Sunday, May 6, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma May 6, 2012
Joyful Energy
We
can get greater energy out of love and joy than out of hatred. Hatred
is so off balance. You blow your adrenals in one minute, then you're
shaky and weak. But if you're joyful, you'll get an endless source of
energy.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Via AmericaBlog Gay:
Finding acceptance of homosexuality in the Bible
Vines
is a Christian, a 22-year-old Harvard undergrad raised in a
conservative evangelical church in Kansas. He is also gay and says he
grew up being taught that the Bible condemns his sexual orientation. He
took two years off from school to research and study whether or not that
assertion is true.
The result is "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality." It's a
video -- you can find it online with a simple Google search [see video
below] -- of a speech he gave in March at a church in Wichita that has
become a minor sensation. Small wonder. Vines' speech is a masterwork of
scriptural exegesis and a marvel of patient logic, slicing and dicing
with surgical precision the claim that homophobia is God ordained.
So effective is the video that after viewing it, Sandra Delemares, a
Christian blogger from the United Kingdom who had, for years, spoken in
staunch opposition to same-sex marriage, wrote that it "revolutionized"
her thinking.
Via Syrinx: We will always love her no matter what
Hey, sis, good to hear from you.
Have you seen Elyse lately? I wondered if she talked to you. Did you know what's been happening at our place? You will have to tell me you are surprised. Elyse came out as straight. So our household has been in a bit of an uproar.
Well, of course we are supportive. Debs and I are very conventional parents but we have always supported our daughter's choices and we will always love her no matter what. We may express concern, that's what mums do, but we will always support her. And she is a good kid, we just never saw this coming.
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Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma May 5, 2012
How Do You Practice?
I
used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai
warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted
mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely
different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to
defeat the enemy in battle.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Via JMG: "Ex-Gays" Cancel Conference
The "ex-gay" industry has been rocked to its core this year. First the head of its most infamous group announced that not one person had ever actually been "cured." Then the researcher who authored the most widely cited "ex-gay" study recanted his findings and apologized to the gay community. So maybe it's not surprising that nobody wants to attend an "ex-gay" convention.
In what seems like the logical extension of the recent trend, Exodus International has decided there were not enough people interested in attending their Love Won Out conference scheduled for later this month to justify the expense. Conference attendance has been trending downward, with their last conference bringing in barely 400 people. This is down from nearly 1000 in Exodus’ headier days. In November, XGW reported on a secret meeting held by Exodus president Alan Chambers to come up with ways to rebrand the organization in the wake of social and financial collapse. Since then events have occurred which seem to validate that scenario. The cancellation of this conference, the first time we know of since either Exodus or Focus on the Family held the event, appears to provide more evidence of their decline.As everybody here doubtlessly knows, "ex-gay" therapy is a con job, a scam, a cash-cow designed to separate self-hating homosexuals from their money. It's sort of brilliant, really. You're never "cured" so you just have to keep paying and paying and paying. It's like Jenny Craig, but without the delicious cardboard aftertaste.
Via JMG: Google Nods To Keith Haring
Via JMG: Slate Nails The Savage Flap
Slate writer Amanda Marcotte gets to the root of it:
The American right is undertaking a huge project of trying to put right-wing politics beyond criticism by shouting "religious bigotry" any time someone gets in the way of their political agenda. If they can create a consensus that it's somehow off-limits to criticize teaching that gay people are subhuman as long as you wrap it up in religion, that gives them a huge political advantage. Taken far enough, merely stating out loud in public that you don't believe gay people are evil could be cause for the fainting couches to be pulled out and accusations that Christians are being oppressed. Sounds ludicrous? Well, consider that we're currently debating whether or not it's oppressing Christians to accurately state what's in the Bible. Anyone who is actually supportive of gay rights shouldn't be playing along with this feigned umbrage. It won't stop until opposing anti-gay actions is considered completely off-bounds on the grounds that it's an attack on religion.Bingo.
Via AmericaBlogGay
NC anti-gay amendment meant to "protect caucasian race" from multiplying dark people
The wife of a North Carolina state senator,
who's supporting the anti-gay Amendment One in the state (a
constitutional amendment that will ban gay marriage, civil unions, and
domestic partners) reportedly told a poll worker that the amendment is
intended to help protect the caucasian race from all those dark people
who keep multiplying. The woman allegedly disagrees with the report,
says her remarks were taken out of context, but admits to using the word
"caucasian." She probably said: "I would never use the word
'caucasion' as that might sound racist." Uh huh.
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