Tag: Gender & Sexuality

This is an issue I think needs addressing in the wake of the Chick-Fil-A controversy.

Regardless of one's personal stance on homosexuality, is taking a position that the homosexual lifestyle is immoral necessarily a hateful one?

Today’s headlines have been dominated by the news that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’s donated $2.5 million to the Washington United for Marriage campaign. You may recall last month Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmerand co-founder Bill Gates each donated $100,000 in support of Referendum 74. This news is definitely a game changer for the campaign.

Episcopal Bishop Kee Sloan of Alabama voted in favor of his church's new ritual for blessing same-sex unions — but he won't allow priests in his diocese to perform it.

“For the time being, I will not give permission,” Sloan said.

Gay and lesbian Episcopalians are celebrating their church’s approval on Tuesday (July 10) of a liturgical rite for blessing same-sex couples. But conservatives are threatening to take “drastic” steps to distance themselves from the Episcopal Church.

Today at the General Convention of The Episcopal Church the House of Deputies approved rites for same-sex blessings.

Resolution A049, which was approved by the House of Bishops on Monday, allows same gender couples to make a vow, exchange rings and be declared "bound to one another in a holy covenant, as long as they both shall live."

On Monday, at the General Convention of The Episcopal Church, the House of Bishops approved a resolution to create a liturgy for same-sex unions.

In the proposed liturgy, each person would make a vow, exchange rings and be declared "bound to one another in a holy covenant, as long as they both shall live."

What do you think of when you think of Eve?

I think of women coming together since the beginning of time to help raise their children together.