Saturday, February 2, 2013
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 2, 2013
Illuminating Your Path
For
the dharma to become firsthand knowledge—to feel the ‘ouch’ of it—you
have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold
you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you:
‘Be a lamp unto yourself,’ says the Buddha. In other words, you must
ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth
to the test. Your questions light the way.
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- Larry Rosenberg, “The Right to Ask Questions”
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Via JMG: NEW MEXICO: Marriage Bill Advances
By a 5-4 vote, yesterday the New Mexico House Public Affairs Committee narrowly approved a bill to place marriage equality to a public vote.
The bill would let voters decide the issue of same-sex marriage, but it also states churches would not be required to recognize the same-sex marriage bill. After hearing very different opinions and personal experiences, lawmakers decided along party lines to pass the bill, which moves it to the next committee. "We should not discriminate. The state should be doing everything possible to encourage people to enter into committed, long-term relationships, especially when there's children involved," Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, said. "What happens to those kids? Those kids were not created in that relationship," same-sex marriage opponent Jose Vasquez said. Egolf said he's been contacted by hundreds of people who thanked him for sponsoring the bill.The bill must pass out of another committee before moving to the full House. If approved by both state chambers and signed by the governor, marriage equality would appear on the November 2014 ballot. (Tipped by JMG reader Elise)
Labels: 2014 elections, marriage equality, New Mexico
Via JMG: Quote Of The Day: MP Helen Grant
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 1, 2013
The Simple Act of Attention
Empathy
naturally leads to compassionate action. But simple inattention kills
empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to
notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.
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- Daniel Goleman, “I Feel Your Brain”
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Via JMG: Nielsen: Gays Shop & Spend More
American same-sex partnered households have significant spending power. In fact, same-sex partnered households make 16 percent more shopping trips than the average U.S. household each year (173 average shopping trips vs. 149 average shopping trips for total U.S. households), according to a recent Nielsen report measuring the shopping habits of U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) households. The additional shopping trips translate into a marked difference in total spending on consumer packaged goods (CPG). Same-sex partnered households spend an average of $8,651 each year on CPG, compared with $6,898 for the average U.S. household. Within the LGBT community, male same-sex partnered households shop more frequently than female same-sex households (182 trips vs. 163 trips), raising male same-sex household annual CPG spending to $8,943—nearly 30 percent higher than the average U.S. household.But the below chart that compares where gay men and lesbians exceed the national purchasing average is more interesting, yes? The linked article doesn't make it clear, but one presumes the overall average for each of the below categories is 100.
Labels: LGBT culture, Nielsen, retail
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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 31, 2013
Mature Wisdom
The
test of how far your wisdom has matured lies in the strategic skill
with which you can keep yourself from doing things that you like to do
but that would cause long-term harm, and the skill with which you can
talk yourself into doing things that you don’t like to do but that would
lead to long-term well-being and happiness. In other words, mature
wisdom requires a mature ego.
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- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Hang On to Your Ego”
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Via JMG: Conference Of Catholic Bishops Files SCOTUS Briefs On DOMA & Prop 8
From their DOMA brief:
The USCCB brief in United States v. Windsor says that “there is no fundamental right to marry a person of the same sex.” The brief also states that “as defined by courts ‘sexual orientation’ is not a classification that should trigger heightened scrutiny,” such as race or ethnicity would. It added that “civil recognition of same-sex relationships is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition—quite the opposite is true. Nor can the treatment of such relationships as marriages be said to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, such that neither liberty nor justice would exist if they were sacrificed.” USCCB argued that previous Supreme Court decisions “describing marriage as a fundamental right plainly contemplate the union of one man and one woman.” The USCCB also cautioned that a decision invalidating DOMA “would have adverse consequences in other areas of law.”From their Proposition 8 brief:
“While this Court has held that laws forbidding private, consensual, homosexual conduct between adults lack a rational basis, it does not follow that the government has a constitutional duty to encourage or endorse such conduct. Thus, governments may legitimately decide to further the interests of opposite-sex unions only. Similarly, minimum standards of rationality under the Constitution do not require adopting the lower court’s incoherent definition of ‘marriage’ as merely a ‘committed lifelong relationship,’ which is wildly over-inclusive, empties the term of its meaning, and leads to absurd results.” “Marriage, understood as the union of one man and one woman, is not an historical relic, but a vital and foundational institution of civil society today,” the USCCB brief states.(Via Zack Ford @ Think Progress)
Labels: Catholic Church, child abuse, cults, DOMA, marriage equality, molestation, Proposition 8, SCOTUS, UCCB, Vatican
Via JMG: Super Gay Bet: Blade Vs B.A.R.
From Washington Blade reporter Phil Reese:
Editors and publishers of the Washington Blade and the Bay Area Reporter, an LGBT newspaper in San Francisco, announced this week the terms of a bet for their respective teams playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl championship in New Orleans. If the Ravens win, BAR will send the Blade staff a lunch of dungeness crabs and a $1,000 donation to the local LGBT charity of the Blade’s choosing. If the 49ers win, the Blade will send BAR’s staff a lunch of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs and a $1,000 donation to a San Francisco LGBT charity of BAR’s choosing. “When Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, the Patriots won the Super Bowl. When New York legalized marriage in 2011, the Giants won the Super Bowl. In 2012, Maryland passed marriage equality, so it’s our turn,” said Blade editor Kevin Naff, who lives in Baltimore. “Go Ravens!”I suppose it should be pointed out that DC legalized same-sex marriage in 2009 and that the Redskins finished last in their division that year, having won only four games all season. Yes, I had look that up. Go sportsball! Go local/regional team! I like the ones in the aubergine blouses!
Labels: Bay Area Reporter, Super Bowl, Washington Blade
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