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		<title>Virginia high school uses sports to foster inclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 03:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WUSA9-TV, Washington, DC: At Pope Paul VI High School in Fairfax, VA, students with intellectual disabilities are included in activities throughout the school, participating on such athletic teams as wrestling and basketball. It&#8217;s all part of the school&#8217;s Options program, which started a little over ten years ago. The program brings trained professionals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia delegate fights controversy over abortion remarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says VCU students twisted his meaning; VCU stands by its story Recordings of Marshall&#8217;s remarks posted on the Web From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Post, WTKR Norfolk, Virginia Commonwealth University, AP/[Newport News] Daily Press: Virginia Del. Bob Marshall turned aside calls for his resignation Wednesday and attempted to distance himself from recorded remarks that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC: Emanuel remark spotlights debate over language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates equate &#8216;retarded&#8217; with hate speech Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s criticism of some liberal Democrats as &#8220;f &#8212; ing retarded&#8221; is &#8220;shining a spotlight on just how pervasive the R-word is in American conversation and how offensive it can be for millions of Americans,&#8221; reports Devin Dwyer on ABC News. Dwyer describes Emanuel&#8217;s comment as a &#8220;verbal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Churches should embrace people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/09/editorial-churches-disabilities-27054/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Welcome the exceptional&#8216; The editors of Christianity Today call on congregations to remove the subtle attitudinal barriers that serve to exclude people with disabilities from communities of faith. Negative attitudes can have wide-reaching and damaging effects, the editors write, citing as an example the estimated 90 percent abortion rate among pregnant women who receive a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More students with disabilities study for bar and bat mitzvahs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Tribune: A growing number of Jewish children with developmental disabilities are preparing for their bar or bat mitzvahs with the help of synagogues and religious schools that are adapting curriculum for their needs. The rite of passage allows these young people to take their places as full members of the Jewish community. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travolta acknowledges son&#8217;s autism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Telegraph, Los Angeles Times: The Envelope Blog, Associated Press: Testifying in the criminal trial of two people who allegedly plotted to extort $25 million from him, actor John Travolta publicly acknowledged for the first time that his son had autism. Travolta is a member of the Church of Scientology, which does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quips like Obama&#8217;s are a &#8216;great sin,&#8217; rabbi says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, writing in the Washington Post&#8217;s On Faith section, compares the president&#8217;s &#8220;insensitive&#8221; jest about the Special Olympics to comic Jackie Mason using the Yiddish ethnic slur &#8220;schvartze&#8221; in a joke to describe &#8212; who else? &#8212; the president. Mason hasn&#8217;t apologized. (Story here: Comments about President Obama by Jackie Mason draw racism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obit: Theologian Nancy Eiesland wrote that God is disabled</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/23/obit-nancy-eiesland-12611/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Theologian and sociologist Nancy Eiesland, an associate professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, has died of lung cancer. Eiesland wrote the 1994 book, &#8220;The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability.&#8221; She had a congenital bone condition and spinal scoliosis. So why did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope denounces genetics-based discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/23/pope-discrimination-10418/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press: In an apparent reference to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that any type of discrimination based on genetics is an &#8220;attack against all of humanity.&#8221; The remarks came during an audience with participants at a Vatican conference on &#8220;New Frontiers of Genetics and the Risk of Eugenics.&#8221; While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Shriver: &#8216;Stigmatizing people stinks&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/17/tim-shriver-9879/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;On Faith,&#8221; Special Olympics CEO Tim Shriver describes what happened recently when a group of young people complained about the use of the word &#8220;retarded&#8221; on &#8220;The O&#8217;Reilly Factor.&#8221; Political strategist Dick Morris had used the word on the Fox News show when mocking the economic stimulus package. Host Bill [...]]]></description>
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