http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/equality/ en-us Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:55:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2403991/posts LONDON (CNS) -- The Catholic bishops of England and Wales said they could be at risk of prosecution under a proposed law unless they accept women, sexually active gays and transsexuals as candidates to the priesthood. They made their claims in a briefing for Catholic members of the House of Lords, Britain's upper political chamber, ahead of a scheduled Dec. 15 debate on the Equality Bill, which aims to stamp out discrimination in the workplace. The bishops said the bill defines priests as employees rather than officeholders. Under the terms of the bill, the church would be immune from prosecution... cns http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2403991/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346474/posts WND reports that "A school district in Arizona has come under fire after a newspaper columnist highlighted the district's newly adopted racial policy and called it a "two-tiered form of student discipline: one for black and Hispanic students; one for everyone else." According to the columnist [Doug MacEachern] "TUSD [Tucson Unified School District] principals and disciplinarians…are being asked to set two standards of behavior for their students…Some behavior will be met with strict penalties; some will not. It all depends on the color of the student's skin." School district officials claim they are just trying to correct racial discrimination in... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346474/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:50:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346418/posts In an era where our destiny is shared, power is no longer a zero-sum game," Obama said. "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. That is the future America wants." Yahoo News via AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346418/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:49:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344799/posts Liberal Professor Mr. Tugan-Baranovsky is on the war path against socialism. This time he has approached the question, not from the political and economic angle, but from that of an abstract discussion on equality (perhaps the professor thought such an abstract discussion more suitable for the religious and philosophical gatherings which he has addressed?). "If we take socialism, not as an economic theory, but as a living ideal," Mr. Tugan declared, "then, undoubtedly, it is associated with the ideal of equality, but equality is a concept . . . that cannot be deduced from experience and reason." This is the... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344799/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:18:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326433/posts Nodding to Professor Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr. at his Whaling Church panel discussion Achieving Equality in the Age of Obama last night, Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell shook her head and said: ”If you had told me this time last year, when we were all pretty emotionally up and excited, even though George W. Bush was still our President, that we would actually feel worse a year later, when Barack Obama was our President, about questions of race in America, I would have told you you were lying.” Yet Mr. Gates acknowledged his part in bringing down the mood nationwide... Vinyard Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326433/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:06:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314213/posts KANO, Nigeria -- As military rule ended in Nigeria a decade ago, an Islamic legal system was swept into place on a wave of popular support...It has turned out in a way few expected. The draconian amputation sentences have mostly not come to pass. But neither has the utopia envisioned by backers of sharia law, who believed politicians' promises that it would end decades of corruption and pillaging by civilian and military rulers. The people are still poor and miserable and politicians are still rich. How the battles over sharia play out could have effects beyond Nigeria, a nation pivotal... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314213/posts#comment Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:37:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300174/posts URGENT- Petition Congress Join us in sending this petition to the U.S. Congress! Demand that they enroll under the President's Healthcare System if they want it for us! They have exempted themselves from the proposed healthcare system. If it is good enough for us- it is good enough for them. Send it to your family and friends! Click on the link: http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/goodenoughforcongress Center for Health Transformation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300174/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2300059/posts What exactly does Mr. Obama mean by disproportionately? African Americans and Latinos make up 28% of the U.S. population, but commit 60% of the crimes in the country. A non-racist would have said that he didn't have the facts and could not comment. He let the proverbial cat out of the bag. We now know exactly what he thinks. All the spinning by the White House can't change what he believes. "Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that," Mr. Obama continued. "But I think it's fair to... Raging Debate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2300059/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:44:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298065/posts Today in our society's quest for racial equality all we have accomplished is allowing one double standard to merely be replaced by another double standard. This is hardly progress. Crosshairs - Opinions and Commentary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298065/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:02:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286087/posts STATE GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN SO CLOWNISH, SO EVIL, SO IRRELEVANT Having witnessed the anarchy, chaos and lack of leadership that has engulfed the state Capitol during the past month, I have a painful confession to make. After three decades as a journalist covering state government, if I had to do it all over again, I'd find another job. I've covered Govs. Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson and for New York to wind up like this after 35 years of modern leadership, it's clear to me that my real job has been to chronicle... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286087/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:36:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250396/posts From a best-selling novelist, a heartfelt and deeply provocative message for the Cabinet's equality zealot. Last week, I had lunch with a group of remarkably successful women. They worked in advertising, and among them were the creative director of a major firm in New York, the head of research of a company in London, and the copywriting chief of one of the biggest firms in Manhattan. All of them were married and had a child or two, and they all clearly earned a lot of money and had plenty of fun, in and out of the office. You might think... Dail Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250396/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 23:51:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250182/posts A native of Mozambique has sued a New Jersey medical school, saying he was suspended for defining himself in class as a "white African-American." Paulo Serodio, 45, is of Portuguese descent. But his family has lived in Mozambique for several generations. He told ABC News that he got into trouble at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark in March 2006 when an instructor, Dr. Kathy Ann Duncan, led students in a discussion, asking them for self-definitions. Serodio's description of himself upset some other students, and he said Duncan later told him never to call himself... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250182/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 18:58:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246446/posts For the past few years, I’ve been arguing that those who like to be called “liberals” should instead be called statists. You know these people. They are the ones who, full of righteous indignation, speak incessantly of injustice and oppression in America. They also speak, in sentences full of smug self-assurance, as if they and only they possess the empathy and intellectual fortitude necessary to provide “solutions” to a host of social “problems” thrust upon a good people by a bad “society.” Edmund Burke was talking about these statists when he said “by (their) unprincipled facility of changing the state... OneNewsNow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246446/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 22:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2232045/posts Why do the most deliberate and sustained attacks on the family so often come from the socialist side of the political spectrum? While modern industrial capitalism puts pressure on the family, this pressure is incidental to the main structures of the market economy. By contrast, the most profound attacks on the family, including easy divorce, abortion and same sex marriage, have come deliberately from Socialism, not as its unintended by-product. My purpose today is to show that the socialist ideal of equality has played an independent role in the breakdown of the family. Socialism, which has grown up in parallel... www.jennifer-roback-morse.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2232045/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:10:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2217927/posts They called it history-making here in Minneapolis. Yesterday, Elissa Reinsma became the first female to compete in the state high school wrestling tournament. It was not a step forward. Some cultures spend a thousand years unlearning the brutality of men toward women. Council on Biblical Manhood, Womanhood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2217927/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:13:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198338/posts E.J. Dionne asked a question in his column yesterday that would seem to allow for a quick and easy answer, especially to those who don't bother to think about what he's really asking: Do We Want a More Equal Society? The central issue in American politics now is whether the country should reverse a three-decade long trend of rising inequality in incomes and wealth. Dionne begins this exercise by establishing as fact something that may be true to numbers, but is certainly not true to truth. First, Dionne completely ignores the fact that every group has increased its time adjusted... Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198338/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:52:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2194270/posts Old, but fascinating analysis of what modern liberalism is about: "Modern liberalism is a leftist and nihilistic rebellion against the inherently unequal nature of the human condition. If we conservatives named this ideology for what it is, we would have a fair chance to defeat it or at least stem its advance. But if we go on imagining that leftists are liberals who share with us a common moral consensus as Americans—if we continue to regard their hateful assaults on us and our institutions as expressions of "silly" political correctness rather than of their fundamental drive to abolish our system... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2194270/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174611/posts With President Obama’s signing today of a new federal law, the size of your paycheck may become just a little more interesting to your co-workers. Enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is likely to spark many employees’ interest in possible pay discrimination. The measure will remove obstacles to lawsuits on the issue by reversing a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that refuted pay-discrimination charges by Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Alabama. The high court had rejected Ms. Ledbetter’s claim because it wasn’t filed within the 180-day statute of limitations. The new legislation... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174611/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2135577/posts On election night the majority voted that marriage is acceptable only for heterosexual couples. But most registered domestic partnerships in California are heterosexual as well. Some heterosexuals choose this over marriage because the federal government does not recognize domestic partnerships. Thus an individual can qualify for certain federal benefits, such as supplemental security income, in a domestic partnership but not in a marriage. Couples in domestic partnerships can also file federal tax returns as individuals and avoid the marriage penalty. Excerpt from California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility Pasadena Sub Rosa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2135577/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2132775/posts VAY — The U.S. Secret Service is being asked to review a sign a Bonner County landowner put up which suggests a "free public hanging" of President-elect Barack Obama and several other political figures. The handmade cardboard sign also features a noose fashioned from a length of nylon rope. "That's a political statement. They can call it whatever they want, a threat or whatever," said Ken Germana, who installed the sign on his property off Golden Gate Road in southwestern Bonner County. Obama's name is the most prominent on the sign, although it also bears the names of former Democrat... www.bonnercountydailybee.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2132775/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:56:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104289/posts Two solitudes In Canada, the expression "two solitudes" was traditionally used to describe relations between the English and French, two founding "nations" (in the French sense of the word) "warring within the bosom" of our one "nation" (in the English sense). This has become somewhat dated, for under our official state policy of "multiculturalism," today it would be more accurate to refer to "innumerable solitudes." The idea of "two solitudes" itself we lifted from Benjamin Disraeli (our invisible Father of Confederation, in so many ways), who applied it to the "two nations" he thought had formed within early Victorian Britain,... davidwarrenonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104289/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:44:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073506/posts "There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once remarked. Where, then, are the liberal women when it comes to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin? Palin became the first woman to grace a Republican ticket on Friday, August 29, when Senator John McCain selected her as his running mate. The following day, a diarist at the mainstream left-wing Daily Kos (Barack Obama himself appeared as a Kos diarist back in 2005) suggested without any evidence whatsoever that Sarah Palin's son, Trig, recently born and with Down syndrome, was... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073506/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 04:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2068294/posts NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player -- too good, it turns out. The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said. Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other... Sports Illustrated http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2068294/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:28:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060643/posts To avoid recent rules which insist on better women’s representation on company boards, a number of firms are changing their status from public limited companies (ASA) to ordinary limited companies (AS), which have no such requirements. Recent rules require more women on company boards. Sanctions for not reaching a minimum 40 percent of both sexes, include companies being forced to disband. From 2006 to the present, 199 ASA’s have reregistered as AS-companies. A total of 138 companies have done the opposite, writes daily newspaper Aftenposten. Social scientist Marit Hoel thinks that it is primarily smaller companies which have changed status... http://www.aftenposten.no/english http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060643/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:19:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059247/posts This morning, I read the magazine What Is Enlightenment that Glenn picked up for me from a local health food store because the cover had a number of articles about men including "Constructing the New Man," "19 Powerful Women Tell the Truth about Men," and "A Scandalous Look at Scandinavia: Where women are women and men are too." Uh, okay, I thought, this can't be good, it's a magazine from a crunchy organic healthfood store with what I assumed would be a somewhat biased picture of the male gender complete with articles describing how men should be more like women.... Dr. Helen blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059247/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:29:53 GMT