Open Question: Am I allowed to be upset?
I just found out today my bestfriend is dating a girl. She don t like labels buts she s bi I guess. I mean I support her completely and she always knew this cause I sorta always knew she was I would joke about it with her and stuff all the time but she would Deni it. But the girl she is with lives in a different state and they met online. She always talks about her and stuff. I dont like the girl. I don t like her because she s all she talks about she ignores me for he and everything so I m a jealous friend I admit it but when I would point she does this out she would go it s different and I never under stood until she slept talked and told me. I was mad of course cause she thought I would leak it to everyone we know and brag about it make fun of her and it would be weird and I would hate her and all this crap she know won t happen because I completely support lgbts rights and I would never do anything like that. But what really is ticking me off is there is another girl she talks to her name is like cal or something and she s known her for a month and told her. They also met online and her I am finding this out she tells her before me. But not only that but she talks behind my back to this girl and tells her our personal conversations. She told when I joked about her and someone else and this girl convinced I was walking all over her and she needs to stick up to me and all this crap and I don t we legit just sit around and hang out and talk. Can I be mad at this?
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"The reason Bill Clinton signed DOMA is, quite simply, because he refused to be leader on a civil rights issue, irrationally fearful of the ramifications of vetoing the bill and rationalizing the damage caused by signing it."
"The reason Bill Clinton signed DOMA is, quite simply, because he refused to be leader on a civil rights issue, irrationally fearful of the ramifications of vetoing the bill and rationalizing the damage caused by signing it."
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“The reason Bill Clinton signed DOMA is, quite simply, because he refused to be leader on a civil rights issue, irrationally fearful of the ramifications of vetoing the bill and rationalizing the damage caused by signing it.”
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Rapper Wale: Frank Ocean Has ‘Advantage’ in Music Industry, Won Grammy Because He’s Gay
Rapper Wale: Frank Ocean Has ‘Advantage’ in Music Industry, Won Grammy Because He’s Gay
Statements made by rapper Wale in an interview with The Breakfast Club Power 105.1 this week are making headlines. The DC-based rapper suggested that even though Frank Ocean is a “dope” artist, it’s because he’s gay that he won Grammys and similar awards from the music industry.
“If a dude was gay, man, he’d get a Grammy. They’re going to make fun of them, they’re gonna throw their Twitter jokes…but in the next three years there’s probably gonna be a dude who’s not even gay that’s just like ‘Man, this is my last resort’ …But nah, I would sign a gay rapper if he was dope. ‘Go ahead man, go do that thing, go do them Versace fashion shows.’
“But the point I’m trying to make is it’s definitely – and people are probably going to go bad on me for saying this – but it’s an advantage to be gay in this country right now. That’s just the fact of the matter. Frank Ocean is very dope. Very very dope artist. He got pushed to the moon when he dropped his album though. He got the Grammy and everything. There’s about 30 artists in the country that sold about how much he did or more – they didn’t get any of that.”
The remarks are similar to those made recently by Kanye West, who suggested that he was discriminated against in the fashion industry for not being gay.
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Pope Francis Sees Some Bishops With 'Closed Hearts'
Pope Francis Sees Some Bishops With 'Closed Hearts'
The Catholic Church ended its synod on the family on Saturday without clear progress on inclusiveness of gays and lesbians, or divorced parishioners, and Pope Francis says it exposed those with “closed hearts.”
The pope will take the recommendations of the bishops into account when drafting his own teaching on the family, and The New York Times reports that liberals say the final document succeeds at not tying his hands in too many areas. One exception: the bishops are quite clear they will not accept same-sex marriage, not that the pope was aiming that far anyway.
It was the lack of progress on whether divorced Catholics can receive communion, on whether to welcome gays and lesbians, that triggered a critical closing address from the pope.
Pope Francis said the synod had succeeded in “laying bare the closed hearts which frequently hide even behind the church’s teachings or good intentions.” While the pope said the church had proved it is not afraid of “lively and frank discussions about the family,” he also said some bishops took part “in order to sit in the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families.”
The bishops use the three-week gathering to outline how they believe the church should move forward on family issues, with the pope taking their recommendations to later draft his own teaching. The 270 bishops vote on each paragraph of the document, requiring a two-thirds approval.
“Certainly, the Synod was not about settling all the issues having to do with the family,” said Pope Francis, according to a translation by Vatican Radio, of his expectations heading into the conference. “Surely it was not about finding exhaustive solutions for all the difficulties and uncertainties which challenge and threaten the family, but rather about seeing these difficulties and uncertainties in the light of the faith, carefully studying them and confronting them fearlessly, without burying our heads in the sand.”
The LGBT Catholic group in the United States, New Ways Ministry, reacted to the report from the Vatican Synod by highlighting what it says is still possible.
Francis DeBernado, the group’s executive director, said in a statement that “a great deal has changed” at “the highest levels of the church.”
“Even though this synod did not achieve a stronger statement of LGBT acceptance, the movement for a more inclusive and equal Church for LGBT members can take hope from this meeting because the discussion has moved forward,” said Bernardo, “and we’ve heard that a large number of bishops see the need for this discussion to continue into the future.”
DeBernado expressed greatest disappointment that the bishops repeatedly cast transgender people as victims of “gender ideology,” and that they said adopted children should be raised by a mother and a father.
“The remarks show that the bishops do not understand the transgender experience or how people experience their gender identity, which is often received as a spiritual, life-giving revelation,” said DeBernado, who called for more education of the bishops.
When Pope Francis does sit down to write his teaching on the family, he’ll face the question of how to find common ground among bishops from different continents, with vastly different cultures. The bishops from Africa are more ardently opposed to acceptance of gays and lesbians than those from North America.
“We have also seen that what seems normal for a bishop on one continent, is considered strange and almost scandalous for a bishop from another,” the pope said. “What is considered a violation of a right in one society is an evident and inviolable rule in another. What for some is freedom of conscience is for others simply confusion. Cultures are in fact quite diverse, and each general principle needs to be inculturated, if it is to be respected and applied.”
Ultimately, the pope left room for further changes.
“The Synod experience also made us better realize,” he said, “that the true defenders of doctrine are not those who uphold its letter, but its spirit.”
Lucas Grindley
www.advocate.com/religion/2015/10/25/pope-francis-sees-some-bishops-closed-hearts
Open Question: I'm confused about my sexuality! Help?
Open Question: I'm confused about my sexuality! Help?
I’m 15 years old girl and a junior in highschool. I’ve always been attracted to guys. I’m not really attracted to guys at my school because they are immature, but I’m mostly attracted to men. I’ve recently been talking to this girl who is lesbian and she has a girlfriend but we sit next to each other and we make each other laugh a lot and I’ve recently have had feelings for her. When ever I see her I get nervous and just wish she liked me. I also have crushes on guys but does this mean I’m bisexual? Both girls and boys turn me on. And please no hate comments. I’m Christian and I have no problems with lgbt community it’s just I’m confused. Help?
NAACP Houston Branch & Urban League Intensify Campaign for Equal Rights Ordinance
NAACP Houston Branch & Urban League Intensify Campaign for Equal Rights Ordinance
This weekend, the NAAP Houston Branch and Houston Area Urban League announced that they are intensifying their work in favor of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).
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How do I tell someone I'm trans? (FtM)
How do I tell someone I'm trans? (FtM)
So I’ve been talking to this girl for awhile she’s told me she’s fallen for me and everything but she doesn’t know I’m trans..I want to tell her but I just don’t know how and I’m scared she won’t accept it how should I tell her
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Open Question: Why american Christians support LGBT ?
Open Question: Why american Christians support LGBT ?
My birthday soon. Now I have a reason and got those made
My birthday soon. Now I have a reason and got those made
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My birthday soon. Now I have a reason and got those made
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