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Gender Change Costs Dean a Job
The legal point is the quality of the medical opinion that the gender confusion is a medically recognized condition beyond Julie's control as WSS explains above. Also, the fact that Julie's spouse of 35 years accepted the change is a material fact. The arguments the religious institution may put forth pale by comparison. This is neither a legal nor religious argument, but a medical one. Neither the religious nor the jurists bring any special knowledge to the table. Right from wrong will be resolved on the facts of the case, not the school, Julie or Barnabee's opinion. The scripture quotes or other religious basis Barnabee waits for are irrelevant. But that does explain why a PR firm rather than lawyers are handling the School's responses. Some other legal items of note are: the school is estopped to deny ability after years on the job, positive performance reviews, need to educate the school and the public about fairness and the difference between the First Amendment right to an individual's right to freedom of religion and the prohibition against organized abuse in the name of religion.
Comebacks, penalties part of ECHL stat revelations
Deeper in the statistical summaries from the league's first 131 hockey games in its 20th-anniversary season, though, were some gems that might have gone unnoticed. Like this David vs. Goliath match-up of coincidental roughing penalties on Nov. 2 -- Bakersfield's Justin Chwedoruk, all of 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, gave up a few inches and pounds to Victoria's Kiel McLeod (6-6, 235). Or check out the plus-minus bonanza enjoyed by Reading defenseman Shawn Germain on Oct. 20. He clocked in at plus-6 in a 6-4 win at Johnstown. Talk about your statistical aberration -- Germain is a combined minus-1 in 12 other games. At least he's not Augusta's Eric Lundberg, the defenseman who authored a minus-5 in a 6-3 loss at Columbia on Nov. 2. To be fair, Lundberg is merely a combined minus-1 in nine other tilts.
Kenya Trip Expands Outlook on Africa
Cloudless blue skies, 75-degree weather with no humidity and summer breezes, and hundreds of varieties of flowering bushes and trees are the backdrop for Kenya, a nation in crisis.
Kenya is a long way from the United States, far enough away to be out of sight and out of mind despite post-election violence. That is the impression one gets from the news media and its rapidly waning coverage.
Nothing could be further from reality. Experience teaches. It is simple as that.
When my older son, Joel, said his fiancée, Dawn Kuguru, wanted to be married in her native Kenya, it was overwhelming to me. All I could think was, "You've got to be kidding!"
That was almost a year ago, and now my family and I have returned from what we consider a life-enriching experience.
Gender Change Costs Dean a Job
The legal point is the quality of the medical opinion that the gender confusion is a medically recognized condition beyond Julie's control as WSS explains above. Also, the fact that Julie's spouse of 35 years accepted the change is a material fact. The arguments the religious institution may put forth pale by comparison. This is neither a legal nor religious argument, but a medical one. Neither the religious nor the jurists bring any special knowledge to the table. Right from wrong will be resolved on the facts of the case, not the school, Julie or Barnabee's opinion. The scripture quotes or other religious basis Barnabee waits for are irrelevant. But that does explain why a PR firm rather than lawyers are handling the School's responses. Some other legal items of note are: the school is estopped to deny ability after years on the job, positive performance reviews, need to educate the school and the public about fairness and the difference between the First Amendment right to an individual's right to freedom of religion and the prohibition against organized abuse in the name of religion.
Comebacks, penalties part of ECHL stat revelations
Deeper in the statistical summaries from the league's first 131 hockey games in its 20th-anniversary season, though, were some gems that might have gone unnoticed. Like this David vs. Goliath match-up of coincidental roughing penalties on Nov. 2 -- Bakersfield's Justin Chwedoruk, all of 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, gave up a few inches and pounds to Victoria's Kiel McLeod (6-6, 235). Or check out the plus-minus bonanza enjoyed by Reading defenseman Shawn Germain on Oct. 20. He clocked in at plus-6 in a 6-4 win at Johnstown. Talk about your statistical aberration -- Germain is a combined minus-1 in 12 other games. At least he's not Augusta's Eric Lundberg, the defenseman who authored a minus-5 in a 6-3 loss at Columbia on Nov. 2. To be fair, Lundberg is merely a combined minus-1 in nine other tilts.
Kenya Trip Expands Outlook on Africa
Cloudless blue skies, 75-degree weather with no humidity and summer breezes, and hundreds of varieties of flowering bushes and trees are the backdrop for Kenya, a nation in crisis.
Kenya is a long way from the United States, far enough away to be out of sight and out of mind despite post-election violence. That is the impression one gets from the news media and its rapidly waning coverage.
Nothing could be further from reality. Experience teaches. It is simple as that.
When my older son, Joel, said his fiancée, Dawn Kuguru, wanted to be married in her native Kenya, it was overwhelming to me. All I could think was, "You've got to be kidding!"
That was almost a year ago, and now my family and I have returned from what we consider a life-enriching experience.
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