Volume 1: Issue 1
July/August 1996
Same-Sex Marriage
Table Of Contents
Cover Story: Same-Sex Marriage:
There are names synonymous with the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights:
Stonewall, Bowers v. Hardwick, Baehr vs. Lewin.
While I value the things that my mind has helped me to discover a great deal, I could not have done any of it without faith in God. I see the things that I have been able to work out by studying the knowledge others have shared, by using the mind and reason and ability to learn that God gave me. Most of all I see things by having faith in the belief I feel Jesus was really teaching, that God is within all of us and that all of us are a part of God.
I think often about myself and my position in the church. I think about what a great place that church is for a gay person to be. What great people those people were for a gay person to know. My mind loved that church.
Don't get me wrong, my heart did too. I loved the choir, the organist, the bells at Christmas, the trumpet at Easter, the "Why hast thou forsaken me" on Maundy Thursday. My heart loved the music as much as my mind loved the gay. But whereas my mind could appreciate the music, my heart was uncomfortable with the gay.
For thousands of years contemplatives, as well as ordinary folk, have
used labyrinths to release both internal and external interruptions from
their minds, and to fix their focus on God. Each time I have walked a
labyrinth I have found it a profound spiritual experience - one almost
beyond expression in mere words.
Can I be in harmony being gay and married to a member of the opposite
sex? This is an interesting question. I am sure there is no "textbook"
answer for this question.
Can I be in harmony being gay and married to a member of the opposite
sex? This is an interesting question. I am sure there is no "textbook"
answer for this question.
Features:
Despite the United Methodist Church's restrictive policies regarding homosexuality, many gays and lesbians remain in the denomination because they feel accepted at their local churches.
Although it is highly unlikely that the new archbishop of Canterbury will be martyred, like some of his more famous predecessors, the road to the office as head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion has been filled with some pernicious potholes for Rowan Williams.
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