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Mural of Christ must move, church saysJuly 17, 2011|By David O’Reilly, Inquirer Staff Writer
Luminous and translucent, commanding earth and sky, the risen Christ is too vast to be contained within the borders of artist Lothar Speer’s mural.
Jesus’ face disappears above the 13-by-28-foot canvas. His ascending torso hovers over a landscape peopled with saints, prostitutes, flower children, Hasidic Jews, a bishop, and thugs. In the distance, Center City burns, inexplicably.
When he finished his headless Jesus in 1995, Speer believed his “ethereal vision” would reside “for a long, long time” in Bustleton’s Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church. Painted on canvas glued to drywall, secured to the vestibule’s rear wall with hundreds of screws, The Healing of Bartimaeus took more than a year to complete.
But two weeks ago, the 48-year-old Speer learned that – like the Jesus in his painting – there is not room in the little brick church on Northeast Avenue for his cathedral-scaled tableau.After Calvary Lutheran dissolved in the fall due to dwindling …

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Billing practices at Planned Parenthood from 2007 and 2008 came under fire in August of 2010 after a U.S. Inspector General found that some clinics were coding all claims as “family planning” services when they were not really family planning (AP, 8/20/10). While the federal government reimburses states dollar for dollar on most medical costs, reimbursement rates for family planning are much higher, with nine dollars returned for every dollar spent by the state.
In February of this year, a video tape came out showing a Planned Parenthood employee advising a woman and man posing as a prostitute and pimp for under-age foreign girls how to get services for the girls and avoid investigation by authorities.  That employee was fired, but Planned Parenthood was left with larger questions about its training and policies. (New York Times, 2/3/11, AP, 2/2/11).

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We’re used to politicians saying ridiculous things, and lately in New Jersey, some of the most outrageous comments are coming from Republicans who want to strip funding from Planned Parenthood. It’s a truth-twisting attack being led nationwide by anti-abortion activists. Conservative New Jersey lawmakers are simply dumping their garbage onto the stinking barge as it gains momentum.
Monday, as the state Senate debated Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts, Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) said he was against restoring $7.5 million for family planning because “a significant portion of it would go to an organization like Planned Parenthood, which is, in my mind, a promoter of child prostitution.”
Cardinale knows better. Or he should. He is basing his statement on a gotcha undercover video that caught one Planned Parenthood employee giving an actor, posing as a pimp, advice on how to obtain services if his “hookers” were underage and illegally in the country.

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Erickson says the areas around airports and train stations aren’t the most desirable to live. Many are low-income areas with high unemployment rates — “signs of social disorder” and higher crime rates, she says.
In southwest Philadelphia, for instance, the neighborhood outside the airport falls under the jurisdiction of police district 12 — one of the two “most violent” of 21 districts, according to a 2007 Philadelphia Police Department report. There were 3,580 crimes in district 12 reported to police last year, ranking the district 13th in total number of major crimes, according to Philadelphia Police Department statistics.
Last year, Philadelphia police busted an alleged prostitution ring that operated from hotels near the airport. Many robberies, assaults and a murder of an alleged pimp in December 2009 were related to the ring, police said.

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Of course, in Boston, Chaput’s seminary classmate, Cardinal Sean O’Malley reached a completely different conclusion in circumstances that were almost identical, adopting a policy that does not discriminate against any children. Cardinal O’Malley is just as orthodox and just as conservative as Archbishop Chaput. The difference? O’Malley is not a culture warrior, he is a pastor. Here is how O’Malley explained his decision in his blog:
“As a young bishop in the West Indies I once celebrated a memorial Mass for a local ‘madame’ who ran a brothel near my Cathedral. It was said she smuggled women in from other islands in oil barrels for her business. Some women suffocated in the crossing. She herself was murdered by her lover. At the Mass I met the woman’s daughter, a lovely little girl. I asked her what grade she was in. She replied that she didn’t go to school. I sent a stern glance to her grandmother, who said: ‘Her name is the same as that of the brothel. The other children were so cruel to her, she left the public school.’ I told her grandmother, ‘Take her to the Catholic school tomorrow.’

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… You see ‘em downtown in the business district. You know what I’m saying’? But that’s not where the problem is, the problem is inside of the ghettos and that’s where they need to be,” Taylor said.
His co-worker Emily Griffin agrees,
“Ain’t nothing’ changed since they laid ‘em off. The cops can’t stop the drug war. There’s too much drugs being’ sold out here,” she said. “They can’t stop it. It’s the same old corners, the same faces.”
Across the street Brittni Williams was walking with her 2-year-old son, Maurice. The 23-year-old has lived in the city her whole life. She moved from her old home in East Camden, to a place downtown on Cooper Street to protect her son. It’s a place she feels safe.
“East Camden, it wasn’t so safe out there. There were a lot of shootings and deaths over there, drug dealers, and prostitution,” said Williams. The violence prompted her to move for her son’s sake.

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Church says mural of Christ must move DAVID O’REILLY, The Philadelphia Inquirer Published 11:52 a.m., Sunday, July 17, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Luminous and translucent, commanding earth and sky, the risen Christ is too vast to be contained within the borders of artist Lothar Speer’s mural.
Jesus’ face disappears above the 13-by-28-foot canvas. His ascending torso hovers over a landscape peopled with saints, prostitutes, flower children, Hasidic Jews, a bishop, and thugs. In the distance, Center City burns, inexplicably.
When he finished his headless Jesus in 1995, Speer believed his “ethereal vision” would reside “for a long, long time” in Bustleton’s Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church. Painted on canvas glued to drywall, secured to the vestibule’s rear wall with hundreds of screws, The Healing of Bartimaeus took more than a year to complete.

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… Our tiny Heritage Center stage in Morrisville has expanded out into the house – to make the audience feel more a part of the action than ever before,” explains Doyle. “Set against the backdrop of the rise to power of the Nazis in the 1930s, Cabaret follows the lives of the performers and patrons of the scandalous Kit Kat Club in Berlin.”
Tess Ammerman of Arneytown, N.J., stars as Sally Bowles, the club’s headliner, who becomes romantically involved with a struggling American writer, played by John Bergeron of Hopewell, NJ. She tries to seduce him into the hedonistic lifestyle of 1930s Germany, but he recognizes the danger of the Nazis — even as he is duped by his friend Ernst Ludwig (played by Ken Ammerman of Morrisville) into helping the brown shirts’ rise.
Susan Blair of Philadelphia costars as Fraulein Schneider, who runs a rooming house where Cliff and Sally reside. One tenant – Tami Feist of Yardley — is a prostitute. Another, Herr Schultz, romances the landlady until their engagement party is shattered when Ernst launches his anti-Semitic party line against “the Jews.”

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Tara Murtha in the Philadelphia Weekly penned a tirade titled “Dan Rottenberg Spews Vile Rape Commentary.”
Murtha, a writer I admire, made this rather spurious comment, which makes sense only if you think there’s no difference between L.L. Bean and Frederick’s of Hollywood: “The majority of my female friends have been molested, sexually assaulted or raped at some point in their lives. In most cases, no one paid for these crimes even when the attacker was identified – in part because the culture of victim-blaming trumpeted by Rottenberg enables it to happen without consequences.”
Actually, Tara, there are a lot of reasons rape accusations do not always result in convictions. One of them was on display in Durham, N.C., when three young men were falsely branded criminals on the word of a drunken, revenge-fueled stripper. (Is calling her a stripper victim-blaming?)

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And the survey says? WRONG! For the hundreds of thousand hip-hop readers instantly co-signing Uncle Luke’s bashful remarks about love birds Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose, I beg you to take a sip out of some Formula 50 (if you can still find it) while loosening up the collar of your Rocawear button up. There are some discrepancies in Uncle Luke’s argument.
[Editor's Note: The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect those of SOHH.com]
I will not lie. As soon as I read Uncle Luke’s blog posting about how Wiz Khalifa has softened up as of late and turned his mind, body and soul over to a “stripper” in the form of Amber Rose, I let out a few chuckles and quietly thought, “Yup, you have a point, Lukey, Luke.” But after those initial sparked reactions died down, I started to really think about it, especially after reading what Luke said about Jay-Z and Beyonce.

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