At Reason, ” Reason.tv in Iowa: “We’re All Austrians Now” – Ron Paul and the IA Caucus .” I was watching the speech. Rand Paul looked positively glum in the background. No doubt he was committed to winning the state. But third place is respectable, I guess. We’ll see if Granite State voters can put Paul’s campaign six feet deep next week. See also Houston Chronicle , ” Paul expecting Iowa bounce in New Hampshire, South Carolina .” RELATED : A
(The Blaze/AP) A Roman Catholic church in San Francisco that canceled a series of pre-Christmas services featuring gay ministers from other denominations is being criticized for sending a negative message to its predominantly gay and lesbian congregation. Pastor Steve Meriwether of Most Holy Redeemer Church late last month rescinded the invitations he had extended to the three ministers at the direction of San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The story first was reported by the Bay Area Reporter, a gay newspaper. Archdiocese spokesman George Wesolek told the Chronicle the archbishop felt the speakers were “inappropriate for the season of Advent, which should be a time to reflect on the coming of Christ.” Wesolek said he was unsure how the archdiocese learned Most Holy Redeemer had asked Otis Charles, a former Episcopal bishop, Presbyterian Rev. Jane Spahr and Metropolitan Community Church Rev. Roland Stringfellow. An article in California Catholic Daily mentioned the Nov. 30 scheduled appearance by Otis, who came out as gay after he retired. “It’s a very delicate pastoral situation,” Wesolek said. “There are a lot of wonderful gays and lesbians who attend Most Holy Redeemer, but there are parameters that must be followed.” Stringfellow, a minister for the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Church, had been scheduled to speak Wednesday. The cancellations were an insult to the clergy involved and sends a message to gay and lesbian Catholics that they are unwelcome within the Catholic Church, Stringfellow said. “Most congregations invite speakers who can speak well to their community’s concerns,” he said. “We are all clergy within our own rites and denominations, and we were very disrespected by the idea that we can only give a talk that’s about gay rights.” The archdiocese has stepped in before to draw a line when it felt Most Holy Redeemer’s support for gay Catholics has trespassed into advocacy for gay rights. Niederauer ordered the parish in 2009 to cancel a performance of a play that explores the subject of adolescent sexuality in a Christian context, according to the Chronicle. The parish also was told to end its official participation in San Francisco’s annual Gay Pride parade.
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Catholic Church in Castro Neighborhood Told By SF Archbishop to Disinvite Gay Clergy Speakers
Unofficial, they say, but it still counts quite a bit from a former president. At New York Times , ” Elder Bush Tells Paper Romney Is ‘Best Choice’ .” And at the Houston Chronicle , ” Bush 41 backs Romney for president, admits he’s not Gingrich’s ‘biggest advocate’ .”
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77-Year-Old Patricia Pusey, a Houston, TX resident, is blind. That’s important because it’s crucial to her story of fraud — according to her, she was recently duped and lost her home because of it. Pusey says she was told she was signing an agreement to help pay off delinquent taxes. Instead, however, she unknowingly signed over the deed to sell her family home, heirlooms, antiques and keepsakes inside. It was then ultimately demolished, and she lost out. The Houston Chronicle reports that Pusey lived in the five-bedroom house for decades, and it was built by her father in 1948: “Pusey’s allegations are the latest in a series of reported real estate thefts in Harris County that mainly center around questionable or bogus transfers of vacant or abandoned homes belonging to mostly elderly or absentee landowners in historically African-American neighborhoods. A Houston businesswoman and real estate investor named Niyoka Taylor-Campbell, 34, of Humble, faces related 2011 charges of felony theft of more than $20,000 and execution of a legal document through deception as a result of Pusey’s complaint, Harris County Criminal District Court records show. The case is being prosecuted by the Harris County District Attorney’s Consumer Fraud Division.” Taylor-Campbell’s defense attorney says her client has insisted on her innocence, and from what she can see does not believe Taylor-Campbell has done anything illegal. Rolland said Pusey consented to selling her home and Taylor-Campbell never offered tax help. However, the Chronicle reports on some fishy dealings made by Taylor-Campbell around the time of her encounter with Pusey: “The notarized property deed transferred Pusey’s home to a company called Strong Roots of Texas, a Limited Liability Company, on Aug. 28, 2008, county records show. Secretary of state records show Taylor-Campbell formed ‘Strong Roots of Texas LLC’ in July 2008, only about a month before the alleged ‘sale.’ Other documents show the company’s legal status was ‘involuntarily terminated’ even before that sale went through for failure to pay required fees. Taylor-Campbell’s company later resold the property to a businessman who resold it to Mt. Corinth Baptist Church, deed records show.” The Consumerist reports that after the sale, the house was demolished with Pusey’s family heirlooms still inside:
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Blind Woman’s Home Demolished After Allegedly Tricked Into Signing Over Deed
Mary Jo Paul wrote a letter to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle in August, threatening the culprits that stole her 2-foot, 50-pound St. Francis of Assisi statue , that they would have a date with Karma. The hoodlums seem unfazed. The statue was returned to the Paul home Saturday with lipstick, eye shadow, and toenail polish transforming the saint into a “sissy.” Erik Peterson of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle took this picture of the vandalism: Mary Jo Paul was upset about the theft of the statue which she had owned for nearly 40 years, warning whoever took it that “what goes around, comes around.” However, t he Billings Gazette reports that Paul and her husband laughed at St. Francis’ now-green robes, gold sandals and purple belt. While the Pauls first cracked-up at the sight of the statue and say that “now maybe he’s more beautiful,” they still feel the theft was “awful.” “The person who did it is most ingenious, if unethical,” Mary Jo told the Chronicle. That said, they still appreciate the patron saint of animals and the environment. “‘He’s just a symbol of all that’s gentle,’ Mary Jo said. ‘He reminds us to be good to each other, to be good to animals.’” The Pauls will keep the painted statue and have moved it to a less conspicuous place in their yard.
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Stolen St. Francis of Assisi Statue Is Returned — With ‘Sissy’ Makeover
Video via Nice Deb : And see Miami Herald , ” Wasserman Schultz and Allen West’s feud is political and personal . RELATED : At Houston Chronicle , ” Black Activists Slam Rep. Wasserman Schultz’s Targeted Attack on Black Colleague .”
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Three out of four state legislators boast at least a bachelor’s degree, a rate nearly three times higher than among the constituents they serve, a Chronicle of Higher Education study found.
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College Degree Prevalent Among Lawmakers
◼ Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia – – SF GATE/Bronstein at Large The Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci – who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times – pulled out a small video camera last week and shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis
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Over 500-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible ‘Companion’ Book Turns up in Utah
