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If You Love to Row Your Own Gears, These 22 Cars Are Clutch
Sometimes it seems like cars with manual transmissions are living on borrowed time. As automatic transmissions become more popular, capable, and efficient, vehicles with manual gearboxes are becoming niche products, enjoyed only by driving enthusiasts. Many automatics now include paddle shifters that mimic the actions of a manual, but without a clutch pedal.
While once manual transmissions were more efficient than automatics, the latest automatics and continuously variable transmissions frequently eclipse the mileage estimates of models with manual gearboxes.
Automakers, aware of the need to raise fuel efficiency numbers, and the expense of manufacturing a separate transmission that few people buy, are dropping manuals.
However, there's nothing quite like the connection with your car that a stick shift provides. Working the clutch, accelerator, and shifter in harmony with the heartbeat of your car is an experience that you won't ever get from an automatic. If you want the ultimate sense of control over your car, a manual transmission is still the way to go.
Take a look at the following slides to see some of the best cars that you can still get with a manual transmission (shown in order of their U.S. News overall scores).
2018 Audi A5
$42,600 | U.S. News Score: 9.3/10
Audi completely redesigned the A5 for the 2018 model year. It's available in coupe, convertible, and four-door hatchback (Sportback) models, with a six-speed manual transmission available in the coupes. The manual gearbox is mated to a 252-horsepower four-cylinder engine and standard Quattro all-wheel drive.
In our rankings of luxury small cars, the 2018 Audi A5 holds the top spot. It's lauded for its luxurious interior, comfortable front seats, and lively engine. The A5 is available with Audi's Virtual Cockpit, which is a 12.3-inch customizable display that replaces traditional gauges.
2018 Honda Accord
$23,570 | U.S. News Score: 9.3/10
Honda is one of few automakers that still offers a manual transmission in a midsize car. The 192-horsepower 2018 Honda Accord Sport and 252-horsepower Sport 2.0 are available with six-speed manual transmissions.
The Honda completely redesigned the Accord for 2018. They replaced the previous generation's non-turbo four- and six-cylinder engines with turbo-fours.
In our highly competitive rankings of midsize cars, the 2018 Accord claims a spot near the top of the list. It was a finalist for our 2018 Best Midsize Car for Families award.
The Honda Sensing suite of advanced safety and driver assistance features now comes standard on the Accord. Every model includes automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping assist, and adaptive cruise control.
2018 Porsche 718 Boxster
$57,400 | U.S. News Score: 9.3/10
If you want to start a brawl, forget about the Yankees versus Red Sox. Instead, ask a group of Porsche fans which is better: a manual gearbox or a Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) automatic. Fortunately, the 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster can be outfitted with either transmission.
The lightweight, midengine 718 Boxster comes standard with a 300 horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine. They also offer the Boxster S, with a 350-horsepower turbo-four, and the 365-horsepower GTS.
In our rankings of luxury sports cars, the 2018 718 Boxster holds a top spot.
The 718 Boxster isn't the only Porsche in which you'll find a manual transmission option. They are also available in the Porsche 718 Cayman and the venerable Porsche 911.
2018 Chevrolet Corvette/Corvette Z06
$55,495 | U.S. News Score: 9.1/10
America's affordable supercar, the 2018 Chevrolet Corvette, can be outfitted with either an eight-speed automatic transmission or a seven-speed manual gearbox. Now in its seventh generation, the Corvette is a refined sports car that's civilized enough for daily use and mean enough for the track.
Chevy offers a group of potent powerplants in the Corvette. Even the base Stingray model has a monster V8 that makes 455-horsepower (460 in the Grand Sport). The Z06 adds a supercharger to the Stingray's 6.2-liter V8, pumping up the performance to 650 horsepower.
The king of the Corvettes is the forthcoming 2019 Corvette ZR1, which was introduced to North America at last year's Los Angeles Auto Show. Its 6.2-liter supercharged V8 produces 755 horsepower. Like its less-powerful Corvette brethren, it will be available with a manual.
In our rankings of luxury sports cars, the Corvette earns a spot near the top of the list.
2018 Honda Civic/Civic Type R
$18,840 | U.S. News Score: 9.0/10
You can get a manual transmission on many models of our top-ranked compact car, the 2018 Honda Civic. In fact, with the Civic Si and Type R, you can only get manual gearboxes. The Civic is available in sedan, coupe, and hatchback models.
Power options in the Civic range from a 158-horsepower four-cylinder engine to a 1.5-liter turbo that produces 306 horsepower in the Civic Type R.
A Civic sedan with the base engine and the manual is EPA-rated for 28 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway. Switching to the available continuously variable automatic transmission boosts your city mileage by 3 mpg.
The Civic Type R is the most powerful production Honda ever sold in America. It has a base price of $34,700.
2018 Ford Mustang
$25,680 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
Ford offers three engine choices for the 2018 Mustang, and they are all available with six-speed manual transmissions. The 2018 Ford Mustang was refreshed for the new model year, gaining a more powerful V8 in GT models, a new 10-speed automatic transmission option, and an updated look.
Ford killed the V6 from the 2017 model, so now you can get the Mustang with an EcoBoost four-cylinder engine that cranks out a healthy 310 horsepower or one of two V8s, with power output ranging from 460 to 526 horsepower.
The agile 2018 Mustang holds one of the top spots in our rankings of sports cars.
2018 Honda Fit
$16,190 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
The 2018 Honda Fit, which holds the top spot in our rankings of subcompact cars, comes standard with a six-speed manual transmission. While you can get better mileage with the available automatic, the manual allows you to squeeze better performance out of the small four-cylinder engine.
With the manual transmission, the Fit earns an EPA-estimated 29 mpg on the highway and 36 mpg in the city. With the continuously variable transmission, the estimates are 33 city/40 highway. Though you'll gain mileage with the automatic, you'll have to listen to an incessant droning from the engine/transmission combination.
The Fit's greatest asset is its unexpectedly large and flexible cargo area. With several ways to flip and fold the seats, you can carry a variety of differently shaped cargo. Taking one step up from the base Fit will get you an infotainment system that supports both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
2018 Mazda Miata
$25,295 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
The Miata has been called the single greatest reason to learn how to drive a stick shift. The lightweight roadster has phenomenal driving dynamics that are only enhanced by the direct connection you get from shifting the car's smooth manual transmission.
In our rankings of sports cars, the 2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata holds a top spot. Though not a powerful sports car, the Miata blends sufficient power from a four-cylinder engine with a lightweight two-seat roadster design and excellent suspension engineering to provide drivers with an entertaining driving experience.
The Miata is available with either an easy-to-use soft top or a power-retractable hardtop.
Mazda updated the Miata's interior for 2018 by adding a 7-inch touch-screen infotainment system as a standard feature on all models of the car.
2018 Kia Soul
$16,200 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
The 2018 Kia Soul is a great compact car for people looking for loads of cargo and passenger room without breaking the bank. In our rankings of compact cars, it holds a spot near the top. It is also our 2018 Best Compact Car for the Money award winner.
A manual transmission is only available in the base model of the car, paired with a 130-horsepower four-cylinder engine. The powertrain is not a great reason to buy the car, as its acceleration is pretty sluggish. Better reasons to buy the Soul are for its cavernous cargo area, upscale interior, and outstanding warranty coverage.
The Soul is protected by a five-year/60,000-mile basic warranty and powertrain coverage for 10 years or 100,000 miles.
2018 Volkswagen GTI
$26,415 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
The Volkswagen Golf was one of the original hot hatches sold in America. It features the room and versatility of a boxy hatchback with a performance bent that makes for an enjoyable driving experience. The 2018 Volkswagen GTI holds one of the top spots in our compact car rankings.
Connected to the GTI's 220-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine is a smooth-shifting six-speed manual transmission. A six-speed dual-clutch automatic is available, but it will cost you an extra $1,100.
The GTI's excellent powertrain is well-matched to the car's nimble suspension setup, which is crisp without being harsh. You can upgrade the suspension with adaptive dampers to have more control over the GTI's ride and handling.
The GTI is based on the 2018 Volkswagen Golf, which we cover in a separate review. The Golf is available with a five-speed manual transmission. The high-performance Golf R model comes standard with a six-speed manual.
2018 BMW 2 Series
$34,950 | U.S. News Score: 8.8/10
Several BMW models can be purchased with manual transmissions. The 2018 BMW 2 Series claims one of the higher spots in our new car rankings. In our rankings of luxury small cars, the 2 Series holds a place about a quarter of the way down the list.
The standard transmission in most 2 Series models is an eight-speed automatic, while the six-speed manual is a no-cost option. The six-speed manual comes standard on the 365-horsepower M2.
As you might expect from a BMW, the 2 Series' handling is crisp and precise. It is available in both coupe and convertible body styles.
2018 Chevrolet Camaro
$25,905 | U.S. News Score: 8.8/10
Chevrolet offers six-speed manual transmissions in every version of the Camaro, from the base four-cylinder turbo-powered trim to the 650-horsepower ZL1. In our rankings of sports cars, the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro holds a spot just below the segment leaders. It is available in both coupe and convertible body styles.
The Camaro has evolved from its roots as a pure muscle car into a well-rounded sports coupe, with nimble handling that's especially confident when you opt for the available magnetic ride control and Brembo brake packages.
Beyond its performance, the Camaro comes with a cabin filled with advanced infotainment and connectivity features, including a 7-inch MyLink infotainment touch screen. The system supports a 4G LTE data connection, an onboard Wi-Fi hot spot, Android Auto, and Apple CarPlay.
2018 Toyota Yaris iA
$15,950 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
The 2018 Toyota Yaris iA has a 1.5-liter engine that produces just 106 horsepower. Though you can get an automatic and achieve excellent fuel economy marks, you'll want to opt for the manual if you want to wring every bit of energy out of the tiny engine.
Mazda builds the iA for Toyota, so the car has a bit more of a sporty personality than you'll find in many subcompacts. It also comes standard with some safety technology that's uncommon in the class, including a low-speed automatic emergency braking system.
In our rankings of subcompact cars, the Yaris iA earns a spot near the top. It was a finalist for our 2018 Best Subcompact Car for the Money award.
2018 Chevrolet Sonic
$15,295 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
Athletic and subcompact are not words that are often spoken together. The 2018 Chevrolet Sonic, however, brings crisp, nimble performance to the class. Chevy offers a choice of powertrains, including a 1.8-liter four-cylinder or a turbocharged 1.4-liter engine. The 1.8 is matched to a five-speed manual, while the 1.4-turbo uses a six-speed manual.
If you're looking for the best fuel economy, you'll want to opt for the turbo.
The Sonic is available in four-door hatchback and sedan body styles. Though the sedan offers a more generous trunk than some class rivals, you'll want to choose the hatchback if you have a lot of stuff to carry.
The Sonic includes some infotainment features as standard equipment that are optional on competitors. Every Sonic comes with a 7-inch MyLink touch screen, plus support for Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, a 4G LTE data connection, and a Wi-Fi hot spot.
In our rankings of subcompact cars, the Sonic earns a slot near the head of the class.
2018 Toyota Tacoma
$25,200 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
You can get a few pickups with manual transmissions, but you have to shop carefully to find just the right combination of cab, engine, and drivetrain. With the 2018 Toyota Tacoma, you can get a manual gearbox on some TRD Sport, TRD Off-Road, and TRD Pro trims.
In our rankings of compact pickup trucks, the Tacoma holds a spot near the top.
Properly equipped, the Tacoma is a formidable off-road machine. In addition to ample ground clearance and a host of available heavy-duty components, the Tacoma can be equipped with several high-tech traction features. They include crawl control, which can guide even novice off-roaders through challenging terrain.
2018 Fiat 124 Spider
$24,995 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
The 2018 Fiat 124 Spider rides on the same platform as the 2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata, though it gets its own appearance and drivetrain. The turbocharged four-cylinder engine in the Classica and Lusso trims produces 160 horsepower, while the Abarth gets an upgraded exhaust and a 164-horsepower rating.
All 124 Spider models are available with either a six-speed manual transmission or a six-speed automatic. Given the car's relatively low horsepower ratings, a manual transmission allows drivers to wring every ounce of performance out of the car.
In our rankings of sports cars, the Fiat earns a slot in the middle of the pack. If you're looking for a touring roadster, you'll be happy with the Classica or Lusso trims. Drivers who want to travel at a brisker pace through the corners will want to opt for the Abarth, with its upgraded suspension.
2018 Cadillac ATS/ATS-V
$35,495 | U.S. News Score: 8.6/10
There's only one Cadillac model that you can buy with a manual transmission. However, you have the choice of either the mild ATS base trim with a 272-horsepower 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine or the wild ATS-V with a 464-horsepower twin-turbo V6. You can get the ATS as either a sedan or coupe.
The ATS-V can leap from zero to 60 mph in a quick 3.8 seconds. Its top track speed is 189 mph.
In our rankings of luxury small cars, the 2018 Cadillac ATS earns a spot about a third of the way down the list. While the ATS excels in a lot of ways, look elsewhere if you're seeking a spacious back seat or a cutting-edge infotainment system.
2018 Volkswagen Golf SportWagen
$21,685 | U.S. News Score: 8.6/10
One of the rarest beasts you'll find in the automotive realm is an affordable station wagon with a manual transmission. The 2018 Volkswagen Golf SportWagen is available with a five-speed manual in front-wheel-drive models and a six-speed manual in all-wheel-drive trims. All VW SportWagens use a 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine.
In our rankings of wagons, the Golf SportWagen holds a slot just below the segment leader. Featuring a roomy, comfortable, and well-put-together cabin, the SportWagen is surprisingly affordable. It has one of the lowest starting prices in the segment. All SportWagen models come standard with an infotainment system that supports Android Auto, MirrorLink, and Apple CarPlay.
The Golf SportWagen comes in two styles: the base SportWagen and the Golf Alltrack, which looks a bit more SUV-like and has more ground clearance than the standard model.
2018 Subaru WRX/WRX STI
$26,995 | U.S. News Score: 8.4/10
No list of the top vehicles with manual transmissions would be complete without including Subaru's rally-inspired WRX and WRX STI. The 2018 Subaru WRX comes with a 268-horsepower turbo-four and a standard six-speed manual transmission (a continuously variable automatic is optional.) All WRX and WRX STI models are equipped with all-wheel drive.
Opt for the WRX STI and you'll have to drive a manual transmission, as it's not available with an automatic. The WRX STI comes with a 2.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that cranks out 305 horsepower.
In our rankings of compact cars, the Subaru WRX holds a spot about midway down.
2018 Ford Focus RS
$41,120 | U.S. News Score: 8.3/10
Most models of the aging 2018 Ford Focus are nothing to write home about, with a placement two-thirds of the way down our rankings of compact cars. There is, however, one trim that deserves your attention. The 350-horsepower Focus RS is lightning fast and can only be found with a six-speed manual transmission.
If the $41,120 limited-edition Focus RS doesn't fit into your budget, other Focus models are available with five-speed manual or six-speed automatics, depending on your engine and trim level choice.
The Focus RS comes equipped with 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder engine that has been tuned to produce 350 horsepower. To keep the power firmly on the road, every Focus RS gets all-wheel drive, plus electronically controlled driving modes, including "Track" and "Drift" modes.
2018 Honda HR-V
$19,670 | U.S. News Score: 8.2/10
There aren't a lot of SUVs that offer manual transmissions, but the 2018 Honda HR-V is one of the few that does. The HR-V holds a spot near the top of our rankings of subcompact SUVs. It comes standard with a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine and a six-speed manual gearbox.
The HR-V is the winner of our 2018 Best Subcompact SUV for the Money award. While it is classified as a subcompact, there's still plenty of room inside for both passengers and cargo. Like some other Honda models, the HR-V features seats that can be folded and stowed in a number of configurations, depending on the mix of cargo and passengers you are hauling.
Front-wheel drive comes standard, while all-wheel drive is available.
2018 Jeep Wrangler
$23,995 | U.S. News Score: 7.8/10
While some hard-core off-road enthusiasts prefer automatics, many want manual transmissions. No matter which camp you are in, there's a 2018 Jeep Wrangler that will fit your needs. There are currently two engine options available for the redesigned Wrangler. You can get a manual transmission with the V6 model.
When it comes to off-road performance, it's hard to do better than the Wrangler. Every trim comes with a part-time four-wheel drive system, skid plating, excellent suspension articulation, and exceptional ground clearance. Upper trims add upgraded off-road components, locking differentials, and sway bar disconnects that allow the Wrangler to travel places where lesser SUVs fear to tread.
With the 2018 redesign, Jeep's designers and engineers were challenged to update the venerable model without messing anything up. Most critics agree that they succeeded. In our rankings of compact SUVs, the Wrangler earns a spot about two-thirds of the way down the list, largely due to its somewhat lumbering driving performance on pavement and poor fuel efficiency.
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22 Best Cars With a Manual Transmission
- 2018 Audi A5 $42,600 | U.S. News Score: 9.3/10
- 2018 Honda Accord $23,570 | U.S. News Score: 9.3/10
- 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster $57,400 | U.S. News Score: 9.3/10
- 2018 Chevrolet Corvette/Corvette Z06 $55,495 | U.S. News Score: 9.1/10
- 2018 Honda Civic/Civic Type R $18,840 | U.S. News Score: 9.0/10
- 2018 Ford Mustang $25,680 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
- 2018 Honda Fit $16,190 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
- 2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata $25,295 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
- 2018 Kia Soul $16,200 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
- 2018 Volkswagen GTI $26,415 | U.S. News Score: 8.9/10
- 2018 BMW 2 Series $34,950 | U.S. News Score: 8.8/10
- 2018 Chevrolet Camaro $25,905 | U.S. News Score: 8.8/10
- 2018 Toyota Yaris iA $15,950 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
- 2018 Chevrolet Sonic $15,295 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
- 2018 Toyota Tacoma $25,200 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
- 2018 Fiat 124 Spider $24,995 | U.S. News Score: 8.7/10
- 2018 Cadillac ATS/ATS-V $35,495 | U.S. News Score: 8.6/10
- 2018 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen $21,685 | U.S. News Score: 8.6/10
- 2018 Subaru WRX $26,995 | U.S. News Score: 8.4/10
- 2018 Ford Focus RS $41,120 | U.S. News Score: 8.3/10
- 2018 Honda HR-V $19,670 | U.S. News Score: 8.2/10
- 2018 Jeep Wrangler $23,995 | U.S. News Score: 7.8/10
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A Catholic Media Trinity: Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong & Andy Warhol
Marshall McLuhan & Walter Ong seated to his left
By Nick Ripatrazone – Dec. 27. 2017
"I make probes," wrote Marshall McLuhan. "I don't explain—I explore." In 1967 he published The Medium Is the Massage, an eccentric journey into how our senses experience electric media. That same year, Walter Ong, S.J.—whose graduate thesis adviser happened to be McLuhan—released The Presence of the Word, a dense but visionary take on our evolution from oral to electronic communication. Also in 1967 Andy Warhol created a silkscreen portfolio of Marilyn Monroe. "The more you look at the same exact thing," Warhol said, "the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel."
McLuhan, Ong and Warhol offered a profound vision of media, a Catholic vision. Their Catholicism was not incidental to their theories and their art; it was their structure, their spirit and their sustenance. Fifty years later, their simultaneous creations feel somehow both particular to their moment and prescient. We might even call them transcendent.
All oracles must divine from somewhere, and McLuhan's source was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Teilhard had conceived of the "noösphere," an evolutionary phase in which a "thinking skin" covers the world. This "stupendous thinking machine" of a collective consciousness sounds much like a biological internet. Now imagine how Teilhard's wild theory sounded to an academic like McLuhan, a literary scholar seeking patterns and connections in the history of media and communication…
Unlike McLuhan, Ong is primarily concerned with the mode of sound: "The electronic processes typical of today's communications world are themselves of their very nature infravisible—not even truly imaginable in terms of sight." Although the electronic age awakened us to the profound differences between the "old oral culture and the culture initiated with writing and matured with alphabetic type," he channels McLuhan to say that "simultaneity is a mark of both early oral culture and of electronic culture… Primitive life is simultaneous in that it has no records, so that its conscious contact with its past is governed by what people talk about."
Our digital world is simultaneous, absolute, overwhelming in possibility. What does that mean for communion with others? "The fragmentation of consciousness initiated by the alphabet has in turn been countered by the electronic media which have made man present to himself across the globe, creating an intensity of self-possession on the part of the human race which is a new, and at times an upsetting, experience. Further transmutations lie ahead."
Warhol surrounded himself with Catholic artists, photographers, poets and managers: Fred Hughes, Gerald Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Bob Colacello, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe and Vincent Fremont. The same year he created the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" spectacles, Warhol created a silkscreen series of Marilyn Monroe. The portfolio's varying shades and colors take an endlessly recycled face and imbue transformative life. There is something vaguely liturgical in Warhol's recursive method.
This is not to say that such pop work was devotional; Warhol saved that for his Last Supper sequence. Alexandre Iolas commissioned Warhol to create a series based on Leonardo da Vinci's famous work. For an artist who had made the mundane mystical—think soup cans and soda bottles—this was a different context. It was a print masterpiece resurrected, an artistic word made flesh: draped in camouflage, silkscreened, infused with layers of pop and piety. Warhol created over 100 takes on Leonardo's creation, his repetition suffused with the rhythm of prayer. McLuhan did not live to see it, but he would have appreciated it"…
These are 3 segments from a longer article which you should read in full at: https://goo.gl/cdivuE.
See also the following on this blog:-
Teilhard de Chardin's Concept of Noosphere & His Influence on Marshall McLuhan – https://goo.gl/VXmaKr
McLuhan & Ong on the Cultural Shift From Orality to Literacy – https://goo.gl/Wix5Ak
Andy Warhol & Marshall McLuhan: The Artist & the Visionary – https://goo.gl/7S6tKn
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HYANNIS – The parent company of the Christmas Tree Shops will no longer allow the Hyannis chapter of the Salvation Army to put their iconic red kettles in front of their stores during the holiday season.
Captain Cynthia Brown, Corps officer of the Cape chapter, said they were recently notified by parent company Bed Bath and Beyond that the kettles could no longer be placed at their stores in Hyannis and Sagamore.
Brown said the amount of money collected each year at the Christmas Tree Shops on Cape Cod represented nearly 25% of their total kettle collections.
"Hyannis, actually, is our top kettle money maker for all our efforts. When you see us out at Stop and Shop, the mall, that Hyannis Christmas Tree Shops was our top kettle last year," said Brown.
The decision by the chain to pull the plug on the red kettles could have a serious impact on the Salvation Army's ability to provide services this year, according to Brown.
The Christmas Tree Shops parent company issued a statement last night that said they have a non-solicitation policy that needs to be consistently upheld at all of its locations.
"The company as a whole receives many requests throughout the year from a number of quality organizations like The Salvation Army that would like to solicit our customers in front of our stores. To be both fair and consistent in upholding our non-solicitation policy, we will not be having customer solicitations in front of our stores this holiday season," according to the statement.
It went on to say that while it was important that the company be "fair and consistent with all organizations in this area, we also recognize the valuable work The Salvation Army accomplishes in Massachusetts for people in need."
Bed Bath and Beyond said that instead of allowing the red kettles to be placed in front of the Christmas Tree Shops stores this year, they will make a donation to the Massachusetts division of The Salvation Army this holiday season.
It was unclear how much money would be donated.
Captain Brown issued a plea to the community to help the Salvation Army make up the difference for what they'll lose by not having kettles at the Hyannis and Sagamore Christmas Tree Shops locations.
"The money I raise on Cape Cod stays on Cape Cod. It doesn't go to administrative or anything like that. It goes directly to the need," she said.
Brown said the money collected in the kettles during the holiday season funds needs ranging from Cape Codders requesting rental and heating assistance to food for their pantry.
"It's really a community-based system that the Salvation Army has always had," she said.
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The worst offenders of parking violations on the streets today aren't scooters—they're food delivery and ride-hailing drivers.
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In Manhattan, a contentious debate has been brewing over on-street parking and how that space could be used for something other than storing cars.
Eve Kessler shares news of a new film from Streetfilms that documents the efforts of a neighborhood in Amsterdam to activate a street liberated from parking.
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What the city of Amsterdam will gain by removing cars from on-street parking space.
Amsterdam will pursue the Oslo model of targeting parking spots, rather than driving bans, to make for a walk-and-bike friendly city. On-street parking spaces will gradually be replaced, starting July 1, with bike lanes, sidewalks, and trees.
Liberty Street was once a narrow, urban street. Now it's seven lanes of unsafe speeds and pedestrian risks. The city has a plan to greatly reduce the number of traffic lanes on the street, or another plan that won't.
On March 8, 30-year-old Tess Rothstein of Berkeley was riding a rented Ford GoBike in San Francisco's SoMa district when a car door suddenly opened, forcing her outside the narrow white line of the conventional bike lane into the path of a truck.
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It's rare to see a policy so effective in achieving its goals.
Greater Greater Washington
The city of Montreal will spend $123 million on the first phase of a project to revamp Ste-Catherine Street, removing 140 on-street parking locations in the process. More parking spots could follow.
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One of the key elements of progressive parking policy, as recommended by Donald Shoup, is on the way to the on-street parking meters in the city of Milwaukee.
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A new on-street parking regime comes with a royal purple color scheme in a ritzy suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The city of Ottawa's plan to make improvements to Elgin Street has elicited conflicting opinions between businesses, residents, and commuters on what should be prioritized in order to make a better street.
The Ottawa Citizen
The influence of Donald Shoup's classic book, "The High Cost of Free Parking," is becoming more and more apparent in more and more cities around the country.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Two streets in Akron, one-way and four or five lanes across, have become too much of a safety hazard, and city officials are ready to make a change.
CityLab has complied a thorough guide of economic impact studies of bike lanes that provides a clear, visual case for removing parking spaces.
Leave it up to Austin to show Texas how to reduce its auto-oriented infrastructure. A project to replace on-street parking and traffic lanes with dedicated bus and bike lanes is the result of a partnership between bike and transit planners.
People for Bikes
A pilot program will reserve 900 on-street parking spaces for car-sharing vehicles. While the number of spaces is just .3 percent of the on-street supply, the program is expected to generate controversy in a city "where parking is at a premium".
San Francisco Chronicle
Sustainable real estate developer, A-P Hurd asks some fundamental questions about the on-street parking in her Seattle neighborhood and concludes that residents should be able to do more than park cars with the spots in front of their homes.
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Submitted by Dr. Yan Baum, Kaiser Permanente
As a family physician, I am frequently asked by patients: "Doctor, what do you think about this? I checked the internet and it seems like cancer, is it? And the internet says this or that is a good treatment."
Everyone does this and acts as Dr. Google! It's a product of the revolutionary power of the information age we live in, where huge amounts of data are easily found using a modern search engine. Type in a few symptoms, like "abdominal pain," and it will easily give you many potential answers. It is very convenient.
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We've all done it. We see a rash pop up or feel something weird in your gut and the first place we go for help, often right from our mobile phones… the internet. While more and more trustworthy health organizations are offering good, free advice on the internet, there's still plenty of questionable advice out there skewed by either commercial interest or lack of understanding. And sometimes, the internet can cause unnecessary concerns, not to mention privacy issues by searching on personal medical issues on a device like a phone that can be easily traced back to its owner.
Who can you believe or trust? Make sure you find a trustworthy source.
The internet is a wonderfully powerful tool which removes all gatekeepers from the process of collecting information directly from the source. This is great, but it means everything is a free-for-all, and requires good judgment and experience to sift through.
For example, Wikipedia, which anyone can edit, is not a great place to get medical advice, nor is a website trying to sell you products, be it supplements or the latest drug. Make sure you check the source of your information—it should be a well-known, reputable organization. Like finding reliable political news, it is always a good approach to critically look at multiple points of view as inputs to your research and decision making.
Take it with a grain of salt.
Entering symptoms into a computer can get you a diagnosis, but its accuracy is unknown. You can get a list of conditions you could have, but it can't tell you anything for sure – a true diagnosis will often need some data from the patient like lab work and a physical exam.
You can Google, "why does my head hurt," but will it include details specific to your case – such as a hard workout last night and lack of water today? When you meet with a healthcare provider you have a conversation about what could be going on—Google can't do that (at least not yet).
Don't let what you find cause concern.
When you look up stomach pains, you'll find they can be caused by anything from hunger to gluten intolerance. It's up to you to decide which of the causes sound most plausible—and too often, we escalate to more serious causes than what is really going on. Was your headache caused by a tumor? Was your diarrhea caused by a rare food-borne parasite? Sometimes the Google results can make things seem much worse than they are.
Your healthcare provider may have equally easy options.
So what is a Dr. Google to do? Do your own research if you like, educate yourself, and come prepared to your appointment. Then work with your provider to understand and resolve medical issues together—they are part of your team with the clinical experience Dr. Google lacks. Kaiser Permanente offers patients the options of secure online visits, care chat, or a 24/7 call-in consulting nurse phone line. Find a rash you don't like? Snap a photo and add it to a care chat. Check with your provider to see what's available. Talking to a pro can be as easy as Google, just call us.
Be proud that you're engaged in your health
The armies of Dr. Googles out there can be great patients as they are highly motivated and willing to spend time and energy to understand their medical issues and get involved in the process of improving their (and their families') health. These patients are typically both more literate about health issues and actively working to better their health. Skilled, experienced providers are confident in their abilities and quite willing to engage Dr. Google in a conversation about their concerns.
If you or a loved one has a diagnosis that is serious, there is a temptation to not wait, to want to do something, anything, starting with getting more information. That is human nature and will not change. The internet is the tool that then gives patients hope, albeit sometimes it may turn out to be a false hope. It is at this point the interaction with a trusted physician partner-in-health can offer priceless "guide rails" to make sure Dr. Google doesn't get him or herself into serious trouble.


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PLEASE NOTE: In regards to upcoming bookings, we will continue to monitor the current COVID-19 situation and follow official recommendations. We are happy to discuss these recommendations and let you know closer to the date how this may impact the session.
SHQ is committed to engaging with young people in community settings and supporting the services that work with them. SHQ is keen to work with community organisations and can offer a range of services that aim to achieve sexual health and wellbeing for all young people. Below are some of the ways we can support and work with organisations.
Interactive education sessions for young people
SHQ can facilitate interactive sexual health and relationships education sessions for a range of organisations and their clients. SHQ educators have experience working with a diverse range of young people and tailor all sessions to meet the needs of the group.
Our educators can deliver single sessions or whole programs on a range of topics including, but not limited to:
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The number of sessions and length of each session depends on the needs of the group. SHQ works closely with organisations to understand the needs of their clients and ensures these are met in accordance with best practice.
Capacity building – training and support for staff
Want to learn how to speak with young people about sexual health?
SHQ can support staff and provide training so they are equipped with the relevant sexual health knowledge and feel empowered to have these conversations. SHQ training and support options include:
- Short workshops for staff to raise awareness of sexual health issues
- Scheduled training courses, such as the Nuts and Bolts of Sexual Health and Mooditj Leader Training (see below), at our Northbridge premises or regionally
- Training tailored for your staff and organisational needs, including modified or shorter versions of Nuts and Bolts
- Consultation and review of your sexual health education activities
- Development of sexual health education sessions and programs in collaboration with your staff
- Co-facilitation of sexual health education sessions.
Nuts and Bolts of Sexual Health training course
Nuts and Bolts develops the core knowledge, attitudes and skills required to provide information and support for young people around respectful relationships and sexual health issues.
Nuts and Bolts is made up of one core day and two full day electives. The core is a pre-requisite for all electives.
Core (one day) – You and your role, sexual health, diversity and rights
Elective 1 (one day) – Bodies, pleasure and safety
Elective 2 (one day) – Contemporary sexuality: Respectful relationships, porn and the online world
For more information check out the upcoming Nuts and Bolts courses.
Mooditj Program and Mooditj Leader Training
SHQ is continually working towards improving our services for the Aboriginal community.
Mooditj is a program designed for Aboriginal young people aged 10-14. It takes into account the cultural diversity of this group in WA. The fun, interactive sessions explore such things as identity, relationships, feelings, goal setting, puberty and making decisions about sexual activity. To be able to run the Mooditj program you must attend 4 day Mooditj Leader Training offered in Perth and regionally. Youth, health and education workers find the training and resources very practical.
For more information about Mooditj and other support available for Aboriginal young people and their service providers, please check out our Working with Aboriginal People page.
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If we are unable to attend, we may be able to send out resources for you to display or use.
Please head to our Event Requests page to place a request or contact Lauren on 08 9227 6177 to discuss further.
The SHQ Library and Resource Centre has educational games, contraceptive kits, condom demonstrators and Magno-mate Reproductive Kits for hire or sale.
SHQ produces print resources available on a range of different sexual health topics. You can view and print these resources from our Information Sheets and Brochures page. Professionally printed copies of most of our brochures and information sheets can be purchased from our Online Shop. Our free service brochures and wallet cards, as well as free condoms for your service can be requested via our Free Resources page.
Visits to SHQ
Come visit us at our Roe Street site!
You can organise a time for a group of young people, staff or both to come check out SHQ and learn about the different services we offer. For more information or to book a visit check out the Group Visits page.
SHQ is a non-government, not-for-profit organisation, therefore SHQ services and support are free or low cost. We are happy to negotiate prices for our services and you can get in contact with us to discuss the options available to you.
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[Note: Due to the fact that I worked on this from a short draft I began back in November of 2014, the effective "date" of the post here on my blog is 11/28/2014, even though I wrote this on 6/3/2015. Rather than move it to the proper date, seeing how there are already comments and such, I'm just leaving it here it is. I think we'll all survive, won't we? — WGS]
So, is football the worst sport ever, and its industry the picture of sin-incarnate? Part of the world is wondering if it is, these days. But which part of the world you are talking about makes a difference.
If by "football" you mean "American football," then, for all its vices–shared, paralleled, or "one upped" by many other sports–the answer seems to be "no." The American public seems to be slowly moving past Deflategate and is waiting disinterestedly for the next scandal. But if by "football" you mean the same thing that virtually the entire rest of the world means by "football"–for us Americans, that would be "soccer"–then some are, indeed, wondering if the answer might be "yes."
[Note for those non-Americans reading today's post: My apologies for calling football "soccer" for the rest of this post. Since most of my visitors–folks in my congregations, et al.–are Americans, I'm going to go the route that makes the most sense for them. But, for what it's worth, I do think that "football" is the better description of the sport!]
If you haven't been keeping up with the scandals of FIFA these days (the international governing body for professional soccer), you've been missing out. I won't try to summarize it all, but it is amazing how corrupt the sport is. The Wall Street Journal just published an interesting op-ed piece comparing FIFA to the Clinton family's approach to politics. Here is my tweet of that (using the Twitter link below should solve any paywall problems, I think:
If you want to know more specifically about the FIFA scandal, just Google it.
But it brings to mind attacks I have seen on football as the sport somehow most deserving of attack as somehow inherently sinful and immoral that deserves special attention above all other sports. And I continually don't get it, when there are so many other better targets, as this FIFA news helps to demonstrate. [And, please note: I don't say this as a fan of football. I didn't watch a single game last year — not even the Super Bowl. I say it as someone who is an anti-fan of poor logic and of abusing the Bible to try and convince others that one's personal opinions and convictions are equivalent to God's own judgment.]
I recognize that Mr. Herbert Armstrong had commented in the past on why he didn't have football at Ambassador College, and his thoughts are still very instructive. They don't unarguably lead one to conclude that football, let alone watching it on television, is inherently evil or sinful, though they do lay out important principles, whether one draws similar conclusions or not. And those few I have seen who try to use his words to say so not only abuse his statement but also tend to ignore all other evidence of his opinions on the matter to turn what he said into a much stronger, broader, and far-reaching statement than Mr. Armstrong intended, and one flatly contradicted by Mr. Armstrong's repeated approval and endorsement of the Church's energetic participation in the Rose Bowl Parade, which he didn't see a problem with even in light of Romans 14:22. I've blogged about such abuses of Mr. Armstrong and others before ("Zombie ministers: How some abuse the dead") and on this topic, specifically (actually, I think, in the "Will there be football in the Millennium?" blog post), so I don't see a need to kick that dead horse any further. The point of whether or not watching football can be biblically established as inherently evil and sinful is unaffected by any of that–neither proven nor disproven. One is simply left to say that some individuals' time would be better spent on using Scripture to examine themselves instead of trying to publicly canonize their own personal preferences.
The FIFA scandals seem, to me, to simply be a reminder that some perspective is needed. In the past I dug around (digged around? dig dug around?) trying to see if I should think of football as the preeminent example of sin in sports? Is it at some sort of pinnacle deserving of special condemnation above the others? After all, if it were simply the matters that Mr. Armstrong brought out, those are now represented in our day in a vast array of popular sports, and certainly not just professional football. If the focus on hate-ranting about football as a uniquely, inherently evil sport to play or watch were rooted in some sort of justifiable reality and not just some anti-football blogger's weird personal obsession, then maybe there was something I was missing.
For instance, is football (remember, American football) the Most Sinful Sport Ever™ because of its attitude toward player concussions?
Frankly, that would be highly debatable. Actions and recent lawsuits have pressed the case so that actual studies are being done. There are some very good arguments that soccer needs similar studies as the anecdotal evidence keeps piling up that the sport may be just as a injurious in this regard. However, while football treats a possible concussion during the game as a big deal (game paused, doctors brought out, players evaluated and possibly removed), soccer is known for blowing it off, as displayed in hoopla during the last World Cup. As one article said, "[Q]uite frankly, soccer doesn't really care about concussions." (Though, hopefully, recent actions may mean that will finally change for soccer. Bring on the actuaries!)
Still, perhaps football might be the Most Sinful Sport Ever™ because of fatalities and injuries, overall.
Well, no, not there, either.
If we were to ban the most deadly sport in America for young people, that would be softball. Actually, we should ban boys' gymnastics and water polo, as well, each of which have higher rates of mortality per participant among high school students than football does. But, really, softball is the killer—more than double the rates of mortality per player than even second-place water polo according to statistics gathered from 1982 through 2011.
And if we move from mortality to simply injuries, there are other competitors looking for the title, as well. The high school sport with the greatest rate of injury is cheerleading. And by the way, that's not cheerleading in support of sports teams, such as football and basketball, but competitive cheerleading—that is, competitive cheerleading against other teams of cheerleaders.
Really, when you look at the stats, injuries are sort of all over the place. But at least in America, competitive cheerleading blows them all away. (Texas Aggies are smart enough not to have cheerleaders. We'd rather have our gals in the stands with us than on the field getting injured. Gig'em!)
Where there is a lot of money to be made, there is lack of regard for human health and safety. To claim that football has a lock on this vice would be weird.
So, maybe with all of the money in football, it qualifies as Most Sinful Sport Ever™ because of graft and corruption? After all, it would be foolish to think that Deflategate is the only shady thing that goes down in the NFL.
Still, as the FIFA scandals demonstrate (and have before today's headlines), football is not only less than unique, it is probably far from the worst. If anyone thinls that football is the worst in this category, they don't pay attention to news. And if people were to think football were somehow the worst, they aren't good at And they didn't lose money to Pete Rose.
Perhaps attitude makes football stand out? I mean, you have to admit that there is a lot of carnal attitude on the faces of some of those guys after a tackle or a touchdown.
Yet, if that makes football inherently or uniquely evil or sinful, it would apply to—well—pretty much every major sport these days. Haven't you seen the prideful, "I'm the king of the world and I'm going to bite your face off" look on the faces of other sports figures? Ever watch basketball? Soccer? Actually, ever watched tennis—or even golf?
Fans of football can be truly atrocious in their behavior, true. Maybe the sport uniquely inspires such sinful attitudes in those who follow it?
Well, no, it doesn't. In America, we have no idea how carnal fans can get relative to some other sports. There is a reason they call them "soccer hooligans" [OK: (Non-American) football hooligans].
Then there are the cheerleaders. No doubt about it: professional football cheerleaders are undeniably inappropriately clad.
But if you think they're the worst in football, you haven't seen the cheerleaders they use, for instance, in professional basketball. [No, I'm not linking to pictures…]
The objection some seem to have about football that, perhaps, makes them feel deep down that it truly is the worst of the worst may be that it seems such a violent sport to them.
But is it, really? The hits are sometimes, maybe even often, rougher than they should be, to be sure. We already covered that, and inappropriate aggression is present in a lot of sports. I've blogged about illegal, shameful schemes to purposefully hurt other players, and they are just that: illegal and shameful. And, also, not unique to football. (Think Tonya Harding. Or pitchers taking out batters and the subsequent brawls.) But does it seem more "violent" because there is grappling, pushing, and tackling? Do the presence of those items make it somehow inherently, violently evil and sinful? Like wrestling?
(Did you follow the link? I know—that was mean. But fun. If you want to claim that grappling, pushing, and tackling is inherently, violently evil and sinful, take it up with Jacob and Jesus Christ in the resurrection.)
Really, do we have to ban all roughhousing in sport or play? As a father of four boys (and, as rumor has it, I, myself, am a male, as well), I can say that physical play—wrestling each other, etc.—even intensely physical play is rightly natural to being male. And I say "natural" in terms of God's design, not "natural" as a euphemism for carnal. The fact that a sport includes physical contact simply can't, in and of itself, make it inherently sinful.
Bad attitudes on display in that contact? Yes! That would be sinful! But then, it would be sinful in any sport, right? In fact, it would be sinful even if there were no physical contact, right? So, where does that leave us? Right! With football still not being inherently sinful and certainly not uniquely "more evil" than other sports.
The idea that rough-and-tumble play among friends will not be allowed in the Kingdom has no basis in Scripture. To quote verses about "violence" to say otherwise is to assume what one desires to prove and is a logical error of the novice. You would first have to prove that all such play is violence. Have fun with that. And, even if you were to succeed against all odds and rationality, far more sports and play would be condemned than football—once again not making it unique in some way as the sinniest sinful sport in civilization.
Actually, someone who is truly offended by real violence in sports has so many other targets to choose from, and worse offenders, indeed. Consider ice hockey. Who hasn't heard this joke: "I went to a fight once, and a hockey game broke out"? There's a reason for that joke. In fact, even if it is a matter of just picking on America, in North America the rules concerning actual, literal player-on-player violence in hockey are looser than just about everywhere else in the world. Fights are actually expected, and are part of what the fans want.
Really, it's hard to justify picking on football as the pinnacle of "sports evil" in the area of violence. (And, again, simply quoting verses about "violence" assumes what one wants to prove.)
Finally, perhaps football qualifies as Most Sinful Sport Ever™, at least as a public symbol, because it is so popular. Consider the TV ratings for the Super Bowl–they are huge. Maybe that should make football a special "punching bag" above all other sports.
Well, that just doesn't cut it, either.
It took until 2010 for the number of Super Bowl viewers in America to get past 100M, climbing to a record 112.2 million in 2014. In 2015, that record was bested, bringing in 114.4 million.
Being a truly international sport, it is hard to aggregate the viewing figures for soccer's World Cup, but even conservative measures of World Cup viewing put the totals for the final game at more than double that of the Super Bowl, such as the estimated 260,000,000 in 2006. And that doesn't even count the number of people without access to television who obsessively follow the World Cup's games through other means (print, public announcement, etc.). In fact, over the course of the entire World Cup tournament, total viewership of some of the action is estimated in the billions.
Actually, all of these things said… considering the often prideful and combative attitudes of its players, the corruption of the governing bodies, the lack of compassion for its players' head injuries (including among children), the "hooliganism" and violent and riotous criminal activity associated with its fans, the vast, vast viewing audience—with some fans virtually addicted to the sport and its "heroes"—and its central role in the culture of Israelitish nations, I would say that someone sincere about tackling sin in sports would pick soccer over football any day. (Of course, I mean real football over American football.) And that's even true if one is seeking to focus on the vices of Israelite nations, for which soccer is far more popular when one remembers that America is only one star in that constellation.
So, we don't really watch much football at all around our house, but it isn't because we see it as some sort of "super-sinfullestly sinful" sport. We see it as most other professional and college sports—something that isn't inherently sinful, but which money, fame, and attitude corrupt, like they do with most things. Even international chess. I'm glad that my boys play flag football at camp, which is certainly less likely to cause injury than tackle football. (Though still with its risks, which is not a bad thing, especially when bringing up boys.) But if they ever play a game of tackle on a future Thanksgiving afternoon, or watch a game on TV that day? I don't see any good, biblical argument that tells me I would have to condemn them as engaging in an inherently sinful activity by doing so. (Actually, since 75% of the Smith boys are fencers, I think a friendly post-Thanksgiving duel is more likely in the future, but that's beside the point.)
As for me and my house? We're going to begin a relentless public crusade against thumb wrestling. Well, at least I am. I'm tired of my wife always winning. It's not my fault I have short thumbs.
[I said I would provide links, but I'm feeling lazy. Still, I will instead offer a search of the blog on the word "football"–it should have them in there, somewhere. 🙂 ]


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Michael Sprung, President of Sprung Investment Management appeared on Market Call Tonight with host Mark Bunting Wednesday to talk about Canadian large cap stocks.
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BlackBerry will report its Q1, 2014 results on Friday, June 28th, before market open.
Bunting noted that in the United States, more than 38% of total BlackBerry shares are currently shorted.
When investors sell a stock short they are betting they can buy the stock back at a lower price. The profit in the trade comes from the difference between the price at which they sell and the price at which they buy the stock back.
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Shares of BlackBerry rallied yesterday after Societe Generale analyst Andy Perkins changed his rating to BUY and upped his target price on the Waterloo-based company to $17, from his previous $13. Perkins said his channel checks suggested that sales of BlackBerry 10 handsets could exceed five million units in Q1.
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PLEASE NOTE: I will be on the Son Rise Morning Show Monday Morning, February 13 at 7:45 a.m. Eastern; 6:45 a.m. Central to discuss the connections commentators are seeing between the HHS Mandate and what I call the "Tudor Mandates" (Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy and Elizabeth I's Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity). Listen live here.
This September 27, 2004 article from America magazine even has an appropriate title for our current situation in the USA: "A Mandate for Anti-Catholicism: The Blaine Amendment". The issue now is health care; the issue in the 1870s was public education. (Of course, the underlying issue was and is freedom of religion.) Thomas E. Buckley provides an excellent survey of post-Civil War America, facing issues of unity and diversity:
The advancement of public schools represented a key element in that program as well as an important part of the Republican drive for cultural homogeneity in post-Civil War America. The schools would lift up Southern blacks and Americanize newly arrived immigrants, especially Irish and German Catholics. Following the program laid out by Horace Mann in the 1840's, public education would inculcate a nondenominational Protestant morality through Bible reading, hymn singing and the use of the McGuffey readers. The result would be a law-abiding, hard-working, broadly based middle-class society that embodied the values of capitalism embedded in Republican ideology.
Some Republican politicians, like President Ulysses S. Grant, James Gillespie Blaine, Judge Elisha Hurlbut of New York, and future President Rutherford B. Hayes began to believe that the Catholic Church and Catholic schools stood in the way of those goals. Thus they began to use language much like Queen Victoria's government, headed by Lord John Russell did when after Catholic Emancipation in 1829, the Catholic Church re-established a hierarchy in 1850.
Judge Elisha Hurlbut, for example, proposed a new Constitutional amendment:
It would empower Congress to ban "any foreign hierarchical power...founded on principles or dogmas antagonistic to republican institutions." Some read in Hurlbut's proposal the opening salvo of an anti-Catholic, nationalistic campaign akin to Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf, which was gathering steam in Germany. Moreover, the campaign to identify the United States as a Christian Protestant nation, which had begun during the Civil War, now revived with the efforts of Supreme Court Justice William Strong and the National Reform Association to amend the U.S. Constitution's preamble to read: "Recognizing Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, and...the Lord Jesus Christ as the Governor among the nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government," we the People, etc.
President Grant concurred with these sentiments and Blaine followed up on them:
the president proposed that Congress approve a constitutional amendment formally separating church and state, provide for the taxation of church property and forbid the states from allocating public funds to any schools that taught "sectarian tenets." Sectarian meant Catholic. A week later Blaine offered his amendment on the floor of the House. It included the most popular of the Grant proposals. After extending the language of the First Amendment to the states, it provided that "no money raised by taxation in any state for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund thereof, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect, nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations."
As the University of Chicago law professor Philip Hamburger has demonstrated in his superb study, Separation of Church and State (Harvard Univ. Press, 2002), Blaine's proposal directly challenged Catholic efforts for school funding while leaving nondenominational Protestantism securely entrenched in public education.
Although the amendment passed overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives, it failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary in the Senate. Nevertheless, state legislatures began to adopt Blaine amendment type clauses in their constitutions. Meir Katz of The Beckett Fund provides detail about them in this report.
Again, I am not drawing absolute comparisons between the USA in the nineteenth century and today. This history, like the conflicts between the Catholic Church and Queen Victoria's government in nineteenth century England, represents another phase in the ongoing "dialogue" between Church and State. I don't think anyone in the executive or legislative branches of our government is speaking this kind of language, but you can clearly see, if you read even a few comments on any news website covering or commenting on the HHS Mandate, the old nativist anti-Catholic attacks. Unfortunately, they are now combined with mentions of the priest sex-abuse crisis of the last decade.
Further research and information on the English Reformation, English Catholic martyrs, and related topics by the author of SUPREMACY AND SURVIVAL: HOW CATHOLICS ENDURED THE ENGLISH REFORMATION
Saturday, February 11, 2012
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