…Mr. Newsom acknowledged in an interview on Wednesday that he had made a choice to be less outspoken on same-sex marriage compared with past years. He said his new tone reflected how the debate had matured and was not a sign that he had changed his commitment to the issue.
“This movement has nothing to do with me; I’m just a small part of it,” Mr. Newsom said. “This thing is at a completely different level now. What we needed to do in 2004 was to put a human face on it, and I think we achieved that goal. Now let’s take the politics and the politicians out of it.”
…“I cannot think of a single person who does not know the key role that the mayor has played,” said Mr. Jacobs of the Courage Campaign.
Former Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. of San Francisco said the mayor was “just as enthusiastic as ever.” Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/20bcnewsom.htmlOffice of the Mayor of San Francisco
Gavin Newsom,
42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco
Gay Marriage -> Restores “Hope of Love”
To Children In Early Childhood
Gay marriage - Sexual orientation
is less about sex and more about love, being one with another human being
Attachment Theory - LOVE & RELIGION
Gay Marriage - Galileo Condemned As A Heretic
Misinterpretations of The Bible
Homosexuality? Natural Law? Benedict XVI?
Sexual Orientation: Science, Education, and Policy
Dr. Gregory Herek,
University of California at Davis &
Yale University & City University of New York
On Prop 8, it's the evidence, stupid
By Lisa Bloom – CNN.com
and
related links:
Plutarch "No sensible person can imagine that the sexes differ in matters of love as they do in matters of clothing.”
John Boswell: The Church and the Homosexual
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/1979boswell.html
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality:
Gay People in Western Europe from
the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
by John Boswell
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS)
was established at
Pacific School of Religion in
Berkeley, California
and opened its doors in the fall of 2000.
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality:
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the
Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
by John Boswell
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. By John Boswell.
New York: Villard Books, 1994, 412 pp. N.p. (cloth).
Bennison, Charles, Book reviews.., Vol. 77,
Anglican Theological Review, 04-01-1995, pp 256.
Do Religions Reject Gay Marriage?
By Daniel C. Maguire – Consortiumblog.com
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.” Erik Erikson
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt !!!
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