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Gay former archbishop talks about the church and homosexuality:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15weakland.html

Any minute now, New Hampshire will allow gay marriage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15marriage.html

Why gender needs to be removed from the definition of marriage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/opinion/12boylan.html

Don't fire Dan:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/dontfiredan
I saw him on the Rachel Maddow show and he broke my heart. He's also right; asking our soldiers to lie doesn't build stronger units and goes against everything taught at places like West Point.

Comments

[maryling.livejournal.com]

I was flipping channels the other day and saw Dan on...Anderson Cooper, maybe? It kills me that he could be dishonorably discharged. There is nothing dishonorable about the guy.

:-)

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

It's annoying that the legislation in New Hampshire has to be reworded to reassure bigots that their ability to carry on being bigots will not be impaired, but the since the net result is going to make them dreadfully unhappy anyway, it's not thatannoying.8D

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[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Current Military regulation require members of the military to keep secret the the fact of a lawful marriage in any one of five, soon to be six, states, if it's a same sex one. At some point the absurdity is going to be too great to not break.
The thought that the U.S. military is currently less progressive than that of Argentina has got to give someone pause.

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[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

And Uruguay http://www.365gay.com/news/uruguay-to-lift-ban-on-gays-in-the-military/

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[graene.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they can legally get married but not claim the benefits of marriage? Someone needs to make that point to the Pentagon.

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[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

They have to keep their legal marriage a secret!

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[drfardook.livejournal.com]

Don't count on it. The usual saying in the military is, "if we want you to get married, we'll issue you a spouse".

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[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

The CAF presided over its first same sex marriage marriage some four years ago. It's not like Canada is a *completely* foreign country or something.

[mamadar.livejournal.com]

I probably shouldn't, but I feel sorry for Weakland, probably because he's a Benedictine and I think better of Benedictines. His story shows how impossible the hierarchy makes it for any one individual to act with integrity. And no, breaking your vow of celibacy with a consenting adult should not be confused with taking sexual advantage of minors under your care, which it was, in his case. I guess retiring and getting out was the best choice he could make.

[julesndairyland.livejournal.com]

I remember meeting Weakland, enjoying his always thoughtful and thought-provoking sermons and I/my friends knew that there was "room at the table" for LGBT folks in quite a few Catholic churches in Milwaukee.

That said he, but more so the Vatican, threw people "under the bus" by moving pedophile priests around the diocese for YEARS. It was an open secret. People clued in by the grapevine simply didn't let their children alone with the priests. But a multitude of people were irrevocably hurt by these actions. It was reprehensible. It is inexcusable. It is unforgivable.

I truly hope Weakland's book cracks this horrific scandal wide open.