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Monday, February 11, 2013
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Via JMG: LGBT Catholic Groups React
Dignity
As members of the Church who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, as well as family members and allies, we call on the Cardinals and the new Pope to enter into a true dialogue with our community. We call for an end to statements that inflict harm on already marginalized people, depict us as less than fully human, and lend credence to those seeking to justify discrimination. We call on our Church not only to embrace but to champion the dignity and equality of all humans, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.Equally Blessed
With the pope’s impending resignation, the church has an opportunity to turn away from his oppressive policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics, and their families and friends, and develop a new understanding of the ways in which God is at work in the lives of faithful and loving people regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. We pray for a pope who is willing to listen to and learn from all of God’s people. We pray for a pope who will realize that in promoting discrimination against LGBT people, the church inflicts pain on marginalized people, alienates the faithful and lends moral credibility to reactionary political movements across the globe.New Ways Ministry
We are praying, too, for LGBT Catholics and their families and friends, whose lives were made more difficult living under Benedict’s reign both as pontiff and as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), where he served previously. For the last three decades, Benedict has been one of the main architects of the Vatican’s policies against LGBT people. New Ways Ministry directly experienced those harsh policies several times over the years…Fortunately, we have survived the many attempts by the Vatican to end our ministry, and, thanks to the support of so many Catholics, we have emerged stronger for it.Source.
Labels: Benedict Palpatine, Catholic Church, Vatican
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 11, 2013
Spiraling Toward Freedom
Each
time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to
truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the
story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing
what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to
remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively
through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.
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- Tara Brach, "Finding True Refuge"
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
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Transforming the World
We
must proceed with a clear-eyed awareness of the social, political, and
economic context in which we live and practice. Once we awaken to where
we are, we must take the responsibility to transform that world into a
matrix of opportunity for wisdom and compassion, not just for ourselves
but for all others.
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- David Patt, “Who’s Zoomin’ Who? The Commodification of Buddhism in the American Marketplace”
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
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Staying in the Present
Don’t
get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your
situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what
matters.
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- Pema Chodron, “Bite-Sized Buddhism”
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Via Gay Politics Report:
- LGBT issues front and center as Obama's second term begins
- President
Barack Obama has started his second term by pushing forward proposals
on immigration and military benefits that recognize same-sex couples,
and he's spoken out in favor of the Boy Scouts of America allowing
openly gay members. These actions, along with the call for LGBT equality
included in Obama's inaugural address, have left some advocates
impressed with how the president has embraced much of their agenda.
"There are some times when I have to pinch myself," said one gay rights
activist and Obama donor. The Hill
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Via JMG: Late PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford To Receive Presidential Citizens Medal
When Manford died last month at the age of 92, Jody Huckaby, PFLAG’s national executive director, said, “Jeanne Manford proved the power of a single person to transform the world. She paved the way for us to speak out for what is right, uniting the unique parent, family, and ally voice with the voice of LGBT people everywhere.” President Barack Obama will honor the Medal winners at a White House ceremony on February 15. The recipients were announced on February 8. Manford is only the second Citizens Medal recipient honored for her work on LGBT causes. A 2011 Medal went to Janice K. Langbehn, a lesbian who sued a Miami hospital after she and her three young children were denied the right to visit her partner of 18 years, Lisa Marie Pond, as she lay dying after suffering a brain aneurysm while on vacation there in 2007. Despite having been told that they were in “an anti-gay city and state” by a hospital official, Langbehn’s suit was dismissed.Others to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal have included Elizabeth Taylor, Colin Powell, and AIDS researcher David Ho.
UPDATE: PFLAG has issued a statement.
“When Jeanne Manford publicly stood up for her gay son in 1972, she had no idea that her actions would spark a movement that would change the lives of so many individuals and families,” said PFLAG National Executive Director Jody M. Huckaby. “It started out as a simple act of love, but Jeanne’s legacy lives on, as straight allies continue to stand alongside their LGBT loved ones, united by their collective belief in a better—and more equal—tomorrow. Her voice has been joined by millions of others who have raised their voices and will continue to do so in support of acceptance, fairness, and equality.” “I was able to share the news of this honor with my mom before she left us and I only wish the President could have seen the amazing smile that spread across her face,” said Suzanne Manford Swan, daughter of the late Jeanne Manford. “My family is deeply touched by this honor and to represent the PFLAG family values of love and acceptance.”
Labels: heroes, LGBT History, PFLAG
A Gay Dad's Invitation to a Supreme Court Justice: Come to Dinner With My Family
Some of us are afraid to exhale. Same-sex marriage is before the Supreme Court.
Just as the election had the "swing-state factor," these two cases have a swing vote: Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Kennedy was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan but has been on the progressive side of two key LGBTQ cases, Romer v. Evans and Lawrence v. Texas. Now, with the question of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy, with the right decision, could eclipse the likes of Barbra Streisand, Madonna and Lady Gaga as the greatest gilded eagle for gay equality ever known.
Propaganda-like amicus briefs from the anti-gay community seem to be papering the walls of the Supreme Court on a daily basis. The Westboro Baptist Church, the Republicans of the House of Representatives, the Catholic bishops... they all have one. Progressive briefs are due in March.
I am just a gay dad. We gay dads tend not to file amicus briefs. However, we do jot notes, make lists and write letters. Sometimes we invite people to dinner. I think that will tell him more than all the anti-gay briefs put together.
Just as the election had the "swing-state factor," these two cases have a swing vote: Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Kennedy was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan but has been on the progressive side of two key LGBTQ cases, Romer v. Evans and Lawrence v. Texas. Now, with the question of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy, with the right decision, could eclipse the likes of Barbra Streisand, Madonna and Lady Gaga as the greatest gilded eagle for gay equality ever known.
Propaganda-like amicus briefs from the anti-gay community seem to be papering the walls of the Supreme Court on a daily basis. The Westboro Baptist Church, the Republicans of the House of Representatives, the Catholic bishops... they all have one. Progressive briefs are due in March.
I am just a gay dad. We gay dads tend not to file amicus briefs. However, we do jot notes, make lists and write letters. Sometimes we invite people to dinner. I think that will tell him more than all the anti-gay briefs put together.
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 8, 2013
Our Shared Awakening
Nothing
is separate and alone. This is how things are. This is compassion, not
merely an extra something one of us feels for another, but existence
itself. Being is by its nature sharing and loving. And we realize this
not as a concept or a method we can work at and finally grasp, but as a
truth that we perceive through our mutual recognition, our mutual shared
awakening.
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- Norman Fischer, "Revealing a World of Bliss"
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
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Outside the Story
Our
lives are meaningless if we take meaning for a coherent narrative plot
of some sort. When we strain to make our lives otherwise, we're merely
telling ourselves a story. You and I don't manifest in the universe as
meaning, we manifest as living human beings. We're not here to represent
something else. We're here in our own right.
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- Lin Jensen, “Wash Your Bowl”
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
JMG HomoQuotable - Evan Wolfson
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 6, 2013
No Time to Waste
This
precious human body, supreme instrument though it is for the attainment
of enlightenment, is itself a transient phenomenon. No one knows when,
or how, death will come. Bubbles form on the surface of the water, but
the next instant they are gone, they do not stay. It is just the same
with this precious human body we have managed to find. We take all the
time in the world before engaging in the practice, but who knows when
this life of ours will simply cease to be?
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- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “A City of Dreams”
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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