Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Shall We Dance?

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Sunday Drive: Shall We Dance?

Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr perform "Shall We Dance" in the 1956 film version of The King and I by Rodgers and Hammerstein:

(Go ahead. Waltz around the house in your bathrobe. I won't tell.)

4 comments:

Davis said...: Deborah Kerr is my favorite acres of that era. Stunning.; May 27, 2019 at 10:56 AM
Russ Manley said...: Oh yes, an exquisite English Rose. Greer Garson has that quality too.; May 27, 2019 at 4:27 PM
Davis said...: They were very similar characters - but of course you know I meant actress not acres!; May 28, 2019 at 4:53 PM
Russ Manley said...: Damned auto-correct! It's a public nuisance.; May 28, 2019 at 6:17 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