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...Duty, Honor, Country and Sexual Assault Nancy Gibbs' otherwise excellent article about sexual harassment and abuse of women in the armed services omits a ?glaring, well-documented fact [March 8]: one of the reasons so many incidents of harassment and even assault are not reported is that women who report them are routinely accused of being lesbians. Women (and men) in the military can be subject to intrusive, abusive and distracting investigations into their private lives based on a single unfounded allegation about their sexuality. As long as our nation's military has a policy that makes fear of gays...
What is so-so for Hollywood pictures would be wowee for independent films. Chloe, the weekend's sole medium-size release, earned $1 million in 350 theaters. A sexual melodrama offering the glory of hot-sheets action between Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore, Chloe will never get near the numbers of a well-promoted movie from a major studio. Nor will Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, a potential-breakout romance that won a sheaf of favorable reviews and has an actual movie star, Ben Stiller, in the title role; it took in $1.1 million on 181 screens. The Runaways, starring Dakota...
Jordan concluded his talk by saying that there remains a lot of debate in the Christian community, both between denominations and individuals, on issues of same-sex marriage and sexual ethics in general...
...admiral - to approve the ouster of a serviceman or -woman for being gay. That's at least one rank higher than earlier mandated, and is likely to cut down on the number of such cases. Hearsay will no longer be allowed, and statements about a military member's sexual orientation will have to be given under oath. Furthermore, information given to lawyers, clergy or medical professionals - or in connection with domestic violence - can't be used to oust someone. (See a brief history of gays in the military...
Still, the Pope is the Pope, a global leader with very few equals in terms of pomp, history and circumstance. His links, however indirect, to specific cases of sexual abuse will necessarily catch the attention of both Catholics and non-Catholics. Another priest acknowledged that Benedict being specifically named in the Milwaukee and German cases just makes the news all the more troubling. "It's so volatile right now," he says. "Many of the faithful who were losing confidence in their bishops, now, it's in the Church Universal. What you read in paper: it's a real crucifixion...