Saturday, December 22, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma December 22, 2012
With a Little Help from my Friends
If
you really want to become skillful in your thoughts, words, and deeds,
you need a trustworthy friend to point out your blind spots. And because
those spots are blindest around your unskillful habits, the primary
duty of a trustworthy friend is to point out your faults—for only when
you see your faults can you correct them; only when you correct them are
you benefiting from your friend’s compassion in pointing them out.
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- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “The Power of Judgment”
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Friday, December 21, 2012
JMG Quote Of The Day - Henry Rollins
"There is still a long way to go. Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is -- marriage. As much as the homophobes, an ever-thinning herd, whines and screeches, the earth is shifting underneath their feet and things are getting better all the time. This is going to be an incredible century. Didn't get off to a very good start but we are making some bold and exciting strides forward." - Henry Rollins, writing for LA Weekly.
Via JMG: Ill Papa Slams Gay Marriage (AGAIN)
"People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their
bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being.
They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously
given to them, but that they make it for themselves. The manipulation of
nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now
becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. When freedom to be creative becomes the
freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied
and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God" - Emperor Palpatine, in his annual Christmas speech to Vatican bureaucrats.
Reposted from Joe
Via JMG: Vatican: Gay Marriage Is Like Communism
The official Vatican newspaper yesterday compared gay marriage supporters with people who had been "deceived" by communism and socialism.
Faced with recent setbacks in the United States and Europe, the Roman Catholic Church has intensified its increasingly uphill battle against gay marriage. The latest salvo came this week, with a front-page article in the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Historian Lucetta Scaraffia compared proponents of gay marriage, with their championing of "marriage equality," to 20th-century communists who wooed millions with their promise of perfect social and economical equality. Scaraffia, a 64-year-old former feminist activist who later became a fervent Catholic, has often written in the Vatican newspaper on the issue. For her, the idea of gay marriage is a product of the same "egalitarian utopia that did so much damage during the 20th century ... deceiving humanity as socialism did in the past."
Labels: bigotry, Catholic Church, LGBT rights, marriage equality, organized crime, religion, Vatican
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Viva São Paulo!
BRAZIL: São Paulo State Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Brazilian Law Blog reports:
Reposted from Joe
The state of Sao Paulo has 41 million residents! The city of Sao Paulo is the largest in the southern hemisphere!Brazil is about to see something that we only heard about from the United States: a massive movement of people going to one specific State, in order to get married there. This is because São Paulo State (where São Paulo city is located) has updated its registration rules in order to allow the automatic registration of same sex marriages, without the need of a previous court order. This change has followed, with some delay, a decision from the Brazilian Supreme Court regarding same sex marriage.
Via Buddhism on Beliefnet:
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Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma December 20, 2012
Living in a Cosmic Democracy
Living
in harmony with all beings is flexibility. It is a kind of cosmic
democracy. Each of us has a role in the situation and gets one vote. You
cast your vote by being here like a great unmoving mountain. Please
cast your vote completely: that is your job. Then listen to all other
beings, especially foreigners, especially strangers, and especially
enemies.
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- Reb Anderson, “In It Together”
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Via JMG: New Gallup Poll On LGBT Issues
While 53% of Americans support legalizing same-sex marriage, significantly higher percentages support the idea of equal rights for partners or spouses of gays or lesbians when it comes to inheritance rights and employee benefits, and making it legal for gays and lesbians to adopt children. Support for all three issues is up at least slightly from three years ago.
Less than half of Americans, however, support the idea of openly gay adults serving as Boy Scout leaders. Given the lack of a trend on this question, it is not clear whether support is higher than in the past, or the degree to which the lack of support may reflect respondents' reluctance to say how a private organization should decide who holds its positions of leadership.
Labels: Boy Scouts, Gallup, gay adoption, insurance, LGBT rights, marriage equality, polls
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