Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Via JMG: TORONTO: Blue Jays Order Three Day Suspension For "Maricon" Player
GLAAD reports: Today, the Toronto Blue Jays announced that shortstop Yunel Escobar will work with GLAAD and the You Can Play project, after he was seen with an anti-gay slur written in Spanish on his eye-black over the weekend. The team also announced that Escobar will serve a three-day suspension. GLAAD has been in conversations throughout the day with the team and with Major League Baseball (MLB) about the incident. In announcing Escobar's suspension and intent to work with GLAAD and You Can Play, the team today stated "The Blue Jays want to reaffirm that discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. The club looks forward to supporting the efforts of You Can Play and GLAAD to help promote education for players and fans alike and to help keep language like this out of the game and society."RELATED: The Toronto Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communication, the same company that last year fired Sportsnet host Damian Goddard, who then told the world that he was let go because of "a single tweet supporting one-man one-woman marriage." Rogers dismissed that claim as ridiculous, but has refused to discuss the real reason for the firing because "we do not discuss personnel issues with the press." Goddard, who is Catholic, has since become a martyr to and spokesman for Vatican front group NOM and has a case pending before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. He just posted the below tweet.
UPDATE:
Escobar may have been forcing into working with GLAAD, but he's clearly
not quite apologizing. My pal Andres Duque just translated a press
conference response. 
Via JMG: Tony Perkins: Compulsive Liar
"A
gay-rights activist entered the building of our organization, Family
Research Council, where he told our operations manager that he objected
to our politics and opened fire with a handgun. Our political beliefs
reflect our Christian faith.This comes in the context of the Southern
Poverty Law Center designating FRC a 'certified hate group' because of
our biblically-based beliefs regarding marriage and human sexuality. We
encourage love and respect for all people including those seeking to
redefine marriage, and we have made clear we abhor and reject all
violence directed against anyone for their sexual behavior. This war of
words launched by the SPLC as cover for its allied organizations on the
left has led to an open assault upon those with whom they disagree. This
type of demonizing must stop." - Tony Perkins, writing for Fox News.NOTE: As the SPLC has pointed out countless times, "biblically-based beliefs" are NOT among the criteria for being named a hate group. If that were true, there would be thousands of so-named groups, not the mere three dozen that currently hold that distinct dishonor. But don't expect Fox News or the mainstream media to call Tony Perkins a liar to his face.
Via Buddhism on Beliefnet:
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Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma September 18, 2012
When Pain Happens to Us
We suffer because we marry our instinctive aversion to pain to the deep-seated belief that life should
be free from pain. In resisting our pain by holding this belief, we
strengthen just what we're trying to avoid. When we make pain the enemy,
we solidify it. This resistance is where our suffering begins.
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- Ezra Bayda, "When It Happens to Us"
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