Update On Letters To Methodist Bishops
I’ve sent a series of letters to U.S. Methodist Bishops trying to get them to pay attention to U.S. Government sponsored torture. I finally convinced two out of fifty to do something.
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Gitmo Embarassment Keeps Going and Going
Is the Constitution still on Display at the National Archives? Are we bothering with the pretext any longer?
Read moreHere I Go Again
I felt compelled to write another to the U.S. Methodist Bishops. My friend Glenda chastised me, saying I was going to cause them to just start deleting my messages. Indeed, at least two already do that (I request a read receipt). But as I told her, I can’t stop them from doing that, but I feel an obligation to try to move them. I can only do what I can do, and they will only do what they feel compelled to do.
Read moreFred Phelps To Picket Soldier's Funeral
According to a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fred Phelps and members of the congregation of his Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funeral of an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. The church has been picketing the funerals of other soldiers as well.
Read moreLessons On Hardwork For W
The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States? ?illegal and unjust war? yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.
Read moreAnother Letter to U.M. Bishops on Torture
I believe we as a nation are acting egregiously in this “War On Terror,” and I believe that good people in this country are standing by and letting it happen. It has happened previously in the history of the world, and the consequences have been dire. So, I will make a deal with you. I will stop pestering you about the issue of U.S. Government Sponsored torture, if you will write a letter to the President, and ask that the U.S. cease torturing captured prisoners, charge or release detainees (especially women and children), and observe all tenants of the Geneva Conventions regardless of the ?status? he elects to assign these people. I do not believe that is asking too much.
Read moreZach and Ex-Gay "Ministries"
Making the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
Read moreZach and Ex-Gay “Ministries”
Making the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
Read moreJesse Hopes Jesus Reads
Former Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic, but believes integration was forced before its time by “outside agitators who had their own agendas,” according to advance proofs of his memoir.
Read moreGet Your Honorary Doctoral Degree Here
According to the Bishop of the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, it means more than an academic degree one earns.
Read moreAnother Small Miracle
Early this morning, I had to run a quick errand. As I was backing out of the driveway, the sun glimmered off some fine water droplets on a strand of spider web.
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