I remember when Soulforce would no longer mail information and I was devastated. I had to learn to use the computer. Today I am still bumbling along but I can somehow get to interesting places. Go Soulforce, Go. I’ve learned so many new things. Jeanie Gratz taught me how to leaflet. Mel and Gary to keep on learning. Bill Carpenter how to have compassion. Sandra Farmer Wiley that her skin color makes her a target in Kingston, WA. So many of you have taught me. Mike Perez that Christmas is in July so the gifts go to the homeless. Jake Reitan what can I say. He’ll be President. Jeaneane Hill, Seattle

oops thought I had run out of space. Jimmy’s book Adam’s Gift is powerful. Jimmy and I stood in the freezing and I mean freezing cold out side the Catholic Bishops Conference in DC. We were the last shift. I knew then that nothing not even the harshest weather would deter his commitment to the glbta community. Jeaneane again. Now to figure out from here how to get on facebook.

I am so excited about this wonderful philathropist. I am truley touched. As a gay, partnered for 10 years, and battered by the Southern Baptists daily in Panama City Florida, I find hope in this organization. I am dedicated to find a group who thinks I am a spiritual person, and god loves me, too.

instead of trying to changes the hearts and minds of christians to except this sexual inmorality you people should try and change your hearts and minds and except what god word says about sexual immorality read the book of leviticus chapters 18 through 20.

oops I thought I had run out of space. Jimmy Adam Boon book is powerful. Jimmy and I was freezing and I say this from the cold side cold Conference of Catholic Bishops’ in DC. We were the last change. I knew then that nothing would prevent even the climatic glbta its commitment to the community. Jeaneane again. Now, from here to find out how to get on Facebook.

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except or accept? dictionary time for you…

When a religious group protested the funerals of fallen veterans holding up signs saying “your son died because this nation tolerance of gays” that god hates gays and your sons died in punishment for a tolerance of it”
There was no great outcry from organized religions as to this display of bigotry.
When a woman in Iran was about to be stoned to dead for a charge of adultery. There so no great outcry from organized religions of this sexist bigotry.
In the times of the 1980’s when AIDS became known, the holding of signs saying “Thank God for Aids” there was no outcry from organized religions in protest of this bigotry.
When evolution became known: There were only the protests from organized religions of how God created everything and nothing in the religious texts is to be questioned. Nothing said as to the purpose of the mind or to learn. Nothing said in defense of exploring to learn only a constant display of the need to submit to dogma and doctrine.
When abortion became legal only the protests against it that a woman’s place is to give birth. Not a mention of it having been practiced long before the birth of a Christ in nearly every civilization. A woman’s place being only that of a mother to obey the needs of the husband.
There was no defense of the woman from organized religions.

When Jim Jones’s followers of that religion were found dead of suicide their bodies laying upon the ground, there is no great outcry from organized religions as to this unethical display of wrongful use.
When quotes of texts are “selectively” used to discriminate against lifestyles, life practice or sex or sexuality.
There is no great outcry from religious organizations as to the hypocrisy of believing a God created it all while claiming parts that have “always existed “ were created wrong?
No great outcry of this display of an intolerance of its parts.
If the reverence of a religion were to be removed: if the cultural peer pressure of it were examined and compared to the known human psychology of the human race and compared to this reality of the species.
When its known history of its practice and its examples are viewed in relationship to the realities of all of nature and of all that nature that has always existed.
It becomes all but impossible to think of it other then the use of intolerance, of sexual fears of insecurities to conform a culture to it’s and only its rule.
The concluded results could only be conclusive of it being the organized use of that belief for those purposes.
Until religion recognizes that it does attract the sexist, the intolerant, the bigot, that it does excuse the narrow of mind, that it does allow a refuge for the discriminating .it will continue to demonstrate its self as being the use of a belief.
Until a minister ,a preacher stops preaching of how a person must live, how a marriage must be, how the roles of males and females must be, until it removes any and all references of how people must always be. And acknowledges the actual realities of all of human kind, of its nature and the nature of all of nature that has always existed.
It will continue to prove itself as not being a belief in a God, but the use of such a belief as a means of social conformity to its and its only rule.
What a belief is is not in its words,it is in its action of its use of that belief. That action is its motive its betrayal of motive is in how it is used.
The only absolute truth is we are all a part of it life, the only abominations are the ones we create.

Wow!  Only 6 comments after all this time?  Too bad; this book should be a bestseller.  I’m sure a lot of your correspondents have heard of the controversy over at Sojourners about the proposed Web ad by Believe Out Loud, which depicts a church community welcoming a pair of lesbians and their son into the fold.  Perhaps I should recommend this book to their Board of Directors!! 

Wow!  Only 6 comments after all this time?  Too bad; this book should be a bestseller.  I’m sure a lot of your correspondents have heard of the controversy over at Sojourners about the proposed Web ad by Believe Out Loud, which depicts a church community welcoming a pair of lesbians and their son into the fold.  Perhaps I should recommend this book to their Board of Directors!! 

I’m a Wiccan and Unitarian Universalist.  Though I don’t claim Christianity as my faith, I greatly admire the people within its fold who are working towards acceptance of LGBT persons, and challenging the power-hungry “Fat Cats” within Christendom.  Perhaps one day the United Methodist denomination will join others that have discarded irrational ancient biases, and affirm *all* people and *all* forms of love that are between consenting adults.

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