that such surgery is an option open the intersex adult, just like it's an option for the transsexual adult. However, I don't presume to advocate for intersex folk, and I'm not going to be sidetracked.
I'm going to post this Manifesto on my blog sidebar today:
PULLING DOWN THE PANTIES OF SEX AND GENDER OPPRESSION: MY TRANSGENDER IDENTITY MANIFESTO
I refuse to perpetuate the ABSURD FICTION that human gender is only binary. Transgender status is real! I refuse to perpetuate the BLASPHEMOUS LIE that human beings are "born into the wrong body". There are no wrong bodies. I refuse to PATHOLOGIZE transsexual anatomy. It is not a deformity. I refuse to validate the PREPOSTEROUS IDEA of people having "the wrong genitals." There is no wrong genitalia. I reject the BOGUS NOTION of "gender reassignment." When God blends male with female, human beings cannot separate the two. I reject the BASELESS NOTION that human gender should ever need be "transitioned" into. Gender need only be acknowledged. I reject the IGNORANT BELIEF that female and male gender cannot co-exist in one body. They can, and they do. I reject the BIGOTRY that condemns female and male gender existing in the same body. How dare mortals condemn what God has made? I denounce the use of TRANSPHOBIC slurs like "gender queer". Verbal genocide is just as lethal as the physical kind. I decry the PITIABLE VICTIM MENTALITY which encourages transfolk to pathologize themselves. A gift must not be mistaken for a curse.
I believe that transgender life is both NATURAL and NECESSARY. I believe transgender status is the raison d'etre of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual identity. It is NOT a disorder. It must NEVER be classified as such! People of blended gender are not to be DEMONIZED, DENIGRATED or PITIED. Those who promote a transgender victim mentality will find in me a DOGGED adversary! I shall CHASTISE them for encouraging transfolk to feel deformed and inferior. I shall CHALLENGE them to embrace the normalcy of blended gender. If they persist in peddling TRANSSEXUAL VICTIMHOOD, I shall EXPOSE them as the messengers of ignorance that they are.
WHAT LANDMARK PROPOSITION 8 RULING MEANS FOR THE FUTURE PLUS THE FULL RULING
In his superb 136 page ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker detailed each of the arguments presented by the proponents of Prop. 8 and judiciously shot each of their arguments down, making it very difficult for the U.S. Supreme Court to find in favor of those proponents.
The following is an excellent article that deserves to be read in its entirety, part of which reads as follows:
This is how the judge shot down each one of the rationales the proponents set forth for denying gays the right to marry:
Reserve marriage as only a union between a man and a woman.
- Judge: Tradition alone cannot form a rational basis for a law.
Proceed with caution when implementing social changes.
- Judge: "Because the evidence showed that same-sex marriage has and will have no adverse effects on society or the institution of marriage, California has no interest in waiting and no practical need to wait to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples."
Promote opposite-sex parenting over same-sex parenting.
- Judge: The evidence shows "beyond any doubt that parents' genders are irrelevant to children's developmental outcomes." Proposition 8 has nothing to do with children; it simply prevents same-sex couples from marrying.
Protect the freedom of those who oppose marriage for same-sex couples.
- Judge: Proposition 8 does not affect any First Amendment right or responsibility of parents to educate their children, or the rights of those opposed to homosexuality or to same-sex marriage.
Treat same-sex couples differently from opposite-sex couples.
- Judge: Proposition 8 creates an administrative burden on California because it must maintain a parallel institution for same-sex couples.
Any other conceivable interest.
- Judge: Proponents have not identified any rational basis that Proposition 8 could conceivably further.
A private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples is not a proper basis for legislation, the judge said. Thus, he held, "Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license."
To the proponents' arguments that the purpose of marriage is procreation, Walker retorted, "Never has the state inquired into procreative capacity or intent before issuing a marriage license." Moreover, the fact that a majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant, according to Walker, who wrote that "fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote."
PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO READ JUDGE WALKER'S COMPLETE RULING ON PROP. 8.
TED OLSON ON CHRIS WALLACE'S FOX PROGRAM
This is an excellent presentation by Ted Olson concerning the need to overturn Prop. 8 by the Judiciary:
[Thanks to David Mixner.]
SOME INCONGRUITIES AND DANGERS OF RELIGIOUS-BASED HOMOPHOBIA
A Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis who opposes homosexuals being allowed to lead congregations said Monday he is attracted to men, but that he's not a hypocrite because he never acted on his urges.
The Rev. Tom Brock told The Associated Press he has known for years he is sexually attracted to men, but doesn't consider himself gay because he never acted on it....
"You can have this struggle with same-sex attraction, say no to it, and still follow Christ."
...Brock said he does not believe people are born gay. "I think we're all born heterosexual actually, and then stuff goes wrong," he said.
He said he can't conclusively identify the origin of his own attraction to men, but said he believes it's related to a distant relationship with his father, who is now deceased, as well as having an older brother who was more athletic and, Brock felt, got more affection from other family members.
Brock said even if scientists were to establish definitive proof that homosexuality is genetic, that wouldn't deter his views. He said he believes people who engage in homosexual acts will go to hell, but he doesn't believe that makes him a bigot.
"My message doesn't change at all. I still think homosexual behavior is a sin," Brock said. "Because I struggle with it doesn't make it right."
Deeply ingrained prejudice can often lead to tremendous self-loathing and suppression of the truth about one's very sexual/emotional nature once one comes to realize that he/she is Gay.
Indeed, even the status of being Gay that has not come to consciousness can, through prejudicial belief, rhetoric, and actions, wreak untold havoc upon one's emotions and emotional/sexual makeup, as well as wreak havoc in the lives of others who give that person credibility in informing the religious and moral dimensions of one's life.
Rev. Brock even goes far enough to say, "I think we're all born heterosexual actually, and then stuff goes wrong." Where does he get that notion from; where is his data to back up his dogmatic assertion that we are all born heterosexual? A lot of "stuff goes wrong" in people's lives and they are heterosexual!
Regarding his "analysis" as to the reasons for his same-sex attraction being due "to a distant relationship with his father...as well as having an older brother who was more athletic and...got more affection from other family members," which, if true, would have most people in any society turn out to be Gay.
What's even more remarkable is that Rev. Brock's prejudices extend so far as to encompass the belief that "even if scientists were to establish definitive proof that homosexuality is genetic, that wouldn't deter his views. He said he believes people who engage in homosexual acts will go to hell, but he doesn't believe that makes him a bigot."
He believes that engaging in same-sex activity will send people to hell, but "he doesn't believe that this view makes him a bigot."
Then what else does this view make him?
All too many professing Christians, even those Christians who are self-loathing Gay people, impose their bigotry and hateful rhetoric onto others, just as they impose their views on themselves. They very often create a living hell for themselves and, thereby, seek to impose that hell onto others, many of whom, unfortunately, believe that they will go to hell if they act on the very urges that God gave them.
Rev. Brock, and others like him, seem to think that God makes mistakes when God creates Gay people; they commit the sin of idolatry by worshipping their own prejudices, and their "justifications" for those prejudices, over and above their worship of God and the yielding to God's sovereignty.
And they cap their idolatry by claiming not to be bigots when they have the temerity to consign people who engage in same-sex activity to hell, thereby usurping the role of God Who has chosen those who belong to God before the worlds were formed; before we were even born; before any of us ever had a chance to act one way or the other. (e.g., Ephesians 1:4)
And notice, "The Rev. Tom Brock told The Associated Press he has known for years he is sexually attracted to men, but doesn't consider himself gay because he never acted on it...." The fact is that one is Gay whether or not he/she engages in same-sex activity!
Like most all homophobes, Rev. Brock seems to merely equate Gay with Sex, and doesn't see (or doesn't want to see) that being Gay comprises an emotional component which, along with sexual activity, fulfills the person every bit as much as the emotional/sexual components of heterosexuals fulfills their lives.
Despite his rhetoric to the contrary, Rev. Brock is a gay man, whether or not he acts on his God-given sexual desires!
Rev. Brock speaks from ignorance, a prisoner of his preconceived prejudices that even contradict his own inclinations that he has willfully (or not) denied himself so as to feel "comfortable" in not defining himself as a gay man, for to do so would undoubtedly violate his notion of what a "Christian" is supposed to be and do.
Hence, his record of homophobia that could be reconciled in his mind with his same-sex attractions, as he does not view himself as a gay man since, by his own account, he is presumably a virgin.
One can be out, be he/she outed or not, and still be closeted at the same time: closeted by prejudice; closeted by self-loathing; closeted by ignorant biblical exegeses; closeted by the desire to be accepted; closeted by fear of rejection; closeted by career aspirations; closeted by fear of one's deepest and hitherto repressed and suppressed feelings of which one may or may not be conscious.
I have pity for Rev. Brock and the internal struggles he is undoubtedly facing after having been outed.
However, I have even more pity for people who take seriously what the Rev. Brocks of the religious world say about Gay people, and who take seriously those who presume to usurp the role of God and pronounce with oracular authority the eternal destiny of anyone's soul!
As my friend, Rev. Troy Perry has said on more than one occasion: "God didn't create people whom He could sit around and hate."
God creates Gay people just as God creates Straight people! God specializes in diversity!
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:15)
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Thoreau, Henry David 6
Carmichael, Stokely 5
Dante Alighieri 5
Letter 383
Published article 176
Essay 41
Press release 14
Published interview 3
Audio Sermon 1
Published sermon 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Interviews 121
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking 110
Nonviolence 110
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Trials, litigation, etc. 81
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 58
Discrimination in housing 35
Discrimination in Employment 33
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Television public speaking 33
Memo of Agreement between Martin Luther King, Jr., and Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Enclosure in 561219-013
300 Days of Montgomery Bus Strike
Address at the forty-eighth annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on 6/28/1957
The Candle: Virginia NAACP Newsletter 1 (August 1957): 9.
The Candle
Box 42, folder 175
Questions for Advice for Living
[Ebony Magazine]
Advice for Living
Inscriptions on complimentary copies of Stride Toward Freedom
Siciliano, Rocco C.
Draft, The Negro is Part of that Huge Community Who Seek New Freedom in Every Area of Life
Hill, Herbert [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
Lynn, Conrad
Youth March for Integrated Schools
American Socialist
''The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness,'' Condensed version of Address at the Golden Anniversary of the National Urban League, 9/6/1960
''Self-Portrait of a Symbol: Martin Luther King, Part III''
New York Post, 15 February 1961.
Wallace, Mike
Stalin, Joseph
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Baldwin, James
Mike Wallace Interviews
Harpers Magazine
The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King
''TV Interview with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Part Two''
Transcript of 2/7/1961-2/8/1961 Mike Wallace interview.
Baltimore Afro-American, 11 March 1961, pp. 3, 4.
United States. Federal Housing Administration
Levitown, N.J.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
''Martin Luther King: He Hates No One''
Transcript of 2/7/1961-2/8/1961 Mike Wallace interview
Baltimore Afro-American, 18 March 1961, pp 4, 8.
TV Interview With The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
''Basic questions for interview with Martin Luther King, Jr.''
Lomax, Louis E.
Lawson, James R.
Holmgren, Edward [Chicago Urban League]
Chicago Urban League
Epitath for the NAACP
The Other Side of Jordan

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My name is Howard Irving, I have been playing sports since the age of 5. I have played football,basketball,baseball and ran track. I have been lifting weights since high school. I have tried out for the Arena and the NFL. I attended the NFL combine in 2002. I have a degree in Science. What makes my service stands out is that I have the passion and the knowledge of the sports. Not just the sport but the understanding and the conditioning. I look for to teaching,training and mentoring the youth. If I could/can be of any service please give me a call. God bless.
My typical process is to find out what the student(s) is/are trying to do. What sport(s) he/she are trying to play. If he/she are trying to lose or gain weight. Then I would go from there.
I have a degree in Science . I have trained for twenty plus years. I have played sports all my life. I have made it to the level that some people dream about which is the NFL combine.
Price are start at $25 and hr per student.
My Coach/weight trainer introduce me to working out and conditioning the body.
Middle School and High School students.
Getting the students together and giving back to the homeless.
Figure out what you are trying to/want do and get the trainer to address it. Speak up and be true to yourself. It is a team effort. The trainer only can do so much. You as an Athlete have to do your part.
Again, what is it that he/she trying to do. Whether, you trying to play any sports or lose weight or gain weight. How or what I should do to go about getting a position on a team.


Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: Hoy Asmeg.
International Business Times – During Passover, the Jewish population of Israel has passed the symbolic 6 million mark – the same number of Jews who were believed to have been killed during the Nazi Holocaust – while the country's total population is now 8 million.


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How plants are working hard for the planet
By Isabel	24/06/2019 March 31st, 2020 News
As the planet warms, plants are working to slow the effect of human-caused climate change – and research published in Trends in Plant Science has assessed how plants are responding to increasing carbon dioxide (CO2).
"We know that terrestrial plants are currently absorbing more CO2 than is released into the atmosphere through the combination of fire, decomposition, plant respiration, and land-use change," lead researcher Lucas Cernusak said.
"This is commonly known as the land carbon sink, and we know it's currently slowing the rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing. What we don't know is how strong that response is, and how long we can count on it. This research is a first step towards answering those questions."
Associate Professor Cernusak, a terrestrial ecologist at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, worked with colleagues from CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere in Canberra and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) to measure the strength of the terrestrial biosphere's response to increasing CO2.
They focussed on photosynthesis – the process in which plants capture energy from the sun and use it to synthesize carbohydrates from CO2 and water – and examined terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), a measure of global photosynthesis.
Their modelling and analysis revealed that, since the beginning of the industrial era, photosynthesis has increased in nearly constant proportion to the rise in atmospheric CO2.
"We expected the two would corelate, since CO2 stimulates photosynthesis, but given the complexity of plant and environmental interactions we were impressed by how closely they have kept pace," Associate Professor Cernusak said.
"We can say that plants are working hard –the response is at the highest end of the expected range."
The researchers used a combination of existing analyses and new modelling, alongside laboratory studies, to examine how increased CO2 affects photosynthesis, from individual leaves up to a global scale.
"This is an important step forward in the long and complex task of gauging how terrestrial vegetation will respond to climate change in the longer term," Associate Professor Cernusak said.
While increased CO2 has allowed an increase in photosynthesis and global leaf area, the researchers warn that further climate change – with increasing frequency of events such as heat waves, droughts and storms – has the potential to significantly stress terrestrial vegetation and decrease production.
"It's also important to remember that global change will manifest differently in different regions," Associate Professor Cernusak said.
"Our observations and modelling analyses suggest that in high latitude ecosystems it's global warming that is driving the increase in leaf area and growing-season length.
"That's quite different from the tropics, where our study indicates that CO2 fertilisation is driving the growth in photosynthesis, while climbing temperatures can create significant stress for some plant species."
The researchers' focus is now on the future.
"Looking back over time has answered one of the questions we started out with. We're seeing a robust response from terrestrial ecosystems, or the land carbon sink, to increasing CO2." Dr Cernusak said.
"The next step is to use what we've learnt, to develop ways to better predict how terrestrial ecosystems will interact with future changes in the global carbon cycle. That would help us answer that second question: how long can we count on plants to slow the rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing?"
Read the paper: Trends in Plant Science
Article source: James Cook University
Image: James Cook University
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SEE THE TRAILER: I love this trailer, it is possibly the best ever!
Let me begin with this, I LOVED THIS BOOK!! This was the first book I've read by Kelly Oram and I have since read others! I really liked this book, Like everything about. I'm one of those people who disects books. I study all the different aspects and the Pros and Cons. And I normally always find flaws! (What can I say, I'm critical) Because of the complete awesomeness of this book my review format will deviate from the norm.
Jamie Baker is an ice queen because of an unfortunate incident involving power lines and toxic waste. No one talks to her or tries to help her out. So when Ryan Miller, the most popular boy at Rocklin High, asks Jamie to kiss him for a bet, both of their live are changed! Jamie must learn to trust and Ryan must earn her trust. Sounds good right?
I found nothing wrong with this book and it will definitely be one that I will read time and time again. The characters are interesting, they have depth. Every charater seems to have something to hide. I loved the dialogue. Ryan and Jamie's conversation kept me laughing which wasn't such a good thing because I was up at three in the mourning reading this and my parents would not have been happy! (Thank god they didn't wake up:) ) I really liked this book. Kelly Oram stunned me with her humor and great characters and made me want more!!
AM I HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK: UMMM..... DID YOU READ MY REVIEW, I'M NORMALLY NOT SO NICE!!
WOULD I READ THE NEXT BOOK: YES, 2014 is so long away!!!
WOULD I READ MORE BY THIS AUTHOR: YEAH she's awesome!!
Fav quote: ""Here's the thing," Ryan finally began. "If I can't get you to kiss me by the end of lunch, then I have to let Mike take Becky Eastman to homecoming, and I already made dinner reservations at her favorite restaurant.""


I don't think I would have picked up this book if it weren't for the fact that it's on the list of books to read for the Battle of the Books competition in which my daughter is participating in her first year of high school. We read it together and although it kept us turning the pages to discover the mystery of who or what is Skellig, overall, we weren't wowed by it.
Michael and his family have just moved into an old dilapidated house. His baby sister is ill and he is unsure if she will die. There is tension in their family and Michael copes with these new changes by spending time with the strange man he discovered named Skellig, who looks like a sick hobo lying in the condemned garage that is off limits because it will collapse any day. He shares his secret friendship with Skellig only with Mina, a homeschooled girl who lives in his new neighborhood. Together they help Skellig and are fascinated by this fantastical creature who is like an owl-man.
From the beginning, it's clear that Michael is hurting. My daughter and I could relate to his situation and felt for him. When we first meet Skellig, we were not impressed with him, rather he was somewhat disgusting. He changes for the better in the way we view him as the story progresses however, but we never quite understood who he was and how he ended up sick in that garage. His conversations with Michael are short, uninspiring and do not reveal much about him.
The author's allusions to mankind's evolution mixed in with angelic-like interventions were contradictory and failed to touch us as I think it was meant to. We chose to see it more as an allegory of how imagination and creative play can help in coping with stressful situations in life. This was supported by the fact that Michael's baby sister was never given a name and referred to simply as the baby. Mina, who was different from Micheal's guy friends, helped Michael nurture that magical feeling of discovery.
This was a different kind of book, one that was interesting to read but was just an okay read for us.
Disclosure: We borrowed this book from the library. We were not compensated in any other way, nor told how to rate or review this product.


Anyone visiting Kythera shouldn't miss the opportunity to admire up close the findings exhibited at the island's Archaeological Museum, in Chora. The space housing the museum has been granted by the Kytherian Association. The Museum has two halls. The first, the main hall on the right contains mostly findings of Prehistoric and Classical years from the island, the most important being the marble lion of the 6th century BC - probably from Paleokastro- found in the early 19th century.
In the second, smaller hall, are the findings of recent excavations as well as later samples –mainly Venetian- of the island's history, such as stone coats of arms of the Venetian period and tombstones, also including the marble statue of Aphrodite and Eros, probably a Renaissance work from Venice. Specimens of prehistoric pottery, mainly from the Minoan and Mycenaean period from Paleopolis, marble sculptures, ceramics, inscriptions and coins are also presented. Due to lack of space many of the findings are exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
The museum is open daily (exclude Mondays).


Dermatologists reveal the top drugstore skin care products they recommend to celebrity clientele like Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham.
With so many products to choose from, it's sometimes difficult to find which facial formula works best. Here, we've created an easy day-to-night routine for four .


"The new technologies are combined in what Septodont calls Nano-Dimer Conversion Technology® in the new universal composite named N'DURANCE®. The major design changes are directed to primarily reducing the polymerization shrinkage. Decreasing shrinkage will decrease the stress on the bonded interface and could increase the prognosis of the bond produced by any of the dentin and enamel bonding agents used by the dentist. While the new resin is extremely biocompatible and the new dimer acid derives from 'green' technology, the new technology is compatible with the conventional composites, bonding agents and curing lights. The new composite has physical and mechanical properties that make it an effective restorative for both anterior and posterior restorations."


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SCAM ALERT: Robocall scams spiking nationwide
The Federal Trade Commission said a spike in illegal calls is leading to an increase in money being scammed from consumers.
Author: Monique Griego (Reporter)
Published: 6:47 PM PDT June 28, 2019
Updated: 9:37 PM PDT June 28, 2019
SAN DIEGO — If you have been receiving more and more of those robocalls – you are not alone.
Those who let the call go to voicemail usually get a message like this:
"This call is from the Department of Social Security. The reason you have received this phone call from our department is to inform you that we just suspended your social security number because we found some suspicious activity."
Andrew Turner is of the many who has received a similar message from someone claiming to be the social security office saying if he did not respond his social security number would be deactivated and he would have to pay to reactivate it.
"It was alarming because they were stating that I had a warrant. When you that, you can't help but to want to call right away to see what it is. It is really scary what they are able to do now," he said.
Linda Karimi, who works at the Better Business Bureau of San Diego, said the social security scam is just the latest in what the Federal Trade Commission said is a massive spike in the number of robocalls nationwide.
According to a recent report, in 2018 alone, Americans received 26.8 billion robocalls – a 46% increase over 2017.
"There were 35,000 victims this year thus far – which is 1,000% higher than last year," said Karimi.
The BBB said scam calls usually come from a number that may look familiar. When someone picks up or calls back scammers ask for personal information, including credit card information to solve a problem that does not really exist.
"People fall for it because they are convincing, intimidating – they are using pressure tactics. People who are the most targeted are unfortunately seniors, younger people and the Hispanic communities," said Karimi.
The BBB said one can protect oneself by not answering, blocking numbers and doing research before ever sending anyone money.
The BBB said there are apps that can help block robocalls, but nothing is 100% effective. Adding one's name to the national do not call lists and blocking the numbers when they call can help reduce the number of calls, but thanks to technology, not all scammers will be stopped.


The salmon are running. The salmon are here so the gulls and terns are eagles and hawks are here, circling above my little green boat sounding the alarm, and the bears are surely here as well. The stage has been set and the first act has come alive. The play is called: Planet Earth, The Only World We Know.
A few miles into our day we round a bend and see our Swiss friends' inflatable canoe pulled up onto shore in front of a small tilted cabin made of corrugated metal. Curious, we pull ashore too. The cabin has no windows, and a large sheet of plywood gets nailed over the front door to keep out the bears. Manuel and Lucas come out of the shadowed doorway, carrying their drybags. They stayed in the cabin last night.
"First dark night we've had in almost two months," says Manuel.
I climb the steps, which are made of haphazardly piled stones, to the cabin that is little more than a disintegrating shed, and step inside a time machine straight into the past.
This cabin was built in early 1975 and has been open to family, friends and travelers. It has also been a safe haven for those in need of a shelter to get out of the rain or a blizzard. Please do not hesitate to leave without sharing your experience in this part of the country and/or just a note of thanks. Here is a little bio of our beloved Atahta (grandpa) Abe who was born November 1, 1889 and passed on to be with the lord April 7, 1989. Our beloved brother, husband and dad Enoch O Howarth Sr. was born september 27, 1929 and passed on to be with the lord November 25, 2000. Now that both of the men that kept this cabin alive are gone, they have left it to their children and grandchildren.
Inside the binder is a photo of Howarth. He lived to be a hundred. One hundred. He had eleven children. Eleven! On the wall is a brittle note in his handwriting, plus a decorative plate with the ten commandments.
A curling map of the area is tacked below that. People have carved their names into the bunks. This cabin is both the present and the past, in a way that's so beautiful it aches. Suddenly I'm overwhelmed, and I can't really say why. This cabin in the vast arctic wilderness, unlocked and open to strangers and built by an Inupiat man who had eleven children, was a whaler and lived to be a hundred, feels like something too real and too vulnerable to exist in the modern world. Like it shouldn't be here. Like I'm lucky to have seen it. Like it will be gone tomorrow. Nothing and no one is really this free, anymore. Are they? I want to cry. I want to stay in the cabin all day, inspecting each object, reading the stacks of notes in the log book that date back decades and carefully photographing each one. The notes on yellowed pages, written in tidy, careful script. Notes by travelers who stayed here before satellite phones. Who were hiding out from blizzards, getting caught in headwinds on the river, running low on food. Hunting wolverines and caribou. Fishing. All the stories this cabin must have seen. I feel another wave of emotion. Nature… but with people in it. A little cabin built of tin. Someone living here. Living on the river. With the river. As if you can just DO that.
Remember when we all lived with the nature? I haven't seen it in my lifetime but my spirit remembers it. I can feel it in my cells.
We shove our boats back into the current and jump into them with a splash, rejoining the river. Speaking of headwinds, there's a headwind today. I'm paddling sometimes just to move forward at all, but that's ok. My shoulders feel so strong! The sun comes out midday and sparkles the water gloriously. We see our first grizzly! A big bear, fishing on a gravel bank in the sunshine. Not a care in the world… until we paddle past, and then the bear explodes into the brush, disappearing in an instant.
We camp on a sandy stretch of grass just above the river, pitching our tents in the bright hot sun. I hope I sleep better tonight. I'm so tired.
We've raised $8,750 for Defend the Sacred AK so far! ($6,850 on the original fundraiser, and $1,900 on the new fundraiser I had to create when GoFundMe bought YouCaring and the YouCaring fundraiser became defunct on July 31.) This is so awesome!!!
Day 11 from the Noatak will go up on this blog as soon as the new fundraiser reaches $2,100- you can find the fundraiser here, or click the photo below. And thanks to everyone who's contributed so far!


When one is laid up with flu, doctors advise all sorts of things. Liquids, vitamin C, bed rest, leafy green vegetables... I advocate listening to your body and giving it what it wants.
Having spent the past few days feeling as though I were at death's door, there was nothing I wanted less than spinach, kale, or any of the iron-rich leafy greens known to be good for the body. No, what I wanted was food that was good for the soul, designed to soothe and heal in equal measure. Fortunately, the perfect recipe can be found in any Dordogne cookbook.
Traditionally served with duck, pommes sarladaise are rich, unctuous, and filled with garlic. But as an invalid, I couldn't stomach the idea of meat. All I wanted was enough garlic to kill off the germs, served on a base of potatoes as familiar as my mother's mash. Fortunately, my daughter is a dab hand in the kitchen. The recipe below is my wife's take on a Perigord classic.
1. Peel potatoes, then cut into ¼-inch-thick slices. Rinse in two or three changes of cold water until water runs clear. Drain and pat very dry.
2. Heat fat in a 12-inch non-stick frying pan over a medium heat until melted. Cook potatoes with ¾ tsp salt, turning gently, until coated with fat. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, turning occasionally, until golden in spots and potatoes are tender, about 20 to 25 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, finely chop parsley and garlic together. Gently stir parsley mixture into cooked potatoes.
They can, but it's not ideal - reheating the potatoes can make them taste a bit floury. You'd be better off preparing them a couple of hours in advance and then keeping them warm in the oven.


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StreetInsider.com "Brandywine Homes Hires Karen Hoover as Purchasing Director"
Karen Hoover, a recognized leader in the homebuilding industry with more than 25 years of experience, has joined Brandywine Homes as purchasing director.
"I am very excited to join the team of expert builders at Brandywine Homes and look forward to contributing to its success, growth and prosperity," Hoover said.
Hoover was the former vice president of purchasing for The Olson Company and also served as the purchasing manager for Meritage Homes in Corona, Calif., and vice president of purchasing for MBK Homes in Irvine, Calif.
"Brandywine will benefit greatly from Karen's expertise in purchasing and contract negotiation and management," said Alex Hernandez, president of Brandywine Homes. "She's worked for some of the leading companies in this industry, and we're thrilled to have her on board."
Hoover has completed the National Association of Home Builders Green Professional Course and UCI Light Construction Development Management Extension. She studied blueprint reading/drafting and construction cost estimating at Orange Coast College.
About Brandywine Homes Brandywine Homes is a residential homebuilder based in Irvine, Calif., that specializes in challenging infill development. Founded in 1994, the family-owned and operated company has built or developed almost 1,500 homes in 45 small- and mid-sized infill communities, revitalizing some of Southern California's oldest and most established neighborhoods. Brandywine builds homes that respect and complement the heritage, values and architectural integrity of existing neighborhoods and the people who live there — making a positive contribution to the community. www.brandywine-homes.com. Social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Brandywine Blog.


Dave Keeling was deployed to deliver a full-day staff inset for Walton Leigh School in Walton On Thames, Surrey.
As an SEN school, Walton Leihgh's staff face challenging situations and Dave provided them with tools to manage their own emotional wellbeing, to be pro-active and to use positive humour and teamwork in the workplace. The day was informative, empowering and entertaining and was full of practical advice.


The night before 19-year-old Cassie Parrish died, she called her ex-best friend Lia Overbrook 33 times.
I avoided Wintergirls for a long time. I knew it dealt with eating disorders, and generally, when it comes to Books That Deal With Hugely Upsetting Issues, I procrastinate for as long as possible*. And then there's my relationship with Laurie Halse Anderson's books -- while I certainly think they're very well-written and engaging, I find something about them... clinical, and I rarely connect emotionally with the characters. So, in truth, I may have never gotten to this one if I hadn't had to read it for the Cybils.
Which would have been a shame. It's a brave book, and an extremely strong one. Which, considering we're talking about an author alreadly considered by many to be fearless, is saying something. It's unflinching, honest, and ghastly.
Wintergirls is about Lia's relationship and obsession with food, yes. But it isn't just that. It's about grief. About guilt. About family and control and addiction. It's about not just sinking, but actually pushing yourself towards the bottom until you are faced with a decision: to let yourself succumb or to start fighting for the surface.
I'm not recommending Wintergirls because it's About Something Important. I'm recommending it because of the stength of Lia's voice, that Laurie Halse Anderson was able to create a pitch-perfect, amazingly believable voice. She's haunted. Whether that haunting is literal (as Lia believes) or metaphorical (as her therapist believes) doesn't matter -- it's the emotion and pain and truth behind it that matters. Mythological imagery abounds, and while Lia never really comments on it, it was easy for me to imagine that she -- as a big fantasy reader -- noted it. That she saw those images as omens.
But I'm digressing. As usual.
Many readers will dislike Lia, and some will not understand her -- but many others will find this book terrifying because in her, they will recognize some part of themselves. Much of what she thinks and believes -- though ratcheted up to an almost unbearable degree -- will not be unfamiliar. And that's probably the scariest thing about the book.
*And this specific topic even more so than others -- yes, it's a hugely prevalent problem, but there are, like, a billion and six YA books about anorexia and bulimia, and it felt like at least half of them came out this year.
Book source: Review copy from the publisher; Cybils nominee.
I'm part of the Amazon Affiliate program. Which I'd assume would be apparent by the ad in the sidebar, but assuming that you're bright enough to understand that is not enough for the FTC. So, I will spell it out: if you click through to Amazon and buy something, I get money.
Excellent review of Wintergirls, I felt the same way.
Wow, Lu -- that was some serious Quick Draw Commenting!
I put these type of books off too. I don't really like feeling sad or depressed when I'm reading! I have to be in the right mood, especially with Ellen Hopkins books. I might have to give this one a read though after your review-you pushed me to it!
Really great review of Wintergirls. I read this a while ago and was very affected by it.
"Many readers will dislike Leila, and some will not understand her -- but many others will find Leila terrifying because in her, they will recognize some part of themselves."
You are a beastly, beastly man.
What a powerful, and honest, review you wrote! I've not heard of this novel, nor the author, but it sounds so interesting. Once you get past the drama.
I was suprised by this one, too! My own blurb for Wintergirls specifically states: "This is more than just a book about anorexia". I intensely dislike ripped-from-the-headlines novels, especially the painful disorder/event titles, but I thought Anderson did a great job making it about the control issues. So many anorexia/bulemia titles seem to wind up as inadvertent how-to manuals.
I put off reading this one for the same reason. But I'm so glad I did. What did it for me was hearing LHA speak at a local bookstore about this book, but even before that reading the first 15 pages in the bookstore because I didn't have anything else handy to read while waiting for her to speak.


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Egyptian Public Prosecution: Justice institution turns out to be a repressive organ of the police system
A few days ago, an Egyptian court for terrorism crimes sentenced nine persons to life imprisonment, 13 others to 15 years, and a 17-year-old child to 5 years, in the case known in the media as the Salam Police Station torture video. The incident dates back to last January when The Guardian published a report that included two video clips it said were taken inside the first Al-Salam police station by police officers from the department force.
The video has gone viral, prompting the Ministry of Interior to issue a statement denying the incident's authenticity, stressing that the Muslim Brotherhood fabricated the videos to spread rumours and lies about the Egyptian state. Instead of transparently investigating the incidents of torture to reach the perpetrators and achieve justice, the Egyptian Public Prosecution conspired with the police to collect the case by claiming that "the detainees inflicted injuries on themselves using a coin and filmed the video at the instigation of parties inside and outside the country, to stir up sedition and spread rumours in the country."
The prosecution referred all 23 people who appeared in the torture videos and all those to whom the video clips were sent to trial before an exceptional terrorism court on charges of "joining and financing a terrorist group, broadcasting false news, participating in and helping to broadcast it, possessing two recording devices and broadcasting two phones carried willingly to record and broad false news." The previous harsh sentences were issued.
According to human rights reports, the arrested persons were subjected to many violations, including enforced disappearance and the placement of the child in an adult detention centre, which the prosecution didn't investigate. In addition, during the investigations, they were not asked any questions to ascertain the fact of the assault against them. This is not the first time that the Egyptian prosecution and the entire judicial system have turned into a repressive tool in the hands of the Egyptian government, which it uses whenever it wants to blur facts and turn victims into perpetrators while allowing the real perpetrators to escape punishment.
One of the most prominent examples of this is what happened in the case of the mysterious death of researcher and economist Ayman Hadhoud inside the Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital after his arrest, as the prosecution colluded with the regime to close the case, claiming that "Hadhoud" died due to a "chronic heart condition." Leaked shocking photos of the researcher's body show traces of burns and torture on his face and possibly a fracture in his skull. Independent experts suggest that they beat him on the head, which inflicted intracranial bleeding, causing death without necessary medical care. The Public Prosecution ignored all the questions related to the circumstances of Hadhoud's enforced disappearance inside a mental hospital and previously denied that he had been arrested, then returned and admitted that he died about a month before informing his family. At the same time, the law stipulates that the notification should be within 24 hours after death.
Another crude example of the Egyptian prosecution's lack of independence and integrity is what happened in the case of the young Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, who was tortured to death by Egyptian security services in 2016. To close the topic, the Ministry of Interior killed four simple citizens, claiming that they were thieves who stole and killed Regeni. When Italy rejected this fabricated account and began an independent investigation of the case, it discovered that its citizen had been tortured to death by higher orders from leaders in the National Security Agency (Political Security Apparatus). At the same time, the Egyptian prosecution refused to cooperate with its Italian counterpart and closed the case claiming that the "killer is unknown."
Local and international human rights organisations confirm that the Egyptian prosecution complicates human rights violations in Egypt. In November 2019, Amnesty International released a report documenting how the Supreme State Security Prosecution, a branch of Egypt's public prosecution, routinely misused the anti-terrorism law to prosecute thousands of peaceful critics of the government and to disrupt fair trial guarantees. The report exposes the prosecution's conspiracy in enforced disappearance, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture and other ill-treatment, and the prolonged detention of thousands of people on trumped-up reasons.
Egypt ranks 135 out of 140 countries in the Rule of Law Index 2022, issued by the Global Justice Project, an international civil society organisation working to promote the rule of law worldwide. According to the organisation, one of the reasons for Egypt's low rank in the index is the weakness of the civil justice system and its corruption, its submission to the influences of the executive authority, the slow litigation process, and the incompetence of judges.
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Pop TV Undergoes Layoffs Following Move To ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Brands Group
February 28, 2020 12:45pm
As Deadline reported yesterday, ViacomCBS is currently going through its second round of layoffs following the CBS-Viacom merger in early December.
There are significant staff reductions at Pop TV, which was part of CBS Corp. and was recently folded into the ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Brands Group, run by Chris McCarthy. The layoffs are result of the integration.
Pop President Brad Schwartz just sent out an internal memo addressing the cuts. Stressing that he will continue to run Pop going forward, he noted that "we are saying goodbye to some close friends and talented colleagues." Along with Schwartz, other members of his senior team are also staying on, sources said.
Pop is heading into the series finale of its flagship series Schitt's Creek on April 7 and the network debut of One Day At A Time.
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This is the second round of layoffs at ViacomCBS; the first payroll cut was implemented shortly after the Viacom-CBS merger was completed in early December. More pink slips are expected in the coming weeks for an estimated combined headcount reduction of about 100 over the February-March period.
The latest layoffs come on the heels of ViacomCBS' first post-merger earnings report. It saw the combined company swing to 4Q loss, which was attributed to merger-related expenses and various operating items.
Here is Schwartz's memo:
Before joining ViacomCBS, we operated as a standalone company and we were therefore staffed accordingly. As we integrate Pop into the larger ViacomCBS Entertainment & Youth Group, filled with some of the most powerful brands in the industry, a lot of the work is being centralized across the portfolio to truly unleash our collective strengths and maximize the power of our content.
To that end, Pop will continue to be an important part of the business but, unfortunately, we are saying goodbye to some close friends and talented colleagues.
We have built something very special that you should all be immensely proud of. We did the impossible. In less than five years, we went from being a TV Guide Network with a listing scroll still on 30% of our screens, to an Emmy-nominated network with a million+ viewer hit, a breakthrough brand, and two of the most critically praised and culturally-significant shows on television.
Moving forward, I'll continue to run Pop and work alongside Chris as part of the Entertainment & Youth senior leadership team across the brands.
I thank you dearly for the heart and soul you have brought to everything we do.
With sincere thanks, respect and appreciation,
Brad Schwartz


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