Monday, October 22, 2012
JMG Billboard Of The Day
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Tricycle Daily Dharma October 22, 2012
Everything is Enlightened
We
are enlightenment and we are delusion. We read it, we say it, but we
don't believe it. The experience of realization is seeing and realizing
exactly that—that everything is enlightened as it is.
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- Bernie Glassman, "Yasutani Roshi: The Hardest Koan"
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Via JMG: Billy Graham Places Full-Page Anti-Gay Marriage Ad In The Wall Street Journal
"The legacy we leave behind for our children, grandchildren, and this
great nation is crucial. As I approach my 94th birthday, I realize this
election could be my last. I believe it is vitally important that we
cast our ballots for candidates who base their decisions on biblical
principles and support the nation of Israel. I urge you to vote for
those who protect the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a
woman. Vote for biblical values this November 6, and pray with me that
America will remain one nation under God." - Billy Graham, 93, in a full-page ad published today in the Wall Street Journal.
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Tricycle Daily Dharma October 20, 2012
Rising to the Occasion
We
cannot eliminate all of the challenges or obstacles in life—our own or
anyone else’s. We can only learn to rise to the occasion and face them.
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- Dzigar Kongtrul, "Old Relationships, New Possibilities"
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Friday, October 19, 2012
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Via JMG: HRC: 219 House Reps Rated Zero
HRC today released its Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress, rating members of Congress on their support for LGBT-equality. Analysis shows that though the LGBT equality is making gains on Capitol Hill, anti-LGBT legislators continue to halt progress. While the American people move forward on issues of equality, the majority of Congress – particularly the House – continues to be out of touch. The average score of House members was 40 percent and 35 for Senators, down significantly from the 111th Congress. For the first time in this scorecard, HRC noted whether of not members of Congress have taken an affirmative position in favor of marriage equality. In the House, 115 members scored 100 percent, including 33 from states with marriage equality and eight from states facing marriage related ballot measure this November.Hit this link for the rating of your Congress members.
Labels: HRC, LGBT rights, Senate, U.S. House
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Tricycle Daily Dharma October 19, 2012
Developing A Kind Nature
A
person disposed to anger will more and more easily erupt in anger anew
at any provocation. But in a moment of kindness a kindly disposition is
deposited, and one becomes incrementally more disposed to kindness. The
attitude with which we respond to an object of experience, with anger or
with kindness, will therefore not only influence the causal field
outside ourselves but also progressively reshape our very nature.
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- Andrew Olendzki, "Karma in Action"
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Via REPORT: The Catholic Church Is 2012's Top Funder Of Anti-Gay Campaigns
REPORT: The Catholic Church Is 2012's Top Funder Of Anti-Gay Campaigns
Taking up where the Mormons left off in 2008, the Catholic Church – and its affiliate, the Knights of Columbus – have made considerable investments in the marriage fights in Minnesota, Maryland, Washington State and Maine this election cycle – spending at least $1.1 million to date. In addition, a close ally of the Church and past co-conspirator, the National Organization for Marriage, has spent nearly $1.4 million this cycle. Marriage equality opponents across the four states have, to date, raised roughly $4.1 million. The Catholic Church’s contributions make up 27 percent of that total figure. When you add in the contributions of Church ally NOM, the reality of the coordinated effort becomes clear: the Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, and NOM are responsible for funding nearly 60 percent of all anti-equality efforts in Minnesota, Maryland, Washington State and Maine.The Catholic LGBT coalition Equally Blessed today also issued a report on the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Church.
According to the report, which is based primarily on the Knights’ filings with the Internal Revenue Service, the organization donated $6.25 million to anti-marriage equality efforts between 2005-2012, with most of the money directed toward ballot measures aimed at banning marriage equality in 12 states. The sum includes:
- $1.9 million in donations to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), $1.4 million of which was devoted to a successful and highly controversial campaign to overturn marriage equality legislation in Maine.
- A $1.1 million dollar donation to ProjectMarriage.com which supported the passage of Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that banned marriage equality in California.
- More than $630,000 in donations to groups working against marriage equality through ballot initiatives that will be voted on next month in Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.
According to NOM’s internal memos, unsealed during legal proceedings in Maine, the organization adopted a strategy of turning the Black and Hispanic communities against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people during the campaign to overturn marriage equality legislation in that state. The same memos advocated finding children who had been raised by same-sex couples and persuading them to speak out against their parents.
Labels: bigotry, brainwashing, Catholic Church, child abuse, cults, evil, hate groups, Knights of Columbus, molestation, NOM, organized crime, pedophilia, religion
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Via JMG: FRC: Church Membership Is Shrinking Because They Don't Hate Gays Enough
The Family Research Council says that the reason 20% of Americans now say they have no religious affiliation is because churches aren't being hateful enough to keep people interested. Via press release:
As more churches move away from biblical authority, their attendance suffers. Just ask the Episcopal Church, whose pews are virtually empty after the decision to endorse homosexuality. It's time to push back on the spin that's feeding our weak brethren who say that compromising truth in pursuit of love is the way to reach the lost. Intuitively, people want to anchor their lives to something meaningful--something that demands the sacrifice and discipline of "taking up your cross." When a denomination abandons the truth and waters everything down to love, it reduces the church to another hour of Dr. Phil--which is something Americans can get without ever leaving home.There's "too much love" in the church. Yeah.
Labels: FRC, hate groups, Pew Project, religion
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Tricycle Daily Dharma October 16, 2012
Where We Are Transformed
Buddhist
practice only works when it's on the edge. And that's what the
renunciant lifestyle is about, what living in the wilderness is about,
what meditation is all about—getting to the edge. Because that's where
we are transformed.
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- Ajaan Amaro, "Just Another Thing in the Forest"
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Reason 12 Why I left Christianity...
Via JMG: NEBRASKA: Christian Groups Work To Repeal LGBT Protections In Omaha
God's Gentle People are working to make it legal again to discriminate against LGBT people in Omaha, which only narrowly approved its workplace protection ordinance in March of this year.
Some churches involved in the effort put the call to sign the petition more directly than others; approaches range from reminders to sign petitions after Sunday services to one pastor's 39-minute sermon urging congregants to demonstrate their faith by signing their names. But the step into city politics reflects a similar perspective from some churches: that the ordinance limits their right to express their Christian views. “I think from time to time the people of God are called to resist their government at key crossroads, and I'm convinced that we stand at one of those crossroads right now in our city,” the Rev. Mark Ashton, lead pastor of Christ Community Church, said in a sermon last Sunday. “Every signature makes a difference in the future of our city,” he said later. “I'd encourage every registered voter who lives within the City of Omaha and follows Jesus to sign your name.”Leading the repeal charge is the Nebraska Heritage Coalition, which has this message on their website:
Homosexual activity (not temptation or preference) is explicitly prohibited as sin in multiple passages in the Old and New Testament. We do not have the right to change God's moral law to fit our sexual preferences. We believe that when we admit our sin, the Lord is faithful to forgive. Whether it is gossip, greed, violence, hatred, homosexual activity or heterosexual adultery, every last one of us is guilty. Fortunately, our welcome before God is not based on our 'religion resume,’ or our ability to live up to a moral code. It is based on what Jesus did on the cross to pay for our wrongdoing. He forgives us and begins to change us from the inside out to become more like him. This is the Good News for men and women, young and old, rich and poor, clergy and laity, gay people and straight people alike. Therefore, everyone is welcome to attend our churches. Together, we can discover God’s forgiveness and the strength to live a life in obedience to his moral law.There are 242 churches listed as backers of the repeal. (Tipped by JMG reader Sam)
RELATED: Last month Omaha Archbishop George Lucas issued a letter demanding that Nebraska's Catholics support the repeal petition.
Labels: assholery, bigotry, Christian Love, disgusting, employment, evil, LGBT rights, Nebraska, religion
JMG HomoQuotable - Andrew Sullivan
"To be given a gift like the Romney 47 percent video is a rare event in national politics. To get it in the fall of an election should have made an Obama victory all but assured. But Obama threw it all back in his supporters' faces, reacting to their enthusiasm and record donations with a performance so execrable, so lazy, so feckless, and so vain it was almost a dare not to vote for him. What he has to do now is so nail these next two debates, so obliterate Romney in both, that he can claw his way back to victory. But if he manages just evenly-matched debates, let alone another Romney win, he's a goner." - Andrew Sullivan.
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