Blue Truck, Red State: Wiser Today Than Yesterday

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Wiser Today Than Yesterday

New York's straight, married, Catholic - and handsome - state senator Mark Grisanti actually "did the research" - and found there is no reason to deny equality to his fellow citizens. Which is what the reactionary butthead conservative types never bother to do. A very moving speech:

2 comments:

Craig said...: What a well thought out, logical, personal, educated speech. We should be so lucky that other politicians listen to him.; June 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM
Russ Manley said...: We can hope.; June 27, 2011 at 9:12 PM

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