In a September 2006 Christian Science Monitor article, David Cook profiled (former) Senator John Danforth, an ordained Episcopal priest and graduate of both Yale's law and divinity schools. Danforth was promoting his book Faith and Politics: How the Moral Values Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward TogetherThis is the sort of clarion ( Read more... )

MOST GAYS, PSYCHOLOGISTS REJECT CONVERSION
Support groups, professionals coordinate to counter Christian activism

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 7:29 a.m. ET July 13, 2005

BELLEVUE, Wash. - "God loves you, but ( Read more... )

How can love between two adults be such a polemic flashpoint for the hatred of those who purport to be about love?

That still boggles me.

Murder? Theft? Violence? Drugs? Yeah. Those things are destructive and harmful.

The tender affections of two people in love? Doesn't really sound like something to get up in arms about, does it?

( And, yet... )

State Representative Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston) lambasted her legislative cohorts for their dedicated bigotry and refusal to spend their energies on the important issues.

This is what she said:I have been a member of this august body for three decades, and today is one of the all-time low points. We are going in the wrong direction, in the ( Read more... )

A friend wrote this:Here in the state of Texas, the Republicans have proposed an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage. It goes beyond banning gay marriage -- it also bans the idea of civil unions and any contractual arrangements between unmarried persons meant to confer the incidences of marriage ( Read more... )

Canto II: The Book of Common Belief

If you're intelligent, you can often construct and suitable framework to support your opinions, your beliefs. The scaffolding is already in place, because it's something you believe -- and there's a reason you believe it ( Read more... )

Canto I: The Book of Common SorrowI'm often saddened by the vitriolic attack on gays and lesbians mobilized by the Christians. They spend a lot of energy and exert a lot of hate on people they insist cannot enter the gates of heaven ( Read more... )

The Power of One
by Anna Quindlen
April 1993

Now we have the numbers game. How many gay people are there in the nation? Ten percent? One percent? Four percent? It depends on whom you ask, what survey you read, how statisticians and sex experts crunch the numbers, which respondents tell the truth and which don't...

( But at some level none of it matters at all. )

I catch Andrew Sullivan’s occasional essay in Time magazine. I don’t routinely visit his blog, but I have stumbled on this entertaining look at bears.

( Da Bears: Behind a Hairy Sub-Sub-Culture )

I read and reviewed Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life. And, later, while passing the time in a book store, I read her smallish A Short Guide to a Happy Life. I’ve since picked up a copy of one of her collections of newpapers columns, Living Out Loud. Then, in a different collection, Thinking Out Loud, I read this:

( No Closet Space )