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<a href="http://www.press.org/events/fighting-release-imprisoned-former-maldives-president-nasheed-mohamed"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Chris Brann:
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ring His Abducted Son Nico Home From Brazil<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at National Press Club<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>November 17<br />
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Left behind parent Dr. Chris Brann pleads for his son’s
return from Brazil
following an abduction across international borders by the child’s mother at a
Newsmakers press conference, November 7, 2015.</div>
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Anthony Gallo of the Newsmakers Committee introduced the
panel of speakers starting with Chris Brann and told of the pending Newsmaker’s
heart-rending nature. He next introduced David Goldman father of Sean who
was illegally taken to Brazil
by his mother. Ambassador Michele T. Bond and Dr. Brann’s attorney, human
rights lawyer Jared Genser filled the head table as U.S. Congressman Chris
Smith from New Jersey
who passed legislation to fight kidnapping joined later. </div>
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Chris Brann began his story with the 2013 abduction of his
son from Texas to Brazil. After meeting his
future wife, Marcelle, while attending graduate school in Houston, they married in 2008 and their son
Nico was born in 2009. As their marriage was failing, Marcelle planned a
nominal vacation to attend a relative’s wedding. Dr. Brann admitted his
fears that Nico would not return and actively sought to insure against the
possibility of abduction. Despite his circumspection, Marcelle enacted a
premeditated plan to prevent Nico’s return to his father.</div>
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Becoming emotional as he further told of his son’s removal,
Brann also described how Marcelle’s parents were actively involved in
preventing Nico’s return to the U.S.
Brann claimed that a school owned by his former in-laws was used to manufacture
fraudulent documents used to further his son’s stay in Brazil.</div>
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Jared Genser a human rights attorney representing Chris
Brann took his turn at the podium charging that Brazilian Federal Judge Arali
Maciel Duarte is guilty of malpractice and negligent in using a law designed to
prevent child abduction across international borders as justification for
keeping Nico in Brazil
with his mother. Genser continued with a description of the legal
framework upon which his case is based. </div>
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Ambassador Michele T. Bond an assistant secretary with the
U.S. Department of State next spoke stating how the State Department places the
highest priority on U.S. citizens traveling abroad but especially children, as
they cannot adequately speak for themselves and are dependent upon the actions
of adults. Ambassador Bond cited the work her bureau does with cases of
IPCA or International Parental Child Abduction and said her bureau, working
with law enforcement, has on several occasions prevented parental child
abductions as they were happening. Bond described additional tools
parents have that can prevent abductions including passport issuance
restrictions and the use of <i>demarches</i> or official protests to the
offending country by the state department. </div>
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The late arriving congressman next spoke stating, “Every
year, an estimated 1000 american children are unlawfully removed from
their homes by one of their parents and taken across international borders.”
Congressman Smith further declared that child abduction is child abuse.
Representative Smith introduced David Goldman, father of Sean Goldman in whose
name legislation was enacted to prevent cases of parental abduction.</div>
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As Mr. Goldman relives his ordeal in the description he
gives, he struggles to maintain control of his emotional response. He
described how the act bearing his name was designed to give the necessary tools
to the government to pressure non-compliant countries into following the Hague Convention
addressing child abduction. He also stated that Brazil his
defied this act nine times. At the conclusion of his remarks, he
apologized for his emotions and embraced Chris Brann in support.</div>
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Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-87030916785071629502015-10-12T11:06:00.001-07:002015-10-12T11:06:14.170-07:00Does God's Will Change? by Anthony E. Gallo<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BUT DOES GOD’S WILL CHANGE?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Anthony E. Gallo</span></b></div>
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Dare we ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should
we ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or has God’s mind already
changed and we missed out? </div>
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Here we might tread lightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We remember the Biblical warning that God’s ways are not our ways and
our ways are not God’s Ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
acknowledge the Jewish adage that our arms are too short to box with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we all know the story of the Tower of Babel when men got too smart for its
britches and its tower came falling down. </div>
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However, is it time to assess within the Jewish-Christian dialogue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All religions, even atheism and agnosticism,
want to do the right thing, to foster morality and social responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While persons of faith want to do the right
thing pursuing the will of God, atheists and agnostics simply want to do the
right thing. </div>
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Western civilization’s cultural, political, and aesthetic
foundations are grounded to a great extent in the ancient Greek and Roman
cultures, the product of the Golden Age of Jewish, Christian and Muslim
dialogue in Spain,
the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our religious and ethical mores however are more clearly descended from
the Hebrew Scriptures, which represent over a millennium of the experience and
divinely inspired reflection of God’s People, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus’ teaching, epitomized in the New Testament in the Sermon on the
Mount, distills this ancient Jewish, biblical wisdom, and closely parallels the
moral vision not only of the Hebrew prophets but of Jewish rabbinic tradition
which reflected on the Scriptures and how to apply them in ever-changing times,
much in the way the Fathers of the Church developed the biblical tradition
which they held sacred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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American tradition holds to the separation of Church and
State and allows for the free exchange of all views, religious and
philosophical, in a pluralistic society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some would call this a secular state, but the reality is more nuanced. The
Bible, variously interpreted, is very much the underlying document upon which
our moral code is based.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It continues to
be a major source of light on our understanding of justice and
righteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Founding Fathers, while reflecting the
Enlightenment, were deeply entrenched in the moral values of Judaism and Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Our Declaration of Independence acknowledges faith in a Supreme
God who created humankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who
signed it believed that they were following the laws of God, the providence of
God, and the judgment of God even though, again, they acknowledged their own
diversity of interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was this
resolution, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>celebration of diversity within an overall
union of national purpose, that set the American experiment apart from all
societies in human history which had preceded it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French revolution, which did not begin
until 1789, the year our Constitution was ratified by the former American
colonies, sought to embody the same principle of unity within diversity, though
its road to eventual success proved to be more difficult and fraught with
internal violence <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and discord before it
achieved that goal.</div>
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While God is not mentioned in the US, Constitution, God is mentioned
today in the constitutions of nearly all of our fifty states, and all
territories mention God, sometimes as often at ten times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every American President has taken his oath
of office on at least one Bible, and President Obama took his oath of office on
two Bibles, one belonging to Martin Luther King, Jr., and the other to Abraham
Lincoln, arguably the most biblically literate President in US History. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Lincoln
joined no Church, he mentioned God at least three thousand times by one count
in his speeches, and made no secret of the fact that the Bible (along with the
works of William Shakespeare) was his favorite book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One cannot read his Second Inaugural Address,
probably the most significant in American history, without understanding its
biblical references, allusions with which his original audience was well aware,
since they were in the main steeped in the Scriptures themselves.</div>
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It cannot be denied therefore that the Bible is the foundation
of the understanding of truth and justice in Western civilization in general
and in the United States
in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we also know that
this document has been used though the ages as a basis for justifying a wide
variety of points of view. We have relied on those who speak with authority,
knowledge about how to interpret biblical passages which sometimes they had,
and sometimes they merely asserted they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many of the issues that divide society throughout the world are often
defended on the basis of the Bible. These include stances on gay/lesbian
marriage, polygamy, divorce, ordination of women, abortion, capitol punishment
and numerous others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There are, as commonly understood, two main views of God’s
will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is that God’s will is unbending
and unchanging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another is that God’s
will changes over time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How do we reconcile those
passages which state that God <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">does not</span>
change, with others that seem to suggest that God’s will alters over time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong></div>
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Jewish- Christian Theology is largely based on God speaking
to the human race through Scripture--the Bible, the human heart, prophets and
religious leaders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Genesis, God
changes his mind about destroying the human race in the flood, promising, and
creating the rainbow as a sign of the divine promise, never to do so
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God reconciles Himself to human
evil and sets about creating a special people, the children of Abraham and
Sarah, the Jews, to be a people especially dedicated to observing God’s teachings
and thereby be a witness to and a blessing for all of humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Instead of presuming human goodness, God realizes that it
will take many generations of divine teaching, patience, justice and mercy to
raise this people to the level of faithfulness to the divine will that He
originally hoped humanity would attain from the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
allows Abraham to argue with him to save the righteous few in Sodom when He had originally planned to
destroy the whole city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And God, in one
of the most profound, and to this day still much discussed and variously
interpreted passages in the Bible, orders Abraham to sacrifice his son and
heir, Isaac, only to stay Abraham’s hand at the last moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was this God’s plan all along?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or did the willingness to suffer of Abraham
and Isaac move the divine heart so that God changed his mind about what he had
originally commanded Abraham to do?</div>
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Likewise, the commandments of the Law given by God to Moses
changed with time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The changes reflected
the differing circumstances of tribal societies, early farming settlements, and
more urban settings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One has only to
compare the earlier versions of the many commandments (the ten but many others
as well) in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers with those given in Deuteronomy
(literally, the Second Law) to see what amounts to an evolution of the divine
will and commandments from the earlier versions of the Law with the Pentateuch
to the later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both rabbinic and
Christian commentators over the centuries have worked hard to reconcile these
different versions of the Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern
biblical scholars would not that the essential moral and spiritual principles
remained the same but that specific laws changed to reflect the changing circumstances
of the people of God as the many centuries of human experience reflected in the
Bible passed, one into another over time. </div>
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Though <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the New
Testament was written over a much shorter period of time, approximately a
single century rather than a millennium, one can see such evolution of views in
it as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Epistle to the Hebrews,
written after the destruction of the Temple
in 70 CE, addresses the issue of how to observe the biblical commandments
without a temple within which to offer sacrifice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its author argues that the sacrifice of Jesus
more than compensates for temple offerings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the same period, of course, Jewish tradition was developing its own
theory that study of the Bible, prayer and good works were sufficient
sacrifices to God, in this following and expanding on the biblical prophets
such as Amos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God, having in the past
spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, the
author of Hebrews argues, had something new to say through Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He implies, with good biblical precedent, as
we have seen, that God’s will for humanity does change over time, as humanity
changes and, we would say, evolves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Other examples from over the course of post biblical Jewish
and Christian history are not difficult to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few will be briefly mentioned here.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">USURY</b></div>
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In the Middle Ages, Christians interpreted the biblical
commandment against lending money at exorbitant interest (which we would call
usury) to prohibit lending any money at interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Various decrees first allowed it, and then
prohibited it.</div>
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In one period, both Jews and Christians interpreted the
biblical commandment against lending money at interest to one’s fellows as
meaning that Jews should not lend money to Jews and Christians not to
Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this new
interpretation, both believed that they could lend money at interest to people
outside of their own community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Renaissance Italy, taking advantage of this, Jews and Christians worked
together to create the basis of the modern banking system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Changing times had brought new needs and
possibilities, and the one word of God was reinterpreted to fit them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, the commandment was interpreted
yet again to prohibit lending money at high interest rates that would
impoverish the debtor, and the financial basis for modern capitalism was
established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usury remained prohibited,
in accordance with the intent of the biblical law, but banking was allowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<strong>SLAVERY</strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Although not laden with race, <span style="color: black;">the
entirely of the old and new testament are filled with examples of slavery. The
Hebrew Scriptures contain many laws which give slaves rights, among them the
Law of the Jubilee Year, in which all slaves were to be freed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus of Nazareth took on the priestly establishment
with an action which would have been cheered on by the group in first century
Judaism with whom he was in closest contact, the Pharisees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of his teachings reflect and are
parallel to those of the two main Pharisaic schools of thought of his time, the
schools of Hillel and Shammai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
drove the money changers out of the Temple,
and the chief priests, as all three of the Synoptic gospels agree in virtually
the same language, began to plot against him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pontius Pilate, who controlled the priesthood entirely, having appointed
Caiaphas as his chief collaborator, saw in the popularity of Jesus with the
Jewish people a potential source of Jewish revolution against Roman rule, and
so executed him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus boldly paid with
his life for probing interpretations of Jewish Law and for being one around
whom rebellious Jews might gather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
would have supported the biblical laws which strove to make slavery relatively
humane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But he
did not condemn slavery</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“T</span><span style="color: #333333;">hat servant who knew his master’s will but did not make
preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely” (Luke
12:47).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No disciple is not above his teacher, no
slave above his master” (Matthew 10:24). </div>
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In addition, the Decalogue(ten commandments) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>could not be more explicit in its approval of
slavery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You shall not covet your
neighbors good, was followed by two more suggestions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not covet your neighbors cattle and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">do not covet your neighbor’s slaves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Which definitely infers that Israelites
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">St Paul</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">'s epistles called for slaves to “obey their masters</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St Peter's letters appear to suggest that it
was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">commendable for Christian slaves to
suffer willingly at the hands of cruel masters</b> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In several <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_epistles" title="Pauline epistles"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pauline epistles</span></a>,
and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Peter" title="First Epistle of Peter"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">First Epistle of Peter</span></a>, slaves are admonished
to obey their masters, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as to the Lord,
and not to men</span>;<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>however masters were told to serve their
slaves "in the same way"<sup>
</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and "even better" as
"brothers” and not to threaten them as God is <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">their</span> Master as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
latter admonition reflects the Law of the Hebrew Scriptures in just treatment
of slaves.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Philemon" title="Epistle to Philemon"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Epistle to Philemon</span></a> was used by pro-slavery
advocates as well as by abolitionists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul
writes that he is returning Onesimus, a fugitive slave, back to his master
Philemon; and entreats Philemon to regard him <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not as a slave but as a beloved brother in
Christ. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Jesus
of Nazareth took on the entirety of the Israel’s establishment, but did not
condemn slavery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Peter and Paul
likely were martyred for their evangelizing, but neither condemned
slavery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">God’s will as expressed in the Hebrew Scriptures affirmed
the institution of slavery as it existed at the time. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regarding the emancipation of slaves, Jewish
slaves were to be freed in the seventh year, the Jubilee Year, reflecting in
years the seven day cycle of Creation in Genesis 1, when the Lord rested and
when all humanity must rest, a<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ccording
to both Deuteronomy and Exodus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
addition the Hebrew Scriptures</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>contain laws regarding punishment for the one who kills slave as well as
injunctions to avoid injuring the eyes and teeth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Exodus Says</span>”
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his
hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or
two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." And <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"And if a man smite the eye of his
servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for
his eye's sake. And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's
tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leviticus prohibited enslavingover other
Israelites, but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>allowed for Gentile
slaves. </div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sadly,
the Christians in American history used certain biblical passages to justify
the practice, and did observe the spirit of the biblical laws which saw slaves
as fully human and worthy of respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slavery,
though acknowledges as a valid societal norm in the bible, and regulated as
such, is however totally condemned today throughout the world and especially in
the Jewish and Christian tradition as a violation of God’s will, even though
sanctioned in their scriptures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
laws of marriage and divorce changed many times in the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses provided for the possibility of a man
divorcing his wife, in certain circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was not an easy matter, because in the Hebrew Scriptures, as in the
New Testament, marriage is a covenant, reflective of the unbreakable covenant
between God and the People of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the centuries before Jesus there was a disagreement over how to interpret the
biblical Law in this regard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The School of Hillel was relatively lenient, giving
fairly wide reasons for divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The School of Shammai interpreted the Law more
strictly, rendering it next to impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus, when asked, sided with the
Pharisaic school
of Shammai in this
instance, and went a bit beyond even their strictness, making it next to
impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Christian and Jewish groups today allow
for divorce and remarriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Catholic
Church allows for divorce when the married couple cannot reasonably live
together, but does not allow for remarriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It views the covenant between man and wife as a symbol and sign of the
unbreakable covenant between God and the People of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would make remarriage technically
adultery, which is not condoned by any branch of Judaism or Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Polygamy
has its own history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish tradition
has never banned polygamy outright, because it was practiced by the
Patriarchs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically, it has not been
banned outright, but banned “temporarily,” i.e. for the next millennium
(depending on the interpretation).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up
to the 1940’s some Jewish groups, such as the Jews of Yemen, continued to
practice polygamy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they migrated to
the new Jewish state of Israel, its high court ruled that those who had brought
more than one wife could keep them, but marry no others, nor were their sons to
be allowed to marry more than one wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Christian side, when the Mormons
accepted and encouraged polygamy they like the Jews had to look no further than
the biblical patriarchs and kings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Abraham had plural wives, as did King David and King Solomon supposedly had
7000 wives. But</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> by the time
of Jesus and earlier, reflected in the later strata of the bible, the ideal was
no longer polygamy but monogamy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>The
Bible in Genesis says that God’s original intention was for one man to be
married to only one woman: “For this reason a man will leave his father and
mother and be united to his wife.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The first <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>record in
the Bible of animal sacrifices was at the gate of the Garden of Eden.” In the
course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to
the LORD. But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his
offering he did not look with favor, suggests that this offering of sacrifices
was a recurring event. It is actually implied in Genesis 3:21 where it says,
"The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed
them." The clothing of skins with which God covered Adam and Eve presumably
came from animals that were killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Why did the Lord look with favor on Abel's sacrifice and did not look with
favor on Cain's offering? It was because the sacrifice of "the firstborn
of his flock" carried a symbolism certainly known and understood by both
Cain and Abel. It was an acted out prophecy of a coming Savior who would give
His life to save the human race.<br />
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Offerings of clean animals were offered by Noah after the flood when the ark
came to rest on the top of Mt. Ararat <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later Abraham built altars and offered
sacrifices in the land of Canaan ( ).When Israel escaped from their slavery in
Egypt, they came to Mt. Sinai. There
God gave them instructions to build a tent tabernacle they would carry as a
portable meeting place while they were on their way to the Promised Land of
Canaan. This tent tabernacle and its services were designed to give Israel an
object lesson of the plan of salvation God had put in place "before the
creation of the world" (1 Peter 1:20.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such stories reflect and provide a sacred history for the practice of
animal sacrifice in the Temple
of Jerusalem.</div>
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In the Christian understanding of salvation God sent His Son to be born into
the human race, to live a perfect life and then die on the cross as a sacrifice
in expiation for the sins of all humanity. His sacrifice, Christians believe, was
foretold by the slaying of lambs and other animals in the tabernacle services. Each
morning and each evening a lamb was killed on the altar of burnt offerings. In
the springtime at the Passover celebration, the Passover lamb was killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hebrew word for Passover is Pesach, from
which Christians derive the word, “Paschal,” seeing Jesus as the Paschal lamb
the blood of which daubed on the doorways of the Jews in Egypt saved them from
the angel of death who came to kill all of the firstborn sons of the Egyptians,
a divine show of force to convince the Pharaoh to let God’s people go out of
slavery and into the Land promised to them by God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jews who could, in Jesus’ time, would go to Jerusalem to sacrifice a
lamb in the temple and to consume with the Passover meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Synoptics set the Last Supper as a
Passover meal and this as the reason Jesus went into Jerusalem:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to celebrate there the Passover and consume the Pesach/Paschal lamb.</div>
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John the Baptist as a Jew understood this symbolism. When He saw Jesus passing
by he said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul understood the meaning of the sacrifice
of Christ similarly, for he said, "For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been
sacrificed." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When the Temple was destroyed
in 70 of the Common Era Christians, who according to the book of Acts continued
to offer sacrifices in the Temple
after the resurrection of Jesus, like Jews, no longer had a place in which to
offer the prescribed sacrifices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Christians, as we saw, believe Jesus’ sacrifice more than compensates
for the inability to continue offering sacrifices in the Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rabbinic Judaism believes study of the law, prayer and good deeds
compensate, making the righteousness of one’s life a fitting sacrifice to the
God of Israel.</div>
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The Bible specifically prohibits homosexuality in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a couple of places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>unlike adultery, which is included in the Ten Commandments,
homosexuality is no included int eh biblical summaries of the most serious
covenant-breaching sins<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
there are no stories about homosexuality parallel to those in which the sin of
adultery, for example David’s with Bathsheba, cause serious problems for the
People of Israel, incurring the righteous anger of the God of Israel.</div>
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St. Paul,
in a later time <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>likely reflecs a growing
abhorrence of Greek and Roman practice with regard to sexual relations with
young boys, thoroughly condemned the practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Romans and the Greeks did not
condemn homosexuality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul’s references
to homosexual acts were not particularly controversial to early Christians who
knew that the holiness code of Leviticus forbade homosexual acts (Leviticus
20:13). Paul was reaffirming that which was held by faithful Jews and early
Christians. We have no evidence that there was a movement afoot in Corinth to press for wider
acceptance of same-sex activity. Paul does not single out homosexuality but
refers to it within a list of other acts that were accepted as idolatrous but
were now to be left behind by those who had chosen Jesus. So, although Paul
might not be considered homophobic in the way we today would understand the
term, he was clearly against any form of homosexual activity. </div>
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Jesus of Nazareth did not condemn homosexuality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St.
Augustine was a practicing homosexual for a year and
likely had a lover, but turned vehemently against it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">Capital Punishment</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">.
</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Leviticus <a href="http://bibref.hebtools.com/?book=%20Leviticus&verse=20:2%E2%80%9327&src=!"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20:2–27</span></a> provides a list of
transgressions in which execution is recommended. Christian positions on these
passages vary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">In the New Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus uses the example of those who killed the king’s son.. The king in turn
retaliated by killing the guests who did not attend the wedding feast. Indeed
Jesus Death and Resurrection would not have taken place because he would have
been sent to prison had there been no capital punishment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rabbinic tradition, interpreting the biblical
laws for new times and with new insights, gradually made capital punishment harder
and harder to enforce, so that by the time the Talmud was set down, it was in
effect practically impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Jewish State of Israel, though it considers itself, understandably, as besieged
by enemies, has condemned only one person to death, making capital punishment,
while possible, in practice not a real option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That person, of course, was the man in the glass booth, a chief
perpetrator of the Holocaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
Christian countries of Europe today no longer
practice capital punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a strong
position of most <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christian
Denominiations that capital punishment should be banned everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It seems to have been a practice in some parts of the
ancient world until a shift was indicated by Ezekiel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once, God’s will seemed to indicate that the
sins of the fathers could be passed on to the children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we notice parental traits being passed
from one generation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the next and in
family lines indeed, God speaking through Ezekiel, indicated that henceforth
each human would be judged on his own actions rather than those of his
father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What seems to have been
acceptable earlier in biblical times was no longer so after Ezekiel.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">RETALIATION</b></div>
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The prophets, spokesmen for God evolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God evolved from a God of power to a God of
love.</div>
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“But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for burn for burn, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then you shall
do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil
from your midst. <sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></sup>And the rest shall hear and fear,
and shall never again commit any such evil among you. <sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></sup>your eye shall not pity. It shall
be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. </div>
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There are only three cases in which the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lex talionis</i> is referred to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In each, it is meant to restrict people’s urge for vengeance to a more
just sense of retributive justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
context, the ancient saying, common in the societies around Israel, is appealed
to, but most scholars would agree was not to be taken literally, but rather
meant to show the seriousness of the matter at hand, as for example when two
men are fighting and they harm a pregnant woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the child within her survives, then there
is a monetary compensation for the harm done to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the child dies, then the matter is much
more serious, akin in fact to murder of the child, so a more severe punishment
is exacted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not however a literal
“eye for an eye,” of course, since neither of the men could be pregnant, so a
literal interpretation of the dictum would be impossible.</div>
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Jesus likewise uses the phrase more symbolically than
literally, to make a deeper point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You
have heard that it was said, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I say to you, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone
slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let him have your cloak as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if
anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give to the one who begs from you, and do not
refuse the one who would borrow from you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Repay
no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of
all.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Responding to evil with goodness
is attested in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taken seriously, it would lead to a life of
what we would today call pacifism, as indeed many of the first Christians so
understood it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The early Christian
practice of non-violence, however, gave way to the theory of justifiable war
when Christianity gained power in the Roman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WINE<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Drunkenness is
condemned but wine is extolled throughout the Bible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alcoholic beverages</span></a> appear in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literature" title="Biblical literature"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">biblical literature</span></a>, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" title="Noah"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Noah</span></a> planting a vineyard
and becoming inebriated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hebrew Bible</span></a>,
to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jesus</span></a>
in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">New Testament</span></a> miraculously making copious
amounts of wine<sup>
</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_at_Cana" title="Marriage at Cana"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">marriage at
Cana</span></a> and later incorporating wine as part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eucharist</span></a>.
Wine is the most common alcoholic beverage mentioned in biblical literature,
where it is a source of symbolism,<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_in_the_Bible#cite_note-ISBEWine-2#cite_note-ISBEWine-2"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> ]</span></a></sup>
and was an important part of daily life in biblical times.<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, the inhabitants of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eretz_Yisrael" title="Eretz Yisrael"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ancient
Israel</span></a> drank beer, and wines made from fruits other than grapes, and
references to these appear in scripture </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Biblical
literature displays ambivalence toward intoxicating drinks, considering them
both a blessing from God that brings joy and merriment and potentially
dangerous beverages that can be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin" title="Sin"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sinfully</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_abuse" title="Alcohol abuse"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">abused</span></a>. The relationships between Judaism and
alcohol and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_alcohol" title="Christianity and alcohol"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christianity and alcohol</span></a> have generally
maintained this same tension, though Christianity saw a number of its
adherents, particularly around the time of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition" title="Prohibition"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Prohibition</span></a>,
rejecting alcohol as evil. The original versions of the books of the Bible use
several different words for alcoholic beverages: at least <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew" title="Hebrew"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hebrew</span></a>, and
five in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Greek</span></a>. Drunkenness is discouraged and not
infrequently portrayed, and some biblical persons abstained from alcohol.
Alcohol is used symbolically, in both positive and negative terms. Its
consumption is prescribed for religious rites or medicinal uses in some places.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ABORTION</b></div>
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The Bible neither supports nor opposes abortion or birth
control. The issue arises as a serious one only with the advent of modern
medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abortion is not mentioned as
such in the Bible. </div>
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The first is that God’s Law, its understanding and
application, changed and evolved over the course of time in which the
Scriptures were written, and that rabbinic and Christian traditions have
changed over the centuries as well as new questions have arisen and new
situations needed to be faced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Changing
specifics has often proven the best way of adhering to the substance and spirit
of a given law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animal sacrifice,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>divorce, polygamy, and so on are just some
examples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second is that people do
change their minds about what they think, often in response to changing scientific
knowledge or public demands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible
is and will always remain a major source of justification and righteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if we believe God's will is also written
in our hearts and enough people thinks so then perhaps we should reassess and
see where we go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In conclusion,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we do not know but are simply <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beginning a discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And again we may revert to another source of
God’s knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What God writes is in
our hearts (cf. Jeremiah 31).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we
can try more prayer and more dialogue.</div>
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<a href="http://aegallo.com/">Web Site</a>Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-31077263982960816402015-10-11T12:59:00.001-07:002015-10-11T12:59:36.795-07:00Rehearsal <div class="MsoNormal">
First Rehearsal for Premiere Staged <st1:city w:st="on">Reading</st1:city> of Teresa at the Cosmos Club on
October 17. <b><a href="http://cu.aegallo.com/"><span lang="ES-TRAD">http://cu.aegallo.com</span></a></b></div>
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Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-72052468369775195042015-10-11T12:24:00.001-07:002015-10-11T12:24:14.987-07:00 A Common StruggleI want to recommend former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy’s new book A
Common Struggle abut his journey through mental illness and addiction.
He sent me a copy since I will be hosting him as a Newsmaker at the
National Press Club on November 5 at 10 AM. You are invited. <a data-trk="link" href="https://lnkd.in/eJw7DN2" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/eJw7DN2</a><br />
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Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-56527395584753021472015-10-10T17:30:00.001-07:002015-10-10T17:30:14.581-07:00MarchWatched attendees on their way to the Twentieth Anniversary March from
my home. Brought back memories of the original and Tenth Anniversary
March.<br />
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On my way to the Eastern Market, a truck was backing in my
direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drivers guide shouted
out to him:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Stop, you’re going to kill
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Location: Zenger Room<br />
Will the Supreme Court End Affirmative Action? <br />
Washington, DC – Abigail Fisher’s challenge to the University of
Texas’s affirmative-action program returns to the Supreme Court, with
supporters of racial preferences fearing a major loss. Constitutional
law expert and litigator Andrew M. Grossman will speak at a National
Press Club Newsmakers news conference to explain what’s at stake, what
to look for at oral argument, and how the Court is likely to come down.<br />
After being denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008, Ms.
Fisher filed suit challenging the school’s use of race in admissions.
The Supreme Court first intervened in 2012, when it reversed a lower
court decision for the University and directed the lower court to hold
the University to its burden of justifying its use of race. The lower
court again found for the University, and the case is now back before
the Supreme Court—surprising many legal observers, who expected the
Court to decline review.<br />
Court-watchers are now anticipating a landmark decision that could
change the face of affirmative action—or even outlaw it entirely for
public universities. According to insider accounts, the Court’s narrow
decision in 2012 was a compromise that preempted a forceful opinion by
Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by the four conservative justices,
striking down the Texas program. Some observers are suggesting that the
Court’s decision to take the case again signals that a majority is
prepared to put the race-based program to pasture and, in the process,
set a new standard for affirmative action at schools across the nation. <br />
Grossman will discuss the Court’s options. Although no party is
seeking to overrule Grutter—the 2003 decision holding that schools can
take account of race to achieve diversity in certain circumstances—the
Court’s reasoning in addressing the Texas program could substantially
narrow the circumstances where schools can employ racial preferences or
even close the door on preferences altogether. Affirmative-action
proponents, meanwhile, are seeking to steer the Court to consider
narrowly whether the University of Texas was justified in using race
given the diversity that it has achieved through race-neutral means. <br />
Grossman practices appellate and constitutional law at Baker &
Hostetler LLP and represents the Cato Institute, where he is also a
visiting scholar, in the Fisher litigation. He has written and lectured
expensively on affirmative action, equal protection rights, and the
Fisher case. <br />
This NPC Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for Tuesday, October
27 at 10 a.m. in the club’s Zenger Room, on the 13th Floor of the
National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC.<br />
Like all Newsmakers events, this news conference is open to
credentialed media and club members, free of charge. No advance
registration is required.<br />
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Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-71251347436001281172015-10-06T20:03:00.000-07:002015-10-06T20:03:13.379-07:00Elevating actors to bishopps.Sent out an email to the cast of Teresa which is being performed at the Cosmos Club on October 17. Here is what I wrote: "Monsignor Lopez(Brian Doyle) and Monsignor Pedro(Scott Bush) have been elevated to Bishops."<br />
Reason: Makes the conflict with Teresa more poignant.<br />
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Here are howling comments from the cast.<br />
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"The powers you have are amazing! Will they perhaps later be Archbishops and Cardinals?"<br />
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"Wow. Lightning promotions! I guess you can do anything when you're the playwright."<br />
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"That's OK. So long as you don't demote me to being a monk as celibacy is not my shtick.<br />
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meeting this morning and our President Joun Hughes announced that the Club
would be selling it largest asset an oil painting ,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2015/10/02/national-press-club-to-sell-">Norman Rockwell Visits aCountry Editor,</a> primarily because of high insurance and security costs. We will
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<br />Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-26581310019470398052015-09-30T16:21:00.002-07:002015-09-30T16:22:13.070-07:00Web site Traffic Record VolumeToday Go Daddy informed me that my web site <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAegallo.com%2F&h=NAQFli6BgAQEqd-LCZXM1arEZFiq6ApkgVmLfYiykIfuEqQ&enc=AZMN6qmUkpXroTTw_5xEpu9MaihLAGW2i-AC3J0lpBbodFcosyfIrwn0G1DL_-lvAi0nLsTXs1yCP8rYG_Bf8Yf8ipTtH9Z5ca6fW5wcRg6LhbIUje-JTWcJFfym-u2j-427-s7RHvUiMF6VDu_0-Ww9TFEEzJqBJCcYJG2EehnOYahm6BS1GuvzB1RSqLiXlrB3Vyns8OYIWk5v1alv-2q8&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://Aegallo.com</a><img border="0" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEgASAMZ2AP39/fX19ePj4+7u7urq6uzs7HNycvr6+v7+/vj4+NbW1rGxseno6GdnZ/z8/Ovr62tqauTk5JOSkmBfX6ampunp6b69vYiIiMLCwuXl5djY2LCwsKCgoPPz856dnWJhYYSDg3d3d+Hh4fj395iXl+/v7/b29lRUVHZ1dXp6et/f35WVlVhYWOjo6IuKi319fZ+ensfHx8nJyXx8fKioqLSzs4KBgbu6unV1dXp5eaalpXRzc8TExHV0dN3d3bi4uIWFhWVlZYaFhbGwsJaWlsbFxaqqqmppaYiHh7W1tYGBgYWEhNDQ0Pf3+G9vb1FRUXZ2dvTz82hnZ9zc3GZmZvHx8b29vWRkZHJxccfGxmloaM3NzdjX16Ghoff4+IaGhqOjo35+frm5ufv7+25ubry8vHh4eI+Pj1dXV7e3t/v6+qWkpIyMjJybm9rZ2aGgoPDw8Ofn5/Ly8vT09Pn5+ff39////////////////////////////////////////yH5BAEAAH8ALAAAAAASABIAAAf+gH+Cg4IMhIeHFkgTKBBSEm6IgnFmbwoAmCZFSySIAkc/DgkdCXQBdA46IIdYNwcHdRk8C2UqUQdrHoMbFHR0dQthK2dXFxG/HwKCBhl1dVUhTy5JaFQYzmlgfy09Ad51RiFWHCxkGt5TKX8KX3PuJnIdMUE4WWruD1rrQnL9TXQA2MwQAWBOvwcN/jDYAadhAgd1XjCxM6chHA05lvkYMMALgggXMCCAw3FAjS6CNnAoUECOHQonnNApwZJAMkEjDCwgQGDOFiA0EJTg6aENIQENhlSI8yCOnDhxKsCwQeeQACgkZECNI0KMEiIjJI2xAGKCAQgNJHCRhIiBHLYCgQAAOw==" style="border: 0px none; display: inline; float: none; height: 16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit; width: 16px;" /><br />
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I just add zeros to the deposits to inflate my ego.Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-18157384363646656102015-09-29T20:09:00.002-07:002015-09-29T20:09:48.173-07:00Economist<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Nice seeing John Lee, my long-time administrator at the Economic Research Service, at our Alumni breakfast. Although I am now a playwright(going on my 19th year), I still maintain a web page to my work as an economist and am proud of the work I did. Visit the web page:</span><a href="http://economist.aegallo.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://economist.aegallo.com</a><br />
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Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-69424339361661699412015-09-27T10:44:00.000-07:002015-09-27T10:44:34.086-07:00Teresa at Cosmos<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 409.5pt; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Saturday, October 17, 11:30 a.m</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 20pt;">.</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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two act dramedy by ANTHONY E GALLO (’93)
is not meant for solemnly religious sourpuss types. Agnostics, atheists and feminists are very
welcome. This play is mostly about
sinners. Teresa has enemies (gads of
them) and friends (even more). Some say she has visions: others say
hallucinations: “Our Lady of the Histrionics.”
Two lusty friars, a hog farmer, an intrusive Royal mistress, a confused
novice and some spies present even more surprises. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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mystic, one of the most brilliant and
liberated women of all time. She jokes,
tricks, deceives, manipulates, bribes, strategizes, lies and triumphs. Yet
today this unpredictable woman is known as St. Teresa of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Avila</st1:place></st1:city>, and a Doctor of the Church. This granddaughter of a noble Marrano
(“that Jewish woman”) is at odds with the Church hierarchy: nuns, King Philip,
the civil authorities, members of the Inquisition, the Grand inquisitor, God
and some say all the angels and saints. And she outsmarts them all with her
cunningness, sly tongue, sheer brilliance, skillful adaptation, humility,
arrogance, and craziness. She even
reprimands God: “No wonder you have so
few friends. You treat us so badly” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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agallo2368@verizon.net <o:p></o:p></b></div>
Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-61182573530414903192015-09-26T15:18:00.005-07:002015-09-26T15:18:29.101-07:00Browns Court Publishing CompanyThe web site for Browns Court Publishing Company gets very little traffic. Make a visit. Browns Court Publishing Company: <br /><a href="http://brown.aegallo.com/">Browns Court Publishing Company:</a> <br />
<br />Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-30487263259469321322015-09-20T10:03:00.002-07:002015-09-20T10:03:33.376-07:00Chesapeake 22Yesterday was my 21st trip to the Chesapeake. Weather was sinfully gorgeous.<br />
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Breakfast at the Country Buffet in Fairfax VA. Economist there for
thirty years(1970-2000). Thanks to Marlow Vesterby who keeps this group
going And great to see my old boss, Administrator John Lee and his
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Co-hosting(with NPC President John Hughes) Newsmaker on: Catholic Bishops address Pope Francis’ U.S. trip in the context of climate change and poverty. <a href="https://www.press.org/news-multimedia/news/catholics-address-pope-francis%E2%80%99-us-trip-context-climate-change-and-poverty"> </a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.press.org/news-multimedia/news/catholics-address-pope-francis%E2%80%99-us-trip-context-climate-change-and-poverty">Read more!</a>Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-53304355475615631352015-09-16T17:46:00.001-07:002015-09-16T17:46:17.528-07:00Climate change and thePope. Climate Change and the Pope was the Newsmaker Subject at the National Press Club today. See more
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<a href="http://library.aegallo.com/">http://library.aegallo.com</a>Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476178590900073519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869492143286361552.post-21246569034170938292015-09-14T18:52:00.002-07:002015-09-14T18:52:51.584-07:00Water Walking<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Every day when in DC I do my water walking at the Rumsey Pool across the street from my home. Love the staff. Been going there for 45 years.</span><br />
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Very nice article by Rabbi Alanna Sklover of Philadelphia about Italy's first female rabbi I hosted
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