Ditto. We had a JW and a jewish woman in our team. It was great - the office was always covered for Christmas so there was no trouble getting time off.
Like eating wafer at Christmas or blessing the basket at Easter. I remember sending off my first IRA support money envelope back home in New York like it was only yesterday... *nostalgic sigh*
I remember when I was in high school (parochial) and one of the nuns told us that when she was a kid the Protestants used to give the Catholic kids a hard time and called then "cat lickers." My first thought was "what's so bad about licking pu$sy?'
Really, that high? Wow you guys must really have some problems with your pipes. Also makes sense since white babies and kids are in the shortest supply and the highest demand.
OK. Just to bring this worthless thread up to the normal high (I kid) standards of the Politics board ... ... my sister used to work for Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids, MI, though in foster care cases, not adoptions. It is clearly Protestant, and HQ'ed in a conservative part of the country, but it is not anything like a Fundie organization. I would have called it mainstream Protestant, as is the Presbyterian Church of America, which is apparently the religious affiliation of the agency in Mississippi subject of this story. Bethany is decentralized, but I am shocked that it would permit a local agency to exclude Catholic parents from adoption. It's appalling, and Bethany will be hearing from me by phone on Monday about how I'll steer donations elsewhere unless they publicly recant and change policies.
uh, no they didn't. They follow a set of practices that happen to coincide at some points with what Christ actually taught. Martin Luther straightened out a few things but the rest of the time they are on their own course.
No they didn't invent Christianity. Yet reformist religions that compare themselves to Catholicism and blame the differences on Catholicism should remember that there is little difference between the Catholic practices and Orthodox practices. Lot's of people disagree with the hierarchy of the Catholic church however most of them are not Protestant. I am told that the Romanian Orthodox church is the most true to original Christian practices.
He's saying Catholics are on their own course, a course of thei chosing rather than God's chosing. It's an odd critisism from a religion that elects it's own preachers and takes no direction outside of a majority of board memebers.
So it is ok to consider a few hundred million people child molesters based on their religion. It is OK to assume that all people in Texas hate homosexuals. Yet if we insert the word Homosexual in either of those situations it instantly becomes bigotry. Maybe taking a stand against bigotry should extend beyond the cause of the day.
Come on, everyone knows Mary is a good catholic name. Why they gave him a Mexican name is more of a mystery.
We just did an addition on the house. It was a mix of various Mexican, Polish and Serbs or Croats (not sure which) subcontractors ... some of which I'm sure were caucasian.