I would say that yesterday’s market rally is pretty good evidence that the New York Times headline of last Friday was pure spin. Bad spin, Howell. Bad spin.
THE LONELINESS: A non-war post. I came across this moving piece published in the Georgetown University paper. It’s by a very orthodox Catholic student – recently graduated – who, while he was a student, backed the university’s fitful attempts to uphold the Catholic Church’s teaching that gay people must never have any sexual or emotional intimacy with someone of the same gender. Then he came to terms with the fact that he too was gay. Now he recants and explains how it felt to be closeted in a straight world:
The loneliness is hard to describe to straight people. It’s the loneliness of seeing straight couples together, and knowing you’ll never know the love of another human being because it’s forbidden. It’s the loneliness of seeing your best friends pair off with their girlfriends to leave you alone to contemplate your solitude. It’s the loneliness of knowing that, no matter how much fun you may be having with your friends today, you know the day will come when they’ll be married, and you’ll be feeling sorry for yourself because you have no love in your life and never will. I’ll never forget the visit of one of my good friends from high school and his girlfriend to the Hilltop. We took a long walk down to the Lincoln Memorial and were having a great time, ostensibly. But I was really torn to pieces, knowing that my friend and his girlfriend could have a future – love and happiness together, while I was condemned to be alone for all my days. I hurt so badly that I went into the restroom at the Lincoln Memorial and cried. I returned to my friend and his girlfriend and put on my happy face again, fearing to tell the pain I felt inside.
The guy is still a Catholic, bearing witness to a Church hierarchy that still won’t listen and refuses to understand.
The Dish 