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Re: Maine's Catholic Bishop ousted lay minister because she supports marriage equality

Chino_Blanco — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:59:25 -0000

Very sad. What a waste.

Re: On Tuesday, Maine has a clear choice

Chino_Blanco — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:59:28 -0000

Me too!

Re: Catholic Bishop Accountability - h/t to "nicho"

Chino_Blanco — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:41:35 -0000

Just as a follow-up to my little rant from yesterday, the other question is whether or not Bishop Malone is in violation of Massachusetts Homestead Law, which states:

"A Homestead can be declared only on an applicant’s 'principal residence'. A person can have more than one residence but the statute only allows the protection on one’s legal domicile. There is no legislative intent to allow the exemption to apply to a vacation and not primary residence."

Is Bishop Malone a Maine resident? If so, what to make of his Massachusetts "Homestead"? Relevant docs supplied below:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21642238/Richard-Malo...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21642148/Richard-Malo...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21642103/Paul-E-Micel...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21641728/Richard-J-Ma...

Re: Catholic Bishop Accountability - h/t to "nicho"

Chino_Blanco — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:29:48 -0000

Miceli's best friend, Bishop Richard Malone:

http://voicefromthedesert.blogspot.com/2007/05/...

"Bishop Malone spends most of his time away from Maine's Catholic community attending meetings and conferences with his fellow bishops. Few, if any, of these meetings have anything to do with serving and laboring for Maine's poor and needy.

It is interesting to note, though, that Bishop Malone extends a warm welcome to Rev. Paul E. Miceli, his best friend and Cape Cod house mate. Miceli is a frequent guest at the bishop's private mansion on the Promenade (Miceli and Malone own a home together in South Dennis, MA)."

Friends or boyfriends? Roommates or soulmates?

We've seen enough of the Malone-funded Yes on 1 campaign that none of us should feel any need to apologize for insisting on a clarification from the Bishop himself concerning his relationship with Paul Miceli.

Re: Catholic Bishop Accountability - h/t to "nicho"

Chino_Blanco — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:56 -0000

Introducing Rev. Paul E. Miceli ...

Lord protect us from these defenders of "traditional" marriage:

http://ignatiusgroup.blogspot.com/2009/08/intro...

Re: Catholic Bishop Accountability - h/t to "nicho"

Chino_Blanco — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:16:34 -0000

I see nothing wrong with drawing attention to the apparent facts re Miceli & Malone, as long as it isn’t conducted as a whispering campaign or spreading innuendo.

Why should we give an inch to hypocrites, like Malone (and Marc Mutty), who choose not to get married, yet apparently consider themselves authorities on the subject.

And, also by the way, the official Stand for Marriage Maine Facebook page has degenerated into a litany of insults against our LGBT family, friends and neighbors:

http://www.facebook.com/StandForMarriageMaine

As the largest local contributor to SFMM, the Portland diocese is now promoting raw animus and antipathy toward LGBT Mainers. The only tradition that Malone and Mutty are defending now is that of shaming this minority.

Journalists covering the Question 1 contest ought to contact these brazen bachelors directly and ask them to go on the record describing and defending their own domestic living arrangements.

In almost any other context, such a line of inquiry would be an invasion of privacy, out-of-bounds, and prurient, but not in this instance, not now. Malone is bankrolling a campaign that is painting the LGBT community as undeserving of the benefits of civil marriage. He now deserves no less than to be asked directly to defend the propriety of his own person.

Re: New ad from No on 1 rebuts attack on Maine families from anti-gay campaign

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:12:38 -0000

"Scared of a childrens book? Mop the floor, dry yourself off and go read the damn thing!" Works for me.

Re: New feature: "Speakers' Corner," a permanent open thread

Chino_Blanco — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:15:41 -0000

This just pisses me off. Especially because I tend to be civil and strive for honesty. This Mormon blogger (Angela Rockwood aka "Beetle Blogger") thinks she can edit and delete my comments with no explanation:

http://beetlebabee.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/sta...

Blech.

Re: New feature: "Speakers' Corner," a permanent open thread

Chino_Blanco — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:00:08 -0000

As we enter the final month of the Maine contest (and NOM's relevance), I'd like to propose that we drop all references to "Maggie Gallagher" in our posts and adopt a consistent usage of the more Biblically correct Margaret Srivastav.

Just as we try to avoid adopting our opponents' framing, we should likewise reject their bogus naming.

Besides, Margaret would probably find it annoying, and that's always a good thing.

http://indiana.bilerico.com/2009/09/maggie_gall...

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/10/sp...

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/02/15141

Re: National Organization for Marriage (NOM) 2008 Tax Return (Form 990)

Chino_Blanco — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:29:19 -0000

Is there any reason not to begin consistently using Margaret Srivastav when discussing her in our posts?

Re: National Organization for Marriage (NOM) 2008 Tax Return (Form 990)

Chino_Blanco — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:47:35 -0000

Wow. I'd always wondered what was up with that. I guess my best hope would be that these assorted bigotries might one day cancel each other out as their carriers come into closer and closer contact inside a tent that the bigots themselves are going all out to shrink into raucous oblivion.

Re: National Organization for Marriage (NOM) 2008 Tax Return (Form 990)

Donna — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:56:53 -0000

And while we're on the topic of NOM I'd like to turn you on to some information uncovered about Maggie Gallagher. It's in a piece I wrote over at Bilerico-Indiana. Here's the link:
http://indiana.bilerico.com/2009/09/maggie_gall...

Re: National Organization for Marriage (NOM) 2008 Tax Return (Form 990)

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:45:56 -0000

Donna, yeah, there's something about these numbers that doesn't pass the smell test. In any case, NOM is allowed to redact donor names in the Schedule B portion of their return, so even if the reported numbers were real, there's no requirement that NOM make the contributor names known on this form. That said, NOM should be required to disclose donor info for the roughly $250K they've spent in Maine so far. Now that the Maine election authorities have agreed to open an investigation of NOM, that information might eventually become available. At this point, in my view, knowing the donor names is peripheral to the larger issue, which is whether or not NOM will ever be required to comply with the same rules that the rest of us are already following.

Re: National Organization for Marriage (NOM) 2008 Tax Return (Form 990)

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:34:15 -0000

John, whoever submitted that letter to the ME commission probably mistakenly reported the aggregate expenses for 2007 and 2008 (which is roughly $3.5 million).

Re: This & That

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:15:45 -0000

Hey NG, need to update this! The commission went against their staff recommendation and voted 3-2 in favor of investigating!!!

Re: New feature: "Speakers' Corner," a permanent open thread

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:43:27 -0000

3-2!!!! Maine Ethics Commission just voted in favor of pursuing an investigation into NOM!!!!!!

Fred and Danielle rocked today!!

Re: New feature: "Speakers' Corner," a permanent open thread

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:11:48 -0000

Just took a look at NOM's 2008 tax return. Brian Brown's making a comfortable living. They didn't end the year with much cash in hand, which would suggest that the bulk of their spending in New England and Iowa came from funds raised specifically to influence those contests, rather than from their general treasury.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20465927/NOM2008Form990

Re: New Maine Marriage Polling Numbers

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:51:12 -0000

Cool. It's pretty amazing that ActBlue has raised over $830,000 for the campaign so far.

Re: New feature: "Speakers' Corner," a permanent open thread

AMERICAblog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:16:16 -0000

Good! I wasn't sure folks would use. But it appears, a few of you are so far... :-)

Re: New feature: "Speakers' Corner," a permanent open thread

Chino_Blanco — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:34:09 -0000

Based on their last couple of ads, I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll end up seeing the No on 1 campaign do a good job of making that second argument.

btw, the new permathread is a nice feature.

Re: Being gay and Mormon

Chino_Blanco — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:57:45 -0000

Latter Days is a sweet flick. In a previous life (as a BYU student), I imagined myself bringing to the screen a new superhero - one who gained his powers by way of a BYU reparative therapy session gone awry - resulting in something more like a Hulk "swish" than a "smash" but just as powerful ...

In any case, that was a very nice article in the SL Trib.

Re: Texas lady is very upset over pro-gay billboard campaign

wmforr — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:17:49 -0000

Isn't that the way journalism works anymore?

"The Democrats objected when the Senator from Alabama said the moon was made of limburger cheese, but his Republican allies said the attack was purely political. Let us know what you think. On our CNN poll tonight:

IS THE MOON MADE OF

‪‭⁯⌂ LIMBURGER CHEESE

‪‭⁯⌂ SOME OTHER KIND OF CHEESE

‪‭⁯⌂ ROCKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT THERE

‪‭⁯⌂ DON'T KNOW

Re: Texas lady is very upset over pro-gay billboard campaign

Bose — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:30:05 -0000

exactly, Chino...

Re: Texas lady is very upset over pro-gay billboard campaign

Chino_Blanco — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:27:43 -0000

A friend had a similar reaction:

"I love how the correct procedure for figuring out whether Jesus in fact accepts a gay man in Acts 8:26-40 is not to interview language or theological experts, but instead to ask people to send them email with their opinion."

We report, you decide (what Jesus meant).

Re: National Organization for Marriage (NOM) 2007 Tax Return (Form 990)

Chino_Blanco — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:46:04 -0000

If you do, pls snap a photo of yourself standing in front of their door so I can add it to my collection :-)