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The Religious Right is Swiftboating Same Sex Marriage in Maine
By Karen Ocamb, News editor, Frontiers in LA Reposted (with permission) from Dirigo Blue and Daily Kos. “God has no grandchildren,” the evangelical ex-Marine father of my late friend Chip Howe said, explaining how he surrendered judgment and came to accept Chip’s homosexuality. Chip, a Lieutenant in the Navy during the Vietnam War, was supposed to get married and provide his parents with grandchildren. Chip’s father thought being gay meant that would never happen. That was in 1990, Read more [...]
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Parenting and the Bible — without religion
by a former believer I will be getting married in July. Afterwards, our next goal is to try to get pregnant. Probably too much information, but anticipating the possibility of children has brought up some questions that I haven’t found satisfactory answers or thoughts to, and I would like some input from others. I know (academically, though not yet empirically) that parenthood is a process of facing a series of unknowns and that growth comes from the family and individuals navigating that Read more [...]
The New Flu Can Fly
November 16, 2005 Dr. Julie Gerberding Office of the Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Department of Health & Human Services Re: Avian Flu Education Dear Dr. Gerberding, I applaud your recent participation in the online interactive forum Ask the White House, in which you wisely referred to the threat of an avian flu pandemic as “one of the most important public health issues we face today.” Thank you for the reference, at the end of our “chat,” to the impressive Read more [...]
Had a Weird Moment
by La I was putting my near-toddler son to bed, but I was at my sister’s house, so I layed him on my niece’s bed. He likes to go to bed with his bottle and classical music. My niece only had 1 CD in her stereo, and thank goodness it happened to be soft, instrumental music. But here’s the thing: the music was the instrumental version of the Young Women songs. When I was in Young Women’s, I lived and breathed for my classes, activites, sports, friends and leaders. Firesides were amazing! I took Read more [...]
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