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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 6, 2012

Loving Negativity to Death

Remember 'Divide and Conquer'—if you can divide a negative reaction into its parts (mental image, mental talk, and emotional body sensation), you can conquer the sense of being overwhelmed. In other words, eliminate the negative parts by loving them to death.

- Shinzen Young, "The Power of Gone"

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Michelle Obama references gay marriage in convention keynote

Here's the second gay reference, the first is more subtle:If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire…if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote…if a generation could...

 

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	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	Don't forget to bring the good experiences of meditation into your daily activities. Instead of acting and reacting impulsively and following your thoughts and feelings here and there, watch your mind carefully, be aware, and try to deal skillfully with problems as they arise. If you can do this each day, your meditation will have been successful. - Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate" More Buddhism Quotes >>

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	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	Don't forget to bring the good experiences of meditation into your daily activities. Instead of acting and reacting impulsively and following your thoughts and feelings here and there, watch your mind carefully, be aware, and try to deal skillfully with problems as they arise. If you can do this each day, your meditation will have been successful. - Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate" More Buddhism Quotes >>

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Via JMG: Anti-Gay Whackjob Paul Cameron Repeats "Gays Are Inherently Diseased" Claim

"If you look across the data sets you see that homosexuals have a host of mental problems, disproportionate physical problems, they don't live as long, and they are disproportionately involved in drug abuse and criminality. That would seem to indicate that that is a lifestyle that may reasonably be considered mentally disturbed – [a] disorder. Yet, it isn't. It is surprising that such a wildly defective study, and one that actually proved the exact opposite of what it claimed to have proved has survived so long." - Discredited psychologist Paul Cameron, speaking to the Christian Post.

Cameron is referring to a 1957 study that was cited when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973. Cameron's claim that gay men only live to age 42 is still frequently quoted by anti-gay hate groups, even though he came up with that figure by averaging the ages of men he found in AIDS obituaries in the 1980s. Which is like saying that the average child with a brain tumor dies at age eight, therefore all children have a life expectancy of eight years. Earlier this year Cameron called for imprisoning gay people in a statement that also accused President Obama of being secretly gay himself.

Labels: batshittery, crackpots, douchenozzles, hate groups, liars, Paul Cameron, religion

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JMG Quote Of The Day - Richard Socarides

"Last night in Charlotte, the Democratic Party made history as the first national party to offer a platform endorsing marriage equality for all Americans. The move followed, of course, President Obama's personal endorsement of same-sex marriage in May. Both were important moments for me, here as a delegate for New York, and many others at the convention who have fought for full equality for gays and lesbians over many years. It was a completely different scene in Tampa last week.

"When Ann Romney spoke about her own 'real marriage' at the Republican National Convention, I wondered if this admittedly likable woman auditioning for a role as first lady would someday try to stand in the way of my marriage. I thought: can Mitt Romney stop gay marriage? Does he even want to? [snip]

"I asked Evan Wolfson, President of the group Freedom to Marry and the founder of the marriage equality movement nationally, whether he though Mitt Romney could stop marriage equality or if he thought Romney even cared. 'He has staked out a position, whether sincerely or otherwise, to the right of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush'” said Wolfson. 'We have no reason to think he's not serious.'

So while I welcome my pro-equality friends in the GOP to the cause—they see the future—I'm happier in Charlotte than I would have been in Tampa. And I hope that the country sticks with the president it's got." - Former Clinton White House advisor Richard Socarides, writing for the Daily Beast.

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Labels: Barack Obama, Charlotte, Democrats, DNC, LGBT History, LGBT rights, Mitt Romney, Quote Of The Day, Richard Socarides

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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 5, 2012

Accessing Joy

Whether we are paying careful attention to wholesome states when they arise, reflecting on gratitude, or feeling the delight of living with integrity (which the Buddha called 'the bliss of blamelessness'), we can access joy by shifting the focus of our awareness to what uplifts the heart.

- James Baraz, "Lighten Up!"

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Via America Blog Gay: Pro-Romney ad bashes gays

Well that didn't take long.The man who claimed to be more pro-gay than even Ted Kennedy, now has gay-bashing ads running that warn America that "gay marriage" will be forced upon them over their morning coffee.The ads were produced by a pro-Romney SuperPAC tied to fey religous right leader...

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History has been made. Join us in thanking the Democratic Party for becoming the first major political party to include the freedom to marry in it's platform. http://bit.ly/Q30qDh

Via JMG: HomoQuotable - Andrew Tobias

"The Democratic Party under the leadership of Barack Obama has dramatically improved the lives of millions of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans and at no cost to anyone else. In college, I thought I was the only guy in the world who liked other guys. Later I found there was someone else like me, our 26-year-old resident tutor. He and I never talked about it at the time. No one talked about being gay back then. People killed themselves over being gay. Tragically, some kids still do.

"But, the progress we have made. Eight weeks ago, I attended that young tutor's wedding! To a guy! He and I never talked about it at the time. Love that had been unspeakable 46 years ago was celebrated by hundreds of people—straight and gay, surfers and senators. In a way, it was a wedding that married my two topics—money and equality—because that young tutor had grown up to become the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank.

"Vote for equality, my friends. Vote for prosperity. Vote for Barack Obama. Vote Democrat." - Openly gay Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andrew Tobias, raising the issue of LGBT rights tonight within 30 minutes of the opening of the convention. Yeah, there's no difference between the two parties.

Labels: Andrew Tobias, Barney Frank, Charlotte, Democrats, DNC, gay politicians, LGBT rights

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Why I am extremely proud to be a Citizen of the USA tonight, and EQUALLY Proud to be a democrat!

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• Democrats’ evolution on marriage to be finalized this week
   
• When the Democratic Party approves a new platform document this week embracing full marriage rights for same-sex couples, the vote will cap a complete transition on the issue since former President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. Advocates say the platform language is a "societal cue" to those struggling with their own views about marriage equality. Some at last week’s Republican National Convention tried to get their party to ease its official opposition to partnership rights for same-sex couples, but they were not successful. San Francisco Chronicle (9/2), The Boston Globe/The Associated Press (tiered subscription model) (9/4)     

Via JMG: Scott Lively: We Need To Run Gay-Friendly Politicians Out With Tar And Feathers

"Now we know that when the leftists attempt to push a 'gay fascism bill' in politically conservative areas, our response must be to create controversy to draw public attention to the bill so that the people wake up and realize there’s a problem. Throw out the old playbook of acting nice and trying to persuade the public officials through reason. They think they are smarter than you all anyhow and have already made up their minds. They need to see angry crowds with tar and feathers in hand coming to run them out of office! Indeed, the Mayor of Springfield complained to the media that he was extremely bothered by threats of recall by the citizens.

"If you find out there’s a 'gay fascism bill'” coming to your conservative town and need help exposing it to the public, just give me a call and I’ll come to help. Invite me to give a speech on my book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party or address the global threat of homosexuality – or to give a give a sermon or lecture on ANY aspect of the homosexual issue. When they hear I’m coming to town every left-wing fanatic for miles around will start wailing and gnashing their teeth, and normal people will start popping their heads up to see what’s going on. Once that snowball of public controversy starts down the hill it takes very little effort to keep it rolling till it smashes right through the doors of city hall like an avalanche." - Hate group leader Scott Lively, writing for World Net Daily.

Labels: bigotry, douchenozzles, evil, hate groups, LGBT rights, religion, Scott Lively, World Net Daily

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Via JMG: John Aravosis Vs Jennifer Rubin

Americablog founder John Aravosis appeared on CNN to debate convention coverage with wingnut blogger Jennifer Rubin. Things get "a little heated" as Aravosis put it. Watch this.

Labels: AmericaBlog, DNC, GOP, John Aravosis, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan

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