Blue Truck, Red State: Sixty Years and Counting

Monday, June 20, 2011

Sixty Years and Counting

It is gratifying to know that some few people, at least, get to live out the dream that many of us have had:

The New York Senate is expected to vote on a marriage equality bill today or tomorrow; the measure has already passed the Assembly.

2 comments:

Mareczku said...: I saw that on TV last night. It was touching and cool.

Peace - Mark; June 20, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Craig said...: Uplifting post... thanks very much for sharing it with us.; June 21, 2011 at 2:48 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu