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He doesn't carrot all about about gay equality
2008-06-04 23:35:00 It's a sad day for this writer. For I have just found out that the dude behind a carrot juice that I regularly drink, William Bolthouse, has donated $100,000 in support of California's anti-gay constitutional amendment: Local carrot farmer donates...
By: Good As You
Equality in Education: Boys > Girls
2008-06-02 00:01:00 It was assumed that men were just better than women at math and science, but a recent study suggests that the lovely ladies are equally equipped to dominate at these subjects. A study (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_-releases/2008-05/msl-btm_105230-8.php), led in part by Kellogg School of Management Professor Paola Sapienza looked at over data from over 276,000 students in over 40 countries. What were the results? In a nutshell the study suggest that what we have come to believe about the differences in male and female inherent aptitudes can be discarded. For instance, the data from US schools showed that boys performed nearly 10% better than girls in areas like math and science. That 10% disparity is actually the average gap worldwide between the genders. The study also showed that US girls had to deal with the 23rd ranked GGI (gender gap index). Being 23rd isn't anything to brag about since it placed the US in the lower half of the countries in the study. The GGI is an...
Equality in Education: Boys > Girls
2008-06-02 00:01:00 It was assumed that men were just better than women at math and science, but a recent study suggests that the lovely ladies are equally equipped to dominate at these subjects. A study (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_-releases/2008-05/msl-btm_105230-8.php), led in part by Kellogg School of Management Professor Paola Sapienza looked at over data from over 276,000 students in over 40 countries. What were the results? In a nutshell the study suggest that what we have come to believe about the differences in male and female inherent aptitudes can be discarded. For instance, the data from US schools showed that boys performed nearly 10% better than girls in areas like math and science. That 10% disparity is actually the average gap worldwide between the genders. The study also showed that US girls had to deal with the 23rd ranked GGI (gender gap index). Being 23rd isn't anything to brag about since it placed the US in the lower half of the countries in the study. The GGI is an...
More progress on marriage equality
2008-05-29 12:25:00 After seeing those Field Poll numbers this morning, I suspect there will be more Blue State governors and legislatures willing to hop on the bandwagon. Like New York. Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California ...
The California Supreme Court Decision: Civil Equality Trumps Religious Bigo
2008-05-23 09:51:00 by Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D. The ruling had been anticipated for months. Gay Americans hoped theyd be recognized as equals and gain the right to the civil institution called marriage. The Christianist Right held their breath knowing that when put to the ultimate test, discrimination always loses. The California Supreme Court decision was announced at 10 AM (PDT) on 15 May 2008. Both sides won, sort of. In a May 17, 2006 editorial The New York Times summarized: The California Supreme Court brought the United States a step closer to fulfilling its ideals of equality and justice with its momentous 4-to-3 ruling upholding the right of same-sex couples to marry. Opponents of giving gay couples the respect, benefits, obligations and protections that come with marriage are already mobilizing to try to nullify the historic decision through a proposed state constitutional amendment likely to appear on the November ballot. Still, the California verdict was a major vict...
Equality minister exposes House of Commons diversity scams
2008-05-22 17:47:00 Equality minister Barbara Follett has lifted the lid on diversity scams in the House of Commons. There are only 125 women in Parliament, compared with 520
Some gays are destroying marriage (equality)
2008-05-21 17:15:00 "the gay community shouldn't be celebrating." "This decision does next to nothing for California gays and lesbians, and causes real harm to people who believe in the "old" definition of marriage. It's nothing to be proud of." "Sure, gays and...
By: Good As You
CA Greens celebrate CA Supreme's decicion of marriage equality
2008-05-21 13:35:00 The Wilders show that the CA Greens are pointing to the Democrats and Republicans and asking them, "What took you so long?"Love is the only thing I know of that is stronger than hate.
Why (the term) ?Marriage Equality? Troubles Me
2008-05-17 02:40:00 Not long after marriage because the cause du jour of gay activists, the term “marriage equality” came to define their movement. So prominent has this term become that a google search (with the expression in quotation marks) yields over 2 million hits. No fewer than 2,884 news articles on yesterday’s California Supreme Court ...
By: GayPatriot
5/15/08: The marriage equality tipping point?
2008-05-14 19:37:00 Hold on to your hats, marriage-craving gays: We've just learned that the California Supreme Court will rule TOMORROW on whether or not to embrace marriage equality in the Golden State! EEK! Non-ring-adorned fingers crossed, everyone! **SEE ALSO: To prepare yourself,...
By: Good As You
PPP Finds New Allies
2008-04-29 22:00:00 Some of the veteran and experienced political analysts were predicting even before the February 18th elections, that now establishment has changed gears and it would use PML-Q as escape goat, while bringing PPP as it’s replacement and MQM, JUI-F, ANP and other would join PPP in the coalition government, while forward blocks of PML-Q would ...
Judges Restoration : Nawaz Sharif?s Personal Vendetta
2008-04-26 17:00:00 Though Pakistan People’s Party is objectively, pragmatically and sagaciously trying to harness the independence of judiciary in Pakistan, PML-N which revolves around the personality of Nawaz Sharif is just trying to equalize their scores with President General (r) Pervez Musharraf by restoring the judges and especially Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary. Nawaz Sharif and his close aides like ...
[Interesting] Solicitor-general is pushing a law equality through parliamen
2008-04-21 06:32:00 Smh.com.au
Yea, gay equality is P.C.: 'Patently Correct'!
2008-04-18 17:17:00 In a piece for The Conservative Voice, a writer by the name of Jeff Morton has posited the following "brilliance" about gay-acceptance in public schools: The Homosexual agenda has been kicking our butts for thirty years. 1% of our total...
By: Good As You
Temps equality Bill to exclude IT and engineering contractors
2008-04-07 10:31:00 A controversial Bill that would give temps and agency workers equal ri
A tale of 2 Americas: marriage equality then & now
2008-03-19 06:25:00 The first “American” perspective you will read below is from the parts of our country that are trying to turn back the equality progre2 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
The Parrot in the Cage
2008-03-13 20:56:00 Anyone familiar with Jodorowsky’s ‘El Topo‘, will vividly recall the opening scene, in which El Topo leads his son, naked on horseback, into the desert. There, he instructs him to bury his first toy and a photo of his mother. ?You are seven years old?, he tells him, “You are a man?. This is inconceivable ...
By: Uncommon Sense
I Need to Believe?
2008-03-11 06:17:00 One of the biggest myths about atheists, is that “we believe in nothing”… …a statement which could not be more false. While I can not provide you with any “party line” list of “what atheists believe”, I can tell you that every atheist individual is unique, and holds trust in a variety of things. I, for one, trust ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Spitzer swallows equality push? Or will Paterson step it up?
2008-03-11 00:00:00 Eliot Spitzer might have been the first governor in the nation to voluntarily introduce marriage equality legislation. But could a Spitzer resignation actually help LGBT rights? The Advocate's fabulous Kerry Eleveld takes a look at that possibility: Could Spitzer's Woes...
By: Good As You
Equality Quotes
2008-03-11 00:00:00 Sometimes I have to remind myself that we are not alone in this struggle for Equal rights. History has shown us that there have been many brave men and women who have helped pave the way for equality. Below are just a few quotes that lift my spirits and remind me that mankind does have the capacity to understand equality for EVERYONE, even if it is taking longer than we had hoped. Yet, there
Onus Upon Pakistanis
2008-03-09 00:00:00 The road to good governance may be long and arduous, the journey has now begun. With the liberal and democratic forces not only gaining heavy mandate but also joining hands, there is lot of optimism in the air and things are looking promising, if not rosy in the long run. If both PPP and PML-N honestly ...
Equality Leads to Better Sex and More Happiness
2008-03-06 14:23:00 People in more developed countries have better, more satisfying sex than in the poorer countries. This is mainly because in developed countries people are healthier and in better shape and there is also more sex related information available. But how about differences between developed countries? A global study conducted by sociologist Edward Laumann, who is ...
By: 中国糖尿病网
Marriage Equality Goes Before the California Supreme Court
2008-02-29 21:42:00 It has taken four years for the legal battle over California's marriage equality to reach the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, March 4th at 9:00 am, California's seven Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments in the San Francisco marriage case that was launched in March of 2004. This case challenges the constitutionality of state law that discriminates against same-sex couples in marriage. The
London Mayor Ken Livingstone urges equality legislation to close gender pay
2008-02-29 11:33:00 Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has again urged the government to introduce tough new equality legislation following a report that found the capital's gender pay gap is higher
Obama will divide, not unite, says UK equality chief
2008-02-28 21:03:00 Found this article via Riehl World View Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UKâs Equality and Human Rights Commission, is likely to stir up a hornetâs nest after claiming that Barack Obama might prolong racial divisions in the US, rather than heal them, if he becomes President.In an article entitled âHealing postponedâ, which appears in the new ...
Enforcing equality
2008-02-21 14:29:00 Megan McArdle references Tyler Cowen in pointing out the plight of those who want to supplement their NHS treatment privately:Patients have been paying extra for treatments not covered by the NHS, while still getting the majority of their treatment on the government's dime. Now the NHS is cracking down."Patients âcannot, in one episode of treatment, be treated on the N.H.S. and then allowed, as part of the same episode and the same treatment, to pay money for more drugs,â the health secretary, Alan Johnson, told Parliament."The article is about an important problem for public health systems: politically, they find it very hard to tolerate any inequality of access to treatment, but even harder to finance all the treatment people might demand, or to forbid rich people to take life-saving actions. But it hints at another problem for Europe's health care systems. It strikes me that for a long time Europe managed to keep its health care costs down because patients had relatively li...
By: Don't trip up
Dilemma of growth vs equality
2008-02-17 21:28:00 The political economy of India is dominated by discussions between those who favour growth-oriented policies and those who are on the side of poverty alleviation. The apparent conflict between these two schools of thought is not that really ...8 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
Equality- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-02-09 12:36:00 We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. --Konrad Adenauer (1876-1976)Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. -- Honore de BalzacNothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.--DescartesEquality of opportunity and equality of result are entirely alien to each other. Men are entitled to equal rights - but to equal rights to unequal things.Charles James FoxThe heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.... This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in another.- Milton FriedmanMen are born equal but they are also born different. ~Erich FrommFrom the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and...
By: Christian Quoter
March 4 equality gets March 4 booking
2008-02-07 00:00:00 Well, we knew it was coming sooner rather than later, but now we have an official date. The California Supreme Court has announced that they will finally take up the issue of marriage equality on March 4, at which time...
By: Good As You
Help Stop An Anti-Equality Marriage Amendment
2008-02-02 08:01:00 In 2006, California became the first state to prevent an effort by right-wing radicals and religious extremists to qualify an anti-equality marriage amendment on the California state ballot. In a renewed effort to place a discriminatory constitutional amendment onto the California ballot this November, these conservative organizations have hired paid signature gatherers to do their dirty work.
Women get bra price equality
2008-02-01 08:36:00 Forty years after feminists threatened to burn their bras, British women have won another battle in the fight for equality. Asda, Britain's second-biggest food retailer and owned by U.S. giant Wal-Mart, says it will no longer charge women more for bigger bras in its George fashion range. "We're putting an end once and for all to one of the last prejudices -- that of the bigger-busted woman," said brand director Fiona Lambert in a statement. "From now on, all bras at George will be exactly the same price from A cup through to F cup."
By: Attuworld
Equality of Brotherhood
2008-01-30 13:21:00 The church influenced society by instituting the equality of brotherhood (in contrast to differences in rank and station) both by abolishing all artificial demarcations between men and by joining rich and poor in one holy food at the Lord's Supper. The communion service is a symbol of the unity that binds us together not only in our common humanity but, more important, as those who have collapsed under the same guilt and have been saved by the same sacrifice in Christ.âș Abraham Kuyper, The Problem of Poverty (ed. James W. Skillen), 41.What Skillen adds as an endnote to Kuyper's words is also noteworthy. He notes that the church must engage in a mission that is all-encompassing. For "the church was organized not only to seek the eternal welfare of its followers, but also to remove social injustices. Exactly because of its divine simplicity, this organization brought forth a double fruit. It follows that the church forsakes its principle when it is only concerned with heaven...
By: café de soirée
The Pursuit of Equality Screening in San Francisco
2008-01-28 22:54:00 In celebration of the 4th Anniversary of the historic San Francisco weddings, AT&T and PG&E are having a special screening of PURSUIT OF EQUALITY, Directed by Geoff Callan & Mike Shaw. By issuing same-sex marriage licenses, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom uproots the status quo, attempts to change the way the nation looks at life, love, and marriage, and ignites what may become our nation?s
Talking With Jesus: "Perfect Equality"
2008-01-26 14:00:00 M: Maybe if I cloistered myself in a monastery and continued this for several years I would then be able to realize and experience what you teach. Unfortunately, I must participate in my life and life is chock full to the brim with fears in the form of worry, depression anger, etc. I still do not see how I can get beyond fear? J: In desiring to get âbeyondâ that which does NOT exist, your belief in its existence is certified. Nevertheless, fear is a delusion that you believe crucial to your survival. Examine closely how much of your life is spent in negotiating YOUR fear in all of its blatant and subtle manifestations.Fear demands self-protection and it is this need to protect your âselfâ which bars the gate from learning that you are eternally secure and in need of nothing. Recall that I have informed you that love and fear are the only paradigms available through which to PERCEIVE your world. I have chosen one, but you have yet to choose and only one choice CAN be made....
By: Life Attract
MassEquality Unveils "Equality Agenda"
2008-01-23 17:03:00 If you've ever heard right-wing commentators denouncing the "gay agenda" and wondered "What's that? Why didn't I get the memo?", worry no more. MassEquality, the grass-roots activist group that helped secure equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians in Massachusetts, has just announced its "Equality Agenda". These policy initiatives represent the next steps toward full equality for people of every sexual orientation and gender identity. Proposals include: Add gender identity and gender expression as protected categories under the state's nondiscrimination- laws. Increase funding for "safe schools" (anti-bullying) programs. Pass the MassHealth Equality Bill, which would give married same-sex couples the same Medicaid benefits as straight married couples. Increase funding for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, and for domestic-violence prevention services that address the special needs of GLBT couples. In a separate initiative, MassEquality will...
By: Reiter's Block
Sunderland takes online route to deliver diversity and equality training
2008-01-17 12:26:00 Sunderland City Council has launched an online training course to ensure that its 14,500 staff are up to speed with diversity
Campaigning and Litigating Against Equality: The Christianist Way
2008-01-17 05:52:00 by Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D. On 8 January 2007, the theologically-challenged leader of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, Washington launched a campaign to have his followers load up on Microsoft Corp. stock, in an attempt to force the company to stop financing ungodly ventures. The ungodly ventures Rev. Ken Hutcherson wants Microsoft to stop are the companys non-discrimination policies and its support for equal civil rights for all Americans. According to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Hutcherson has created a new organization, AGN Financial Network, to finance the effort. The worldwide venture asks people to buy three shares of company stock and donate one to AGN. Its Web site tells visitors, You have the power to change the world, and contains tips on how to open a brokerage account. Among the listed supporters are Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and religious pundit Gary Bauer. [links added] Our company policies are well-known...
Roughage vs. Roughing up equality: both hard to digest
2008-01-17 00:00:00 Today at the Capitol Building in Des Moines, those Iowans who are trying to ban gay marriage in the Hawkeye State are holding a "Let Us Vote" rally. Meanwhile, back at our headquarters in NYC, we who are trying to...
By: Good As You
Alain Ducasse, The Dorchester and social equality
2008-01-16 21:51:00 I am passionate about food and I always read restaurant critics but I am probably even more passionate about social equality, I found the following article and review really excellent. It is about the Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester but as the article points out Alan Ducasse is not there at all, he is probably ...
By: Marco Secchi
Equality commission ends funding for Cleveland women?s equal pay case and c
2008-01-15 10:46:00 The Equality and Human Rights Commission has withdrawn funding for an equal pay case being brought by 800 women against Cleveland Borough Council. Britain's equalities watchdog said it was concerned that a ruling in the cas
A change in paradigm?
2008-01-07 11:07:00 Maybe, it is just catching me off guard…Maybe, I’m just to accustomed to seeing the majority of child lovers retreating to shelter, and covering up from the world?… …Maybe it is because I’ve never been a member of a “face to face”, “on the streets” group like NAMBLA?… …but, I just have not arrived at that place ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Equality in Fighting for Solutions
2008-01-01 03:31:00 Equality in Fighting for SolutionsBy Andrew Stratton There are whatever countries where men and women are not thoughtful to be equal. The women are said to be base are sequential to obey the orders ordered downbound by the men. However, the digit Atlantic where they are coequal crossways the sphere is when it comes to bedevilment ...
Blessed Holiday Season!
2007-12-17 22:23:00 Eid El-Adha Greetings to my readers, may God show us all the right path and bestow peace on earth upon his creation! ?And thus have We willed you to be a community of the middle way, so that, with your lives, you might bear witness to the truth before all mankind, and that the Apostle might bear ...
By: Islam for Women
?The Persecution Delusion? Delusion (A response to Wikisposure)
2007-12-17 03:59:00 Nobody likes to be called a bully?and how an individual or a group of people get into a position of power in which they can fill the shoes of ?the bully? is a cultural barometer used time and again to evaluate the actions of the great bullies of history?yet we have seen recently the rise ...
By: Uncommon Sense
F1: McLaren to dump equality policy and let Hamilton lead in 2008?
2007-12-07 22:21:00 Wannabe pole-sitters hoping to join Lewis Hamilton at McLaren for 2008, then leapfrog him to the championship, look to be facing disappointment. McLaren CEO Martin Whitmarsh has hinted the team may quietly suspend its traditional equality policy next year and make Lewis Hamilton its number one driver in all but name.
By: Brits on Pole
Martin Whitmarsh on Driver Equality
2007-12-04 20:34:00 Today Martin Whitmarsh, CEO of McLaren commented on their ‘equal driver’ policy making world championship challenges that much more difficult. McLaren have emphasized recently that despite the controversy surrounding Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, both drivers are equal. Now many race fans, especially those who aren’t McLaren fans will continue to dispute this, some passionately ...
By: F1 ToGo
Equality Of Witnesses
2007-12-02 20:22:00 Question:Why are two witnesses who are women, equivalent to only one witness who is a man ?Answer By Dr Zakir Naik:It is not true that two female witnesses are always considered as equal to only one male witness. It is true only in certain cases. There are about five verses in the Qur?an that mention witnesses, without specifying male or female. There is only one verse in the Qur?an, that says two female witnesses are equal to one male witness. This verse is Surah Baqarah, chapter 2 verse 282. This is the longest verse in the Qur?an and deals with financial transactions. It says:"Oh! ye who believe!When ye deal with each other,in transactions involving future obligationin a fixed period of timereduce them to writing and get two witnessesout of your own men and if there are not two men,then a man and two women, such as ye choose,for witnesses so that if one of them errsthe other can remind her."[Al-Qur?an 2:282]This verse of the Qur?an deals only with financial transactions. In such ...
2008 Buying for Equality Guide
2007-11-27 13:16:00 Now that we upon the holiday shopping season, the question arises as to where to spend your money. Whether small or large, our dollars add up and show our support for those companies that we do business with.To help you in your consumer consideration - I've scaled down the full 2008 Buying for Equality Guide to some of the best of; check out the full guide for all companies listed.The companies listed here are the best of the best in the report - those that scored in the top rating of supporting equitable and progressive labor practices. Please note that I've only included brand names, as the lists are thankfully long.Where to Fill Up - BP, Amoco, Chevron, Caltex, Texaco, Shell Oil* We should note that sadly Exxon Mobile scored the worst of all gas companies. James & I currently hold stock here and I think we'll be seriously considering looking elsewhere and letting them know why.Where to Shop - Best Buy, Future Shop, Geek Squad, Magnolia Home Theater, Borders, Waldenbook...
The 2008 Buying for Equality Guide Now Available
2007-11-23 13:36:00 You support equal rights, regardless of age, gender, race, color, creed, religion, sexual identity, class... but you may not be aware of how to support those same equal rights in your daily life, with your daily spending for yourself and your family, and your hard earned
Spitzer swallows marriage equality, but to what degree?
2007-11-17 00:00:00 NY's Eliot Spitzer, the only governor in the nation to ever voluntarily introduce a marriage equality bill into the legislature, has once again publicly expressed his support for getting the measure passed in the Empire State. However, to what degree...
By: Good As You
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