"We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes 1 to 2 years off the average life span, yet we “celebrate” a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average lifespan according to the 2005 issue of the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports. Something is wrong with this picture."
--Rev. Bill Banuchi
Executive Director of the New York Christian Coalition
http://www.nychristiancoalition.org/PressRelease.html
scroll down to June 12, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Schools
ON DEMOGRAPHICS:
"You may teach a class that is all male or all female. You may teach a class that is all white or all black or all Chicano. But you will probably never teach a class that is all straight."
-- Joseph A. Devito
ON ETHICS:
"We are the first country in the world to institute public education in order to give every kid a chance. As a teacher, I have a moral obligation to help every kid do well. I can't neglect certain kids simply because I don't like them."
-- Kevin Jennings, former classroom teacher and currently Executive Director of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
"Every child's sense of himself is terrifyingly fragile. He is at the mercy of his elders, and when he finds himself totally at the mercy of his peers,who know as little about themselves as he, it is because his elders have abandoned him."
-- James Baldwin, Dark Days
ON TESTING:
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
-- Albert Einstein
LAWS & POLICIES DO MATTER:
"Taunts and anti-gay violence are driving students out of school and pushing vulnerable youth to terrible desperation. This bullying is not only dangerous - it is illegal when it is ignored by the school officials entrusted with the safety of all students."
-- Attorney Jon W. Davidson of Lambda Legal
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
POLICIES ALONE AREN'T ENOUGH:
"No uniform, no metal detector, no security guard, no dress code, can do what students can do to impact a school's climate to foster learning. All the policies and regulations can be in their rightful place(s), but to truly personalize a school we have to reach students before we can teach students."
-- Dave Maloney, assistant principal at Branford (CT) High School
"You may teach a class that is all male or all female. You may teach a class that is all white or all black or all Chicano. But you will probably never teach a class that is all straight."
-- Joseph A. Devito
ON ETHICS:
"We are the first country in the world to institute public education in order to give every kid a chance. As a teacher, I have a moral obligation to help every kid do well. I can't neglect certain kids simply because I don't like them."
-- Kevin Jennings, former classroom teacher and currently Executive Director of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
"Every child's sense of himself is terrifyingly fragile. He is at the mercy of his elders, and when he finds himself totally at the mercy of his peers,who know as little about themselves as he, it is because his elders have abandoned him."
-- James Baldwin, Dark Days
ON TESTING:
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
-- Albert Einstein
LAWS & POLICIES DO MATTER:
"Taunts and anti-gay violence are driving students out of school and pushing vulnerable youth to terrible desperation. This bullying is not only dangerous - it is illegal when it is ignored by the school officials entrusted with the safety of all students."
-- Attorney Jon W. Davidson of Lambda Legal
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
POLICIES ALONE AREN'T ENOUGH:
"No uniform, no metal detector, no security guard, no dress code, can do what students can do to impact a school's climate to foster learning. All the policies and regulations can be in their rightful place(s), but to truly personalize a school we have to reach students before we can teach students."
-- Dave Maloney, assistant principal at Branford (CT) High School
Friday, August 19, 2005
Quotes
"Action is the antidote to despair."
-- Joan Baez
"I am visible--see this Indian face--yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't."
-- Gloria Anzaldua
"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation."
-- Cherrie Moraga
"It always makes me so angry when people assume that anyone who calls himself or herself a Chicano or a Chicana is automatically someone who doesn't like to read. . . . I knew how to read before I went to the first grade because of my grandmother. All of my cousins were under her tutelage. She taught us to read and to respect learning."
-- Arturo Islas
"This is an abuse of the legislative process ... If the law does not protect you it will not protect me."
-- U.S. Representative Charles A. Gonzales of Texas, regarding the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment that would have permanently restricted marriage rights to heterosexuals in the United States
"We were not taking any more of this shit. We had done so much for other movements. It was time."
-- Sylvia Rivera, on her participation in the Stonewall Riots, fighting back against police brutality that targeted gay, lesbian, bi, and trans people and inspiring the generations of civil rights activism that followed.
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-- artist, Andy Warhol
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them."
-- Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde
"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."
-- Italian artist, Michelangelo
It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.
-- author and Nobel Prize winner, Andre Gide
-- Joan Baez
"I am visible--see this Indian face--yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't."
-- Gloria Anzaldua
"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation."
-- Cherrie Moraga
"It always makes me so angry when people assume that anyone who calls himself or herself a Chicano or a Chicana is automatically someone who doesn't like to read. . . . I knew how to read before I went to the first grade because of my grandmother. All of my cousins were under her tutelage. She taught us to read and to respect learning."
-- Arturo Islas
"This is an abuse of the legislative process ... If the law does not protect you it will not protect me."
-- U.S. Representative Charles A. Gonzales of Texas, regarding the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment that would have permanently restricted marriage rights to heterosexuals in the United States
"We were not taking any more of this shit. We had done so much for other movements. It was time."
-- Sylvia Rivera, on her participation in the Stonewall Riots, fighting back against police brutality that targeted gay, lesbian, bi, and trans people and inspiring the generations of civil rights activism that followed.
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-- artist, Andy Warhol
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them."
-- Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde
"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."
-- Italian artist, Michelangelo
It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.
-- author and Nobel Prize winner, Andre Gide
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Monday, August 15, 2005
Fundamentalism
"Fundamentalism is religious fascism, and Fascism is political fundamentalism."
- Martin Riesebrodt
- Martin Riesebrodt
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Go Rossie
"This country has a respect for all of its citizens and allows them to all be equal under the law. It's very, very inspiring for those of us in the United States who have just been nationally shamed by a president who tried to introduce bigotry into the U.S. constitution. So, Canada, this is an amazing place."
-- Rosie O'Donnell speaking July 12 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
-- Rosie O'Donnell speaking July 12 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Christian Paradox
"Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that 'God
helps those who help themselves.' That is, three out of four
Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the
core of our current individualist politics and culture, which
was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy
Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not
biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from
the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of
neighbor."
- Author Bill McKibben, in his Harper's magazine essay, "The
Christian Paradox"
entire article at http://go.sojo.net/ct/5pzNZZp1bzdh/
helps those who help themselves.' That is, three out of four
Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the
core of our current individualist politics and culture, which
was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy
Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not
biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from
the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of
neighbor."
- Author Bill McKibben, in his Harper's magazine essay, "The
Christian Paradox"
entire article at http://go.sojo.net/ct/5pzNZZp1bzdh/
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