The chaos at Equality Maryland has gotten so bad, the organization may have to shut down altogether. Time's nearly run out to pass a marriage bill in New York. Catholic Charities is so unwilling to provide adoption services to gay couples that they simply abandoned 350 children to the state of Illinois this week. And it looks like the Prop 8 proponents just caught themselves in a lie.
...If you look in the "more Info" box, you'll find her address and phone number...
...Perhaps there is a city or town somewhere with a Police Department that cannot be trusted to handle sensitive cases or to adequately investigate serious accusations. Perhaps there are places where unfounded accusations are often mishandled and the reputations of innocent people harmed. That is not the case in Omaha.Really? Try telling that to Ed Brodnicki, who was falsely accused of attempting to kidnap an Omaha girl in 1992. He went $30,000 into debt and faced a prison term before his 9-year-old accuser recanted her lie. He claimed the cops wouldn't take seriously the polygraph test he had his own, hired investigators administer and that the police never administered one of their own to him. He also had issues with the fact that the cops drove the girl over to his house to identify him (!) instead of having her pick him out of a lineup.
The Omaha Police Department has skilled and experienced investigators who know how to tackle a case and separate fact from fiction. They are led by senior officers who are professionals with a history of integrity, discreetness and sound judgment.
"There was a certain point where the legal machinery made up its mind that I was guilty," Brodnicki said. "There was very little I could do or say to clean it this up... The dropped charges and financial settlement provided some relief. But prosecutors and police never apologized..."
We witnessed a high level of fraternisation and collusion between neo-Nazis and the Moscow police. I saw neo-Nazis leave and re-enter police buses parked on Tverskaya Street by City Hall
Our suspicion is that many of the neo-Nazis were actually plainclothes police officers, who did to us what their uniformed colleagues dared not do in front of the world’s media. Either that, or the police were actively facilitating the right-wing extremists with transport to the protest.
...we want you to know it [the list] was done by a website called mainstreet.com -- not by Newsweek... it uses a methodology that our current editorial team doesn't endorse and wouldn't have employed...When a commenter wondered why Newsweek posted the list if it didn't endorse MainStreet's methods, the newsweekly's FB team punted: Different editorial team = different methods.
...On the Newsweek site, there is no way to tell that the "10 Dying Cities" article was originally written by another publication, except for a small sidebar that lists "Main Street" as the author of the piece...After watching the lipdub of Grand Rapids, which showed 5,000 residents singing, dancing, kissing, pillow-fighting, etc., AKSARBENT has concluded by the glaring absence of any gay couples whatsoever that "experiencing" Grand Rapids has caused many of them to move elsewhere.
And why wouldn't readers assume that Newsweek's editorial approved an article that appeared on its site? There's no Op-Ed note saying "These views do not reflect those of Newsweek."
Describing rappelling and other activities that recruits go through in boot camp, the general said: “It’s exciting stuff. Would I love to have those young people tweeting about that.”In 2004, Mother Jones published an article about how the Pentagon has bullied movie producers into showing the U.S. military in the best possible light since at least the 1920s. Example? The first movie to win the best picture Oscar, Wings, cost Paramount a then-astonishing $2 million. But the US military's contribution to the film was $16 million.
Why can’t they? Well, “in the first three weeks of basic training, we take away your smartphone,” General Freakley said.
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| Image of Stalin after he had Yezhov shot on 2/4/1940 |
Open-ended questions regarding sexual behavior are designed to influence the moral concepts of the students — easily leading them to the conclusion that homosexuality is normal and natural. This is psychological tampering that violates the trust of parents and renders teens incapable of recognizing harmful behavior.
Last year, I helped organize the 2010 Summer for Marriage Tour with the National Organization for Marriage. Over the course of 30 days, we traveled more than 10,000 miles to spread a discriminatory message I once believed in to oppose same-sex marriage.
Ironically, it was that very summer tour that led me to change my mind and come to support marriage equality. This new tour will serve as a testimony to that change and will seek to spread two messages.
Firstly, that marriage equality is not an ideological issue. Too many see support for gay rights as strictly a liberal issue. That’s a mistake. Supporting the constitutional rights of all citizens is a conservative issue, too.
Secondly, the tour will seek to demonstrate to conservative legislators across the country that more and more people are coming to support marriage equality. Eventually, that truth will start reflecting changes among conservatives, too. If I, an opinionated conservative can change my mind, it won’t be long before many other conservatives do, too. Not to mention independents.
Though Zach falls into that slim majority, he scolds me for being “peevish.” He says he resents me for blowing off his special day, for putting political beliefs ahead of our friendship and for punishing him for others’ deeds. But screaming zealots aren’t the only obstacles to equal marriage rights; the passivity of good people like Zach who tacitly fortify the inequality of this institution are also to blame.In the video below, Benjamin explains why he wrote the column and why he's doing what he's doing.
They’re proof of a double standard: Even well-meaning heterosexuals often describe their own nuptials in deeply personal terms, above and beyond politics, but tend to dismiss same-sex marriage as a political cause, and gay people’s desire to marry as political maneuvering.
Oftentimes, when we don't get social change or when we don't get equality in this country, it's not always because of the screaming zealots; sometimes the obstacle to that change is silent, good people who are very passive on an issue and so I feel now my friends will no longer be so silent and so passive.
@OldKyleBusch: Bite me Johnny Law!
@NewKyleBusch: Got confused between mph and kph! It's from Europe! The tach said 2500!. I'm not used to six gears! Top Gear audition!
