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You can oppose something and still think it shouldn’t be opposed by the government. Many people seem to have trouble with this distinction and its corollaries. The media tend to have trouble with this distinction because many journalists consider the provoking of government action as a good metric of success for their rabblerousing or reporting. But it’s true — you can oppose things and still think they should be legal.
There have been a lot of stories in the past week about the conversion bill that was steamrolling through the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, before being tabled for the next few months. Few prospective laws in the Middle East draw much attention, but this one did, largely because of it’s potential consequences for American Jews and future American Jews.
A billboard campaign orchestrated by a right-to-die group remains alive and well, but it already has gone straight to heaven.
At this point I am basically waiting for a barn burner focusing on the relatively new religion known as Judaism that is gaining ground and has even spawned a splinter religion called Christianity.
Most people thinking about the Netherlands today are wondering whether the Oranje can survive Spain to win their first World Cup. While I’ll certainly be watching, I thought I’d take this pre-game to get a Dutch story out of my guilt file.
Media attention following the Hawaiian governor’s veto of a same-sex civil unions bill has been on whether tourists and businesses should boycott the beautiful island chain, a la the LA response to Arizona’s anti-undocumented-alien law.
You may recall a recent post by Bobby Ross Jr., about a press release that the Associated Press published about the Claremont School of Theology’s plan to start providing theological education for Muslim imams and Jewish rabbis, as well as clergy for United Methodist and other liberal mainline Protestant congregations.
I mean, talk about an evergreen topic on the religion beat. The primary problem with this story from the Detroit Free Press, which tragically got picked up by the United States’ largest newspaper, is that it suffers from dry rot.
