No Camera, Lots of Action
First day of California Proposition 8 trial puts forward arguments for – and against – marriage equality
By Lisa Keen
Keen News Service
Published on January 12, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO -- The trial to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court got underway Monday in San Francisco but the opening acts were upstaged in Washington, D.C., just minutes before the proceeding began.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy asked the full court to weigh in on the fairness o… Continue

The Philadelphia Inquirer published a Letter to the Editor in response to an Associated Press story about gay penguins at a Berlin zoo ...

So, two male penguins at a zoo in Berlin are living together and, recently, the pair adopted a baby penguin ("Gay penguins raise chick at zoo", June 4). The brief article goes on to explain that there are three pairs o… Continue

Hi People... Let us be thankful we can worship in peace this Christmas. Here is a NY Times story about conditions that Christians are facing in Iraq:

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BAGHDAD — At churches in Baghdad this week, Christians are being asked for identification to determine if they have names that security force members recognize as Christian. Some churches around the northern city of Mosul are digging in, surrounding their buildings with giant earthen berms to prevent car bombers from getting too close.… Continue

I liked this Boston Globe essay on the boisterous origins of Christmas celebrations in New England. It would be interesting to know how Christmas was observed --or not -- in the same 17th century era in Jamestown and St. Augustine:
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Christmas was a riot
Ever long for a traditional New England Christmas? Be careful what you wish for.

By Stephen Nissenbaum | December 20, 2009

AS THE HOLIDAY season rolls around, it has become commonplace to yearn for the more authentic Christmases of yest… Continue

by Michael A. Jones

category: Religion and LGBT Rights

Published December 16, 2009 @ 09:02AM PT

So much for that Biblical principle of "Blessed are the poor." For a few churches in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that passage has been rewritten to say, "Homeless people shouldn't get any food because of homosexuality."


It what is becoming one of the grossest… Continue