Daily Archives: 04/21/2012

(Community Matters) Mitt Romney has hired Richard A. Grenell, an openly gay spokesperson who worked in the Bush White House.

(Community Matters) Very welcome news – Israel’s conservative movement voted to approve the ordination of gay rabbis

The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, affiliated with the movement, will admit gay and lesbian students for training as spiritual leaders as of the upcoming school year.

In doing so the Israeli Conservative Movement is joining the American branch of the movement, whose rabbinical seminaries have been admitting gay students for some years.

The question whether or not to ordain gay and lesbian rabbis has been rattling the Conservative Movement in Israel and the U.S. for the past decade. Unlike the Reform movement that took to the question with ease, deciding firmly on the acceptance of gay rabbis. The Conservative Movement, whose rabbis see themselves bound to Jewish law, has been caught up in heated debate over the subject.

(Community Matters) Where Gay Palestinians Go to Party

just last night some of us were talking about another trip to Israel in Sept ’13

(Community Matters) Went looking for the first one and stumbled on the other two:

w/ Bettie Naylor at a Festival of Dance party (on Gov. Richard’s lawn) benefiting ASA. I think Tana & Joe, Bettie, me and maybe a few others were honorary co-chairs. Charles Santos organized the whole thing

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my birthday in 1990. Alan Waite’s surprise was a day trip to Berlin from London. Me and the other guy in the pic climbed on top of the Brandenburg Gate but the East German soldiers yelled & aimed their rifles at us which was effective in chasing us off

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at my parent’s farm – I believe during the early 80’s. That would have been my hair style & ‘stache in college – not typical for a student body officer at A&M, which of course is exactly what I was going for

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(Community Matters) Super article on the White House social secretary

(Community Matters) What about not raising taxes? Gosh, sure wish we could hold down costs and perhaps bank the extra money from increased property tax revenues (rainy day fund). We could still spend increased sales tax revenues and find other savings for currently underfunded human services & infrastructure maintenance – To keep up with rising costs, Austin may raise property taxes for coming year

(Community Matters)  Rolling Stone review of film, The Koch Brothers Exposed