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MBWS& VIEWS Human Lite Pro-abortion and antiabortion groups , lined up predictably at a recent public hearing in Pittsburgh on the question of Pennsylvania's support of a...
...Mcllvane, in the words of the Pittsburgh Catholic, caused a "stir," arguing that the bill and the projected procedure posed "a great risk to the fabric of our nation...
...This is not the time for a constitutional convention to be called, said Mcllvane...
...an object of violence . . . laughable . . . non-sexual . . . incapable of fully participating in everyday life...
...What the Council would like to see routed is the tendency to depict die disabled person, among other things, as pitiable and pathetic . . . sinister and/or evil...
...Father Donald Mollvane, pastor of Corpus Ohristi parish in Pittsburgh's East End, broke with the mainline Catholic constituency and opposed the bill that would make Pennsylvania the tenth state to call for a constitutional convention over the abortion issue...
...AH mat the gay community, as I understand it, is asking are the things we recognize as people— that they (gays) have a personality, a humanhood that is necessary to toe recognized in the community...
...Mcllvane told those who want a human life amendment that they should intensify their efforts in Congress...
...Instead of "cripple" or "crippled," the Council suggests orthopedic disability, mobility impairment and disabled person...
...There was one exception...
...Disabled Persons The Bulletin of the Council on Interracial Books for Children has zeroed in on another stereotype in Children's literature: the negative portrayal of disabled persons...
...He cited low voter participation, racial problems, lack of confidence in elected leaders and trouble throughout many western nations, like Canada, as evidence that a constitutional convention at this time "could threaten our democracy as we know it...
...The Supreme Court decision of 1973 did not happen overnight, but after a long effort...
...So long as the rhesus monkey was worth money, somebody had a stake in ensuring that viable populations survived," Rensberger wrote...
...Deadly...
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...And I see nothing that is wrong in their position...
...Odd* and Ends —Felix G. Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, predicted recently that new New York Mayor Edward Koch would be the "Joan of Arc of this city...
...He was one of the participants in CommonweaVs 1968 symposium on "The Troubled Priest...
...They have a right to the dignity of a human person...
...Thirty-four must agree before a constitutional convention can be convened...
...Reminded that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, the agile Mr...
...allowing it was "conceivable" that women will one day be ordained into the Catholic priesthood...
...Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, sitting on the same panel, said that he shared "the bishop's conviction about the obligation to assure the civil rights of homosexuals as well as all other people...
...MBWS& VIEWS Human Lite Pro-abortion and antiabortion groups , lined up predictably at a recent public hearing in Pittsburgh on the question of Pennsylvania's support of a constitutional convention to adopt a human life amendment, and pronounced the predictable arguments pro and con...
...I fear what such a convention might do to the Bill of Rights, to the rights of minorities, to religious freedom...
...The term comes, it says, from the image of beggars sitting in the street, "cap in hand...
...Not handicapped persons, be it noted...
...He expressed an opposition to the possibility that homosexuality "would become a norm for society and you can look forward to the end of family life...
...Mcllvane is an activist priest known widely in Western Pennsylvania...
...Don't you believe it...
...Surely not 'Neath the Ashes...
...However, he noted that "in authentic, normative Jewish tradition, homosexuality is frowned upon and in fact the Bible itself calls it an abomination...
...Finally, if you want a sample of how environmental issues can be travestied, note Timesmaa Boyce Rensberger's observation that India's ban on the export of rhesus monkeys poses a threat to the species' survival...
...Rohatyn responded, "Yes, but she saved France...
...Eric Patridge's etymological dictionary traces the word to an old sport characterized by forfeit money hand-held in a cap—whence the notion of disadvantage...
...Which makes one wonder what becomes of the college alma mater, 'Neath the Elms...
...My fear is of a runaway convention," Mcllvane told the hearing assembly...
...Its sampling of "stereotypes" was drawn from a survey of classic and contemporary literature...
...The 39-page Bulletin is available from the Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1841 Broadway, New York, N.Y., 10023...
...Ten years is not too long to bring about a major reform of this type," he remarked to murmurs of dissent from "pro-lifers" in attendance...
...and backing the civil rights of homosexuals...
...The Council also finds offensive such words as "retard, retardate, idiot, imbecile and feeble minded," and offers in their stead "retarded, mental impairment and mentally disabled...
...The Council on Interracial Books finds the term "handicapped" offensive by way of derivation...
...But no difference...
...On the latter issue, Bishop Carroll T. Dozier said: "It's a human rights problem and it's one that the community at large must face...
...Cost of the issue is $3...
...Someone has to step back and take a look" at this nation...
...It will be modified or overturned only after a similarly long effort...
...The elephant, in other words, can rest easy because merchants lust for their ivory tusks...
...a burden . . . or one redeemed by some compensatory quality, like magical ability...
...Editors and writers are asked to portray disabled persons as individuals "interacting as equals and giving as well as receiving...
...Bishop Dozier countered: "You're really over-playing what is the ordinary sense of sin into a more general right and that therefore does cause confusion...
...Mcllvane separated himself from the pro-abortion majority at the hearing, and said that he was in favor of a human life amendment —but one "that goes through the normal process of passage by the Congress and then by the required number of states...
...The New York Times reports that Trinity College in Hartford has given up on its elms and is replacing them with ash trees...
...Gay Rights The Bishop of Memphis lived up to his reputation as a provocative prelate on a local television talk show, condemning property as a major cause of humanrights denials...
Vol. 105 • February 1978 • No. 4
