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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 hard [...]

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 crisis [...]

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) Who knew [...]

ALON interviews Richard Rodriguez who ties the whole fear of gay marriage to the patriarchy in monotheistic religion. This makes sense as the patriarchy gets blamed for a lot of things. But the interview makes some interesting pictures, wondering about the redefinition of the American family in general and the role of women [...]

ORD Reaches us here in the not-yet-frozen Trundra of a protest in San Francisco where a bunch of white, middle and upper-class Gays (renting=middle class at 1500 a month for a studio; if you can afford a house in SF, you’re Upper CLass to the rest of us) started throwing the N word around at [...]

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.