(Via JMG reader Vivian)
Labels: Ireland, LGBT rights
reposted from Joe
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Via JMG: Cain: I Support Federal Marriage Ban
Tea Party favorite Herman Cain says he's changed his mind and now supports a federal amendment banning same-sex marriage. “I think marriage should be protected at the federal level also. I used to believe that it could be just handled by the states but there’s a movement going on to basically take the teeth out of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and that could cause an unraveling, so we do need some protection at the federal level because of that and so yes I would support legislation that would say that it’s between a man and a woman.”Even Cain's endorsers at GOProud are unhappy.
JMG Quote Of The Day
"Child welfare? What child will be better off if there are fewer competent agencies recruiting loving homes for children? This is meanness, pure and simple, animated by an irrational hatred towards our great religious faith traditions. It is the result of the core ideas now driving the movement to redefine marriage: gay is like black, which makes our great traditional faith communities the moral and legal equivalent of racists. Surely America can do better than that. Religious liberty is not an affront to anyone's civil rights, it is one of our Constitution's core guarantees and our community's deeply shared values." - Former NOM chaircow Maggie Gallagher, writing on the website for the Manhattan Declaration.NOTE: The Manhattan Declaration is a 2009 document that calls on all Christians to disobey any law granting rights to LGBT Americans.
Labels: bovine spongiform encephalopathy, gay adoption, hate groups, Illinois, Maggie Gallagher, Manhattan Declaration, NOM, Quote Of The Day
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma: Beyond Positive and Negative
Tricycle Daily Dharma October 23, 2011
Beyond Positive and Negative
Entering the awakened state of mind, even for a moment, is always preceded by an experience, however fleeting, of extreme contrast and conflict. Even on the highest and most subtle levels of attainment, negative and positive continue together side by side, until one makes the leap beyond them both. |
– Francesca Freemantle, "The Luminous Gap in Bardo"
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Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Via JMG: Today In Christian Love™
According to a new book being promoted on Christian sites, if you son ends up dying from AIDS, that's what he gets for defying God.“He would get of the opinion that God loves us unconditionally no matter what we do,” Rhodes explains. “I told him that that is true but when we live outside of his bounds and we do things that we know we should not then it breaks the relationship with God and we have consequences that we have to live with, and even die with sometimes.”
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma: Sitting Regularly
October 22, 2011
Sitting Regularly
Plan to sit at the same time each day. One of the benefits of doing this is that one gets to know the mind that doesn’t want to sit. Personally, I like to sit immediately upon waking up in the morning. For many people, this seems to be a good time, before we become engaged in the activities of the day. But if you have small children or a demanding job, this may not be possible. And some of us have rebellious natures, so any routine presents a problem. Then we need to be flexible. |
– Narayan Liebenson Grady, "The Refuge of Sitting"
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
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