YouTube offers a wonderful opportunity for folks to express themselves, present talents and abilities, show the world practically ANYTHING that they want. Yeah so it doesn't cost me anything to post my videos on YouTube. And now they've provided me the option to get paid by allowing ads to run on my videos. It's truly great.
I do however, resent the fact that the pop-ups that appear on videos are beyond my control. Let me make this absolutely clear. . . I would not encourage anyone to contribute $5 (or any amount, for that matter) to Mitt Romney's campaign even though I saw a pop-up on MY OWN VIDEO that urged watchers to do the same.
See if it appears on this one. . .
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Susan Reimer, columnist of the Baltimore Sun wrote the other day about the Catholic church. She wrote about birth control pills being forbidden, opposition to any legal standing for gay people, even opposition to their own nuns' spending too much time on social justice issues and not
enough time pounding home the message about birth control and abortion.
And now, the case of Amanda Dougherty. Anna, a
student at a Catholic high school outside Philadelphia, had the dress,
the shoes, the ticket and the guy for her junior prom. Until the guy
backed out. She was determined to pin a smile on her face and go
anyway, to have fun with her friends. Healthy attitude right? Wrong! The school and the
archdiocese told her that she couldn't go without a date. "For
them to say that we're not good enough to go unless we have a guy
standing next to us, it's just kind of sickening," Amanda told a CBS
reporter. In a statement, Catholic school officials said there
were plenty of high school events a student could attend without a date,
"but we view the prom as a special social event where a date is
required to attend."
And
an Indiana teacher at a Catholic school found that her contract had not
been renewed after she asked for some time off to pursue a second in
vitro fertilization. When Emily Herx of Fort Wayne pointed out
that her supervisor not only knew of her first attempt but was praying
for its success, and that no embryos were destroyed or frozen, the
monsignor in the parish told her she was a "grave, immoral sinner"
anyway.
Why
is the Catholic Church increasing their stress of doctrine in a world
already full of religious extremists of all stripes? Why would it stifle it's own inner circle which serves the weak and defends their rights? Why would it wound the faithful at their most vulnerable moments? Why does it exclude, when it could embrace?
According to their own scripture, Jesus said, "I have come that you might have
life and have it abundantly." He also said: "By this shall men know
that you are my disciples; not that you pass the test of traditional
orthodoxy, but that you love; and in loving bear witness that you can
give of the life that you have received." Personally, I like that.
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