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POPS"When Same-Sex Marriage Was a Christian Rite "
more (at source): Legend says that Bacchus appeared to the dying Sergius as an angel, telling him to be brave because they would soon be reunited in heaven. While the pairing of saints, particularly in the early Christian church, was not unusual, the association of these two men was regarded as particularly intimate. Severus, the Patriarch of Antioch (AD 512 - 518) explained that, "we should not separate in speech they who were joined in life". This is not a case of simple "adelphopoiia." In the definitive 10th century account of their lives, St. Sergius is openly celebrated as the "sweet companion and lover" of St. Bacchus. Sergius and Bacchus's close relationship has led many modern scholars to believe they were lovers. But the most compelling evidence for this view is that the oldest text of their martyrology, written in New Testament Greek describes them as "erastai,” or "lovers". In other words, they were a male homosexual couple. Their orientation and rel
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POPSA Bad Idea Escalates I'd be rather surprised if any were using holsters with any sort of locking retention devices. The man who got the greatest amount of attention was carrying a Carbon-15 rifle with a 30-round magazine and an EOTech sight slung over his back; not the best way to retain and control your weapon in a crowd. The people on both sides were of course well within their legal rights to carry at this event. Whether or not openly carrying firearms to a political protest is intelligent is another matter entirely.
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POPSHands up if you are sick of Google and Youtube's Censorship! Well If it gets off the ground successfully we now have an Alternative. "VueFliX was founded on the principle of truth without censorship. Other video Web sites will censor content they find offensive. We will not. To ensure our right to maintain the Web site in this way, we build, run and host the entire Web site. There is no middle man for possible censorship. If our ISP makes any attempts to censor the truth, we will simply switch our ISP. It should go without saying, but we will not hesitate to censor blatantly offensive content that does not benefit the truth (e.g.pornography or spam)."
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POPSHealth Care Costs to Exceed $8,000 Per Person Our private health care system is broken. It's been broken for some time. We've been propping it up. The $8,100 cost person is nothing compared to its projected cost in the coming years: "The government statisticians estimated that health costs will reach $13,100 per person in 2018, accounting for $1 out of every $5 spent in the economy." As long as we continue to tell ourselves that a private health care system is the best one, we will continue to be taken for a ride.
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POPSHe's Having None Of It "You might think times have changed in Hollywood, based on Sean Penn’s recent acceptance speech at the SAG Awards for playing the gay activist Harvey Milk. “As actors we don’t play gay, straight . . . , we play human beings,” he said. That may be true if you’ve been married to Madonna in real life. But if you were Madonna’s gay best friend in real life (and on screen in “The Next Best Thing”), you don’t play “human beings.” You play gay."
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POPSI'm sorry, Obama is no Lincoln
While I don't agree with much in the article, I do agree with what I clipped. Obama and the the American people need to go back and read the real history of the War Between the States and Lincoln's premise. Free the slave----not free the slaves----his commitment was to preserve the Union of the United States. For that he is well commended. Trying to lay claim to one aspect of Lincoln's criteria is deceptive when ignoring the rest. At least, honestly, clarify those aspects of the personality that he is exulting. By hey!! Lincoln and Washington are now lumped together on "President's Day" while MLK, who was no President or unilaterally exulted, is given a State holiday observance. So perhaps Obama should have chosen the more poignant and politically correct mentor. Lincoln was a great man and President, but time/history have sorted out and pick and chose those things to be remembered. I greatly admire his humility, his personal fortitude, his powerful will and values. He
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POPSBest Man Wedding Speeches: Do's and Don'ts Short best man speeches are preferred simply because the audience don't like long tedious wedding speeches. So, make it a point to keep your wedding speech short and sweet. Short, simple and heartfelt will always make for a great toast.
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POPSInfospreads: How To Write Best Man Speeches We all know that Best Man Speeches are the highlight of the wedding reception. Everyone looks forward to this part of the day; they expect it to be funny, heartfelt and memorable. There is so much responsibility for writing the best man speech it can sometimes be overwhelming, here we bring you 5 tips for writing best man speeches.
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POPSThe Telling Tale of Two Cities
It’s a tale of two cities. In one, a gapping maw to a deepening abyss warns all to “abandon hope, ye who enter here.” In the other, a shining beacon atop a hill carries the message of “The Man in the Arena,” “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood … who best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement.” And they know that there are plenty enough fossil fuels on and off U.S. shores to supply the needs of every single American for many decades to come. Ironically, achieving such energy independence is essentially a matter of heeding the words of a Man in the Arena more than four decades ago from a speech he never got to give. The remarks John Kennedy was to give at the Dallas Trade Mart in the early afternoon of November 22, 1963, included the admonition, “America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy.”
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POPSCafferty and viewers on Palin This is revealing. A republican friend, male, had the same reaction as the woman from California. I do think the convention will tell the story. If she's good it puts some states into play, if not, well, can you say "Quale or worse, Egleton....
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POPSCan Hillary Help Obama get Elected? Post notes Hillary's forceful speech as a table setter for Barack Obama - but can he close the deal? What do you need to hear from or know about Barack Obama to vote for him?
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POPSDying with Grace If you have not heard/viewed his speech, I cannot recommend it enough. Wonderful man. Will be sorely missed.
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POPSMoyers Saves the Day Former FBI whistleblower, Coleen Rowley, was overhead after the speech. “Moyers is one of the great orators of our time. He writes what he reads and he nailed it.”
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