Blue Truck, Red State: When We Were Young and Gay

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

When We Were Young and Gay

Old pics of young men remind us: there are only so many summers, and so many springs.

Enjoy what you have while you have it - and be grateful.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: Nice to have the pics of ourselves in younger days. My older (10yrs+) cousins would have been about the ages of the boys in the montage. Very different physiques back then.; April 24, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Russ Manley said...: I remember when I was that skinny, and loved to go to the beach. Long ago now.; April 25, 2024 at 11:02 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