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Tricycle Daily Dharma December 12, 2011

Awakening to Ourselves

Buddhism is really about awakening from the illusion about ourselves and the world, and realizing reality—who we are and what is real and how things are interconnected through karma and causation and so on. In a Dzogchen text it says, “From the beginning we are all Buddhas by nature, we only have to realize that fact.” So in Dzogchen the whole practice of what we call the view, meditation, and action is about awakening to—not just our momentary personality—“self” with a small s—but our true Buddha nature, our original nature.

- Lama Surya Das, "Old Wine, New Bottles"
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Via Hatewatch/SPLC: Anti-Abortion Extremist Now Attacking Gay-Friendly Churches

Posted in Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBT, Extremist Propaganda by Leah Nelson on December 9, 2011

 

The Rev. Donald Spitz has a message for gay-friendly churches, and the murder-endorsing anti-abortion crusader is not mincing words.

In E-mails sent in recent days to an unknown number of churches listed on GayChurch.org, he wrote: “To accept sexual deviancy as normal is a sin. You put your soul in danger of eternal damnation for welcoming unrepentant homosexuals into God’s house. You blaspheme the Name of God.

Homosexuality should be criminalized. Homosexuals commit crimes against God, against nature, against the Holy Bible and against the human race. ( continue to full post… )

Via Gay Marriage Watch: Boy George Speaks Out Against Austraila PM on Marriage Equali

Boy George Speaks Out Against Austraila PM on Marriage Equality
Written by scott on December 11th, 2011

Boy George and Australia Marriage Equality“I’m baffled by it,” George said. “If they just let it happen they’d realise it’s not the end of civilisation as we know it. “On one hand they mention family values and the importance of relationships but if people want to get married isn’t that a good thing?

“It’s so unimportant. I don’t think it’s the job of a PM or a politician to deal with that. Gay people have been around since the dinosaurs.

“I just don’t get homophobia. And not allowing gay marriage is homophobia. What difference does it make to you? It’s not a choice. ‘Oh I think I’ll be gay’.”

 

 

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“I’m baffled by it,” George said. “If they just let it happen they’d realise it’s not the end of civilisation as we know it. “On one hand they mention family values and the importance of relationships but if people want to get married isn’t that a good thing?

STEVE HAYES: Tired Old Queen at the Movies - #89

Via JMG: Masturbation Is Totally Gay, Part Two

"An average male child has masturbated at one stage of his life or the other. If this behaviour were not controlled, it would lead to lack of interest in the opposite sex. This often happens in the subconscious mind, so that by the time one grows into it, one would not know why one hates the opposite sex. This is because when one masturbates, one may have practiced it with other male children. So, by the time they are qualified to have sexual relations, they just discover that they have something that satisfies them more than natural sex." - Professor of biblical history and "ex-gay" therapist Dr. Felix Jovi Ehwarieme, quoted in a Nigeria Guardian story about the campaign to pass Nigeria's proposed escalation in penalties for homosexuality. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan)

RELATED: Last month Seattle's Pastor Mark Driscoll said that male masturbation is inherently gay because it is sex with a man.

CORRECTION: In the first draft of this post I attributed the above quote to the wrong crazy person in the linked article. I was laughing too hard to notice!

Labels: Africa, batshittery, Nigeria, religion

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Via a Facebook posting:

Rick Perry Ashamed

Via JMG: TODAY: SantaCon 2012

At this writing hundreds of hammered Santas are staggering through Manhattan in their annual pub crawl dubbed SantaCon. Bars, pubs, and nightclubs along the designated routes are making donations to Toys For Tots.

Organizers warn: "Don ye now your gay apparel! Anyone caught attending Santacon without a FULL costume will be pelted with reindeer droppings and receive coal in their stocking. Simply wearing a Santa hat is not acceptable." Also noted in the amusing set of rules: "Food will be collected at the start point by elves in leather thongs and delivered to the Food Bank for NYC."

Follow SantaCon on Twitter for photos and merriment.

Labels: drinking, NYC, silliness, Xmas

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Via JMG: VIDEO: Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Hears Final Arguments In Proposition 8

Below is the full hearing from Thursday. The first clip covers the argument against releasing the trial tapes. The second clip covers the argument that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself for being gay. Both clips are highly instructive as to the vitriolic lengths our enemies are willing to go in their campaign of oppression.

Labels: AFER, David Boies, marriage equality, Ninth Circuit Court., Perry v Schwarzenengger, Proposition 8, Ted Olson

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Today in Weird and Creepy Bahaí Video: A Grievous Error

Via JMG: MAP: Gay Oppression In Africa

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Labels: Africa, Hillary Clinton, LGBT rights

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Scott Fujita for Americans for Marriage Equality

Via JMG: FRC Applauds Perry's Anti-Gay Hate

Labels: hate groups, Rick Perry, Tony Perkins

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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....

Labels: bestiality, DADT, military, Pentagon

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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"
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Rick Perry "Strong" Campaign Video Spoof - A Response

Elenor Lives!

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?
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  No.	64.80%
  Yes.	20.74%
  I'm not sure.	14.46%

Data show Obama should embrace marriage equality now

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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