Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Via Buddhism on Beliefnet:
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Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 22, 2012
Compassion Despite Dislike
Remember
that you don’t have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for
that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.
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- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "Head & Heart Together"
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Via Nalanda LGBT Buddhist Cultural and Resource Center
"In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged."
- His Holiness, the
Dalai Lama
Via Courage Campaign:
Today
the Republican National Committee finalized its platform concerning
marriage equality. Which platform do you want to see your elected
official stand behind?
Via JMG: NOM Launches "Brown Vs Savage" Site
NOM has launched a new website
dedicated to coverage and reactions of Brian Brown's dinner with last
week. The debate itself has not yet been released. From the site: Dan Savage is one of the most influential activists bent on redefining marriage. Millions of Americans have seen his TV show on MTV or read his syndicated column. President Obama and his wife Michelle, along with hundreds of celebrities and sports stars have participated in Savage’s “It Gets Better” anti-bullying project. But there’s another side to Dan Savage that most haven’t seen: the bully. This April, when speaking to a group of high school students in Seattle, Savage launched into a tirade against Christians and what he termed the “bull****” in the bible.” He went on to call students who attempted to leave his presentation “pansy-a**es”. Savage has a long history of obscene anti-Christian comments, and yet he continues to be celebrated as the face of the gay marriage movement.At least NOM didn't (yet) repeat the lie about that "spontaneous" staged walkout by "sobbing and horrified" students, who were put up to it by Focus On The Family.
Labels: bigotry, Brian Brown, Catholic Church, Dan Savage, evil, hate groups, NOM, religion, Vatican
Via JMG: Tweeted Out By Matt Barber
Two from Gay Politics Report:
- Republicans poised to reaffirm opposition to marriage equality
Republican Party subcommittees have reportedly approved party platform language that criticizes the Obama administration's decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, and supports a "constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman." The language still must be approved by the full GOP committee today, and by delegates at the GOP convention in Tampa next week. BuzzFeed (8/20)
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GOP platform addresses LGBT community, group says: Certain
language included in the Republican Party's national platform is meant
to signal the party's support for LGBT Americans, according to R. Clarke
Cooper, the director of Log Cabin Republicans. A GOP delegate who
supports marriage equality proposed the language "We embrace the
principle that all Americans have the right to be treated with dignity
and respect," Cooper said. Metro Weekly (Washington, D.C.)/Poliglot
(8/20)
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Tricycle Daily Dharma August 21, 2012
Refraining from Harm
To
realize truly that there is only this nature, with no 'other' outside
us, is to naturally want to refrain from causing harm, just as we
refrain from doing harm to one of our own limbs or eyes.
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- Bodhin Kjolhede, "Pain, Passion, and the Precepts"
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Via JMG: T-Mobile Endorses Marriage
Washington state based mobile phone giant T-Mobile today endorsed marriage equality. HRC has the good news: The Bellevue-based wireless carrier joins REI, Microsoft, Starbucks and a growing list of other employers in supporting the efforts of Washington United for Marriage. “Our support of this issue is a reflection of our culture, how we do business, and our belief in the fair and equitable treatment of all employees,” said Jim Alling, interim chief executive officer and chief operating officer. HRC applauds T-Mobile for this positive step on its journey toward LGBT inclusion. More than 4,800 T-Mobile employees live and work in Washington state, according to the company.RELATED: T-Mobile is the U.S. subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom. Last year a sale of the company to AT&T was thwarted after fierce resistance from the U.S. federal government.
Via JMG: Michelangelo Signore To FRC President Tony Perkins: Let's Talk About Hate
Michelangelo Signorile has penned an open letter to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and invited him to a debate on his SiriuxXM show. An excerpt: Perhaps you recall that in July 2008, a man armed with a shotgun went on a shooting rampage inside a church in Knoxville. The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, like many Christian churches and denominations across the country, is welcoming of LGBT people. The gunman killed two people and severely wounded several others. Police said that the killer's motive was to target gays and liberals. "This isn't a church, it's a cult," the killer wrote in a four-page letter he had left behind. "They embrace every pervert that comes down the pike.... [T]he only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is kill them in the streets, kill them where they gather."Read the full letter.
I wouldn't claim, as you did with regard to the SPLC, that the FRC gave that killer a "license to shoot." No one knows what's inside the mind of a premeditated killer. But I would ask: Where do people like this killer get the distortions and ugly mischaracterizations that convince them that gay people are evil? More so, where do others who wouldn't engage in gun violence but who do harm to LGBT people in other ways -- firing them from their jobs, throwing them out of their homes, bullying them in schools -- get their misinformation about gay people? They get it from a wide array of sources that contribute to a culture that demonizes LGBT people. And you and the Family Research Council are among those who feed into that culture.
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