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Comment on The years just fly by by Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:09:27 +0000

me, too ;)

Comment on Child rapist Neil Goldschmidt and what would have been (convicted felon, registered predatory sex offender) by Steve

Steve — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:42:24 +0000

The Sandusky parallel is strong. Even stronger (and more local and immediate) is Matt Hennesee, a once rising star in the Oregon political firmament, whose trajectory was altered when his serial child rape came to light in 2005. But that hasn't stopped him from serving as pastor at a local church. And it hasn't stopped Oregon's civic leaders from cozying up to him. Like PPS superintendent Carole Smith, Mayor Sam Adams and former Metro president David Bragdon and Attorney General Jon Kroger.

Comment on Child rapist Neil Goldschmidt and what would have been (convicted felon, registered predatory sex offender) by Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:04:04 +0000

“It is beyond understanding that Mike McQueary, who witnessed with his own eyes the anal rape of a 10-year-old by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, thought the matter was closed when he told his superiors (and, he now says, campus police) about it, and that head coach Joe Paterno — the sainted JoePa — took virtually no action, and life just went on for years while more kids were abused. What is this, the Catholic Church? Or maybe it isn’t beyond understanding. Maybe most people would do their best to rationalize evil behavior, to pass the buck and forget about it, if making a stink about it would harm their career. History isn’t too encouraging on that score.” — Katha Pollitt, The Nation, 12/5/2011

Comment on Sickening doesn’t begin to cover it by Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:48:05 +0000

To put things in perspective: If justice had been served, Goldschmidt would have been tried and convicted of felony rape in the second (or third) degree (depending on whether his victim was 14 when he started raping her). He might still be in state prison. If he had served a typical 75 month sentence for second degree rape, and was free today, he would be required to register as a sex offender.

Justice was not served, and Goldschmidt walks free in Portland, charming moms at local diners.

I wonder how they’d feel to be on Jerry Sandusky’s top 5 list.

Comment on Sickening doesn’t begin to cover it by Anne T

Anne T — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:25:41 +0000

Thanks for bringing up Knight and Paterno. I could not believe the headlines lauding Paterno for being a hero like no other and Phil Knight’s speech at his funeral made me furious. I guess as long as you have a winning football team you can be accessory to child rape and still be an American hero.

Comment on Vote “NO” on Beaverton’s urban renewal measure (if you can) by Genki

Genki — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:18:57 +0000

Thanks, swayed my vote. I was suspicious about this measure, and now I understand why.

Comment on Rev. Chuck Currie: “You are a jerk” by Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:43:57 +0000

Rev Chuck Currie heads a church…

Currie doesn’t head anything except his own fan club, as far as I can tell. He’s just an unemployed minister with an over-sized chip on his shoulder.

Beyond opening with an erroneous statement, ChrisFS, you clearly miss the point of what I’ve written, which comes nowhere close to saying “all religious people are hateful fundamentalists.” I won’t waste my time responding to your misconceptions of my positions, since you didn’t seem to spend much time trying to understand them before jumping to the defense of Currie.

I’m still planning to write more about the Rev. Chuck at some point, about how he defended alleged child molester Michael Stoops (“Everybody in life makes mistakes,” said Currie in the Oregonian), and how he misrepresented a young, mentally disabled murder victim as “homeless” and impugned her parents in an attempt to defend an organization he once worked for against well-founded allegations it provided aid and comfort to her killers.

Comment on Rev. Chuck Currie: “You are a jerk” by ChrisFS

ChrisFS — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:42:07 +0000

Rev Chuck Currie heads a church that is openly welcoming and affirming to gay people.
He even wrote a post in his own blog criticizing the

He is saying that it is unfair to paint all religious people as bigots when they clearly aren’t. Saying all religious people are hateful fundamentalists is the same as saying every gay man is a prancing queen. It’s clearly not fair.
Claiming you are using ‘history’ is a bad argument.
If you take the over 1000 year history of any sufficiently large organization, you’ll find problems.
Slavery in the Western world was only abolished less than 200 years ago, so does that mean that everyone in the Western world is complicit in slavery ? In the US, we drove Indians off lands and often to their death, are you will to take personal responsibility for that ?
Seems that at best there’s more than one jerk on this blog.

Comment on Rev. Chuck Currie: “You are a jerk” by Fred Leonhardt

Fred Leonhardt — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:18:33 +0000

Just struck me that in accordance with Rev. Chuck’s pomposity the title ought to read, “Thou art a jerk.”

Comment on Rev. Chuck Currie: “You are a jerk” by Anne T

Anne T — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:41:43 +0000

My favorite Catholic theologians are the ones that talk about peace AND justice. I tend to think of the Matthew 21 when people start talking about tolerating Christian bigotry. In that story, Jesus went in the temple and confronted the money-changers, turning over their tables:
“The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!”
So WWJD in the case of the anti-gay, anti-woman church in SE? Write a polite letter asking the money changers to stay in the temple “with your eyes and heart open into the ways that God may use this community to shape your ministry”, as Rev Chuck wrote? I think Jesus would go in and say “My Temple will be called a house of love, but you have turned it into a den of bigotry, hatred, and fear.” and then he might start turning over some tables. Now that would be progressive Christianity.