Sunday, June 3, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma June 3, 2012
Right Lying
If
I’m torn between truth and falsehood, I have to ask myself if the
choice I’m leaning toward would be self-serving or selfless, harsh or
kind, harmful or harmless. Only then can I know what’s best to do.
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- Lin Jensen, "Right Lying"
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Via Gaycitynews.com:
BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL |
IIn March, 24-year-old store clerk and gay activist Daniel Zamudio was
attacked in a public park in Santiago, Chile, beaten intermittently for
hours, carved with swastikas, and left for dead. He finally got to a
hospital, struggled for three weeks, and then died.
Observers are calling him the Chilean Matthew Shepard, because the
brutal murder has launched a national discussion about LGBT rights. An
antidiscrimination law that has been languishing for seven years is even
speeding through the National Congress despite conservative lawmakers
warning it will lead to same-sex marriage, among other horrors.
On Easter Sunday, the Nobel prize-winning writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, spoke out in an op-ed called “Hunting Gays.” He did more than the usual handwringing denunciation of violence; he published an indictment of all Latin America, whose countries, “without a single exception,” he wrote, repress, persecute, and marginalize queers “with the open and massively enthusiastic support of the general public.”
On Easter Sunday, the Nobel prize-winning writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, spoke out in an op-ed called “Hunting Gays.” He did more than the usual handwringing denunciation of violence; he published an indictment of all Latin America, whose countries, “without a single exception,” he wrote, repress, persecute, and marginalize queers “with the open and massively enthusiastic support of the general public.”
http://gaycitynews.com/vargas-llosa-against-hunting-gays-in-latin-america/
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