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She He Said Week of April 25

"Republican nominations are largely determined by fundamentalist Christian conservatives who think the state's responsibility for life begins are conception and ends at birth. They also think adultery or gay sex are far worse sins than starting a war."
– Jack Lessenberry, Metro Times, April 18, 2007.

"A close look at the patterns of murderous violence in the U.S. reveals some remarkable consistencies, wherever the individual atrocities may have occurred.
In case after case, decade after decade, the killers have been shown to be young men riddled with shame and humiliation, often bitterly misogynistic and
homophobic, who have decided that the way to assert their faltering sense of manhood and get the respect they have been denied is to go out and shoot
somebody."
– Bob Herbert, New York Times, April 19, 2007.

"In one of Benedict's first moves, he issued a long-awaited policy stating that homosexual men cannot be ordained priests, even if they are able to live a chaste life. The action was cast as a response to the clergy sexual abuse crisis, based on the argument that the abuse was largely inflicted by a growing number of gay men in the priesthood. That was an empty rationale, most obviously because the number of abuse cases was dropping sharply in recent decades even as the percentage of gay priests was rising. Above all, the decision unjustly denigrated a group of people simply for who they are. And it was akin to hoisting the ladder after one is safely aboard ship given that there are already plenty of gay priests and bishops serving the church faithfully, many in the Vatican itself."
– David Gibson, New York Times, April 23, 2007

Every year, nearly 20,000 young Americans, ages 13 to 24, contract HIV.
In getting real about sex, the federal government should push states to recognize the needs of gay youth, who tragically are usually left out. The American Journal of Public Health reported in 2001 that gay adolescents take fewer risks if they receive "gay-sensitive" instruction about HIV.
It's time to scrap ineffective abstinence-only programs. Let's replace them with sex education that benefits all kids.
– Deb Price, Detroit News, April 23, 2007

If the Religious Right is dead, someone forgot to tell that to many leading political figures. The unusually early start to the 2008 campaign season has been marked by a number of aspiring Republican presidential hopefuls contorting themselves to please Religious Right honchos.
– Rob Boston, Church and State. Posted April 16, 2007 on Alternet.org

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