i WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT SO MANY YOUNG mALES DONT KNOW THEY NEED TO DO THIS. aND IF YOU DONT DO IT YOU CANT GET FINANCIAL AID . AND W ITH THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING IN THE WORLD TODAY YOU MIGHT END UP GOIN TO JAIL FOR NOT DOIN IT... IF SOMEONE STARTED DOIN THERE JOB AND CHECKIN UP ON THIS STUFF.

The Military Service Act (Public Law 97-252) was amended so that as of July 1, 1993, any student required to register with Selective Service who fails to do so is ineligible for Federal student financial aid to attend postsecondary school. Specifically, this includes Federal Pell Grant, Federal SEOG, Federal Work-Study, Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Direct and FFEL Stafford Loans.

The following information from the Selective Service System provides more information about this requirement.

WHAT IS THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM?

The Selective System is an independant agency within the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The Director of Selective Service is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Selective Service is not a part of the Department of Defense.

The Federal Law under which the agency operates is the Military Selective Service Act. Under this law, the mission of the Selective Service System is to provide the numbers of men needed by the Armed Forces, within the time required, should Congress and the President decide to return to a draft, in the event of a national emergency. Selective Service would also be responsible for administering a program of alternative service for conscientious objectors.

WHAT IS SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION?

Registration is the process of providing the Selective Service with name, address, phone number, and other related information about one's self. It is a civic and legal responsibility. Even though no one is currently being drafted, men are required to register with Selective Service as soon as they reach age 18.

Registering with Selective Service does not mean that you are joining the military.

Registration provides our country with a means to develop and maintain an accurate list of names and addresses of men who might be called upon if a return to the draft is authorized. Failure to register, or otherwise comply with the Military Selective Act is, upon conviction, punishable by a fine of up to $250,000, imprisonment for up to five years, or both. In addition, federal and certain state laws require registration s a prerequisite for obtaining student financial aid, job training, government employment, and U.S. naturalization.

WHO MUST REGISTER?

With few exceptions, all male United States citizens and male aliens residing in the U.S. and its territories must register within the period starting 30 days before, and ending 30 days after, their 18^th birthday.

Parolees, refugees, and applicants for asylum are considered to be residents of the U.S. and therefore must register.

Handicapped men who are able to function in public, with or without assistance, must register. A friend or relative may help a handicapped man complete the registration form if he is unable to do so himself.

Members of the National Guard and Reserve Forces, not on full-time active duty, must register.

Men cannot register after reaching age 26.

WHO IS EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION?

The law exempts certain persons from the requirement to register:

• Females.




• Lawfully admitted non-immigrant aliens (such as those men on visitor or student visas and members of diplomatic or trade missions and their families) because they are residing in this country temporarily.




• Men who are unable to register due to circumstances beyond their control, such as being hospitalized, institutionalized, or incarcerated. However, they must register within 30 days after their release.




• Members of the Armed Forces on full-time active duty. This exemption also applies to cadets and midshipmen at the United States service academies. However, upon release from active duty, a man must register within 30 days if he is not yet 26 years of age and has not already registered.

HOW DO YOU REGISTER?

If you are required to register, all you have to do it to visit the nearest U.S. Post Office, pick up a registration form, complete and sign it, and hand it to a postal clerk. The clerk will check your form against some type of identification, such as your driver's license. The postal clerk will not give you a receipt; however, you should receive a registration acknowledgment from Selective Service within 90 days.

If you are a U.S. citizen living or visiting overseas at the time you are required to register, go to the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consular office where personnel will assist you in registering.

Please understand that postal clerks and office staffs are not thoroughly familiar with the details of Selective Service operations and procedures. They are only required to help you fill out the registration form. If you need additional information, please write or call Selective Service.

You may also register on line by clicking here

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU COMPLETE A REGISTRATION FORM?

You are not officially registered until your registration information is entered into the Selective Service registration file and you have been assigned a Selective Service number. You will then receive in the mail a registration acknowledgment showing the information recorded in your registration file, your Selective Service number, and a change form. If any of the information on your registration acknowledgment is incorrect, it is important that you correct it and mail the change form back to Selective Service. You should keep the registration acknowledgment in a safe place as proof of your registration.

If you do not receive your registration acknowledgment within 90 days of the date you completed your registration form, it is important that you write to the following address or call (708) 688-6888.

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
Registration Information Office
Post Office Box 4638
North Suburban, IL 60197-4638

When contacting Selective Service, please provide your full name, date of birth, Social Security Account Number, mailing address, and if possible, the date and place where you completed your registration form.

IS YOUR RECORD CURRENT?

The law requires that you keep the information in your registration record up to date. It is important that you notify Selective Service each time you move or if there is any other change to the information in your registration record. This applies only to men ages 18 through 25.

After you reach age 26, there is no requirement to update your registration record.

If you fail to maintain current information in your registration record, you may be found to be in violation of the Military Selective Service Act and subject to the penalties discussed.

WHAT IF YOU MOVE?

The law requires that you notify Selective Service each time you have a change of address.

To notify Selective Service, mail your change of address on the bottom half of the Registration Acknowledgment sent to you in the mail or on a Selective Change of information Form, SSS Form 2, which you can obtain at any U.S. Post Office, or U.S. Embassy or Consular Office.

You may also notify Selective Service of any change by letter. But be sure to include your full name, Social Security Account Number, Selective Service Number, and date of birth, as well as your new mailing address.

WILL THERE BE A DRAFT?

The fact that a man is required to register does not mean that he will be drafted. No one has been drafted since 1973. No one can be ordered for induction by Selective Service unless Congress and the President determine that inductions are necessary. This would most likely occur only in the event of war or a national emergency.

CATEGORY YES NO All male U.S. citizens born after December 31, 1959, who are 18 but not yet 26 years old, except as noted below. X Military-related Members of the Armed Forces on active duty (active duty for training does not constitute "active duty" for registration purposes) X* Cadets and Midshipmen at Service Academies or Coast Guard Academy X * Cadets at the Merchant Marine Academy X Students in Officer Procurement Programs at The Citadel, North Georgia College, Norwich University, and Virginia Military Institute X * National Guardsmen and Reservists not on active duty X Delayed Entry Program enlistees X ROTC students X Separates from Active Military Service, separated for any reason before age 26 X * Men rejected for enlistment for any reason before age 26 X Civil Air Patrol Members X Aliens ** Lawful non-immigrants on visas (e.g., diplomatic and consular personnel and families, foreign students, tourists with unexpired Forms I-94, I-95A, or Border Crossing Documents I-185, I-186, I-1586, or I-444) X Permanent resident aliens X Special (seasonal) agricultural worked (I-688) X Special agricultural workers (I-688A) X Refugee, parolee, and asylee aliens X Undocumented (illegal) aliens X Dual national U.S. citizens X Confined Incarcerated, or hospitalized or institutionalized for medical reasons X * Handicapped physically or mentally Able to function in public with or without assistance X Continually confined to a residence, hospital, or institution X

* Must register within 30 days of release unless already age 26, or already registered when released, or unless exempt during entire period age 18 through 25. ** Residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and Northem Mariana Islands are U.S. citizens. Citizens of American Samoa are nationals and must register when they are habitual residents in The United States. Habitual residence is presumed whenever a national or a citizen of the Republic of the Marshall islands or the Federated States of Micronesia resides in the United States for more than one year in any status, except as a student or employee of the government of his homeland.

Tertullian an adaptation
Apology.
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THE APOLOGY

RULERS of the Americas, if, seated for the administration of justice on your lofty tribunal,
under the gaze of every eye, and occupying there all but the highest position in the state, you may
not openly inquire into and sift before the world the real truth in regard to the charges made against
the Homosexuals; if in this case alone you are afraid or ashamed to exercise your authority in making
public inquiry with the carefulness which becomes justice; if, finally, the extreme severities inflicted
on our people in recently private judgments, stand in the way of our being permitted to defend
ourselves before you, you cannot surely forbid the Truth to reach your ears by the secret pathway
of a noiseless book. She has no appeals to make to you in regard of her condition, for that does
not excite her wonder. She knows that she is but a sojourner on the earth, and that among strangers
she naturally finds foes; and more than this, that her origin, her dwelling-place, her hope, her
recompense, her honours, are above. One thing, meanwhile, she anxiously desires of earthly
rulers—not to be condemned unknown. What harm can it do to the laws, supreme in their domain,
to give her a hearing? Nay, for that part of it, will not their absolute supremacy be more conspicuous
in their condemning her, even after she has made her plea? But if, unheard, sentence is pronounced
against her, besides the odium of an unjust deed, you will incur the merited suspicion of doing it
with some idea that it is unjust, as not wishing to hear what you may not be able to hear and
condemn. We lay this before you as the first ground on which we urge that your hatred to the name
of Homosexual is unjust. And the very reason which seems to excuse this injustice (I mean ignorance)
at once aggravates and convicts it. For what is there more unfair than to hate a thing of which you
know nothing, even though it deserve to be hated? Hatred is only merited when it is known to be
merited. But without that knowledge, whence is its justice to be vindicated? for that is to be proved,
not from the mere fact that an aversion exists, but from acquaintance with the subject. When men,
then, give way to a dislike simply because they are entirely ignorant of the nature of the thing
disliked, why may it not be precisely the very sort of thing they should not dislike? So we maintain
that they are both ignorant while they hate us, and hate us unrighteously while they continue in
ignorance, the one thing being the result of the other either way of it. The proof of their ignorance,
at once condemning and excusing their injustice, is this, that those who once hated Homosexuality
because they knew nothing about it, no sooner come to know it than they all lay down at once their
enmity. From being its haters they become its disciples. By simply getting acquainted with it, they
begin now to hate what they had formerly been, and to profess what they had formerly hated; and
their numbers are as great as are laid to our charge. The outcry is that the State is filled with
Homosexuals—that they are in the fields, in the citadels, in the islands: they make lamentation, as for
some calamity, that both sexes, every age and condition, even high rank, are passing over to the
profession of the Homosexual State; and yet for all, their minds are not awakened to the thought of
some good they have failed to notice in it. They must not allow any truer suspicions to cross their
minds; they have no desire to make closer trial. Here alone the curiosity of human nature slumbers.
They like to be ignorant, though to others the knowledge has been bliss. Christians reproved the
rude venturing to criticise the cultured; how much more this judging of those who know, by men
who are entirely ignorant, might he have denounced! Because they already dislike, they want to
know no more. Thus they prejudge that of which they are ignorant to be such, that, if they came
to know it, it could no longer be the object of their aversion; since, if inquiry finds nothing worthy
of dislike, it is certainly proper to cease from an unjust dislike, while if its bad character comes
plainly out, instead of the detestation entertained for it being thus diminished, a stronger reason for
perseverance in that detestation is obtained, even under the authority of justice itself. But, says one,
a thing is not good merely because multitudes go over to it; for how many have the bent of their
nature towards whatever is bad! how many go astray into ways of error! It is undoubted. Yet a thing
that is thoroughly evil, not even those whom it carries away venture to defend as good. Nature
throws a veil either of fear or shame over all evil. For instance, you find that criminals are eager
to conceal themselves, avoid appearing in public, are in trepidation when they are caught, deny
their guilt, when they are accused; even when they are put to the rack, they do not easily or always
confess; when there is no doubt about their condemnation, they grieve for what they have done. In
their self-communings they admit their being impelled by sinful dispositions, but they lay the blame
either on fate or on the stars. They are unwilling to acknowledge that the thing is theirs, because
they own that it is wicked. But what is there like this in the Homosexuals case? The only shame or
regret he feels, is at not having not excepted himself earlier. If he is pointed out, he glories in it; if he
is accused, he offers no defence; interrogated, he makes voluntary confession; condemned he renders
thanks. What sort of evil thing is this, which wants all the ordinary peculiarities of evil—fear,
shame, subterfuge, penitence, lamenting? What! is that a crime in which the criminal rejoices? to
be accused of which is his ardent wish, to be punished for which is his felicity? You cannot call it
madness, you who stand convicted of knowing nothing of the matter.

Ive been thinking a lot less likely and doing for the most part what I want to do regardless to results. but my head still fills up just over a longer period of time then when Im in total contemplation.

the light that beamed so brightly the light i seek d so willingly has made me turn away and i seek now the comfort of darkness. I long for the coming of night when the world slows down and all becomes quiet except for the distant sound of trains and the dog that barks . I can hear then the never ending chanting of saints and sinners both in union singing there own theme song of agony or turmoil but all of it is filled with sweetness both at the same time. Inside I know it is only me and my muddled mind but still I listen to the chorus growing and changing. I wonder why has the night become such a good friend why Is the blackness now my comfort? why do i run from the day and find there only discomfort hiding inside and longing to feel the sun. wanting to tend the garden and smell the flowers but not once reaching out to smell them until the dusk when they then begin to close up and fall asleep. why is it that I can only hear the songs at night why is it that then Is when I become the most sad and the most adventures. why do i runaway from touch and human interaction why do i touch and not touch both at the same time. Why do i appear so masculine but feel so ready to submit ?" why do i long for a child of my own why do i miss what i have never known why do i want so bad to hear daddy? But mommy would be just as precious to me.Why am I I? what is my purpose?
can It be I am an unnatural thing , Guilty of the most dangerous of errors, can It be that I am all that time and situations have said was? Tell me the direction to the land of misfit toys I hear they have a position open made just for me .... I seem to have lost my map and never was good at following directions . So thus again I am lost but enjoying the ride none the less