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Don’t blame the Bible
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
MiamiHerald.com/opinion
"Sometimes, people hide inside the Bible.
"That is, they use the Christian holy book as authority and excuse for biases that have nothing to do with God. They did this when women sought to vote and when African Americans sought freedom.
"They are doing it now, as gay men and lesbians seek the right to be married... One wishes those people could spend a little quality time with Matthew Vines."
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/01/2778054/dont-blame-the-bible.html#...
With the Chen case, U.S. credibility is on the line
By Bob Fu, Published: April 29
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/saving-chen-guangcheng/2012/04/29...
Bob Fu is founder and president of the China Aid Association, a Texas-based Christian human rights organization campaigning for Chen Guangcheng’s freedom.
"The blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng climbed over the back wall of his home April 22 — and escaped nearly six years of torture, malnutrition and isolation. During his detention, Chen became a global star, his dark glasses emblematic of the embattled movement of human rights defenders in China. Chen is my hero and friend. He is under the protection of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. His status and safety present a pivotal test for freedom in China and for U.S. credibility as a defender of freedom.
Interview: ‘It started with nosebleeds’ – what fracking did to one US town
By Michael Freeman for thejournal.ie
"Calvin Tillman is the former mayor of Dish, Texas, a small community which was one of the first in the world to encounter ‘fracking’ – extraction of shale gas by hydraulic fracturing – after the technology was finessed in the late 1990s.
