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...hard-working Nebraska farm boy who played eight-man football in high school is now the 126th captain of the Harvard football team and one of the most successful tight ends in school history...
Eitzmann grew up in Hardy, Nebraska, and attended Chester-Hubbell-Byron High School, which had a mere 50 students. After a successful three-sport high school career in which he excelled in football, basketball and track, Eitzmann graduated in a class of eight...
...denominations - including the ordination of gay priests - this week ran up against a stone wall in their quest for total acceptance. Tuesday, the Georgia branch of the Southern Baptists expelled two churches that allow gays in leadership positions, including one that permitted a gay "marriage." A day later the Nebraska branch of the United Methodist Church voted to defrock Jimmy Creech, a pastor who's performed 13 gay marriages, sometimes known as "commitment ceremonies...
...Southern Baptist ouster went virtually uncontested, with over 80 percent of the Georgia Baptist Convention voting for the first church expulsions in its 177-year history. The minister of one of the expelled congregations told reporters she was "stunned" over the lack of dialogue preceding the vote. In Nebraska, however, there was a healthy debate both inside and outside the church in which the hearings took place. The Rev. Mel White, a California-based gay-rights activist, imported 100 protesters, who faced off outside the church with a flock led by peripatetic Kansas-based Baptist minister Fred Phelps...
...Nebraska Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey, whose Medal of Honor citation was signed by Chafee