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UPS & Miners & Jesus Thursday, May. 11, 2006 - 12:29 a.m. I thought I was hallucinating Wednesday morning when the intercom beeped. It was UPS, and they were delivering something for me at TEN IN THE MORNING. No, really, they DID. --- A minor miner update, the last line of which made me laugh until I cried:
Tourist groups on the South Pacific island have offered a free, eight-day second honeymoon, flying from Launceston, to the pair and their wives. "We can offer the two happy couples the opportunity to rekindle their relationships in absolute privacy," Poinciana Cottages' spokeswoman Jackie Pye said in a statement. "And with separate cottages on offer we can promise Brant and Todd they won't have to sleep together the whole time." --- In other news, this incredible development within Catholic doctrine:
But only days after that, she said, she got a pink slip by the Catholic school system. Administrators, according to her lawyer James C. Jones, claimed Romenesko violated a provision of her employment contract saying a teacher has to act in accordance with Catholic doctrine. "All she was trying to do was have a child, which of course should be a wonderful thing," Jones said Tuesday. In vitro fertilization involves extracting eggs from a woman's ovaries and fertilizing them with sperm in a laboratory dish or test tube. The fertilized eggs are implanted into the woman's uterus. Catholic teaching holds that the procedure is morally wrong because it replaces the "natural" conjugal union between husband and wife and often results in destruction of embryos. Even though Jones said the couple used their own eggs and sperm and none of the embryos were destroyed in the process, the church forbids such donations and condemns all forms of experimentation on human embryos. Romenesko, 37, filed a discrimination complaint against her old employers, Appleton Catholic Educational System, Inc./Xavier, which runs seven Catholic schools in Appleton, about 100 miles north of Milwaukee. An investigator from the Equal Rights Division of the state Department of Workforce Development upheld the firing in December and Romenesko appealed. A hearing before an administrative law judge is set for Friday. "I believe that discrimination occurred," Jones said, contending school officials knew for a month before the firing that she had undergone the procedure. "It was only after she was pregnant that she was terminated." Oh? The Catholic Church disapproves of artificial insemination, do they? I see. Show of hands, please: How many of you can tell us how Jesus got here in the FIRST PLACE??? He-LLOOOOOO!!! --- That's enough of that. Have a good Thursday. ---
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