Gays Launch ‘Homophobia’ Accusations at Evangelicals in Anti-Bullying Debate .

Reblogged from Rivers of Hope:

Evangelical attorneys are taking the issue of school bullying to court on Tuesday, but the issue of alleged “homophobia” seems to be muddying the waters.

Don Hutchinson, vice president and general legal counsel of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), appeared before the Standing Committee on Social Policy hearing of the Ontario Legislature in Ottawa on Tuesday morning. The Committee is also hearing from members of the public on Bills 13 and 14, which are proposed school anti-bullying laws.

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'M' or 'F' ??? - The gender debate with a difference.

Reblogged from Subh Dasgupta's Blog:

Some things are pretty definite in life. No matter how confused one is about the various truths and lies of life, there are some things which are certain – about which, one doesn’t need to lose much sleep. Yes, there are some things, thankfully – like ‘sex’. Every time you have filled out a form, I bet it was not that hard to write ‘M’ or ‘F’ in the small box under “Sex”.

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Overcoming The Subtle Desire For Revenge

Ask yourself very honestly how many times in your life did you feel joy, even a slight trace of it, when something negative happened with someone who had harmed you or hurt you or insulted you in any way in the past – either in the immediate or distant (far-away) past. When this kind of joy, which is an impure form of joy, is seen inside you, even if it is at your extremely subtle thought level (if not in your words or actions), you need to remember that this is nothing but a feeling of ‘subtle revenge’, even if physically you haven’t got back at any point of time at the person who has harmed you, when he did so. It may not sound very nice, but this kind of joy is enjoying the pain of others and is obviously an extremely low grade form of joy. Sometimes, as a way of justifying our ‘joyful revenge’, we call it ‘justice’.

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Five Songs to Cry to...

Reblogged from Random Ruminations on a Mad World:

I think that almost everyone must have their own song that for no apparent reason will always put them in floods of tears. But there are also songs which most people will probably agree on simply being heart wrenching to listen to. So in the spirit of shared total misery, today I have decided to make as many of my readers as possible in to tearful wrecks.

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Everyone needs a good cry now and then, and I can't think of 5 better songs to get the good tears flowing. Thanks for this awesome list Becka!

Manny Pacquiao: “[Gays] Must Be Put to Death”

Forbes‘ #4 most influential athlete, award-winning professional boxer Manny Pacquiao told The Examiner this weekend that gay people should be put to death, in accordance to Biblical teachings.

He began the interview by criticizing President Obama’s recent decision to support marriage equality (bold added): “‘God’s words first … obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man,’ says Pacquiao, addressing Obama’s pronouncement on legalizing same-sex marriage during an exclusive interview Friday night with the National Conservative Examiner in his residence at the Palazzo Complex  in Los Angeles here in California.”

The article continues, quoting Leviticus 20:13 in the Bible (bold added): “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”

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Will African Delegates Always Be Anti-Gay?

I am a straight, white American male, so I offer the following thoughts haltingly and cautiously.But I want to address other American United Methodists in this post, especially those who are undeniably grief-stricken about the denomination’s position on LGBT folks.Like you, I am waiting anxiously for the day when the church changes its fundamental understanding of homosexuality and its “incompatability” with Christian teaching. Like you, I was disappointed that it didn’t happen this year.I am also aware that, in general, the African delegations are strongly resistant to acceptance of homosexuality. Their voting bloc, which is only going to grow in the future, likely kept anything from changing at General Conference 2012.

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news clipsThank You, President ObamaThe New Republic // EditorialYes, it was a few years too late. Yes, his hand was forced by Joe Biden and Arne Duncan. Yes, his statement is just a statement—it does not change any law. And yes, we shouldn’t minimize the role of an extraordinary civil rights movement—comprising millions of average Americans, gay and straight—in dragging our country over the past two decades toward the current moment, one where a president could feel politically able to take such a stand. But none of this should minimize the significance of what took place yesterday in Washington. President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage was both substantively important and politically brave. And he deserves enormous credit for it.

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