Thursday, September 5, 2013

Via JMG: BRITAIN: Gay Group Nominates Lively & Robertson For 2013 Bigot Of The Year


 
The British LGBT rights group Stonewall has short-listed Scott Lively and Pat Robertson for their 2013 Bigot Of The Year award.  Gay Star News recaps the three other nominees:
British vicar George Gebauer stunned parents Aimi and Victoria Leggett when he refused to baptize their baby because they both wanted to be named as the child’s mothers. Not only that, he claimed the two moms probably ‘pinched’ the baby and gay people were ‘imbalanced’. UKIP candidate Winston McKenzie is also nominated, for when he said same-sex couples adopting was like throwing ‘children to the dogs’. And historian Niall Ferguson made headlines for saying following the ideas of gay dead economist John Maynard Keynes was to blame for the current recession.
It seems obvious that Lively should be this year's selection.
RELATED: Stonewall's 2012 "winner" was Scotland's disgraced former Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who vehemently opposed same-sex marriage while secretly conducting homosexual affairs with fellow priests. Local Catholic officials demanded that Stonewall's public funding be yanked after they selected O'Brien. That didn't happen. Two major banks also threatened to cease their sponsorship of Stonewall, but that didn't happen either.
Reposted from Joe

JMG Quote Of The Day - Lynn Ellins


"Let me put it this way, some people have balls, some people don’t, alright? Some of them truly believe that they need direction from on high and they’re not willing to do a constitutional analysis. Some of them are philosophically opposed so they wouldn’t do it unless they were brought to the shed and whacked." - Dona Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins, who started the ball rolling in New Mexico.

UPDATE: I've just been sent the lawsuit filed against Ellins by New Mexico GOP lawmakers.  Note that the first name is state Sen. William Sharer, who last week said that gay men need to "stop whoring around and marry a woman." Read the full lawsuit here.

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Via Tao & Zen Community Forum / FB:

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain there is only sorrow. Go beyond likes and dislikes. Free yourself from attachment.

~Buddha,
Dhammapada

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Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain there is only sorrow. Go beyond likes and dislikes. Free yourself from attachment.

~Buddha,
Dhammapada

Tao & Zen Community Forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/702381836444150/

Via Tricycle Daily Dharma

Tricycle Daily Dharma September 5, 2013

For Peace

Why do I consider it so crucial to balance the outer aspects of nonviolence and compassion with the inner support of contemplative practice? Because in the end, all politics are local, and we cannot love life and humanity if we do not love each other, one on one.
- Lama Surya Das, "Why Sit?"
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