Friday, May 10, 2024
Via Daily Dharma: The Experiment of Being Human
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Intoxication
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Via White Crane Institute // MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD & 100 Roman Catholic Parishes
Noteworthy
1933 -
In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings, beginning early with MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD’s Institute for Sexual Research (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) in Berlin. By the time of the book burning, Hirschfeld had long since left Germany for a speaking tour that took him around the world; he never returned to Germany.
The last of Hirschfeld's books published during his lifetime, L'Ame et l'amour, psychologie sexologique [The Human Spirit and Love: Sexological Psychology] (Paris: Gallimard, 1935), was published in French in late April 1935; it was his only book that was never published in a German-language edition.
In the preface, he described his hopes for his new life in France: “In search of sanctuary, I have found my way to that country, the nobility of whose traditions, and whose ever-present charm, have already been as balm to my soul. I shall be glad and grateful if I can spend some few years of peace and repose in France and Paris, and still more grateful to be enabled to repay the hospitality accorded to me, by making available those abundant stores of knowledge acquired throughout my career.”
2021 -
On this date in Germany more than 100 Roman Catholic parishes offered blessings to gay couples in defiance of chirch teaching and their own bishops. The call for nationwide blessins came in response to a decree issued by the Vatican on March 15, 2021, reinforcing the church's prohibition of priests asking for god's benevolence for gay couples, stating that god "does not and cannot bless sin."
A group of sixteen priests and volunteers organized a petition that within days collected more than 2,000 signatures. Encouraged by the response, they decided to take their action one step further and declare May 10 -- chosen because of its association with Noah, who in the Bible is recognized by god with a rainbow symbol that has been adopted by the LGBTQ community -- as a day to hold blessing ceremonies for any and all couples, but especially those in same-sex unions.
"In view of the refusal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to bless homosexual partnerships, we raise our voices and say: We will continue to accompany people who enter into a binding partnership in the future and bless their relationship," the group said in a statement. "We will not refuse a blessing ceremony."
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