Sunday, August 19, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 19, 2012
Skillful Speech
Silence
offers us, and those around us, the spaciousness we need to speak more
skillfully. When we speak with greater skill, our true self—our
compassionate, loving self—emerges with gentle ease. So before you
speak, stop, breathe, and consider if what you are about to say will
improve upon the silence.
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- Allan Lokos, "Skillful Speech"
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Via AmericaBlog Gay:
Guy who routinely calls us "pedophiles" wants an end to "reckless rhetoric"
I've
already posted ample evidence as to why the Family Research Council was
officially designated a hate group - it's not their policy positions
per se, it's their strategy of willfully and systematically lying in
order to defame, and discriminate against, an entire class of American
citizens -...
Two from Gay Politics Report: What’s a "hate group"?
- LGBT groups decry shooting at anti-gay organization
- Dozens of national and state LGBT organizations issued a joint statement this week condemning a shooting at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, an advocacy organization that has long opposed LGBT equality measures on religious grounds. FRC President Tony Perkins said he appreciated the statement, but added the shooter “was given a license to do that” by groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which includes FRC on its list of hate groups. The suspect reportedly said he opposed the organization’s politics before shooting a building employee in the arm. The Washington Post/Guest Voices (8/16), Talking Points Memo/Muckraker (8/16), Washington Blade (Washington, D.C.) (8/15), Politico (Washington, D.C.) (8/17)
- What’s a "hate group"?: Right Wing Watch details why the Southern Poverty Law Center included the Family Research Council on its annual list of hate groups, explaining SPLC considers the group’s rhetoric about gays and lesbians “false and demonizing.” Right Wing Watch (8/16)
Via Gayoutdoors.org: New Brokeback Mountain Type Movie Being Filmed
Private
Life, has begun shooting. The story is a little bit Brokeback Mountain,
a little bit Boys Don't Cry. It's a short film, a fictionalized
re-telling of an actual hate crime the writer/director read about nearly
a decade ago that really terrified him. A gay couple, backpacking
through the Appalachians, was shot at eight times sniper style while
making love in a secluded mountain meadow. Check out his website, tell
all your friends and SHARE it will all your Facebook friends. >>View Website The film was written and directed by Greg Williamson, a grad student at the cinema school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
In addition to the gay-interest theme, there is also a huge outdoors theme. Two-thirds of the story takes place out in the mountains on a backpacking trip. They have been scouting outdoor locations for months! [He’s really enjoyed being able to go on so many hikes to scout the locations.]
The film tells the story of a gay couple, struggling in their relationship, who end up forging a deeper connection while on a backpacking trip out in the great outdoors. Private Life is a story about a broken sort of person, who is scared and trying to hide from the world and how he ultimately learns that only by opening up and making himself vulnerable can he can truly begin to heal.
Greg added, “Even after coming out I spent a lot of time judging others—too gay, too effeminate, too shallow, too political or just too into escaping their troubles with drugs and alcohol and drama. Being gay is a large and complicated conversation and my place within it has never been much more than tenuous. It wasn’t until I started figuring out what this story means to me that I felt like I had anything to contribute to the conversation. To really open myself up to another person makes me feel vulnerable to them shutting me down, walking away and not returning it. It makes me feel that what I’m sharing might be judged as offensive or immoral or wrong or selfish and met with hostility, anger, rage or violence. It makes me feel vulnerable to feelings of embarrassment and humiliation and that’s really scary to me. Fear of vulnerability I think is a universal part of the human experience—a necessary instinct for survival. But there’s so much more to life than just surviving it. Making this film is a way to confront my own fears about what it means to me to come out and be vulnerable.” We will try to put together a screening in Boston once it’s complete.
Diga Não / Just say No!
Translation:
Did you learn anything about indians in School?
YES!?!?
Did it turn you into and indian?
No!?!?
...ok, so why then are these bastards thinking that teaching about homosexuality to your child with repect to gays will turn them into a homosexual?
# Just say no to prejudice and intolerance
Via JMG: SPLC Condemns Tony Perkins
Via press release and posted publicly to the Southern Poverty Law Center website. From SPLC Senior Fellow Mark Potak: Yesterday’s attack on the Family Research Council and the shooting of a security guard there was a tragedy. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) deplores all violence, and our thoughts are with the wounded victim, Leo Johnson, his family and others who lived through the attack.Right on, SPLC!
For more than 40 years, the SPLC has battled against political extremism and political violence. We have argued consistently that violence is no answer to problems in a democratic society, and we have strongly criticized all those who endorse such violence, whether on the political left or the political right.
But this afternoon, FRC President Tony Perkins attacked the SPLC, saying it had encouraged and enabled the attack by labeling the FRC a “hate group.” The attacker, Floyd Corkins, “was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Perkins said. “I believe the Southern Poverty Law Center should be held accountable for their reckless use of terminology.”
Perkins’ accusation is outrageous. The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people — not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage. The FRC and its allies on the religious right are saying, in effect, that offering legitimate and fact-based criticism in a democratic society is tantamount to suggesting that the objects of criticism should be the targets of criminal violence.
As the SPLC made clear at the time and in hundreds of subsequent statements and press interviews, we criticize the FRC for claiming, in Perkins’ words, that pedophilia is “a homosexual problem” — an utter falsehood, as every relevant scientific authority has stated. An FRC official has said he wanted to “export homosexuals from the United States.” The same official advocated the criminalizing of homosexuality.
Perkins and his allies, seeing an opportunity to score points, are using the attack on their offices to pose a false equivalency between the SPLC’s criticisms of the FRC and the FRC’s criticisms of LGBT people. The FRC routinely pushes out demonizing claims that gay people are child molesters and worse — claims that are provably false. It should stop the demonization and affirm the dignity of all people.
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