Image credit: Blake Griffin Interesting dialogue about Clippers owner Donald Sterling. As much as I’d like to see every bass-ackwards racist moron ousted from their organizational protected throne, it’s a slippery slope around freedom of speech to use personal recordings and comments to legally oust someone. If Sterling counter sues and wins to keep the…
Catholics and Mormons Mass Exodus If Women Left Behind
Great article (linked below) on why the traditional branches of the Catholic and Mormon church can’t sustain themselves unless they reform to include women. “The contradictions are non-sustainable.” Some of my friends, from their polite silence, likely find my feminist, new-age, optimistic, this-too-shall-be-overcome attitude regarding social change non-sustainable. I’ll cop to being the annoying…
If the states don’t know any better, the Supreme Court has to.
Image: Wikimedia Commons Support for same-sex marriage is moving up in the courts and the people. Princeton Survey Research Associates surveyed 1,003 adults and found: “An unprecedented 55%-40%, Americans say marriages between same-sex couples should be recognized by law as valid, with the same rights of traditional marriage. That’s the highest level of support since Gallup…
How much vitamin D should you take? Depends on who want to listen to.
The now world famous sunshine vitamin is more than merely a nice have, ultimately D converts to a hormone and hormones have the power to unlock a long list of processes in your body — I mean long. Made primarily from your skin’s exposure to sun or through supplementation, if you’re low in D you…
Gay marriage a serious ill of our nation? We’re sick alright, but that’s not the issue.
An Orlando Sentinel reader wrote the following opinion letter: (Gov) Scott should stand steady Comparing same-sex marriage and integration is like comparing apples and oranges (Letters, Wednesday, JoAnn Lee Frank). There are many people in the state of Florida who find the subject of gay marriage to be one of the many serious ills that…
The right to have kids, shouldn’t be.
(Rachel Fryer, 32, made a court appearance from the jail Thursday to face the new charges: felony murder, aggravated child abuse, evidence tampering and mishandling human remains. (George Skene, Orlando Sentinel / February 27, 2014) I once told my friend Carol no one has the right to have kids, we only have the right to want them. She shot me an…
Changing people’s minds? Start with self-esteem.
“There should be a common body of facts that everybody can agree on and yet have a difference of opinion……It’s important to make a distinction between beliefs that people hold and the facts.” ~ Dana Milbank National Political Columnist, Washington Post. We don’t like to admit we’re wrong, our ego flinches automatically. Admitting we’re wrong after…
Turn gays away bill: NOT business 101
No Shirt. No Shoes No Service. P.S. If you’re a same-sex couple, take a hike. Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey introduced a Bill which would permit persons and religious or denominational organizations based on sincere religious belief, to refuse to provide services or goods in furtherance of a civil union, domestic partnership, or marriage not recognized by…
My friend: Ironman athlete’s journey with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Image: Courtesy of Joy Von Werder and Oviedo-Winter Springs Life magazine. I wrote the following article about my friend Joy because I’m awed by her athleticism and courage, and because she wants to use her story to help raise awareness for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. CMT is the most commonly inherited neuromuscular disorder in the world. Joy…
Church only on Christmas and Easter? What would Jesus say? I bet I can guess.
Image source: By zole4, published on 17 September 2011 My teen daughter, once a frequent flyer at church with children and youth programs, now has to be dragged to church once a month. Sleep wins. I’m now fine with this. I’ve largely left mainstream religion and am leaning towards joining our Unitarian Universalist. My love…