December 2010
11 posts
Hundreds attend teen's memorial...Friday,... →
More than 500 people attended a memorial service Thursday for Aaron Williams, the 16-year-old Academic Magnet High School student who died a day after setting himself on fire outside the school.
“In the blink of an eye, life can change and often does,” the Rev. Rob Dewey said during his sermon.
“Aaron’s decision is a decision that we all regret, that we’re all ...
United Nations Will Vote on Whether It's OK To... →
itstimefortherevolution:
recursiverecursion:
pansexualpride:
Last month, collective shock shot around the globe as the United Nations voted to remove sexual orientation from a resolution condemning extrajudicial killing. Sure, the global community was willing to condemn murder on the basis of age, religion, or ethnicity, but when it came to the subject of sexual orientation, a gaggle of...
Hospital saves woman’s life; is told by Catholic... →
rosietint:
Now, Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese has written a letter to the hospital in which he doesn’t deny that the procedure saved the woman’s life, but nevertheless deems it morally wrong and asks the hospital to promise that a life-saving abortion “will never occur again at St. Joseph’s Hospital.” That’s right: A religious leader wants a hospital to promise that it will not take...
Stop Bill 510 – the new US law outlawing growing... →
-earlyeyes:
There is a bill being pushed through in the US that will affect all people, left, right, and center of the political spectrum and set a very bad precedent if passed as an uncontroversial bill.
Having the right to grow your own safe food and share it with others is an inalienable right that Agribusiness is in the process of trying to undermine.
Your help is needed to halt the...
