Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Via AmericaBlog Gay:
Temporary relief for same-sex couples facing deportation
Via
Chris Geidner: Over the past month, the Board of Immigration Appeals,
which is a part of the Department of Justice, has taken action in
several cases involving same-sex binational couples that has the result
of delaying the cases for now and potentially setting up the foreign
partner of the couples to be granted a marriage-based green card should
the Supreme Court declare Section 3 of the...
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 20, 2012
Transforming Pain Into Joy
Fundamental
darkness, or ignorance, causes us to experience the cycles of birth and
death as suffering. When we call forth and base ourselves on the
magnificent enlightened life that exists within each of us without
exception, however, even the most fundamental, inescapable sufferings of
life and death need not be experienced as pain. Rather, they can be
transformed into a life embodying the virtues of eternity, joy, true
self, and purity.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 19, 2012
Feathers in the Wind
Instead
of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just
look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your
awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.
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- Tsoknyi Rinpoche, "Feathers are Harmless"
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Via JMG: UGANDA: Police Raid LGBT Meeting
Ugandan
police today raided an international LGBT rights meeting and questioned
the attendees. In addition to local activists, the meeting was attended
by representatives of Canada, Kenya, and Rwanda. The event was
organized by the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project.
(Website)The police forced their way into some of the activists' hotel rooms, the group said. The training workshop was intended to bolster the local gay community's abilities to report rights abuses. Activists condemned the police action and said it represented a growing trend. "This ludicrous and senseless harassment of human rights activists has no basis in law whatsoever and has to stop," Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International's deputy director for Africa, said. "We are seeing a worrying pattern emerging whereby the Ugandan authorities engage in arbitrary activities deliberately designed to intimidate and threaten legitimate human rights work," Ms Kagari said.RELATED: In February Uganda's Minister of Ethics had police raid and shut down a secretly organized LGBT rights meeting. The event's organizer narrowly escaped arrest.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 18, 2012
Divine People
People
are mysterious, unfathomable—like divinities: natural objects for
reverence. But our habits of thought turn the people around us into
objects, the means for our self-protection.
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- Lama John Makransky, "Family Practice"
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Via JMG: Dad Of Prop 8 Plaintiff Pens Essay
The New York Times has published a Father's Day essay by Dominick Zarrillo, the dad of one the men challenging Prop 8 in Perry v Brown.
None of us could believe something like that would pass in California. When it did, I wondered if Jeff and Paul would move from the place they loved and had called home for so long. They didn’t, though. Nor did they accept the new law and try to blend in as I told Jeff to do all those years ago. Instead, they did something that’s made me as proud as I’ve ever been: they fought back. Jeff and Paul and two women challenged the law in court, and in a landmark decision two years later, they won: Proposition 8 was declared unconstitutional by a judge in San Francisco. The proponents of Proposition 8 appealed, and Jeff and Paul won that, too.Read the full essay.
The United States Court of Appeals recently declined to take up the case before a larger panel, which opened the door for it to head to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Jeff and Paul still can’t legally marry. As this Father’s Day approached, all I could think about was how much I want my son to experience the joys of being a father, how much I want him to marry the person he loves and to raise a family. For now, he is still waiting, and fighting. I see how much the struggle costs him, how discouraging it is that despite his strength and patience and faith in the system, the ultimate decision rests in the hands of those who have yet to act.
One day soon, though, the powers that be are going to do the right thing. I’m his father, and it’s Father’s Day, so let me believe it. One day soon they’re going to let my brave, beautiful boy walk the same path we all get to take home.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 17, 2012
Father's Day Metta
The
Buddha encouraged us to think of the good things done for us by our
parents, by our teachers, friends, whomever; and to do this
intentionally, to cultivate it, rather than just letting it happen
accidentally.
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- Ajahn Sumedho, "The Gift of Gratitude"
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 16, 2012
Attending to the Small Things
The
subtle suffering in our lives may seem unimportant. But if we attend to
the small ways that we suffer, we create a context of greater ease,
peace, and responsibility, which can make it easier to deal with the
bigger difficulties when they arise.
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- Gil Fronsdal, "Living Two Traditions"
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Via American Foundation for Equal Rights
Dear Daniel,
My dad is my hero. He regularly worked two jobs to ensure food was on the table and clothes were on my back. He’s the one who fought off the bullies growing up. He’s the one who told me I should take that job in California even though he didn’t want me to leave home. He’s the one who said, “So…?” when I told him I was gay. He’s the one who continues to speak out and support my endeavor to fight for equal rights.
And when I am finally able to walk down the aisle to marry the love of my life, Paul, he’s the one I want standing beside me.
This weekend, we celebrate Father’s Day and I give thanks to the hero in my life who has been there every step of the way.
Sincerely,
P.S. Check out this great piece my dad wrote in The New York Times. I’m so proud of him.
By DOMINICK ZARRILLO
My dad is my hero. He regularly worked two jobs to ensure food was on the table and clothes were on my back. He’s the one who fought off the bullies growing up. He’s the one who told me I should take that job in California even though he didn’t want me to leave home. He’s the one who said, “So…?” when I told him I was gay. He’s the one who continues to speak out and support my endeavor to fight for equal rights.
And when I am finally able to walk down the aisle to marry the love of my life, Paul, he’s the one I want standing beside me.
This weekend, we celebrate Father’s Day and I give thanks to the hero in my life who has been there every step of the way.
Sincerely,
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Jeff Zarrillo Prop. 8 Plaintiff |
P.S. Check out this great piece my dad wrote in The New York Times. I’m so proud of him.
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A Father, a Son and a Fighting Chance______________________________
By DOMINICK ZARRILLO
“As this Father’s Day approached, all I could think about was how much I want my son to experience the joys of being a father, how much I want him to marry the person he loves and to raise a family.Read the article at nytimes.com >
“For now, he is still waiting, and fighting. I see how much the struggle costs him, how discouraging it is that despite his strength and patience and faith in the system, the ultimate decision rests in the hands of those who have yet to act.
“One day soon, though, the powers that be are going to do the right thing. I’m his father, and it’s Father’s Day, so let me believe it. One day soon they’re going to let my brave, beautiful boy walk the same path we all get to take home.”
Via Gay Poltics Report
Analysis: 21 things Romney could do to reverse LGBT progress
The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson identifies five regulatory and 16 sub-regulatory pro-LGBT actions taken by President Barack Obama that could be reversed in a Mitt Romney administration. One gay Republican activist said it's unlikely Romney would seek to roll back many of the federal LGBT initiatives of the Obama administration, but Democrats counter that he will owe something to anti-LGBT supporters. Romney, who also opposes civil unions, has signed a pledge vowing to support a constitutional ban on legal marriage for same-sex couples. Washington Blade (6/14)
The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson identifies five regulatory and 16 sub-regulatory pro-LGBT actions taken by President Barack Obama that could be reversed in a Mitt Romney administration. One gay Republican activist said it's unlikely Romney would seek to roll back many of the federal LGBT initiatives of the Obama administration, but Democrats counter that he will owe something to anti-LGBT supporters. Romney, who also opposes civil unions, has signed a pledge vowing to support a constitutional ban on legal marriage for same-sex couples. Washington Blade (6/14)
Via JMG: Pride Magazine 2012 Is Online
Pride Magazine 2012 is online in its entirety.
Click on the link and hit full-screen to click through the title page
by page. And keep an eye out for a piece (page 77) from our own Father
Tony!Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 15, 2012
The Mind of No-Clinging
There’s
no school that says, 'Cling.' Liberation is about cutting, or
dissolving, or letting go of, or seeing through the attachment to
anything. The description of the mind of no-clinging may be different in
the different schools, but the experience of the mind of no-clinging is
the same. How could it be different?
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Via AmericaBlog Gay:
Damning report on new religious right gay parenting "study"
The
family-values researcher who did the "study" - paid for by the anti-gay
far right, of course - claims he enjoys controversy. Hopefully he
enjoys controversy more than his reputation, which is quickly heading
south now that his "studies" are finally get the attention they deserve.
Though it's not the attention he was expecting.
It really appears quite duplicitous.
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