Emily+Dzuback

I think Pastor Terry Jones was completely out of line for planning to burn the Koran. 9/11 wasn't really about the book itself, the offenders just happened to be Islam extremists. I don't think burning the Koran would really make any sense since it's just being extremists for Christianity in a sense, which wouldn't really make us any better than them in the end.

Week of 9/20/10 The article about Catholic priests in Belgium molesting young children stood out to me. It caught my attention because I just found it so sad and wrong that religious leaders would do something so perverse and cruel to young kids. Also, I find it quite appalling that this happened all over the country as opposed to one place, over the course of thirty years. All of these children were probably mentally scarred from this sexual abuse and over ten of them committed suicide, which shows how damaging sexual abuse can be on a young person's mind. It's sad that these 'people of God' had to do something so awful.


 * P= You had a good way of explaining your point of view**
 * C= Provide more detail about the article and then give us your reaction.**


 * Where is the October entry?**

The article that I chose this week is the article about homosexual couples in Florida finally being able to adopt children**.** Gay couples in Florida haven't been allowed to adopt since 1977, when the law banning gay adoption was passed. I think it's about time this law be dropped, considering the fact that it's offensive because it's like the Florida government was saying that homosexuals couldn't be as good of parents as heterosexual people. It's wrong to be discriminated against because of somebody's sexuality, because that really has nothing to do with one's ability to raise a child. Also, there were probably lots of children that could have been adopted between 1977 and 2010, but went un-adopted because gay couples never even had the chance to consider adopting them.
 * Week of 10/11/10**