Sins Of The Mothers

A Catholic school in Boulder Colorado has refused to admit a child with gay parents.

BOULDER, Colo. — A preschooler is caught in the middle of a fight between religion and sexuality. Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School, in Boulder, has refused to readmit a preschooler because the child has two moms. Her parents are lesbians.

“God and Jesus would not allow discrimination in that way,” said Joellen Raderstorf, one of about two dozen demonstrators who turned out at Sunday’s church service.

Most of the protesters stood silently, across the street, holding signs. One read “God loves all people.” Some of them went inside during mass. The priest addressed the situation in his sermon.

“He feels like it’s a calling to be strict with upholding the Catholic principles,” said Dave Ensign, president of the Board of Directors of Boulder Pride, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organization.

“People who understand the Catholic teaching will understand why the decision was made,” said Fabien Ardila, a member of the parish.

Punishing a child for something it had no control over....what would Jesus have done? If he'd actually existed that is.

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Going to the #senedd now to support pcs union. Cant understand why lib dems not supporting them. Tories same as ever on this agenda.

Bethan Jenkins AM

Perhaps they're not supporting them because they understand that the Welsh Assembly serves the people of Wales and needs to function without the threat of being closed by union action. The House of Commons is apparently unaffected by union action, perhaps the Assembly could learn to function in the same way.

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I am also critical of Plaid Cymru's support for socialism. Socialism is based on reliance on the state, the only state that Wales can rely on at the moment is the British state, so reliance on the British state through Socialism is incompatible with Welsh Nationalism.

Alwyn ap Huw, Miserable Old Fart

Amen to that.

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The tax status of donors is not an issue for electoral law. People's tax affairs is a private matter.

Harriet Harman, Labour Party hypocrite.

Quick Question For Paul Flynn MP

Hi Paul, when you wrote this on your blog...

The Icelanders are quibbling on how much they will repay us, but £billions are coming our way.

Were you lying or talking out of your arse?

Another Day, Another Sex Abuse Scandal Rocks Catholicism

You'd think that after the revelations globally about child abuse within the Catholic Church that you've heard everything. Not so, new allegations are surfacing in Germany regarding their 'boys only boarding schools'.

The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they were scarred and haunted by alleged abuses has grown.

First it was seven alumni of the prestigious Canisius Kolleg prep school in Berlin. Then it was Aloisius Kolleg in Bonn and then St. Blasien, another Jesuit-run boarding school in the Black Forest as well as other Catholic schools in Hamburg, Goettingen and Hildesheim.

Just days ago, the renowned boarding schools Ettal Monastery and St. Ottilien in Bavaria made headlines when allegations about child molestation by Benedictine priests there surfaced. The total number of alleged victims has reached at least 150.

It always angers me when I read a puff piece in a newspaper giving a platform to a Catholic holy man telling us why the world is going hell because of the lack of faith, homosexuality, abortion etc....when there is such perversity endemic in his own church.

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Generals and former Perm Sec attacking Gordon - check their Interests for defence industry positions and look at my PQs for huge payoffs!

George Foulkes, Labour Party Peer & MSP.

....says the man who earned £1000 a day as a 'parliamentary consultant' to Eversheds.

Shocking News! Roundup

1. Vatican Gay Prostitution Ring Exposed!

2. Politician 'disingenuous' shocker!

3. Anti-gay politician arrested after night in gay nightclub!

4. Guardian produces anti-Tory bunkum exclusive!

5. BNP exposed! They don't want Asian member!

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Neither Alec Salmond nor Ieuan Wyn Jones are potential Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Peter Black AM, on why Plaid Cymru and the SNP aren't invited to the Prime Ministerial Debates.

...and Nick Clegg is invited because?

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#screwBBC6music

....and take 1xtra, 3, 4, 7, Asian Network and a good amount of World Service with you.

There are a lot of people on Twitter (with their little Twibbons) hypervenalating about the proposed axing of BBC6 Music, most of whom I would imagine haven't actually listened to the cavalcade of mediocrity there.

I've listened to it a couple of times and thought it was ok at best. If you believed the hype and noise being made at the moment you'd think we were losing a cherished icon of Radio.

If you want to listen to indie bands, listen to Xfm, if you want classic rock listen to Planet Rock, if you want to listen to z-list celebs prattle on in the morning listen to whatever Virgin is calling itself these days.

Equality Fail

If shooting yourself in the foot was an Olympic sport, the Labour Party would be gold medallists.

Harriet Harman, Equalities Minister, has overseen a drop from 34.4% to 32.6% of the number of women on the boards of Government bodies since she took the job.

Well done Harriet.

Her department has now set 'new targets' because of a 'lack of progress'.

George Galloway Is A Cock

Oh, dear. The Ego has finally landed.

George Galloway thinks he's on a Mossad hit list.

There can be no more crawling to the Israel lobby who mobilise thousands of sycophants to complain every time people like me write or broadcast items like this, hoping to intimidate editors and proprietors into putting a lid on criticism of Israel.

It usually works. It frightened the BBC into the scandal of the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal that never was during the recent Gaza War and it has circumscribed my work on both Talksport and even Press TV during the last year. The Record’s editor is still busy, months after an article I wrote here, dealing with complaints from “outraged Record readers”..in, er, Israel.

Some people say they’ll kill me. Maybe so; but if they do my son will pick up my banner.

If they kill my son, my daughter will pick up the banner.

If they kill her, others will pick up the banner of justice for the Palestinians.

Israel cannot kill its way out of this pickle. Only an acknowledgement of its involvement in crimes against Palestine will begin to do that.

George, let's be honest here, you're an Israeli asset. Everytime you open your stupid mouth, everytime you shake hands with murderous fascists, everytime you hand over cash to terrorist organisations....you publicise how bankrupt certain anti-'Zionists' are. I'd be more worried upsetting some of your allies and their habit of bumping off people they don't like.

If you were on a Mossad hit list, I imagine you'd be very low on it. I guess you'd be just below Adam Sandler (there was no excuse for 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan') and just above the Tel Aviv taxi driver who shortchanged the head of Mossad six years ago.

You're really not that important.

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The slogan itself is old, first used back in 2003. Then, like now, the poorest paid a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest. But there is a difference: then, the gap was about two percentage points. Now, it is about four percentage points.

In other words, the gap between what the rich and poor pay in tax has doubled. This is a staggering change. If anyone deserved tax cuts in the last seven years, surely it was those who were finding it hardest to make ends meet, not those at the top

Nick Clegg

Teenage Pregnancies

According to the BBC, Merthyr Tydfil has the highest rate of pregnancy among 15-17-year-olds for the whole of England and Wales. The usual gnashing of teeth, negative stereotypes and cliched soundbites abound.

As usual the answer that gets promoted is that we need more Sex Education classes. I can't understand this as knowledge of contraception and the consequences of unprotected sex are now more widespread than ever. These kids know what they're doing and they know the consequence.

The just don't seem to care. What is needed is something to change the culture. This needs big ideas, not more Sex Ed. Children and young adults need to be able to aspire to achieving things greater than a welfare cheque, they need to see beyond having a child and a council flat, they need to see that having a child later in life and being able to provide for them properly is preferable.

Dib Lemming, who is blogging again after too long a break, sums it up perfectly.

At a time like this what young people in Wales need is hope and opportunities, not a patronising teacher putting a condom on a banana.

This is not about Merthyr Tydfil. This is not about 'broken Britain'.

This should be about recognising that our children and young adults need to be helped to see that there is more to life.

Hamas Founder's Son Spied for Israel

Here’s a shocking revelation: the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef spied for Israel for more than ten years.

The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged today.

Codenamed the Green Prince by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence on an almost daily basis from 1996 onwards and tracked down suicide bombers and their handlers from his father’s organization, the daily Haaretz said.

Yousef is a Christian convert and has a book about his spy work coming out so the motivation to speak out now is obvious. I can imagine the Israeli secret services not being too happy about someone spilling the beans but in terms of damage it will be Hamas reeling from these revelations.