Saturday, December 10, 2011
Via JMG: Pentagon: Calm Down Wingnuts, It'll Still Be Against The Rules To Fuck Horses
After a week of nonstop wingnut dumbassery, today the Pentagon was forced to issue a clarification on the potential repeal of the military's ban on sodomy.
Conservative groups are upset over a proposed change in the defense bill that would eliminate Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The code states that any person who engages in "unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy." Those found guilty of sodomy would be subject to court martial. The Pentagon said in a statement Friday that all animal abuse, including bestiality, would be considered "prejudicial to good order and discipline" and covered by another section of the military code. Court martial would still be in order.We'll stand by for retractions from Family Research Council, PETA, Liberty Counsel, etc. Checks watch....
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma December 10, 2011
The Precepts
To be sure, as humans with a short life span, we cannot know the long-term results of our actions. But recognizing that what we say and do can have repercussions for months, years, or eons, and that we cannot know the “final” outcome of something we think, do or say, Buddhism, like all other major religions, has developed a set of precepts. The precepts have been compared to dikes in a rice field. They hold back and channel the rushing water of our passions so that our life is not flooded, so that smaller and more helpless creatures are not harmed and the harvest of our life’s efforts is not ruined. These precepts prohibit those actions that have a bad outcome and cause harm to ourselves or others almost all of the time. |
- Jan Chozen Bays, "What the Buddha Said About Sexual Harassment"
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Friday, December 9, 2011
Via Gay Poltics Report:
- Do you think the Democratic Party will include support for full marriage equality for LGBT Americans in its 2012 party platform?
No. 64.80%
Yes. 20.74%
I'm not sure. 14.46%
Washington Post writer Ruth Marcus argues that the politics surrounding marriage rights for gays and lesbians have changed so much that President Barack Obama would be wise to complete his own evolution on the subject and declare his support for marriage equality before the upcoming election. "Mr. President, what better moment will there be? You might lose. A lame-duck proclamation would be lame. If not now, when?" Marcus asks. The Washington Post (12/8) 
JMG Quote Of The Day - Kate Kendell
"If you missed the hearing, count yourself lucky, for hardly ever in one courtroom have we been treated to the level of insult, bigotry, and stigmatizing trash that was presented by those defending Prop 8. [snip] It’s no wonder that the Prop 8 proponents are doing everything they can to distract attention from the real issues in the case and to hide the trial from public view. The proponents were given every opportunity to come forward at trial with any good reason to uphold Prop 8’s treatment of same-sex couples as second-class citizens. They came up empty, so they decided to change the subject."On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit appeared to see through at least part of their smokescreen. Regardless of how they rule on releasing the trial video, the judges seem ready to move ahead and decide whether Judge Walker’s decision should be upheld on its merits, not on the basis of unfounded personal attacks on the integrity of the judicial process. The arguments yesterday were hard to hear. The good news is they represent the swan song of our venal and feckless opposition. We are on the verge of sweeping change and after yesterday’s moronic display, that day cannot come soon enough." - Kate Kendell, executive director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, writing for the Advocate.
Labels: Kate Kendell, marriage equality, NCLR, Ninth Circuit Court., Proposition 8, Quote Of The Day
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