Monday, May 14, 2012
Via JMG: Breaking News From World Net Daily
World Net Daily today provides the breathless news
that Starbucks has endorsed same-sex marriage. Note how the linked
item carefully avoids mentioning any dates on a story that is months
old. Wanna bet NOM paid for this?
Reposted from Joe
Via JMG: CBS Poll: 62% Of Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage Or Civil Unions
Via JMG: Gallup: Gay Is The New Normal
Gallup reports today: The slight majority of American adults, 54%, consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable. Public acceptance of gay/lesbian relations as morally acceptable grew slowly but steadily from 38% in 2002 to 56% in 2011 and is now holding at the majority level. This Gallup trend mirrors the growth in public support for legalizing gay marriage, which has risen from 42% support in 2004 to 50% or greater support in the last two years. Americans' support for gay rights on both questions leveled off in this year's Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 3-6.
Via JMG: Rhode Island To Recognize Gay Marriages
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee today ordered all state agencies to officially recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other jurisdictions. The executive order is expected to have many real-world implications. Same-sex spouses of state employees and anyone covered by an insurance company regulated in Rhode Island will be entitled to health and life insurance benefits, gay rights advocates say. Both partners in a same-sex couple will be able to list their names as parents on a child’s birth certificate, and same-sex couples will be entitled to sales tax exemptions on the transfer of property including vehicles. One couple who attended the signing ceremony — married in neighboring Massachusetts — described their disappointment of not being able to list both their names on their son’s birth certificate. “For our next child, we won’t have to go through the same kind of turmoil,” Martha Holt Castle said.Yay, guv!
RELATED: Civil unions have been legal in Rhode Island since last year.
Baha'i Rants: Pathology of Homosexuality
Image credit: Barat Ali Batoor
Pathology of Homosexuality
Unfortunately the exact practice that Baha’u'llah was referring to cryptically is still being practiced today in Afghanistan. You can watch the PBS domentary following the above link as well as find a brief update on the situation from this recent Washington Post article.
Make the jump here to read the full article
Via Practicing the Presence through Mind and Meditation / Facebook:
By Practicing the Presence through Mind and Meditation
Daily Mantra:
"Every day, think as you wake up, "Today I am fortunate to have woken
up. I am alive, I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste
it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my
heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all
beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going
to get angry, or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others
as much as I can."
- His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma May 14, 2012
Using All Available Emotions
There’s
no such thing as never getting angry. Enlightenment can and does use
all the available emotions. The idea that enlightenment means sitting
around with a beatific smile on our faces is just an illusion.
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Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma May 13, 2012
The Safety of our Buddhanature
Love
and compassion make us feel safe because they express the safety of
their source—the deep buddhanature within us, the unchanging inner space
of primal awareness that cannot be harmed.
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- John Makransky, "Aren't We Right to Be Angry?"
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