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Posted in Teh Gay, church geekery on 20 March 2008 - 14 אדר ב' 5768
The 13 bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church’s standing committee said on March 17 that the bill was unacceptable. “The Church accepts and blesses the established wedding, according to Orthodox traditions, and considers any other type of similar relationship to be prostitution,” the committee said.
I know that’s not what they mean. But, taking [...]
Posted in Teh Gay on 15 March 2008 - 9 אדר ב' 5768
According to Catholic News Agency (more on that in a minute) the RC Bishop of Motherwell thinks there is a “‘huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy’ by homosexual activists”. And he says of the Roman Church, “We neglect the gay movement at our peril”.
I want to ask you if you are able to see the [...]
Posted in Teh Gay on 12 March 2008 - 6 אדר ב' 5768
Citizen Crain reports on the saga of The Sally Kern Hate Show.
Michael asks:
Why do you think gay men of a certain sort seek religious affiliation despite the rejection we experience on almost every hand by the groups we seek to join?
Within myself I feel the struggle to find a spiritual home battling with the desire to be honest about the inadequacies of so many spiritual [...]
Posted in Brodie, Teh Gay, politics on 3 March 2008 - 27 אדר א' 5768
Obama released an open letter to the Gay Community on civil unions - posted in full here, on Andrew Sullivan’s blog (because Obama has a PDF on his site - although BHO’s bloggers have it as well).
Brodie posted his comments in another discussion and I tried to add mine to [...]
Bob+ blogs on an ex-gay documentary. Peterson blogs on a conference called Deconstructing the Ex-Gay Myth (and several other posts all over his blog.) And Sheri tells of her experience in a “Modern” Orthodox Shul.
Most people don’t know enough about psychological matters to make any suggestions at all: most of us can’t tell [...]
Posted in Teh Gay, politics, rightwingers on 20 February 2008 - 15 אדר א' 5768
I love this post from Rocco over at Whispers in the Loggia.
With Western Easter falling so early this year, Holy Week is causing a liturgical shuffle of several Saints’ Days including St Patricks Day which, liturgically, is being observed on 14 March this year (in the Roman communion).
This of course raises [...]
Posted in Judaism, Teh Gay, review on 16 February 2008 - 11 אדר א' 5768
(A review of Rabbi Steven Greenberg’s Wrestling with God and Men: homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition)
In a recent post, at his Po-Mo Muse, A.J. Stitch shared this passage from his reading of Elie Wiesel’s book Night
After the day I saw him [the rabbi] often. He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed [...]
Posted in Teh Gay, politics, rightwingers on 22 January 2008 - 16 שבט 5768
You may remember a recent survey that said non-Christians (especially young ones) thought that Christians were too in to that whole anti-homosexual thing to be taken seriously. Our friends at the very-Evangelical Barna Group have proven the point:
Folks were asked to rank 10 issues for the upcoming election. And the population was broken into [...]
Posted in Teh Gay, other paths, politics, rightwingers on 15 January 2008 - 9 שבט 5768
OK… Back when the Canadian laws and the UK marriage laws were passed I noted that I was thankful for our (US) preservation of the separation of Church and State. But I also noted that Churches should - soon - get out of the state business of “doing” the legal part of marriage. [...]
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