Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Ha, proof that Thomas and myself have much in common.

"These people all came from cold climates. I mean, would Kierkegaard have been Kierkegaard if he had been born and lived in Santo Domingo and played a great game of baseball? Did these guys ever truly enjoy a pizza? Can you have faith and love to dance the merengue? What would they have thought of an incarnation if they loved salsa, or swayed to the exquisite melody of the Puerto Rican danza? Thank God for Aquinas, who was Latin and fat."
- Lorenzo Albacete, God at the Ritz, p. 190

We have a latino (FOS) who knows how to eat and how to break a move; and I am not talking about Aristotle's celestial bodies either.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Pentagon: Homosexuality Is a Mental Disorder

Pentagon: Homosexuality Is a Mental Disorder

A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists homosexuality alongside mental retardation and personality disorders.

Critics said the reference underscores the Pentagon's failing policies on gays, and adds to a culture that has created uncertainty and insecurity around the treatment of homosexual service members, leading to anti-gay harassment.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeremy M. Martin said the policy document is under review.

The Pentagon has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits the military from inquiring about the sex lives of service members but requires discharges of those who openly acknowledge being gay.

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