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...News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is--but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect attention from its own culpability. Besides, now we know that perhaps as many as half of America's priests are believed to be gay. A church that still preaches that homosexuals are "intrinsically disordered" relies on these allegedly sick people to run its dioceses, churches and schools. Talk about cognitive...
While the seniors were taking care of things on the offensive end, freshman midfielder Elaine Belitsos kept the Bears from scoring, hustling back to deflect an Anneberg pass after Debbie Mendel had come up with the steal for Brown...
...News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is - but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect attention from its own culpability. Besides, now we know that perhaps as many as half of America's priests are believed to be gay. A church that still preaches that homosexuals are "intrinsically disordered" relies on these allegedly sick people to run its dioceses, churches and schools. Talk about cognitive...
...would it begin? In one grim scenario, it would start with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who is in the most exposed position of all. His controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty...
...size of 2001 YB5 or larger passes close by annually; many such asteroids are undetected. Her goal, and that of the other asteroid hunters, is to identify the intruders, plot their orbits and predict possible impacts further in advance. That might just provide enough time for measures to deflect or destroy the menace before catastrophe strikes...