My sexual orientation and my positions on gay rights

[Jeff Wrangler]

OK, I'll be the second person to repeat this --

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Here's an exchange that, according to the Gospels, might take place at some point:

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But enough of Matthew 25:35-46!


(can't remember where I got this -- if any BetterMost member sees it and it's their work, please let me know and I'll add an acknowledgement)

Never saw that before, but that's real good, Marge. Thanks for posting it!

[Artiste]

Good subject thread.

I am a gay man.

At first, I thought that gay marriages was an odd subject!

More and more thoughts about it, I became for it!

I am still scared about it... however.

Au revoir,
hugs!

[CellarDweller]

Fresno priest's stance against anti-gay-marriage proposition roils church

By Duke Helfand and Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 13, 2008


A week ago, Father Geoffrey Farrow stood before his Roman Catholic parishioners in Fresno and delivered a sermon that placed him squarely at odds with his church over gay marriage.

With Proposition 8 on the November ballot, and his own bishop urging Central Valley priests to support its definition of traditional marriage, Farrow told congregants he felt obligated to break "a numbing silence" about church prejudice against homosexuals.


"How is marriage protected by intimidating gay and lesbian people into loveless and lonely lives?" he asked parishioners of the St. Paul Newman Center. "I am morally compelled to vote no on Proposition 8."

Then Farrow -- who had revealed that he was gay during a television interview immediately before Mass -- added a coda to his sermon.

"I know these words of truth will cost me dearly," he said. "But to withhold them . . . I would become an accomplice to a moral evil that strips gay and lesbian people not only of their civil rights but of their human dignity as well."


On Thursday, Fresno Bishop John T. Steinbock removed Farrow, 50, as pastor of the St. Paul Newman Center, which primarily serves students and faculty at Cal State Fresno.


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaypriest13-2008oct13,0,2646781.story

[Artiste]

Merci CellarDwellar !

That is good news that he acted with freedom !

May I praise and hug         Geoffrey Farrow                !


Au revoir,
hugs!  May freedom continue to rign in the USA and the World !

[CellarDweller]

Hello BetterMost members!

I'm quoting a post from DCF in our "Le Bar" thread where the slash fans/authors chat.

You have until midnight tonight for this!

If you can help - NoOnProp8 ( http://www.noonprop8.com ) has a matching fund campaign through today (Sunday) that will DOUBLE any contribution made:

https://secure.ga4.org/01/unfair

The link that says "unfair" just above takes you right to the donation page!

[Artiste]

CellarDwellar:

May I say that I love what you said (which I just found and read gladly):
      I want what my parents have.  They have been married for over 40 years, and my mother has said to me, "I want to dance at your WEDDING, not your 'civil union'."

             
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CellarDwellar: And my wish is that my your wish, that, happen to you, for you, your parents to be with you there and then being married, and for your friends and all being there at your happy time wedding !

Ay revoir,
hugs!

[Artiste]

More news wanted!

Please!

Au revoir,
hugs!