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While participating in the heated debate in the comment section of a post about an event in our backyard hosted by the NH Episcopal church’s openly gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson, Danielle Delisle, well known to both Skip and me being a reporter for one of the local newspapers, wrote:
While I am thinking about it, Doug and Skip. You welcome people with different views to guest blog and/or guest on your radio show. Would you be willing to allow me to do so as someone who lives a very alternative lifestlye? Preferably radio, but I will do a guest blog too. This would not be representing the press in anyway, but merely as someone who is willing to speak about what she believes in. I am not ashamed of who I am and am perfectly willing to answer ANY questions put before me. I am neither monothesitic nor straight so you would really be getting someone from the opposite end of the spectrum. I have no credentials other than the lifestyle I live, but I see lack of people willing to speak on the other side on here and I am willing to. Let me know what you think.Always up for some interesting discussion, we immediately said, "Sure!" What will be really good is that we will discuss the Gilford event hosted by Bishop Robison with Danielle and a reporter from another newspaper, the Laconia Daily Sun’s Ray Carbone. You see, they both covered the stories for their respective papers. In addition to promoting a movie celebrating the gay lifestyle, during the evening, Carbone’s piece reported that Robinson claimed to have hosted a retreat with a number of gay Catholic priests, and thatRegarding the question of hatred some men have for women and its link with hatred towards gays, Robinson said the issue of accepting homosexuality is more difficult for men than it is for women.
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The Bible doesn’t have a whole lot of good things to say about women. There’s not a single mention of women in the Old Testament and they’re barely mentioned in the New Testament."
Again in the commentary section, Danielle wrote,I would just like to clear up something. I was at the event, covering it for the paper and the bishop never used the word hate in regards to women and the church. That statement is editorializing on the part of Carbone. What the bishop said is that the treatment of women is oppressive up until the New Testament.We’ll engage in some friendly debate over whether the reporting (on both sides) was reflective of their personal beliefs, or simply that: reporting. We’ll discuss the Robinson affair, the gay movement and its relationship with churches in general, and whether it finds its roots in the government run schools. We’ll also touch on the role religion plays, if any, with regards to the government. And we promised we’d mention Ray Carbone’s soon to be released book project featuring the photography of many local pros, "The Lakes Region of New Hampshire: Four Seasons, Countless Memories"
Sounds like it could be very interesting indeed.
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All politics is local. We’ll chat some local goings-on in our town. Remember, while you might not live here where we do, what is happening here is happening elsewhere as well. There’s nothing new under the sun, after all.
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"The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry" and so it has for the library boosters who thought they had pulled a fast one on the voters and hapless taxpayers with their "free gift."
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Is it right to allow property tax-exempt living for certain persons within a system of government funded by such means? How can they vote appropriately when they will feel no consequences of any spending decisions they might make?
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Things also go awry, sadly, when good people try to do actual good deeds for thier community with simple stipulations. I’m talking about when someone gifts a property to a town for a specific use which, in plain language, specifies what must be done in the event something changes. Many years ago, a citizen of Gilford donated prime land in the village for a library simply stating that, in the event it is no longer used as such, it reverts back to his heirs. Well, you guessed it, our library has moved and, well, the town doesn’t really wish to abide by the terms it originally accepted many years ago. We have a letter recently sent to the town from the heirs who feel that, well, they’ve been abused. Ouch!
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Speaking of gifts, it’s a little like deja-vue all over again with another "free" construction project being bandied about by our school board as they seek to build a sports megaplex miles away from the schools. Knowing, like the library promoters, that their scheme would never pass muster, they are now seeking donated "seed money" to get the ball rolling to a point where the taxpayers own it and must therefore pay for it. NOT IF WE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!!!
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It’s that time of year… Once again, most NH counties are presenting their budgets for next year and ours, Belknap, is no exception. Will the "leaders" seek a rerun of last year’s disaster in which they found themselves committing one blunder after another during the budget/ borrowing process, thus resulting in the first "default" budget in the county’s history? The fireworks have already started with the Commissioners embarking on a failed effort to eliminate the so-called "outside agencies" from the budget, rightfully questioning whether it is the county’s role to support such things. Former Laconia May
or Thomas A Tardif joins the discussion. The public hearing for that budget is this Monday evening. Meet the New Press continues to expose this most hidden of all levels of government… -
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