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HIV/AIDS Envoy: Ugandaâs Chairing Of Commonwealth Meeting âA Mockery of Commonwealth Principlesâ
David Benkof: Behind the Mask
At first glance, David Benkof appears to be a young gay man who believes that same-sex marriage will damage the institution of marriage, that there are better options for gay couples than marriage, that the community should join him in prioritizing other more pressing issues, and that the marriage discussion is harming the efforts of gay couples in red states to get recognition for their unions. He also claims that he’s a gay columnist, that he speaks for an influential collection of gay thinkers, and that he is part of the gay and lesbian community and that he shares our goals and dreams. But none of that is true.
featured a new report from NARTH. Written by NARTH president A. Dean Byrd, past president Joseph Nicolosi, and Richard W. Potts, the report carries the unwieldy but self-descriptive title, “Clients perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation.” While the title describes what the authors meant to show — how clients describe the benefits of reparative therapy — the report itself actually illustrates something very different: the ex-gay movement’s remarkable ability to instill an almost robot-like parroting of ex-gay rhetoric among their clients. said that a new study “discover[ed] a new strain” of a super-bug “hitting gay men.” Headlines in Britain screamed, “Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,” and anti-gay extremists across America spread the alarm that gays were introducing another plague into “the general population.” But there was a small problem with all of this: None of it is true! Paul Cameron’s WorldIn 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
From the Inside: Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out”On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out” Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
The FRC’s Briefs Are ShowingTony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.
HIV/AIDS Envoy: Uganda’s Chairing Of Commonwealth Meeting “A Mockery of Commonwealth Principles” Jim Burroway November 24th, 2009The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) takes place every two years to bring together the heads of states of some fifty-three countries, most of them former members of the British Commonwealth. CHOGM was last held in Kampala, Uganda in 2007. This year, the CHOGM will take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on November 27-29, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni serving as the meeting’s chair.
Prior to the CHOGM, there is another important series of meetings known as the Commonwealth People’s Forum . This Forum is conducted by the Commonwealth Foundation, which is officially sponsored by the Commonwealth. This year’s Forum is taking place in Port of Spain November 22-24, and it brings together hundreds of civil and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to discuss several important issues on wide ranging topics of human development around the world.
Today, Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, is speaking before the Forum to address the Anti-Homosexuality Act which has been tabled before the Uganda Parliament. Lewis also serves as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. According to prepared remarks (PDF: 143KB/7 pages), Lewis said that the proposed Act is an “inflamatory redesign” of Uganda’s already draconian anti-sodomy law into “a veritable charter of malice.” He also warns that the proposed Act and Museveni’s chairing the CHOGM “puts the Commonwealthâs legitimacy and integrity to the test”:
One must remember that the last meeting of CHOGM was held in Uganda in 2007, and issued what is called the âMunyonyo Statement of Respect and Understandingâ. It asserted that the Commonwealth âis a body well-placed to affirm the fundamental truth that diversity is one of humanityâs greatest strengthsâ. It went on to say that âaccepting diversity, respecting the dignity of all human beings, and understanding the richness of our multiple identities have always been fundamental to the Commonwealthâs principles and approach âŚâ. President Museveni signed the document. How in the world does he reconcile the affirmation then with the defamation now?
Lewis recalls some of the most heinsous aspects of the proposed legislation — the death penalty for LGBT citizens with HIV/AIDS, the criminal sanctions against those who fail to report LGBT people to police within 24 hours, the extraterritorial clause which “extend(s) the arm of the state into the bedrooms of the world,” and the provisions which explicitly suspend international law — and he declares that the legislation has a “powerful Orwellian flavor”:
If it werenât so extreme, so menacing, so lunatic, it would be the stuff of theatrical parody. Parents, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, preachers, landlords, community health workers, members of the media, civil society activists, anyone who can identify a homosexual, gay or lesbian, or has reason to believe that homosexuality is lurking, must report to the authorities or face a fine, or jail term of three to ten years, or both. Can you imagine a father or a mother turning in a son or daughter? Can you imagine a teacher ratting on a student? Can you imagine a physician whoâs taken a Hippocratic oath to tend to the sick betraying that trust because of a patientâs sexual orientation? But thatâs exactly what this law requires.
Iâve truly never seen its like before. Please forgive the harsh language, but this intended antihomosexual statute has the taste of fascism.
And yet, thatâs only the half of it. What is put at terrible risk here — beyond the threat of the death penalty for HIV-positive homosexuals — is the entire apparatus of AIDS treatment, prevention and care.
Citing the significant amounts of HIV/AIDS funding now being funneled to Uganda from the United States (through PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Marlaria, Lewis warns that “there’s a very real crisis of conscience in the offing.” As written, this bill, which also bans any activities which can be seen as “support” for LGBT people, would place ordinary NGO employees and volunteers at risk for criminal penalties. Lewis continues:
I know that the views I am expressing on behalf of the organization I represent, AIDS-Free World, will seem tough and harsh to some. But let me tell you what we feel.
We donât think that this piece of legislation deserves a careful parsing of its clauses, invoking all of the international human rights instruments that Uganda has endorsed, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, attempting to show where the Bill is in conflict with human rights principles. That just gives far too much credibility to the proposed legislation. On its face, without more than a simple glance at the substance, the Bill is revealed as an unbridled attack on the human rights of sexual minorities. There is no overall clause worthy of retention. There are phrases here or there (like the prohibition of sex with a minor) that any sentient human being can agree with. But the Bill cannot possibly be salvaged. It must be expunged in total from the parliamentary record. And for those who believe in conspiracy theories, let me say that the fundamentalist hand of the religious right in the United States is not difficult to discern.
Nor do we think that we need treat this issue with respect. We donât believe that we have to ârespectfully submitâ our arguments to anyone, or seek to ârespectfully influenceâ the powers-that-be. There are some moments in life where defining issues are indelibly joined. I remember sitting behind my then Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, at the Commonwealth meeting in Vancouver in 1987. The issue was apartheid. The contest was between Margaret Thatcher and Mulroney, and Mulroney let her have it. There was no respectful pretense. He didnât parse the pass laws, he didnât invoke the clauses of international covenants, he just lacerated Prime Minister Thatcher for defending apartheid, and he decried it for what it was: a totalitarian regime rooted in racism and the savage decimation of human rights. Itâs worth noting that he was joined by Sir Shridath Ramphal, then the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, who was slightly more restrained but unmistakable of tone and purpose. That was a time when the Commonwealth stood for something.
Lewis skillfully defends the apartheid analogy be pointing out that he didn’t invent the analogy. The comparison between racial apartheid and anti-LGBT legislation was made by the Constitutional Court of South Africa itself in 1998 when it struck down that country’s anti-sodomy law.
Describing the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act as “positively criminal,” Lewis demands that the CHOGM takes up this issue and places it on the agenda. He also demands that the Commonwealth collectively commits to suspending Uganda from the Commonwealth should the proposed law pass. This step is typically reserved for when a member state undergoes a military coup or suspension of its constitution. Zimbabwe is the most recent suspension. However, South Africa was suspended in 1961 over apartheid, and it wasn’t re-admitted until 1994 after its racial policies were dismantled.
But that was a relatively easy call: no other member nation had state-sanctioned racial segregation policies. Forty of the fifty-three member nations currently have anti-sodomy laws, although none of them as severe as Uganda’s existing law which already provides for lifetime imprisonment. With the vast majority of the Commonwealth already on record as fully prepared to imprison its LGBT population, and Museveni acting as chair of the Commonwealth summit, a statement addressing the proposed legislation is a severe long shot. But as Lewis concludes:
Ben in Oakland November 24th, 2009 | LINK“Iâve truly never seen its like before. Please forgive the harsh language, but this intended antihomosexual statute has the taste of fascism.”
Taste? Taste? How about the veritable STENCH of fascism? Don’t they teach history in school any more?
Anyone know what the penalty for hiding Jews was back in the days of National socialism? how about hiding heretics back in the days of Christian dominion?
Building a School Website
At work, we've been working on telling and collecting stories about the school. So many great things happen that those of us who aren't in classroom don't hear about. Each of us has had the responsibilty of writing a few pieces, so I decided to do a piece about how we built our website and how it saves us money.
I had been meaning to share some of the Joomla knowledge I have gained over the last few years on my blog for a long time. Some of the best knowledge out there comes from researching a topic via Google. There's not a whole lot out there about using Joomla to build a school website. I hope this helps get someone started.
Itâs amazing how quickly technology changes. When I started at PDS in 2003, the school had a static HTML website. In laymanâs terms, each page on the site had a corresponding file on the site that included both the content, style, and layout of the page.If you decided you wanted to change the size and color of all of the H1 (heading 1, the largest headline size) elements, you had to make that same change on hundreds of pages. If you decided that you wanted to add an element to the navigational menu, you had to also change every file on the site.
Part of the reason for this structure is that itâs the easiest and simplest in terms of required knowledge to implement. Itâs also the most inefficient way to do it. Ideally, content is divorced from style and layout. The layout is defined in the websiteâs one and only page. The style is defined in a cascading style sheet (CSS), and the content is populated from a database based on what the end user is requesting to see.
Static sites are easier to develop (up to a pointâŚsize does become an issue pretty quickly), but harder to maintain. A dynamic site is harder to develop, but easier to maintain.
The first school websites were pretty simple, but as the website has moved from a supplemental item in the school's overall communications strategy to the primary medium of communications between school and parent, a powerful site that is easy enough for teachers and administrators to contribute to is a necessity.
The question is whether or not you should develop this in-house, or outsource it.
There are a lot of advantages in using software that was designed with schools in mind. There's far less time spent on reinventing the wheel. With an outsourced site, the hosting, server, and security issues would be the problem of our vendor. And features like email push pages (really just a fancy way of saying ânewsletterâ), calendars, and parent directories are are better integrated into the overall site.
The problem with outsourcing is the cost involved. I found that it would cost us over $100,000.
We chose to continue to develop our own site. Not every school has the option of going it on their own, but if you have someone with the right expertise on staff, itâs absolutely achievable.
In 2009, when it was time for a redesign and re-architecture of the entire structure of the site, I decided to not start from the zero since a great deal of time can go into creating a good site layout. In 2006, I created the siteâs layout from scratch, which can take weeks to tweak. I'm a one-man show. Implementing all of the new features I had in mind was more than enough work to keep me busy in the Spring and Summer, so I started with a template and customized it to fit my needs.
Even though I could have coded my own, it was far more cost effective to use one of the many commercial template providers as a starting point. Many of them offer menu systems, and special features that add a great deal of polish to the user experience along with the style of the site. As I mentioned in the requirements section, knowing how to customize the template to make it look like your own is essential. Just think of how many Blogspot blogs you come across that all look essentially the same.
In the independent school business, you are offering a product that your customers can get for free from a public school. Your brand helps reinforce the prestige and perceived value of your organization in the public eye.
The resurgence of has proven that the design of a product matters. More than ever, we make decisions about products and companies based on the information we can find about them online. Schools are no different. The design of your site can communicate volumes about your organization.
As a parent, one of the things that frustrates me about my daughterâs school is a lack of organization of news on their site. I only have a limited amount of time as a working parent to spend reading news.
One of the guiding principles behind the design of the PDS site is to have the majority of information that parents need in one place. Not only that, but organize the information in such a way that parents of JK students donât see news that only applies to parents of SK students. Donât waste your customerâs time. If all of the content is relevant, youâll condition them to not ignore parts of the page.
Required KnowledgeHere are the skills that are required to pull this off at your school:
HTML : When I started getting into web design back in the mid 1990âs, my dad told me that it would never go anywhere. He demonstrated software that would build your website for you. Microsoft Front Page, was the program. Itâs 15 years later, and there is STILL no tool that will create a professional site where you donât have to get your hands dirty by going into the code. Understanding HTML at an intermediate to advanced level is a pre-requisite.
CSS : An intermediate to advanced understanding of CSS is also a must. CSS is the best way to layout and style website content.
PHP : PHP is a scripting language used to run a great number of the sites you visit every day. You donât need to know how to program in it, but a basic understanding will help when you find an add-on extension that almost does everything you need. With a little bit of tweaking in PHP, you can get it to do exactly what you need. Plus, many of the other open source content management systems are built on PHP.
MySQL : MySQL is a free database system. You donât need to know that much about itâŚuntil something goes wrong. Understanding how to back it up and restore it, and how to repair a corrupted user session table are handy. Plus just a basic understanding of the structure will speed the process of importing information into your site.
Design : While there are professional, highly polished templates sites available for sale, most aren't well-suited to school sites. When you do find one that is close, making it look like your schoolâs brand requires design skills and expertise in ). Itâs also important to understand how typography communicates the importance and hierarchy of information.
Server Administration : This is one of those areas where I am a novice at best. You can always go with a hosting service, but Iâve had issues with that in the past. An on-site server gives you easy access for backup, and speedy uploads. 100% of your content providers are in the building. Having a quick in-house connection to the site is a major benefit. This is one of the areas where I lean on a college friend. Iâm getting better at it, but I donât pretend to be anything but a novice.
The ToolsIf, after all that, you still want to go it on your own using , here are some of the add-ons that I found useful.
JoomlaPack
This free backup utility will backup your entire site in one step. You can then download the backup and easily move the entire site to another server in only a couple of steps. With the previous version of our site, I didn't have a way to test out major changes on the site. JoomlaPack allows me to create a backup of the current site and have it up and running somewhere else on my own personal hosting space, or on our backup machine in a matter of minutes.
Display News by BK
The built-in allows you to display it from multiple sections and categories. And you have fine control as to how it is formatted. You can have it output just headlines, or headlines and just the introduction, or output entire articles. It is indispensable.
Acajoom Pro
The newsletter engine for the site. Allows our users to manage/subscribe to news from their son's classes via email.
DT Register
I use this to allow registrations and RSVPs for events. It also has support for allows for them to create their homework and news items in the front-end of the site. It also allows me to limit some of the areas where they can publish items.
ExTplorer
A file system browser. You can upload, rename, move files, change file permissions, and more.
QuickFAQ
I use this to run our Question and Answer system. Our goal this year was to have a repository for the questions that get asked over and over again.
CostsOther than the man hours required, which are significant, this is a far more cost effective way to build a site for your school. Donât forget to build in the amount of hours you will need to spend on maintenance. You need to especially be vigilant about security. One of the benefits of using a popular CMS is the multitude of add-on options. One of the drawbacks is that with popularity comes hackers. I spend the first part of each work day reviewing the latest patches for all of the my add-ons, which are usually the weak spot in the security of a Joomla site.
Hosting/Hardware
You need to determine how you are going to host the site. Donât make the mistake I made, thinking that a shared business account is going to work. These companies claim that your only limitation is the amount of bandwidth per month and the amount of space you use. Donât buy it. We used 1&1, one of the larger hosting providers, and they shut the site down because of us using âtoo many resources on the system.â Worse of all, they didnât notify us about it, they just crippled the site. It took me hours on the phone to figure out why our site suddenly began crawling. Your hosting costs won't be of the $10 a month variety.
We host our site in-house on an Apple XServe. We also have a Mac Pro that serves as a backup site. You could probably get away with a Mac mini as a backup. You just need something in case of an emergency.
$3500 for server + $1000 for backup + Hosting costs (ours is hosted internally, at no additional cost)
Software
While the core Joomla CMS is free, some of the add-ons and templates are not. Most are fairly inexpensive. I would estimate that we spent around $1000 on software for the site.
ConclusionThere are plenty of reasons why you shouldn't go this route. A company that specializes in website for schools will have insight into best practices for school sites. Security, backup, and maintenance issues are taken care of.
There absolutely is a learning curve involved in setting up a site like this as well, but it is a far less expensive way to go for an organization looking to keep costs under control.
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