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AUL FROMBERG, on the day after the Prop 8 Ruling in California, paints an interesting picture in today’s Daily Episcopalian: In the ongoing work of converting a culture ––bending it toward justice, toward the restoration of human dignity and ordinary goodness––you have to recognize what the big struggles are, and which ones are small. It’s [...]

EAR Californians (and others) who are upset by the recent Prop 8 decision… who are acting as if Californians don’t do this sort of thing… I’m wondering how many gays were protesting in the streets in the 1970s when Proposition 13 robbed the state of tax funds and services and put California in a budget [...]

Christ is Risen! OMEDIAN Sam Kinison (RIP) used to do this routine during the Ethiopian Famine. He’d yell at starving Ethiopian Children on TV. “See this? You know what this is? SAND! You know what it’s gonna be in a hundred years? SAND! Nothing grows in a F’in Desert!” (You can see this rather infamous [...]

N A Polarised world things like this are scary: here’s a Map of the names and Addresses of all who donated in support of California’s Proposition 8 which takes away the rights of marriage from same-sex couples. While I’m reasonably certain I’d find some friends if I clicked around, it raises some crucial questions: 1) [...]

DAM Has some more of these videos, Vote No on Prop 8.

IVEN The Church Fathers’ paralleling of Eros with Agape (as per our readings in Clement), this doesn’t bother the literalist in me.