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LDS Prophets Experience Sudden Revelations

January 31, 2009 John California, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS, Proposition 8

Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin seems to have found out why the Proposition 8 people were so hell bent in trying to prohibit the release of the names of donors to their campaign to take away the rights of Gay people in California. It seems the LDS had way more to do with this than they were claiming. (And by the Church, I mean the church corporate…not just “members.”) Burroway reports they had 190,000 reasons to prevent the disclosure. Seems the LDS provided lots of official corporate support and in-kind services.

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Courage In The Face of Hate

October 6, 2008October 20, 2008 John Amendment 2, Ballot Initiatives, California, Catholic, Clarity, Courage, Florida Constitution, Gay Marriage, Priest, Proposition 8

“What most Catholics hear about being gay or lesbian at their parish church is–silence. A numbing silence, which slowly and insidiously tells them, “You don’t belong here, this is not for you, and you are not welcome.” It is not the crude overt vulgarity of some churches. But rather, it is the coldness of a maitre d’ who simply won’t seat you, or the club which has put you on a waiting list with no intention of allowing you to join. And simply asks you to wait in polite almost, apologetic tones.”

Once in a rare while, in the political discourse of this country, there is a flash of courage and clarity of thinking. One such flash has happened in California. Father Geoffrey Farrow of the Saint Paul Newman Center on the campus of the University of California (Fresno) is courageous cleric. Here is a man who has spoken truth to power, and perhaps ended his career. Below is the entirity of his Homily from this past Sunday.

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The Day After – Gay Marriage

June 19, 2008August 5, 2008 John Amendment 2, California, Constitution, fl, florida, Florida Amendment 2, Full Faith and Credit Clause, Gay Marriage, Marriage, supreme court

Well, it’s the day after the first full day that gay marriage was legal in California, and gosh darn it, the sun came up, birds still sang, children were born, people died, there were even some heterosexual marriages, and I still had to go to work. In other words, if God is mad about it, he sure missed that wrath thing by taking it out on the mid-west. This raises a lot of questions, such as what happens next in California, what does this mean to Florida’s Amendment 2 initiative (and see a possible connection), and what does it mean for gay people around the country.

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Gay Marriage in California

May 16, 2008February 2, 2010 John Amendment 2, California, Gay Marriage, supreme court

Certainly there is a reason to celebrate the ruling by the California Supreme Court on Gay Marriage. Apparently four of the seven justices recognized that gender and sexual orientation, just like race, can not be grounds to deny rights to individuals.

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News for the Week Ending July 22, 2007

July 29, 2007 John 7-18-2, Bar Exam, California, Courts, Homosexual Marriage, Juveniles, Lawyers. Litigation, Long Beach, Massachusetts, mother, Murder

This post summarizes various smaller news items of interest that I found during the week of July 23, 2007.

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