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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Bullshit, Bishop!

In the NBA, a journeyman player named Jason Collins came out as gay.  Most sports fans greeted this news with yawning indifference.  (ESPN's Chris "Old Testament" Broussard was the lone exception.)  Collins has received widespread public support, plus letters from Obama and Clinton.  It's progress.



Meanwhile, here in Columbus, a Watterson High School teacher named Carla Hale came out as gay and was promptly fired by the head of the local diocese, Bishop Frederick Campbell.  He said he had to fire Hale not because she was gay, but because she had violated both her employment contract and diocesan policy (by being gay).

What bullshit, Bishop!  You have a bad contract and a bad policy, and they ought to be changed.  As Bishop, you had the chance to show real leadership by establishing a new policy, but you didn't.  You're the opposite of progress.
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