Okay, what is it with you gay people, anyway? Take what you have managed to do to children’s cartoons: if recruiting Bert and Ernie wasn’t bad enough, you then sent Twinkie Winkie into the nation’s kindergartens with your none-too-subtle message about the desirability of the homosexual lifestyle. Now–crafty perverts that you are–you?ve made Sponge-Bob Square-Pants a soldier in the army of evil, and sent him off to do battle in the Great American Culture War. Have you no shame?
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Author Archives: Sheila
Faith-Based Parks
Even ardent defenders of the First Amendment?s Religion Clauses will concede that we encounter all kinds of gray areas when we are trying to keep government and religion in their proper, respective places. For example, if church-state separation means anything, it means tax dollars cannot pay the salaries of clergy?but what about in time of war? When government deploys American troops, shouldn?t we make religious personnel available to our soldiers, even if it is at taxpayer expense?
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The Mystery of Bigotry
There are some behaviors I have never been able to really understand—things I just can’t get my head around, as my students might put it.
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Charitable Choice and the Faith Based Initiative
Before President Bush’s "faith-based initiative" there was Charitable Choice.
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Sam Jones
When Sam Jones, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Urban League, received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from IU a couple of years back, Chancellor Gerald Bepko introduced him by saying, "In Indianapolis, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who does not know of Sam’s work or has not benefited in some way from his engagement with community issues or organizations."
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