Representatives of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church have told the House of Commons that they will fight to maintain their powers to discriminate in cases of employment and against limits proposed in the Equality Bill.
According to The Missioner, Pentecost 2009 issue (page 3), the publication of Nashotah House Seminary:
Blood has symbolic meaning in many faiths, whether represented by wine as part of the Eucharist or avoided in food, while others regard it as sacred. The pressing need for blood donors was highlighted by World Blood Donor Day on Sunday [June 14], but how does it equate with religious belief?
It said 24 per cent of the accused were dead by the time the complaint was made to the church or died during the investigation. The study found three-quarters of complainants were male, most aged 10 to 15 at the time of abuse.
The state department has promised to give partners of gay and lesbian diplomats many benefits, such as diplomatic passports and language training. But without a specific change in the federal employees’ health benefits program, Hillary Clinton’s promises left out financial benefits such as pensions.
Cutié, who left the Catholic church to become an Episcopalian in late May, will have to wait more than a week before his new church recognizes the marriage in a religious ceremony. That will take place in an unnamed church under Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.
In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke of the “moderate” who “is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom…
Being attentive to God in prayer does not eliminate the distractions and conflicts of life, nor the hard work and responsibilities we share with so many others, but it does put these experiences solidly within the perspective of our relationship with God. We sort them out by looking at the reality of God and respond to them as we are able to discern God’s desires for the world.