I’m only posting one video this Friday and I hope you will watch it.
It’s the story of Edie Windsor and her late spouse, Thea Spyer, and why Edie is suing to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.
It’s both inspiring and educational and very personal….
It shows that this isn’t just a political issue, but a very personal issue of equality and fairness…
Filed under Gay, Politics, Uncategorized
I’ve posted on Chick-fil-a and their cultish behavior before, but now they have really come out of the closet.
Let me say this very clearly: Chick-fil-a is an anti-Gay company. Openly and clearly stated below.
If you know and care about anyone who is Gay, you should really think hard if you want to buy that greasy chicken sandwich and waffle fries knowing the profit is going to be used against your friends and loved ones….
And for the record, “biblical principles” are open to interpretation. He’s using this phrase to justify his personal bigotry….
Form TheAdvocate.com:
Dan Cathy, the chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, said there is no denying that his company opposes marriage equality.
Cathy said that he does not feel right billing Chick-fil-A as a Christian business because, as Christian business mentor Fred Roach once said, “There is no such thing as a Christian business … Christ never died for a corporation.”
However, Cathy told the Baptist Press he aims to operate the restaurant chain “on biblical principles.” When asked whether his company had an established position against marriage equality, Cathy said, “guilty as charged.”
He added, “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. … We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles.”
via Chick fil A COO Dan Cathy Officially Comes Out as Antigay | Advocate.com.
Sometimes, I really love the city I live in! Frequently, in fact….
Tonight the Greensboro City Council voted 8-1 to oppose the proposed Constitutional Amendment to the NC State Constitution to ban Gay marriage and pretty much any recognition of any Gay relationship.
I’m so proud of Mayor Robbie Perkins and Councilman Zack Matheny, both Republicans by the way, for leading this effort to support Greensboro’s Gay Families.
The loan dissenter was Councilperson Trudy Wade- a local vet who will never touch our pets!
Thank you to the 8 decent people on the City Council who stood up for Equality!
From DigTriad.com:
The proposed amendment, which will appear on the May primary ballot, would state that “marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized” in the state of North Carolina.
Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins and councilman Zack Matheny are bringing the resolution in opposition to the council.
The resolution cites the city’s policy of hiring without discrimination and the policy to offer benefits to domestic partners as reasons to oppose the amendment.
“Whereas, This amendment, if approved by voters, would be inconsistent with the City of Greensboro’s goals, commitments, and policies, negatively impacting, among other things, the City’s ability to offer domestic partner benefits and compete as an employer.”
City Councilwoman Trudy Wade intends to vote against the resolution. She issued her own statement regarding the vote.
“The City Council resolution claims to be a reaffirmation of Greensboro’s commitment to be nondiscriminatory. In reality, however, it is a frontal assault against the institution of marriage.”
via Greensboro City Council To Vote To Oppose North Carolina Marriage Amendment | digtriad.com.
Filed under Gay, North Carolina, Uncategorized
I’m always pleased to find evidence that all Religious leaders aren’t like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson…
I really have to be reminded of that sometimes as those guys, and similar opportunists and zealots, really created a negative image or organized religion for so many of us….
I’m also particularly pleased to see the diversity in this group…
We’ve come a long ways from Jesse Helms….
Thanks to my friend Kirk for originally sending this to me…
As anti-LGBT forces once again used religious reasons to justify their support of a ban on marriage equality on the outside, inside Rep. Brandon, and the statewide coalition of religious leadership standing beside him, took on these claims directly, citing the religious and historical context for opposing anti-LGBT legislation like the constitutional amendment current circulating the North Carolina legislature.
“The Bible has been used in this nation to support slavery, segregation, laws against interracial marriage, and to deny women’s rights,” Brandon said, adding that he’s a Christian himself. “Jesus was a compassionate person. And Jesus would not be having a rally outside right now.”
During the hour-long press conference, five faith leaders, flanked by other people of faith and state legislators, publicly spoke to the specific harms of Senate Bill 106/House Bill 777:
“This extreme legislation will only cause needless pain and suffering,” Rev. Anthony Spearman is pastor of Clinton Tabernacle AME Zion Church in Hickory said of the proposed amendment. “It sends a message to major employers that North Carolina does not welcome a diverse workplace,” Spearman said. “It tells young people who are gay they’re second class citizens, unworthy of basic dignity and equal treatment…It is not fair and it is certainly not just.”
“Martin Luther King Jr. said the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice,” said Rev. Stephen Shoemaker from Charlotte’s Myers Park Baptist. “We’re here to say today it also bends toward inclusiveness.”
“Don’t let those selling fear on the cheap, buy your hearts,” said Rev. Dr. Amy Laura Hall, ordained elder, United Methodist Church in Durham. “I appeal to you, dear children of God, charged with leading us in North Carolina, please do not block the true recognition of gay and lesbian families in North Carolina as what they are…families, with all the vulnerability, need and intimate trust that go with the word ‘kin.'”
“We oppose the use of sacred texts and religious traditions to deny legal equality to gay and lesbian couples,” said Ari Margoils, assistant rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Raleigh.
“This, I would like to suggest, is our moment,” said Bishop Tonyia Rawls of Unity Fellowship Church in Charlotte. “We will in this moment in time acknowledge what type of a state we really are.”
During the press conference, it was announced that clergy and congregation members from all denominations could sign on with a statewide faith coalition, joining more than 300 faith leaders who have already publicly opposed this type of discriminatory legislation.
via NC Faith Leaders Stand Up for LGBT Equality — Equality North Carolina.
Filed under Gay, North Carolina, Religion
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