Presbyterians OK gay clergy
Local Presbyterians OK gay clergy – Washington Times.
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Easter Sunday
This episode of the podcast isn’t based on any specific lectionary reading, but rather is general thoughts about Easter.
If Atheists Ruled the World
Saw this first on Joe.My.God. It would be just plain to funny if it wasn’t kinda scary. All of the content was taken directly from real fundamentalist discussion boards. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9IPoAdct8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Freader%2Fview%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Don’t Push It
The linked blogger decries that Obama is not taking action to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the failed policy introduced during the Clinton Administration. As much as I, like many believe this policy should be lifted, I’m not so sure that it is a bad thing to place it on the back burner at this time. If we look back at the genesis of DADT, it grew from Clinton’s campaign promise to create an equal[Read More…]
Cool Web Site
I found this cool web site and think you should check it out if you are of the belief that GLBTQ people belong on the inside of the children of God. I have added it to my blogroll as well as linking it here. http://straightnotnarrow.blogspot.com/
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds – USATODAY.com
Saw this before going to wortk this morning, and then noticed it had made front page of the local paper. Worth reading. commentary to follow later Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds – USATODAY.com.
Lectionary Reading for March 5, 2009
Waiting for the California Supreme Court Ruling on Prop 8 Gospel Mt 7:7-12 Jesus said to his disciples: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asked[Read More…]
How Religion Fails us- Covenant Marriage
This post may seem politicaly based, but I decided to post it here due to the religious motivations behind the law being discussed in this linked blog. This is a story about something called Covenant Marriage, a type of legal marriage began as an attempt to stem divorce rates, begun in Lousiana, but now available in several states. My purpose in writing about it is to illustrate the ways in which conservatives apply a double[Read More…]
H – E – double hockey sticks
The link below is about a really wonderful story from This American Life. The Bible’s priorities, however, have been inverted by evangelicals, for whom Hell has become a central, essential doctrine. I’m not sure how that happened. St. Paul had precisely nothing to say on the subject of Hell. He had a lot to say about death, resurrection and the kingdom, but not one word about Hell. I can tell you why Paul has no[Read More…]
Toledo Bishop Bans Dissident ‘New Ways Ministry’ to Gays – Catholic Online
The link below is to www.catholic.org, so expect the tone of the article to be anti-gay, but it is a good read nonetheless. The article describes how the Bishop Blair forced a pro-gay catholic group, New Way Ministries from using a local convent for a workshop. The group has been cited for failing to provide the full catholic teachig on homosexuality which includes “the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts and the objective disorder of the homosexual[Read More…]