2021 is the 40^th anniversary of the beginning of the on-going AIDS Pandemic.

From a June 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,

 “In the period October 1980-May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3 different hospitals in Los Angeles, California. Two of the patients died.”

Obviously, Gay men were concerned and went to their doctors while, it being a Gay thing, the Straight community paid little attention to it other than to use it as a religious tool to scare people to Jesus and then was adopted by politicians who saw the numbers of conservative religious votes pandering could produce.

Unlike now with Covid when sympathy is extended to the victims and their families, even those who choose to avoid precautions like masks and vaccines, and much is being done to control, cure, and prevent Covid and all its variants, in those days, because people bought into AIDS being a punishment from God meted out to Gay men, and hoping this would remove the problem of the Gays, people were content to let the virus run its course and wipe out an undesirable population.

The federal government bought in to this, and it was only when Dr. Frank Kameny talked to Dr. Fauci and after the many actions of ACT/UP which rankled people did any real attention get put into dealing with a virus that was actually already in the general population.

Silence did, indeed, equal death.

Looking back in their records some doctors saw a pattern that was spread out enough to have been almost unnoticeable as it was happening in real time. However, those who looked saw that too many patients had died from treatable pneumonia. These deaths were spread out, so only remarkable when looked back on and the number of such deaths and the short window became known.

Ryan White got AIDS from a blood transfusion and began making inroads to changing the public’s understanding of AIDS, except that those who wanted to reserve some bigotry about AIDS who started referring to Straight people with AIDS as innocent victims as if Gay men went out of their way to consciously get the virus and were somehow victimizing straight people by spreading it. They were the victims of the evil Gays.

For the longest time addressing AIDS meant separating those inflicted from family and friends where they would die alone and EMTs refusing to bring people with AIDS to the hospital leaving that up to friends to get the person there only to be isolated and, as in the case of a friend, placed in unused rooms where attention was limited. It was a small bit of the population about whom most people knew little since its members had to hide in the closets into which they were forced by the greater population, not enough to care about. Just let the bad guy die according to God’s will.

Some Gay men from religious backgrounds fearing the disease and hoping to find any escape simply went away convinced by pastors that if they were to abandon their wickedness and their wicked friends God would forgive them and remove the virus only for them to die away from their friends the news of which had to seep along the grapevine until friends found out.

If you did not see someone for a while, the scariest question was to ask about them, hoping the answer would be they were on vacation or had moved.

Reopening internment camps to isolate people from family and friends was a viable proposal in California when I was there with the caveat that if a visitor showed up, while they could enter to visit, they could not then leave as they would be carrying AIDS home with them and would become involuntary inmates.

Under the plan, Gay men found with AIDS or were found to have been exposed when the post bar raid AIDS tests would be given, and the Positives spirited away with no contact with family before the disappearance. They would have to ask around for you if you were gone a few days.

Containing and isolating people with AIDS was the initial response with little research to end a very selective disease that would most likely go away with the death of the last Gay man. The only approved pharmaceutical was a rush job with federal funding going only to one company unlike today with Covid when many companies got research money. That one pill that resulted, AZT, did not cure, prevent, or lessen the virus, it just slowed it down, so you lingered longer, and was later found to have been more lethal than the virus itself because the every-four-hours-every-day-for-the-rest-of-you-life regimen was equivalent in time to overdosing.

Along with the calls for isolation and quarantine, there was one suggestion from a major Republican to have all Gays with AIDS tattooed to let others know of their condition, and trash bags became the body bags in many hospitals.

When celebrities died, if it was AIDS, it became a way to win bets on the person’s real orientation, especially because of the Rock Hudson surprise. There was a lawsuit in Palm Springs after Liberace died claiming the announced cause of death was false because he did not die of natural causes or illness but because he had AIDS. The man was dead, knowing if AIDS was involved served no other purpose than supplying further evidence that the gossips were right, and he had, indeed, been Gay.

It was after 300,000 people had died due to AIDS and Reagan left office that attention was finally paid, not to the continued search for ways to quarantine, isolate, and let people die, but to, sorta, kinda finding a cure not just a maintenance drug.

While the burgeoning religio-political evangelical base was growing because of such tactics as “pro-life” and the fear of those shadowy Gays, who, thank you, are being punished by God for their sins, hence the need for donations, the government and the demographics of it, Straight, White males, saw a threat of the way their world was supposed to be becoming a world for others as well and were not pleased with the progress with Gay rights since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion.

As for the evangelicals, the Gays had become too sinful; for the straight, white, male power structure, the Gays had gotten too uppity.

Sex among Gay men had been decriminalized in 24 states by 1980, the year before AIDS was identified, and that year President Jimmy Carter received a petition from evangelical Christian leaders demanding a stop to the advance of gay rights, warning,

 “God’s judgment is going to fall on America as on other societies that allowed homosexuality to become a protected way of life.”

The “Moral Majority” just loved the advent of the virus and ran with initial information as if it were complete misleading their flocks as to the facts with their authority to do so coming from their direct contacts and conversations with God, who, apparently, spoke tom them often.

Both were glad to find a way to pull us back a peg in this life and the next.

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In 1982 Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, Larry Speakes, laughed when asked about whether the president was tracking the spread of AIDS. When he seemed unclear about the question the reporter added,

“It’s known as gay plague,”

To the chuckles of people in the room. the journalist asked. Some people in the room chuckled.

Speaks responded,

“I don’t have it, do you?”

Laughter erupted.

Reagan himself, in spite of losing Hollywood friends like Rock Hudson, waited until 1985 to utter the word AIDS publicly.

Part of the problem in limiting the spread of AIDS in the Gay community initially was that after having had to develop its own hospice system and medical networks to care for those with the virus because the greater society just did not care, and after seeing and hearing the statements from the federal government that closely matched those of the religious right, when those who were willing to just let us die started telling us how to survive, they lacked a good deal of credibility. Some just did not believe what the former haters were offering.

The majority of Gay men accepted the science and acted according to it. There was a certain degree of discomfort and awkward changes. Masks are not the only barrier that can be somewhat restrictive. But the reward for stubborn was not enticing.

In those days, people got AIDS because they deserved it either because of their choices or their ignoring science and, so deserved scorn.

Today, people can ignore advice on avoiding and limiting the spread of covid and get sympathy from others when they die because of their choice.

One would think that as the history of the 1980s is not far behind with most people around then still around now, those opening years of the AIDS Pandemic could not be easily rewritten.

But, the attempt was made.

Dennis Prager is, according to his website, “one of the most respected and influential thinkers, writers, and speakers in America” and “is deeply passionate about preserving America, the West, and the Judeo-Christian value system.” He is two years older than me, so he was well in to his thirties when AIDS was identified, and as a conservative religious radio host knew what the “church’s” stand, statements, and actions were at that time.

Recently, in defending those who choose not to get vaccinated against Covid, he stated,

“If we survive this as a free country, historians will just ask how did this happen? How did people get governed by irrational fears?”

He went on to claim that unvaccinated Americans are “the pariahs of America as I have not seen in my lifetime.”

To show this to be true he went on to say,

“During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, who were the vast majority of the people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would have been inconceivable. And it should have been inconceivable! They should not have been made pariahs. But this is kosher, this is okay.”

 You do not have to imagine it, nor would such a thing be inconceivable as it actually occurred.

In the 1980s Gay men were pleading, demanding, and demonstrating in ways from peaceful to not so much for medical care. We did not avoid it when it finally came as little as it was.  

But that’s conservative history for you.

So tomorrow remember those we lost in the early days when the country abandoned them and just waited for them to die. Remember the unknown guy who had been thrown out by his family but was a part of the Community in his way who one day was just gone. Remember the surviving partner who was not allowed to attend the funeral by the deceased’s biological family. Remember those who died not only alone but with the internalized hatred forced on them by those they trusted who told the lies. They died even separated from themselves.

Remember these people as you remember those who followed them when the nations attitude improved greatly, but, obviously, not far enough, and the support systems the Gay Community had to design for self-preservation were adopted by the greater community for the benefit of all.

They were all innocent victims.

But don’t settle in the remembrance.

Take the actions necessary to get things back on track and find the vaccination and the cure.

It’s been forty years with negligence to be made up for.

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I spent a short time working retail after I retired and moved to Cape Cod.

It took a while to get used to people, especially seasonal residents assuming, in spite of my life experiences in many cities and in many states of which they were not aware, thinking I was one of those “locals” worthy of pity as, working in such a store was probably the best I could have done with my life and to stop taking it as their demeaning me. As a person working retail I was to eventually find that they had their other ways of doing that. I amazed some customers in conversations when I would casually throw out references to other places and the people I had met along the way.

Most of the year-round employees at the store were older with years of experience so they had reached a good wage level, or people like me, retirees that could hold the fort when seasonal employees returned to whatever they did off season and with a retirement income already would deal with retail stupidity for as long as it did not control their lives.

Like the time I was walking down a store aisle from the back to the front where there was some dry spillage with a broom in one hand and a dustpan, and when I met the assistant manager toward the end of the aisle, he told me to sweep up the spillage. Not wanting to see if he thought I just liked to carry these items around or if it would dawn on him that picking up the spillage was why I had them in the first place, upon asking why he told me to do the obvious I was told it was because as assistant manager it was his job to tell me to do things.

That was the last opportunity he had to ever do that.

Before this moment, when we reported for work the day after Thanksgiving, we were all aware that the War on Christmas warnings had be issued, and we decided to avoid problems by letting the customers offer a greeting and we would respond in kind. More often than not it was the customer who spoke first when getting to the register or attempting to get a floor person’s attention to help locate an item so this would not be awkward to anyone.

It should have been a simple solution to a really non-existent problem, but I did have the few odd customers who seemed to be storming the register counter while demanding to know if I was going to say “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas” as if it were some sort of challenge to complete their quest, or asking if I was permitted to say “Merry Christmas” or was there some sort of corporate ban, a violation of which could cost me my job.

For the most part, though, adhering to the customer first practice avoided problems.

I assumed because the boss thought the younger employees had things to do at night while we older employees would just be going home to our house of cats, sit on the couch drinking tea, and then fall asleep either waking to report to work the next day or passing on some time in the night, the retirees got the evening hours.

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Left up to her you got a “Happy Holidays” that included hers, and basically a whole bunch of other people.

During the winter when the population is low and many things that were there for the tourists in their season are closed and unavailable for the locals, sometimes your only interaction with people takes place at stores and with few of them open, the same stores regularly and often. One night one of our regular customers came in. Unlike the majority of the regulars, this one had an attitude and a superiority complex he freely let rule here and in other places. His approach was always belligerent, treating employees like the help. I had seen him act this way at a local pub, so it was the way he was.

With the armful of stuff that he was clutching, he strode toward Louise’s register like a wrestler approaching the squared circle at a grudge match, piled his purchases loosely on the counter, stood there staring at Louise a bit, and then growled, “Well, what are you going to wish me”, going into a well-planned rant when she said, “why, Happy Holidays.”

Along with what he directed at her, he also did that are-they-watching-me sweep and turn to ensure his sentiments were being shared with everyone. When he quieted down, Louise explained she was Jewish and considering Easter and all, she chose a neutral “Season’s Greetings” as there was less baggage or chance to see sarcasm or irony.

There had to be some mental cheers from some of the other customers who were familiar with the gentle man.

He paid in silence and left quietly into the night by way of the very well lit parkng lot so there was nothing romantic to his exit.

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 By ignoring the issue and playing political victim.

“It’s clearly people who have a political agenda, who are trying to use, sadly, someone’s loss and the impacts that it’s had on all the people involved, for their own personal, selfish, progressive agendas. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

To him, questioning why he wears the suicide crown should induce shame, while his actions, on the other hand, should just be overlooked.

The Suicide rate in his facilities is the shame.

The most recent suicide happened while the Sheriff was attending a fundraiser for his upcoming reelection campaign, and, obviously, although there is no cause and effect involved, the irony is that as he is raking in the dough for running on his assumed reputation as a good sheriff, yet another suicide happened that sort of belies his claims of efficiency.

The first suicide in this instance of the Bonaventurian Trinitarian Aspect, the belief that bad things come in threes or in numbers divisible by it, was an unidentified 35-year-old man who had only spent one night in jail this past August.

Another male inmate died at new Bedford’s St. Luke’s Hospital in September.

Three suicides, one per month, in three consecutive months, a Hodgsonian Hat Trick of negligence.

The sheriff may have said, “We don’t feel good when we lose anybody in our custody,” but, apparently, not bad enough to accept advice from people who have offered solutions or learn from his fellow county sheriffs how to avoid not feeling good.

His expressions of sadness at each suicide while resisting ideas, offered suggestions, and effective examples from other county jails on how to prevent as oppose lament suicides are the sheriff’s “thoughts and prayers” that excuse him from actually doing something.

A lot of people commit suicide in his jails, feeling bad about it doesn’t quite cut it.

In spite of his record, the sheriff has called these suicides “unfortunate.”

People who have been watching the sheriff’s performance consider them to have been avoidable, not simply unfortunate.

He might excuse things by a vacuous explanation,

“The mental health staff are very vigilant about this. They’re hurt by it as well, because that’s what they do. They’re constantly thinking, ‘Is there something we missed?'”,

but in this, as with Covid when he deflected criticism of his poor leadership as people criticizing his hard-working staff, he avoids any proper next steps by pretending someone is unfairly attacking the staff he must defend when the public knows full well that the staff has to follow his directives and in August, September, and October, these were shown to be faulty and in need of change.

Let his staff do the right thing in the right way, and that would eliminate his claims of falsely blaming the staff for doing what he tells them do.

He is in charge at the sheriff’s office, after all.

“Is there something we missed?”

The more important question is, why does the sheriff ignore professionals who are constantly suggesting ways to prevent suicides and might help people not miss important things.

This is the man who, during the opening months of the Covid Pandemic, refused any advice or involvement in programs that could limit the presence of the virus in his facilities, claiming he had it all under control and that there was no virus in his facilities, but had to admit, when it was found out, that upwards of 50 inmates and several staffers tested positive for the illness that the sheriff claimed was not there.

The sheriff’s spokesperson offered a boiler plate defense that skirts the fact that options are there but are being ignored.,

“We’re following all the proper protocols. We’re doing what we have to do. Unfortunately, this is something that’s not unique.”

Just as a reminder, during an inspection of the sheriff’s House of Corrections as a result of a court order, the sheriff and this same spokesperson claimed the Sheriff Office’s approach to the Covid Pandemic was effective as they were following the protocols which turned out to be protocols issued before Covid even showed up while there were no recent or relevant Covid protocols in the required binder.

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Defending himself against questions of what is happening in his jails that have resulted in his suicide rate, the sheriff said he doesn’t see anything unusual.

“We don’t exceed the national average. We’re not unique. These things can happen.”

That often, though?

Not unique in the Bristol County Sheriff’s facilities, perhaps, but unique when comparing Hodgson’s facilities to other sheriff’s jails.

The facts, however, are that in the last collection of statistics on suicides in jails the national suicide rate in local jails was close to 50 per 100,000 inmates, or 0.05% of the average daily incarcerated population with Hodgson’s facilities, having an average daily population of 655, being ten times the national average with its being 0.46%.

So, sheriff, you do exceed the national average and you are unique.

Since 2006, Hodgson has had 50% more suicides in his jails than Suffolk County, and more than twice as many as Essex and Worcester counties.

And, of course, along with putting this all down to his political enemies, the sheriff needs to blame the person who committed suicide by claiming,

“More often than not, you find that many of these individuals who complete suicide are generally people that don’t give you the heads up even though you’re doing what you’re supposed to.”

Of course, to swallow this, one has to forget the time when everyone connected with the court, including the judge in the case, acknowledged that the just sentenced person seemed to show signs of possibly being suicidal, but was not treated in the jail accordingly, and committed suicide just as warned.

This sheriff, more concerned about his actually false and self-created image, white supremacy, anti-immigrant animus, and cartoonish nationalism wants to be a Western sheriff in an Eastern state.

End his hate and the potential treatment of any one of us who might end up in his facilities, something that many people do not see as happening as they are not criminals and should not be in a facility like those accused of the same things they might do, no matter how minor.

The sheriff has been caught again making excuses for his suicide numbers, but not with making any progress in remediating the situation without going to his political-victim card.

He wants to get reelected to a 6-year term in 2022.

Perhaps, this need to win will have him address his suicide problem realistically so he can show voters he does more than go to DC or anywhere Trump is, make anti-immigrant speeches, mistreat his inmates, and refuse to do anything he assumes is a political attack when in reality it is just citizens of the county who want him to do the actual job he is paid to do and leave his politicking for off duty time and at his own, not the county’s, expense.

For some twisted reason, even if it is just to show he wears the badge and no one can tell him what to do, not even the state’s Attorney General, he refuses to listen to anyone who does not praise him or adhere to his bigotry and refuses to do things for the right reason, i.e. what could prevent preventable suicides. Perhaps he will do the right thing for the wrong reason, again i.e., clean up his suicide rate so he looks good enough to reelect.

Three suicides in three consecutive months.

This one has to go.

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The general approaches used to oppose such were that there was no need; it was exclusionary of the straight kids; it was militancy plain and simple; it was obviously just politics; and it sought special rights for one class of people at the expense of all others. Apparently with an eight slice pizza there is enough for seven people but if an eighth one enters the room there is no pizza for anyone.

After a time, though, those approaches had proved themselves ever weakening, so a new one was attempted that did not go as was hoped.

This new attack held that Gay people were demanding too much while willing to deny equality to others and treating others as less than in the attempt to gain power, while being exclusionary and insensitive itself toward others.

To the annoyance of another English teacher who forbade the word “stuff” in his students’ writing, I had a table outside my door on which I would place books and other items loosely connected to curriculum that students could peruse as they chose and, if they borrowed something, returned it over which I had hung a light up sign saying, “Learn Stuff”.

Usually what was put on the table was an acknowledgment of which Heritage month it was, and materials related to it such as books, pictures, and sometimes objects. Often the information was what was left out of the textbooks.

I had been fighting with the administrators on campus who had no objection to anything I put out there unless it was Gay-positive, and rather than be the attacker, at one point the principal attempted to play the victim of Gay privilege.

For the record, I do not know who decides which month is the heritage month for which group of people. although Black History Month is an official thing, who got the other months was decided by some nebulous someone and over time was just accepted as the way it was. Teachers like me would have to look up who got what month if we were knew to it.

It was, at least in my time, so informal that when I called the school district’s office on Native Student Affairs to verify that November was Native American History Month and if the district had schedule relevant activities and educational programs since I had read somewhere that was November’s designation, the head of that department had to confess he was not aware that November was Native American History Month and got back later by phone and email to tell me he had checked around and was, along with some other peers, a little embarrassed that they had all been unaware.

For November that year I put a number of books on the Learn Stuff table about Native American history and one that gave the true history of the pilgrims including what had been in Plymouth before them to when it all went wrong with the King Phillip War, an unknown war to many of my Native American students along with the latest, claimed to be definitive biography of Crazy Horse.

The latter was borrowed by a Native American student so she could show it to her great grandfather who had some connection to the great chief. She had asked the next day if it would be okay if she returned it after her grandfather finished reading it, but later had to inform me that her grandfather so loved the book and it had brought back memories and connections, she hated to take it from him. I had found the book at Barnes and Nobles in the really discounted book section where this student eventually also found a copy and replaced the one her grandfather would not give up.

At the end of the first day that I had the Learn Stuff for November on the table, I found a request for a meeting in my mailbox in the teachers’ room. I thought I was in trouble for having included a book on Two Spirit Native American people and was ready to object as I had received no resistance to the contents of this table for any month except during Gay History Month.

The meeting began with a lecture from the principal recounting my presumed desire for dignity and respect for Gay people and the need for sensitivity among the faculty while I willy-nilly made a joke about others which was derogatory, insulting, and insensitive, the very things I hypocritically objected to in the name of Gay.

His evidence for my two-facedness was that he was part Native American and he found it insultingly insensitive to him and his people that I not only followed Gay History Month with Native American Heritage Month, I assumed this was a cooties thing, and that I had cruelly chosen the month that contained the most loathsome day for Native American, Thanksgiving, perpetuating the support of genocide and oppression while demanding not to be subjected to the same.

My heartless choice revealed my hypocritically cold heart, and I should apologize for my sick anti- Native American choice.

Why should people give in to the militant demand for equality and respect, if I, the person fighting for it, was disrespectful and insensitive in such a public way as my choosing to saddle Native Americans with the baggage that was Thanksgiving.

Change the words Native American with Gay in his rant, and he would have gotten the point I had been making about Gay Students.

Obviously, taken aback a little at this, I had to ask if he really thought that, other than Black History Month, the choice of months was up to me and totally arbitrary at that since he thought my choice of November for the Native Americans was either consciously cruel, or at best a snide and underhanded attack on others not like me.

In his mind it was.

His point was that while I was demanding respect for Gay students, I had no problem treating the Native American students as I demanded the Gay ones not be treated.

Who’s the mean one now?

His assistant principal who was in the room strongly expressed his agreement with the principal.

I, for my defense, used my laptop to access my emails among which was the one from the Director of Native Student Affairs not only acknowledging I had been correct in November being Native American History Month but expressing his embarrassment at having not known.

To this I added a view of the page I had consulted on the internet listing the various month designations and another designating specific days confessing that when I apparently chose National Oreo Day I had obviously been insensitive to the other cookies.

The intended reprimand was quietly placed aside.

The following November at the principal’s direction one of the school’s organizations put up a huge Native American Heritage Month display in the huge display case at the top landing of a well-used flight of stairs.

Knowing full well what I would not see, I inspected the display for any reference in word or picture of Two Spirit Native Americans, but there was none.

I pointed this out to the principal as it not only excluded members of the students body who could be two Spirit or knew and loved someone who was, but it also redacted part of the Heritage the month was supposed to educate the students about.

He acknowledged to omission. Nothing was done.

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It is common practice for churches to invest some funds in businesses so that what comes through the collection plate is increased to cover basic costs of running a church or buying a Mercedes for the pastor.

Sometimes, if not very often, the church is not aware into what their investment company has put its money.

The biggest porn palace in Boston’s pre-redeveloped Combat Zone, The Pilgrim, although it had been the Home of Vaudeville when first built, had eventually became a huge pornographic movie house, an ornate opera house with sticky floors. The revelation of ownership was embarrassing when the investors sold the building and the public learned who had owned it.

Usually, though, they invest in something more related to corporate businesses like oil companies.

Obviously, mistakes like the theater business need to be avoided, so the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has come up with updated guidelines.

The guidelines for investments have not been updated since 2003, and in those 18 years a lot has happened, and the landscape of investments has changed greatly. USCCB has its own money to invest, roughly $270 million in 2020, as well as that of other Catholic institutions, so recently the bishops met in Baltimore, the home of the Baltimore Catechism (“Who made me?”) and updated the investment guidelines.

What a company makes, or what a real estate investment is used for should be major topics of discussion. Does the potential investment contribute to the good of mankind and does it respect the God given responsibility to be good stewards of his creation? Does it aid in the Corporal Works of Mercy and follow Christ’s teachings on our love of neighbor being a love of Him.

After all, the final guidelines say,

“The entangled web of corporate relationships that is today’s economy almost makes it impossible to know all the effects investing in a single company, specific security, or investment fund can produce. Nevertheless, we must do all we can to assure that we invest in those corporations and institutions that promote human dignity and enhance the common good.”

It also includes among criteria whether or not the investment avoids doing harm, actively works for change, and promotes the common good.

The topics covered in the investment guidelines are divided into five parts: protecting human life, promoting human dignity, enhancing the common good, pursuing economic justice, and saving our global common home.

The draft of the final policy calls for engaging with companies regarding climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental protection, water depletion, human rights, racial and social discrimination, human trafficking, hate speech in social media, discrimination or infringement on religious freedom, privacy and civil liberties, yet it there are caveats that could automatically rule out investments no matter how tightly they hold to the criteria.

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The guidelines also state the need to urge companies

“to advocate for an understanding of marriage or sexuality that is consistent with church teaching and natural law.”

And, to this end:

 “Other companies where investments would not occur include those involved with pornography or sexual exploitation or those that ‘directly participate in the performance of sex reassignment surgery or in the administration of drugs or hormones for the purposes of delaying normal puberty or of changing the body of an individual to correspond to a sex discordant with biological sex.’”

So where to put their tax-exempt money?

Simple answer: companies that already discriminate, or companies where the church believes there’s a strong possibility to get them to start.

Definitely not, however, companies that recognize and respect all people and do not create an atmosphere or promulgate practices that discriminate against anyone capable of doing a job.

Churches love to throw the snippy question at anyone who accepts a woman’s right to choose, “What if the aborted person was the one who was to cure cancer?”

Question could also be asked, “What good could your investment have made in helping a company cure cancer, but you withheld it because the company saw everyone as equal?”

While wanting to engage with companies regarding climate change, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental protection, water depletion, human rights, racial and social discrimination, human trafficking, hate speech in social media, discrimination or infringement on religious freedom, privacy and civil liberties, when three of those, human rights, social discrimination and hate speech in social media includes them, Transgender people are excluded, and Same-Sex Marriages needs to go.

We will teach you to hate. We will assume you already have Jesus.

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Because he sees him as a good prospect for Congressional Intern, Matt Gaetz is considering giving Kyle Rittenhouse a job as one.

Before the final jury decision, Matt Gaetz had said,

“He deserves a ‘not guilty’ verdict, and I sure hope he gets it, because you know what, Kyle Rittenhouse would probably make a pretty good congressional intern. We may reach out to him and see if he’d be interested in helping the country in additional ways”

Other than going across state lines to play militia, a situation that went horribly wrong, what qualifications does the kid have other than being used by people like Gaetz to make a statement that benefits them while not so much the kid.

The idea that he might help “the country in additional ways” with the only notable thing he has done being killing two people and injuring another seems to condone what he did as having been done for his country.

Once the verdict was in, other GOPers reacted.

Marjorie Taylor Green wrote,

“Kyle Rittenhouse ACQUITTED on ALL charges! May Kyle and his family now live in peace. Those who help, protect, and defend are the good guys. Kyle is one of good ones.”

The now censured Paul Gosar joined in with his praise and offer of a job.

“Justice was served for Kyle Rittenhouse and he is fully exonerated. As I said last year, obviously self-defense. I will arm wrestle Matt Gaetz to get dibs for Kyle as an intern.”

Not to be left out Madison Cawthorn chimed in with a video in which he said,

“KYLE: IF YOU WANT AN INTERNSHIP, REACH OUT TO ME. You have a right to defend yourself. Be armed, be dangerous, and be moral.”

The right to be dangerous?

Tom Cotton suggested that,

“Joe Biden needs to publicly apologize to Kyle Rittenhouse,”

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because in tweet used during Biden’s presidential campaign to link former President Trump to White supremacists there was a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse under the words

“There’s no other way to put it; the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.’

And, of course Donald Trump Junior saw his opportunity to exercise his self-appointed role as a political and social expert, comparing the verdict to Biden’s colonoscopy.

“The Rittenhouse jury just gave Biden his second colonoscopy of the day.”

And Tucker Carlson already has held an interview with Rittenhouse and a documentary.

So, in spite of what is best for the kid, the politicians see a tool and are eager to employ it.

Maybe, for the sake of the kid, they should just leave him alone to deal with the events of the past year and a half and ensure there is no long-term psychological damage.

But that isn’t politically useful.

Nicotine fits might be assuaged with a cigarette, but in the end the cigarette is tossed aside when its usefulness is over to fester in a tray filled with the remains of others who had been useful or deteriorate quietly and unseen in a gutter.

And seeing who is championing this kid, it is obvious that if not given the right guidance, although he might have been acquitted in court and avoided any time for his crime, he will be sentenced to life in his used position without parole.

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