UPDATE: JMG reader Kned sends us a photo from the celebration in the Castro.
UPDATE II: Another Kned photo, this time from the Mission.
Reposted from Joe Jervis A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
"Those are his personal choices. I’ll tell you, I love my iPhone," Cruz said. "Listen, Tim Cook makes his personal decisions, and that is his life. My focus is on the constitutional question of who has the authority to make decisions," he later added. Cruz said that marriage is a "question for the states" because of the country's federalist system. "This is something we’ve seen over and over again, which is the federal government and federal courts deciding they don’t trust the people," Cruz said. "They look down on the people, they don’t trust us to make judgments about our own lives, so the federal government and federal courts are going to step in and impose their own policy preferences."
Humanized Once More | October 29, 2014
We must realize that modern
civilization is thoroughly oriented towards dehumanizing humanity in
every possible way; that is to say, we are fast turning into robots or
statues with no human souls. Our task is to get humanized once more.
- D. T. Suzuki, "Humanized Once More"
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People from all around the world took part in the gay selfie project released by the global gay social network Moovz. This project was meant to show the faces of the global gay community, with people from different cultures, with different colors, appearance and races and that speaks different languages. From South to North America and from Europe to as far as Asia - people uploaded their pictures and agreed to be exposed in order to send a message to the world and prove how united is the global gay community. This is probably the first time that gays from all around the world did something together to send a message that empowers their whole community. Many gay influencers also took part in this project, such as Amanda Lepore, Davey Wavey, Chris Salvatore, Colby Melvin, Matthew Lush, Willam Belli and many other global and local gay leaders from different regions who are following this initiative that gathered the entire gay community into one place.
A Guide to Sanity | October 28, 2014
Feeling alarm or devastation can guide
us to a deep sanity, reminding us of who we are and what we need. Our
power to act, our power to take part in the healing of our world, our
power to bring things back into balance, comes from the same source as
that devastation. Our pain for the world, and our power to take part in
the healing of our world, both come from the same place.
- Joanna Macy, "Allegiance to Life"
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