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Day: May 3, 2010

Imagine a country in which gay bashing gets you no votes

May 3, 2010 5 Comments

Andrew Sullivan brings news that the Tory party in England is willing to consider “full marriage rights” for gays and lesbians, a development that not only illustrates the difference between British conservatives and their American counterparts, but sheds light on the different landscapes on which progressive members of the Church of England and their counterparts in the Episcopal Church work.

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Your basic, everyday bestselling vampire novelist/senior warden

May 3, 2010 5 Comments

In a development that will no doubt displease Walter Russell Meade, who may still be venting his spleen over Episcopal Priest Barbie, The New York Times Magazine reveals that Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels, has served multiple terms as senior warden of her small Episcopal parish in rural Arkansas.

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Can prophets be civil?

May 3, 2010 No Comments

The issue is not whether there will be broad and ardently held differences of opinion, but how those differences will be expressed. In a time when civility is in collapse, when public discourse is riddled with innuendo or outright assault, the church can model an alternative. Sometimes it does. Too often it does not.

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America’s evangelical right still stirring trouble in Uganda

May 3, 2010 1 Comment

Before arriving here last week, Mr. Engle came out with a statement condemning the harsh penalties proposed in the bill, and said that his ministry could not support it. But when he took the stage late on Sunday afternoon, with Ugandan politicians and pastors looking on, he praised the country’s “courage” and “righteousness” in promoting the bill.

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Belgium considers banning the veil

May 3, 2010 5 Comments

The bill’s supporters, who, alas, are liberals, argue that this is a security measure because people can “hide” behind the veil. Please. Where’s the legislation banning the wearing of Groucho Marx glasses or Richard Nixon masks.

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A single harmony

May 3, 2010 No Comments

Let what we are describing be compared to a great chorus. As then the chorus is composed of different people, children, women again, and old men, and those who are still young, and, when one, namely the conductor, gives the sign, each utters sound according to his nature and power, the man as a man, the child as a child, the old man as an old man, and the young man as a young man, while all make up a single harmony;

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