The indefatigable Sophia Resnick of the American Independent does some digging and finds what we found from their '09 returns: NOM is not a grassroots organization. It is funded by a few well-heeled donors.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma: Intererview with the Karmapa
Last July, several Tricycle editors interviewed Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. During the interview he spoke on his daily life in India, his work as a poet and an artist, how the role of Karmapa has evolved since the Chinese occupation of Tibet, spiritual bypassing, the role of social and environmental activism in Buddhism, and more. Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
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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Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Via Hatewatch/SPLC: Anti-Abortion Extremist Now Attacking Gay-Friendly Churches
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… )
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
“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?
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!
Saturday, December 10, 2011
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.
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.
Reposted from Joe
Labels: AFER, David Boies, marriage equality, Ninth Circuit Court., Perry v Schwarzenengger, Proposition 8, Ted Olson
Reposted from Joe
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"
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Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Friday, December 9, 2011
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