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In November, 2009 issue of The United Church Observer, Dean Salter writes
" Our churches should make a voluntary committment to ban churchspeak community. We need to stop being lazy about the way we communicate. if it's a code word, let's get rid of it. if it obscures our messages - if itconfuses, divides or fails to move us forward in our faith - let's drop it."
Ok. So first off, I'm posting this in global issues because if I put it in social, I'm sure it would just be flooded by, well, the usual crap threads like this get.
But here's the question; does there come a responcibility with living a gay life?
One of the excuses that homophobes use in their fight to deny people the right to marry, is the lame duck defence of "traditional marriage". Here is an interesting article that debunks that foolishness with some solid historical and theological research.
Barriers are obstacles — things that get in the way of people with disabilities and others doing many of the day-to-day activities that most of us take for granted.
Barriers make going to Church impossible, or difficult, or they make it difficult or impossible for people to benefit in the same way that other people benefit from going church.
So, I've been fighting a lot with my parents. It started when I went and watched "milk" with my friends. I got home and was told I'd be grounded for watching a movie that went against our "family values." I was told that our "family values" were that homosexuality is wrong and there was nothing that was going to change that, so I told my parents I didn't want to be a part of a family that felt that way.
I was looking for a modern translation of a bible that was more suited to where I am in my life right now (19).
I saw 2 really cool New Living Translation bibles, 1 for teenage girls and 1 for (university) students. They were both awesome bibles and I really liked them.
What I especially liked was that there was a large section of questionable topics in the back (called "Is it okay?" in the teenager bible), and then references to where "answers" to these issues could be found in the bible.
