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Archive for July, 2010
One piece of advice for bloggers in general…
Posted: July 26, 2010 by datechguy in odditiesTags: blogs, reality
Answer: “The person in question is not Islamic”
Posted: July 26, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speechTags: 1st ammendment, education, free speech, q & a, religion, tolatarian higher education, war on Christmas
Q: What is the one thing you can be sure about when reading this headline: “University to student: Accept homosexuality or leave“?
The story follows:
The suit alleges the university retaliated against Keeton for stating her belief that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice and not a “state of being,” and that gender is not a social construct subject to individual change. According to the suit, the school wants her to undergo a “thought reform” program intended to change her religious beliefs. She faces expulsion unless she complies, and the suit seeks to block the university from throwing her out for noncompliance.
“Is saying there is such a thing as a male and a female as distinct, and that gender isn’t merely a social construct … such a dangerous position that it has to be banned from a profession?” French asked.
According to court documents, one of Keeton’s professors, Dr. Mary Jane Anderson-Wiley, told her this past May she would have to undergo a remediation program intended to change her views on homosexuality.
The university’s Counseling Education Program handbook proscribes such programs for those whose conduct is “not satisfactory on interpersonal or professional criteria unrelated to academic performance.”
Can anyone honestly describe this as anything less than totalitarian? Would such a program directed at a gay student forcing them to accept say Baptist teaching on Homosexuality be allowed at a state university?
I think not.
Here is the kicker:
Anderson-Wiley reportedly complained about Keeting’s Christian belief that homosexuality is sinful and demanded she choose between her faith and the American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics.
“You couldn’t be a teacher, let alone a counselor, with those views,” court documents quoted Dr. Paulette Schenck, another of the university’s counseling professors, as having said in response to Keeting’s affirmation of her Christian beliefs.
No Christians need apply apparently. No wonder universities seem to have such a love of Chavez, Castro et/al they have the same thought police ambitions on a smaller scale.
Would the above mentioned Dr. Schenck dare say this to an Islamic student who believed in Sharia? Of course not, totalitarians are notorious cowards.
The New York Times story on the Lutheran Church…
Posted: July 26, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized…manages to downplay the schism being caused by the ECLA’s decision that we covered here.
However stories like this are being repeated all over the country:
When First Lutheran Church of Washburn, which has about 600 members, took its final vote May 9, it was no squeaker. Eighty percent voted to sever the church’s affiliation with the ELCA, said the Rev. Erik Johnson.
First Lutheran has not yet decided which denomination it will join, he said. But it has talked with LCMC (Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ) and also with CORE, a group of congregations formed in protest of the ELCA’s proposal for changing clergy standards, Johnson said.
Hey if the ECLA is looking for more priests? We Catholics have three we would love you to take off our hands.
Memeorandum thread here.
Don’t aspire to be the NYT of the blogosphere
Posted: July 26, 2010 by datechguy in blogsTags: bad form, blogs, new media
It looks like Digger’s Realm and Kimberly Dvorak are bucking for the title NYT of the blogosphere from what we are seeing at Confederate Yankee :
I noted she can’t provide any evidence to support her story, and was not likely develop evidence to support it. I told her that at this point, she should issue a retraction, mentioning that her LE sources have made claims, but that they are contradicted by multiple agencies and Laredo media, both print and television.
Her response was even more telling.
I have not got anyone to tell me via phone or email – ‘It did not happen, name and title.’ They tell me they can neither confirm or deny. My LE was there. I’m not asking you to believe me or tell me I’m lying. It was a FYI story and I stand by it. Senior DHS brass have said it did not happen, but said that was off the record and no name. Why? So to me there is no proof one way or the other.
In fairness to everyone I posed on the story myself when I saw it with a qualifier or two but my update striking it came within 5 min of the first post.
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# 24 July, 2010 @ 18:56 by datechguy
# 24 July, 2010 @ 18:56 by datechguy
If you have something wrong the best thing to do is to admit it and move on. We are all human and we are going to get some things wrong, particularly if you are an individual without an organization to back you up. I know it’s hard, particularly if you have what appears to be a big scoop and the hits have come in droves, but, it’s bad form, just let it go.
Let’s leave the “you can’t prove it didn’t happen” standard for the MSM.
Update: It looks like I owe both of them an apology
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