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Voting on the Word of God
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2012
My husband and I attended a “Straight for Equality” event sponsored by PFLAG yesterday. PFLAG–for those who don’t know the acronym–stands for Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays; the organization has 350+ chapters in the US and abroad. ”Straight for Equality” is an advocacy campaign the national organization has just launched. The President [...]
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Different Worlds
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on April 30th, 2012
One of my husband’s favorite stories about his college years concerns a wealthy fraternity brother who, upon learning of the pregnancy of another member’s wife, congratulated him and asked him whether the happy couple had hired a governess yet. A couple of days ago, Mitt Romney spoke to a group of college students worried about [...]
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Allen and Joe
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on April 12th, 2012
After he called members of Congress’ Progressive Caucus “Communists,” several commentators compared Congressman Allen West to Joe McCarthy. It’s a bad comparison. McCarthy’s charges were dishonest at best, paranoid at worst, and he did a lot of damage to a lot of of people and to the country as a whole. But give him credit [...]
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The Bullies’ Pulpit
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights, Uncategorized on March 17th, 2012
A few statistics: 9 out of 10 LGBT students experience harassment at school, and LGBT teens are bullied 2 to 3 times as much as straight teens. More than 1/3 of LGBT kids have attempted suicide. LGBT kids are 4 times as likely to attempt suicide than are their straight peers. For every lesbian, gay, and [...]
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Privatization, Local Edition
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Uncategorized on March 15th, 2012
I was recently asked to speak to a study committee of the local League of Women Voters about privatization on the local level. As I told them, a fair amount of my academic research has focused on privatization–or more accurately, contracting out. Privatization, as Morton Marcus frequently notes, is what Margaret Thatcher did in England: [...]
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