THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?”

— Theodore “Ted” Olson

BIRTHDAYS:

1640 Nicolaus Adam Strungk, German composer, born in Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Úr Jézus, hozzád kiáltok

1705 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist. Sonata III a quattro in Re minore Op.12

1738 William Herschel, German-British astronomer and composer. Symphony No. 17 in C major

1871 Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on the laws of genetics

1925 Yuli Daniel, Russian writer and dissident convicted of anti-Soviet agitation

1936 Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and East German dissident.

MISCELLANEOUS:

WHEN HE REFERRED TO “THE “PEOPLE”, HE MEANT ALL PEOPLE. Memoriam: Theodore ‘Ted’ Olson (1940-2024)

HOW MANY OF OUR GAY FRIENDS EVEN REALIZE TED WAS THE MAIN REASON PROPOSITION 8 GOT OVERTURNED? 2008 California Proposition 8

SUGGESTED READING FOR YOUR OLDER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WHEN THE NEXT LOCKDOWNS IS DECLARED:

PUBLISHED IN 2006: Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE:

Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

RELOCATION. The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

RELATED. Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings