Blue Truck, Red State: In Memoriam: Edith Windsor, 1929-2017

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

In Memoriam: Edith Windsor, 1929-2017

We have lost a darling lady and champion of the right to marry. May she rest in peace.

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New York Times obituary here.

Richard Socarides in the New Yorker calls her "our Rosa Parks."

Former President Obama paid tribute to her on his Facebook page.

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2 comments:

Tim said...: What a marvellous example of humanity. We need characters like her in this grey new world; September 13, 2017 at 3:04 PM
Davis said...: A woman of great courage. R.I.P.; September 13, 2017 at 5:28 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