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...response to the dismal economic conditions of the black community to which Americans have turned their spite. America—for all of its grand ideals such as social equality, class mobility, and equal opportunity—has labeled a whole race of people as second-class citizens...
...When the military covers up the harassment we face, the government sends a message that we are second-class citizens and that we deserve to be treated that way,” he said...
...Yesterday's action was a more surprising third way. By allotting the Episcopal leadership less than a year to back off of gay unions (or face taking a second-class status within the global group), the Communion has made it clear that it values its unity more than American participation (and funding). And in establishing "alternative oversight" by bishops more to the liking of U.S. conservatives - under a complicated system that still gives Episcopalian Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori some say in their regulation - the Communion has engaged in unusual interference with the polity of a member church...
...What's fascinating about all of this is that Jefferts Schori appears to have been involved in putting together parts of this solution, which suggests that she is committed to making them work. If so, she will face stiff opposition from many U.S. Episcopalians, who would probably prefer second-class status -or no status at all - in the Communion, rather than retreating from a position on homosexuality that they feel more closely reflects the spirit of the Gospel than the exclusionary position of the majority of the primates...
...child first. Palestinians? ''There is no Palestine.'' Jews called it Palestine before 1948. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are transients. West Bank? ''There is no West Bank in real geography. It is really the west bank of the Dead Sea.'' Dayan does not ''want to offer Arabs second-class citizenship.'' The Arabs must leave, or be persuaded to leave through a requirement of national service or high taxes. ''They should have 48 hours in which to sign a loyalty oath to the Zionist state. Otherwise they will be expelled in trucks.'' Dayan hates the American television networks, which...