Maine Catholics Lobby Against Gay Marriage

UPDATE: The legislature in Maine passed the Gay marriage bill May 6 and Gov. John Baldacci signed it. Whaddaya know, Democrats who act like Democrats. Hooray for Maine!

Richard Malone, Bishop of Portland, Maine.
I guess it’s no surprise, the Catholic Church hates Gay people, and calls us such charming phrases as “intrinsically disordered.”
In your being, [...]

God’s Total Approval of Us

Mark Dukes: Wedding Icon, St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco
This post is going to be the most experimental yet, because I’m writing about something I barely know. And yet I do know it, it’s just hard to pull together facts to cite to back up my claim.
God approves of Gay sexuality, exactly [...]

Female Mutilation: We Don’t Know Why We Do It, but Religion Tells Us To

Sheelan, second from right and age 7, thinks her mother’s giving her a party. But she’s about to get cut.
Here’s the religious bone-chiller of the day, from the Washington Post:
For Kurdish Girls, a Painful Ancient Ritual
The Widespread Practice of Female Circumcision in Iraq’s North Highlights The Plight of Women in a Region Often Seen as [...]

Obama & Warren: Way Too Cute

I’ve found myself since Friday posting a lot of comments on newspapers’ websites concerning the incoming President’s selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inaugural.
I’ve used phrases like “megachurch huckster,” so you know where I’m coming from. I’ve also posted my displeasure on Obama’s “transition” website, change.gov.
This is not just an [...]

The Green Church

Solar panel at St. Anselm’s, Lafayette, California is just one of the Episcopal Church’s responses to global warming and the energy crisis. We are quietly refitting our buildings all over the country, from cathedrals and seminaries to high schools and church camps. Now it’s time to be less quiet about it.
The Episcopal Church needs to [...]

Too Much Challenge, Not Enough Entertainment

This man evidently had a problem with gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.
There’s a headline in today’s Chicago Sun-Times: “Megachurches Challenge Worshippers.”
Imagine that!
The headline’s claim doesn’t quite fit the story by Cathy Lynn Grossman of Gannett News Service. Her experts are finding that megachurches’ growth is leveling off and occasionally declining a little. Willow [...]

Sex & Intimacy: Paired & Learned?

I wish there were a Gay sex blog that takes the subject seriously, especially in these days of legal Gay marriage.
I like eye candy as much as the next guy, but I’d like to find a forum that deals with the sexual issues I think about:
• How do two guys make a relationship?
• What [...]

Why Anti-Gay Bigots Hate to Be Called Bigots

Let’s start with this quote from Michael Scott-Joynt, the Anglican Bishop of Winchester, reporting to his diocese on the recently-ended Lambeth Conference:
In the UK, too, today the “orthodox” often face mockery, and charges of “bigotry”, for their convictions (as I know well)!

See, it’s not that he’s a bigot, it’s that he has “convictions.”
Uh-huh. [...]

We’re Now Post-Anglican

+Cate of Indianapolis, Lambeth survivor, whose very existence challenges the traditionalists.

So what did the Lambeth Conference mean, anyway?
The Anglican Communion didn’t split apart, it held together.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is going to be promoting an “Anglican Covenant,” some kind of belief statement, beyond the Nicene Creed, that may be required in the future for full [...]

CA Supreme Court: Equal Justice, Equal Marriage

California plaintiffs Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis
Today at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, the Supreme Court of California declared that Lesbian and Gay couples have the right to marry, and that the state’s attempt to prevent them from doing so violates the most basic principle of equal justice under law.
Proposition 22 is unconstitutional.
I expect the reaction [...]