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Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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Massachusetts couple denied foster care application over LGBTQ views, complaint says

Michael and Catherine Burke allege that the state’s Department of Children and Families discriminated against them for their Catholic viewpo

A social worker’s report attached to the complaint said the couple was asked how they would feel if a child in their care identified as LGBTQ or struggled with their gender identity. Kitty Burke responded by saying “let’s take the T out of it” and called gender-affirming care “chemical castration,” according to the report. She also said, “I’m going to love you the same,” but that the child “would need to live a chaste life.” Both Kitty and Michael Burke expressed hesitation around using a transgender or nonbinary person’s preferred pronouns, the social worker’s report noted.

One of the Burkes’ attorneys, Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket Law, a nonprofit legal group focused on religious liberty, told NBC News in a statement that the couple was “shocked” when their application was denied.

“The Burkes were devastated to learn that they were denied a license to foster or adopt any child in the Massachusetts child welfare system. They’re asking the court to get rid of that discriminatory denial so that they will not be barred from fostering or adopting children in the future, in Massachusetts or elsewhere,” Windham said.

Good.

Bigots have no damn business being foster parents (or parents at all).

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Art by Elin Manon

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Sometimes I wonder if healing is less about the pain fading and more about our spirit learning to carry it with grace. There's a sacred alchemy in the way we transform our wounds into wisdom.

And this I know for certain - the world looks different when we're fighting the waves than when we're learning to float with them. That's the miracle of choosing to stay, of believing in one more sunrise.

Because dear soul, a single moment can shift everything. One breath, one dawn, one gentle whisper from the universe can rewrite your entire story.

And perhaps that's the true nature of hope - not the absence of darkness, but the courage to keep believing in the light. Both raw and radiant, like a star being born from the depths of night.

~ 'Sacred Alchemy' by Etheric Echoes

(Michael Burke)

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Saint Louis Ballet

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Graham: 'I don't care' if Trump told McGahn to fire Mueller

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he doesn't care if President Trump told forme

Lindsey Graham’s complicity is complete.

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good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

michael burke

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On This Day in Baseball History January 3, 1973: At a press conference at Yankee Stadium, it was announced that the New York Yankees were being sold for $10-million dollars to a 12-owner group led by Yankees Chief Executive Michael Burke and George Steinbrenner III. The team was owned by CBS after purchasing the team in 1966.  

Phil Pepe’s article published by the Daily News on January 4, 1973 states that “The 12 new owners will be equal partners.” Well, we know that didn’t happen.  

Steinbrenner was quoted at the presser as saying: “We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. We’re not going to pretend we’re something we aren’t. I’ll stick to building ships.” If he had stuck to that the Yankees might never have returned to glory. 

In typical Steinbrenner fashion that New Yorkers grew to know, hate and later love when the team started winning, things between Burke and Steinbrenner got tense. Soon thereafter Burke was out, leaving Steinbrenner as the majority owner. The rest is history.

After all was said and done, the selling price for the Yankees was actually $8.8-million dollars. That seems like an awfully low price, especially since according to Forbes in 2015, the Yankees were worth $3.2-billion dollars. What makes it even more remarkable, that Steinbrenner used only $100,000 of his money. Steinbrenner was quoted as saying  “It’s the best buy in sports today — I think it’s a bargain.” That is an understatement.

For Further Reading:

CBS sells the Yankees to Mike Burke and George Steinbrenner for $10 million in 1973 from the Daily News Flashback website written by Phil Pepe originially published on January 4, 1973

Yankee, Executive, Soldier, Spy: The dashing and often hapless career of Mike Burke by Robert Weintraub from Grantland.com dated May 6, 2015

MLB Worth $36 Billion As Team Values Hit Record $1.2 Billion Average by Mike Ozanian from Forbes.com dated March 23, 2015

Deal to buy Yankees was grand slam by Mark DeCambre from the New York Post dated July 14, 2010

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