It's all about a poem by Lucretius, who was a follower of Epicurus, and how a medieval antique book hunter came upon it in an out-of-the-way monastery in the 1400s and basically saved it for all humanity. I loved all three, especially Swerve, which made me want to write a monologue based on the book so I could perform it. Let's get onto books and movies for the month of May 2012ġ.) The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, written by Stephen GoldblattĢ.) State of Wonder, written by Ann Patchettģ.) In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, written by Erik Larson I'm just about to take off on a two week trip - a week in Spokane, and then a week in Los Angeles, so this is gonna be short. When it's put together I'll post it here on my blog.īut enough about that for now. My friends Annie Laurie and Dan at the Freedom From Religion Foundation asked me to do a little ad for them about the contraceptive coverage issue, and I did it on Monday. Personally, I think they've made a serious miscalculation. It's like a guy who tripped, and then fell on his leg and broke it off, and while in pain and trying to recover, decides to distract people from watching him, so arranges for an anvil to drop on his head.
They want the freedom to force their dogma on people who don't want it.ĭo they ever wonder why their married, child-bearing-age employees don't have a baby every single year? They're saying it's a "religious freedom." Yes, freedom.
JULIA SWEENEY SPOKANE PLUS
Plus the contraception matter! They're refusing to comply with the health care mandate that requires employers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. This is the time they've chosen to go after the nuns.Īnd. They seem to think now is a good idea to come down on the nuns, just when the cases against the priests about sex abuse is ramping up again, and there are more and more outrageous examples of the higher ups covering up, not reporting the abuse to the proper authorities, and generally behaving heinously.
Just when the Catholic Bishops and the Vatican seem like they've done themselves in, they do something even worse than I would've imagined. They were told they've not been sufficiently outspoken against contraception, abortion and gay marriage. They've been spending their time working on behalf of the poor and fighting economic injustice! An outrage.
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