12/28/11 JEWISH RABBIS RELEASE a TORAH-BASED RESPONSE TO HOMOSEXUALITY": In a stunning formal statement that directly confronts Barack Obama's presidency-long campaign to promote and normalize homosexuality, a coalition of Orthodox rabbis and respected mental-health professionals says being "gay" is a behavior that can be changed and healed with therapy, if the person has the desire"The concept that G-d created a human being who is unable to find happiness in a loving relationship unless he violates a biblical prohibition is neither plausible nor acceptable," says the document, titled "Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality"... emphatically reject the notion that a homosexually inclined person cannot overcome his or her inclination and desire. Behaviors are changeable. The Torah does not forbid something which is impossible to avoid. Abandoning people to lifelong loneliness and despair by denying all hope of overcoming and healing their same-sex attraction is heartlessly cruel. Such an attitude also violates the biblical prohibition in Vayikra(Leviticus) 19:14 'and you shall not place a stumbling block before the blind,'" it states. The coalition of rabbis and others says that "political correctness nothwithstanding, ...
...Homosexual activists are misusing compassion to win over the public. Their primary message is that if we care about people we should just accept them as homosexual and not ask them to change. They have been reinforcing this message by asking self-identified homosexuals to constantly repeat the untruth that'change is not possible' and that people are 'born this way'; that homosexuals have tried but 'couldn't change' and that if it was a choice 'they never would haven chosen this'. All they want is 'acceptance, happiness and love, just like everyone else,'" the group explains However, the members of the Jewish community wr..."
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12/28/11 REMEMBERING ARTIST HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011) "...Born 1928 in new york city, studied at the dalton school with mexican abstract painter rufino tamayo in new york city and attended university at bennington college in vermont where she studied with artist paul feeley, graduating in 1949 the first monumental exhibition of her career was in 1952 with the display of 'mountains and sea', a 7 x 10ft oil painting that seemed as if it were created as a watercolor piece. 'mountains and sea' introduced the use of turpentine-diluted oil-paint upon raw canvas, a technique known as 'staining', which is attributed to the color field school of painting of which frankenthaler was a founder as an abstract expressionist painter, frankenthaler was a major contributor to american post-war painting as well as one of the first artists to practice the color field school of painting. her large-scale canvases and easel-free technique were formed by gesture and dance, similar to the artistic process employed by abstract expressionist painter jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work emphasized the flat surface, interrogat ..."
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REMEMBERING ARTIST HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011) "...Born 1928 in new york city, studied at the dalton school with mexican abstract painter rufino tamayo in new york city and attended university at bennington college in vermont where she studied with artist paul feeley, graduating in 1949 the first monumental exhibition of her career was in 1952 with the display of 'mountains and sea', a 7 x 10ft oil painting that seemed as if it were created as a watercolor piece. 'mountains and sea' introduced the use of turpentine-diluted oil-paint upon raw canvas, a technique known as 'staining', which is attributed to the color field school of painting of which frankenthaler was a founder as an abstract expressionist painter, frankenthaler was a major contributor to american post-war painting as well as one of the first artists to practice the color field school of painting. her large-scale canvases and easel-free technique were formed by gesture and dance, similar to the artistic process employed by abstract expressionist painter jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work emphasized the flat surface, interrogat ..."
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18325/helen-frankenthaler-1928-2011.html
