- Posted by Christopher on August 19, 2008
Flip flopping isn't leadership.
- Posted by Christopher Estep on July 24, 2008
It’s things like this that make me want to pull what’s left of my hair out:
A Hall County woman who sued her ex-fiancé for calling off their wedding has been awarded $150,000 by a jury, according to a WSB-TV report.
RoseMary Shell said she moved to Hall County from Florida, leaving behind a high-paying job, to join Wayne Gibbs. She also said that she has suffered emotionally and financially since their break-up in 2007.
Well, boo freaking hoo!!! Who hasn’t suffered emotionally (and even financially) after a breakup? And she left a job? So what!? She chose to leave. She chose to get engaged. But is this really about money? Isn’t this probably about revenge? Nope. It’s the money:
Gibbs said he paid off $30,000 of Shell's debt during their engagement and also took her on trips. When he found out Shell had even more debt, he canceled the wedding. He notified her by leaving a note in their bathroom.
The jury awarded Shell the $150,000 Wednesday.
"People shouldn't be allowed to do that and hopefully he'll think twice before he does it to someone else," Shell told WSB.
You know those creditreport.com commercials where the guy sings about how he could be a happy bachelor with money if he’d gotten a credit report of his girlfriend before they got married? Well, that’s obviously not the case in Georgia.
In one respect though, this guy got off cheap. $150,000 is far, far less than this despicable man-hater would have soaked him for in their marriage. May she die alone as she deserves.
Jilted bride wins $150,000 from ex-fiancé | ajc.com
- Posted by Christopher Estep on June 18, 2008
Following up with a story I blogged about a year ago, Cylenthia Clark has finally owned up to her child abuse and has admitted in court that beating a child is bad, even if you’re the one supposed to report people who do the very same thing:
An official with the Department of Family and Children's Services (DFCS) pleaded guilty Tuesday to a child cruelty charge and received 10 years probation.
The case against Cylenthia Clark unfolded in February 2007 when her then 8-year-old daughter showed up at school with bruises. Clark, an assistant director with Fulton County DFCS, was arrested three weeks later after an investigation by Fayette County DFCS.
The investigation revealed that Clark used a belt to punish her daughter for an incident in which the girl got into a fight with a boy at her daycare center, and also hit one of the staff members in the face. Authorities said the girl claimed her mother struck her more than 30 times.
The guilty plea came after the start of Clark's trial in Fayette County Superior Court. During his opening statements, defense attorney Manny Arora told jurors that Clark's daughter took behavior-controlling medication and had been removed from school on occasion due to behavioral problems. He said Clark only hit the girl five to 10 times.
I’m guessing that Clark took the plea deal after all of the jurors spat out their water and said simultaneously, “did he say ‘only’ five to 10 times?!”. The turning point in the trial came when one juror blurted out, “Can we just convict her now? I need to blow my nose.”
11Alive.com | Atlanta, GA | Former DFCS Official Admits Child Cruelty
- Posted by Christopher Estep on May 28, 2008
Homomo group Affirmation wants the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints to just forget about its own doctrine, particularly the Proclamation on the Family forget about fighting same sex marriage in California, where the LDS Church is the second largest church in the state.
In a statement Wednesday, leaders of the gay group Affirmation are asking The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not to meddle in politics that harms gay families.
Instead, the group wants Mormon leaders to help people who are hurt by the church's teaching that homosexuality is a sin.
And here is the problem and why "Affirmation" groups will never "get it". You can't expect a church to pretend its doctrine doesn't exist, without revelation to the contrary (which there obviously has not been).
They say:
"the church's teaching that homosexuality is a sin."
but the Church, any church who has this same doctrine would have to rephrase it:
"the sin of the practice of homosexuality."
When will people realize that you can't change religious beliefs by pretending that those who believe them do not see them from God? The LDS Church does not have "a teaching that homosexuality is a sin" but Affirmation will never see it as anything more than that. From the LDS perspective, they (we) are teaching that the Lord declares through his prophets that the practice of homosexuality, like any other sex outside of a marriage between a husband and wife is a sin.
This means that premarital sex, homosexuality, adultery, polygamy, or any other sexual activity outside of what is set above, is sin.
Further, it is not the teaching that hurts people. A teaching cannot hurt people! This is America, remember? If you don't believe something, don't practice it. If you don't believe that homosexual practice is a sin, it is perfectly legal to do so.
But don't expect Brokeback Mormon any time soon.
Deseret News | Gay Mormons to church: Don't fight California court ruling