I have never blogged about . The Ft. Hood shootings were so tragic and it was, of course, being covered by all the news media. However, as I write below, there is one failure of the news media that has continued to bother me. Immediately after it became known that Hasan was a Muslim, there [...]
Filed under: Harassment, Violence, Workplace | Tagged: Fort Hood, John Van de Walker, Nidal Malik Hasan | Leave a Comment »
Spain permitted same-sex marriage almost five years ago. Now, it is “likely” that Portugal’s Socialist government will also allow same-sex marriage within a few months. This comes about because of the Socialist Party’s gains in the September elections, in which it captured 97 of Parliament’s 230 seats. With support from members of the Left Bloc [...]
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Well, I thought I was going to stop writing for a while about the Catholic Church’s blatant attempts to force its will on government officials. (For instance, see this and this and this.) Certainly, I thought that I was not going to write any more about the dispute on abortion between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Religion | Tagged: Abortion, Bishop Thomas Tobin, Catholic Church, chris matthews, Politics, Religion | 1 Comment »
‘Feminist Thanksgiving’ may sound like an oxymoron– since the entire foundation of this national holiday is based on a racist stereotypes and erasure of true events from history. If I have children, I am going to find it very hard to stomach the typical Pilgram-Indian holiday plays elementary schools put on. I think we should [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Pop Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Stereotyping | Tagged: Feminism, thanksgiving | 1 Comment »
There has been a great legal victory for custody disputes involving same-sex parents. Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were partners and the parents of Isabella Miller, who is now seven years old. Miller was the biological parent. Jenkins was recognized by a court as the second parent. The two split in 2003 and, Miller “renounced [...]
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Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has taken the next step in his escalating war against Patrick Kennedy and abortion. (See my most recent post on Tobin and Kennedy.) According to an interview with Kennedy published today in the Providence Journal, Kennedy says that Tobin “instructed” him not to receive Communion because of his abortion rights stance [...]
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The Catholic bishops have upped the ante in their fight to stop abortion and same-sex marriage. It wasn’t enough for them to threaten the Washington, DC, government with a cut-off in services by church groups if DC went through with its plan to allow same-sex marriage appears. The bishops then put out a “pastoral letter” [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Politics, Religion, Same-sex Marriage | Tagged: Abortion, Catholic Church, Evangelicals, Same-sex Marriage | 7 Comments »
I previously wrote about the Congressional efforts to expand domestic benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees. About the Senate, I wrote that Committee Chair Joe Lieberman said that he expects his committee to vote on the bill by the end of December. Yesterday, a positive step was made on the House side. The [...]
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This is nothing new, but still worth discussing: According to a number of business executives, women are missing out on employment sometimes because their confidence is lacking compared to men. In a Business Smarts article, Dell Australia Managing Director Joe Kremer discusses his personal experience with women undervaluing themselves and their capabilities. Describing a time [...]
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European leaders are meeting in Brussels to choose the European Union’s first permanent president and the second most powerful position of permanent foreign policy chief. There is no clear front-runner for either position, but the disturbing news is that no women is being considered for either position. ****************** U P D A T E *************** [...]
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