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MGB: No one is shocked that a Trump supporter on an anti-immigrant binge shot up a synagogue that helped HIAS efforts to resettle refugees. Trump gave them permission to consider themselves in his class and do so, even though he has no class to speak of. A billionaire racist is still a racist.
Whether competition between disabled peers and abled peers makes sense depends on the character of the competition and the assists available. On the school level, it might make sense. In big time international competition, it would be a distraction, although such competitions are becoming more and more toxic as they become professionalized. Spending one's youth to be better than an entire world-wide generation for an audience of equal size is a poor trade.
In the ancient Church there were two main offices (aside from other ministries), pastor (also bishop or overseer) and apostle - one who had seen the risen Lord. There was one congregation per city. If every pastor is considered like a bishop in witnessing the resurrection, I can think of no higher office.
Impeachment is a political question as well as a juridical one. There is plenty to go after in the Trump Administration that has nothing to do with the Mueller probe. Once the Republican leadership sees the report, the only question will be whether Trump resigns before or after January 20th (so that Pence can run for two terms, as if electing him for one is at all realistic). The only stupid option is to not pursue impeachment at all in the face of Trump's ties to the Oligarchs in Russia, including money laundering. Given Trump's performance this week, any Republican keeping his Senate seat may be considered a long shot.
As I said yesterday, the best thing that the Bishops can do is what they are likely to do, shift with the wind as the Republicans are annihilated in the upcoming election and through episcopal retirements. Like judges of a certain age, bishops will more and more understand Roe and the obligation to fight abortion economically, which the GOP will never do. Expect Granola to be served in Baltimore.
If the GOP is decimated or if the Democrat wins in Georgia, what matters is how the government deals with voter suppression. I would hope that a Democratic Congress will redo the Voting Rights Act preclearance list and put every state where voter suppression occurred or was attempted on it. This won't be limited to the South this time.
Silk is acting under the impression that Gorsuch and Kavenaugh are somehow closer ideologically to Scalia than the Kennedy. I don't see it. Nino was one of a kind. No one who went to any Ivy League law school in the modern age will reverse privacy rights based on sexuality. If anything, the Court will hear the case in the Second Circuit to nationalize the proposition that sex discrimination provisions in the Civil Rights Act already protect LGBT workers and renters. If that occurs, the Human Rights Campaign will be able to fold up its tent, as there will be nothing more to pursue in terms of gay rights. As the money in the Church in America is now with the parents of Millenials, who believe that there is no moral difference between gay and straight relationships, it is the Church that will have to change - and will once the money moves that way.
The trend will be to free tuition, so the question of legacies will not matter, although fundraising will be important. Admission of a rich idiot on economic grounds offers only a semester of advantage, especially if our entitled student is caught cheating. In college admissions, there are obvious yeses and obvious noes. Everyone else can go into a lottery after the first choices are admitted and the incapable rejected.
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