Monday, December 13, 2010

Stuart Biegel on Bullying of Gay Youth: An Ongoing Problem

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At Salon today, Thomas Rogers interviews Stuart Biegel about his new book The Right to Be Out , which finds that anti-gay prejudice is pe...

Irish Times on Vatican Response to Abuse Situation in Irish Church: Days of Genuflection Are Over

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Commenting on the revelation of the wikileaks that many in the Vatican were "offended" when the Irish government asked for Vatic...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Patricia Hampl on How Liberal Societies Deal with Difference and Otherness

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And then there's this (again, from one of my journals of the past): Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education (NY: W.W. Norton, 1981): T...

On the Acceptability of Homophobic Discourse in Mainstream Culture, and the Complicity of the Catholic Center

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I wrote yesterday,  Something about the way even "good" Catholics of the center are dealing with their gay brothers and sister...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Robert Reich on Why Obama Shouldn't Listen to Clinton re: Tax Cuts

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With its emphasis on core principles, Robert Reich's analysis of why President Obama should not be touting the wisdom of former Presi...

Scott Lively's Pink Swastika Thesis Promoted on Catholic Blog: Some Necessary Critical Questions

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I had thought better of noticing this recent discussion at the blog site of a leading American Catholic journal of the center.  It's Ad...

Another Blast from the Past: Reflections on the Legacy of John Paul II, Superstar

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Another blast from the past.  This journal entry is one I wrote on 13 April 2005, following the death of John Paul II and in the midst of ...