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"Padre, he pecado. Soy lesbiana"
De la niña profundamente religiosa que fui, vuelvo después de muchos años a la Iglesia, convertida en mujer lesbiana, a confesar ante seis sacerdotes diferentes mi apasionado amor por otra mujer. ¿Cómo me recibirán los curas? ¿Me aceptarán como soy, se mostrarán tolerantes y comprensivos con mi felicidad o me tratarán como una enferma y degenerada? Vamos a averiguarlo. Ave maría purísima…
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Pass the Mic: Transgender Women in Chocolate City Tell Their Stories Before I began to transition in 2003, no one was really talking about gender. Being transgender was still associated with drag queens on the “Jerry Springer” show or with prostitutes. That was it.
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Réflexion: Amour, Inclusivité, Justice (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI FRANCESCA TAMBARA) Accueillir, aimer, être inclusif et travailler pour la justice, c'est quoi?
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Testimony for Pride Sunday I was born and raised in the Philippines. I am a cradle Methodist and my family is very conservative. I am not out to them yet, but I know that in time I would have that opportunity. I responded to the call to ministry in 1978. I was 10 years old. But it was also that same year that I became conscious that I was different – I had crushes on my male classmates.
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The Good News and The Eunuch (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI Alberto Sonego) The Ethiopian Eunuch is a fascinating character to me, not only because of who he is, but also because of the way he fits into the scriptures. The baptism of the eunuch shows the universality of the gospel. He was as much of an outsider as he could possibly be. At the same time, he gets so little treatment by the scriptures. I find it very interesting that Peter is lambasted by the church hierarchy a few chapters later for baptising Gentiles, but Philip gets no grief at all for baptising this man. It is a sermon from a first person perspective because I imagined that this man would have a great deal to say to us today. The passage for the sermon is Acts 8:26-40.
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Pastore David Eck Asheville: You've Got Mail (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI MAURO F.) You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all; and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. [2 Corinthians 3:2-3, NRSV]
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Biblia Queer: VUELVE DEL REVÉS EL MUNDO FUNDAMENTALISTA (TRADUZIONE DI ADRIANO) n Hechos 17.6, los judíos acusan a los misioneros de Jesús de haber vuelto “el mundo del revés”. La acusación se levanta contra los seguidores de Jesús pos-resurrección; sin embargo, sus prácticas encuentran su fundamento en el desafío social y religioso de Jesús, en el Evangelio de Lucas, a los judíos fundamentalistas, con diferentes agendas para la santidad.
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JESÚS Y EL REINO “QUEER” DE DIOS (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ADRIANO) Jesús predicó el “reino de Dios”, un símbolo rico, polivalente de la teología bíblica y apocalíptica judía. La noción de Jesús acerca del reino de dios es un símbolo “queer”, que vuelve cabeza abajo y del revés algunas tradiciones teológicas judías conservadoras, para transformarlas en más universales e inclusivas.
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Samuel’s Story I am finally FREE!!! (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI MARTA) We all have our "coming out" stories, and even if some might sound similar, they are all unique in a certain way. This is my story. I grew up as a JW, even though my mother was inactive and an alcoholic, and my dad had just been reinstated to the congregation after committing adultery when my mum was about to give birth to me.
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¿Por qué no podemos besar a quién se nos da la gana? TRADUZIONE DI ANNA A.) Es curioso, pero hay mucha gente heterosexual que todavía no se ha dado cuenta de que amar en estos tiempos de estómagos revueltos es complicado, pero lo es mucho más si eres homosexual. Y no es por nada, es que si te encanta ir por la calle con alguien que te gusta y le quieres soltar un impúdico beso en los labios te puede caer la de Dios es Cristo porque sí, por la cara.
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Le relationnel dans l’affectivité et l’homo-affectivité (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI PIERO) Le thème des relations occupe des rayons entiers de bibliothèque. Si on le centre sur l’affectivité, cet espace rétrécit et si on cadre ce sujet dans la sphère homo-affective, homosexuelle, on précise un certain nombre de situations concrètes.
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Rev. Candace - Bless Those Who Persecute You: The Just Response to Gay Bullying (traduzione in corso di VILIAN) Justin, Asher, Tyler, Zach, Billy. Just listing the names of the teens who recently took their lives after being bullied for their sexual orientation (or perceived orientation) brings up a tide of rage that I didn't think I was capable of. To think of these lives, cut short because of how cruelly they were treated by those around them, makes me want to lash out -- to be equally cruel to those who bullied these young men to their deaths.
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Exploring the Catholic Stance on Homosexuality (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ALBERTO) Moral theologians and canon lawyers, not to mention gay rights advocates and opponents, have long debated the Roman Catholic Church's stand on homosexuality. But who has been talking to everyday Catholic homosexuals and their families who daily contend with the seeming contradiction between the lived reality of their lives and religious edicts?
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TESTIMONIANZA: A Mighty Whirlwind (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI Raphael B.) I never could have imagined that the day would come when I would be battling with my sexuality as well as my faith. I assumed that God would always be there for me no matter what I went through and no matter what I did.
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Transgender Issues On transgender issues we extend God's grace Transgender and transsexual issues are not directly addressed in the Bible just as the Bible does not directly address issues of nuclear power or energy efficient housing. Our job as Christians is to alway "rightly divide the word of truth," 2 Timothy 2:15.
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Once a Daughter, Now a Son: The Mother of a Transgender Child Shares Her Emotional Transition (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI Anastasia Rainone) Two years ago, a woman named Kathy had a pivotal conversation with her daughter.
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When Parents Reject Their Transgender Child In my last post, I highlighted an amazing dad who supports his transgender teen daughter. Sadly, parental support is not common. Few parents have heard about transgender issues, and some react so strongly to their child's gender nonconformity that they force their child to leave home.
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A Death, and a Renewed Life Father Peter Liuzzi had a fateful encounter with a gay man dying of AIDS in 1983. Since then, he has disclosed his sexual orientation and worked to expand the church's ministry to gays.
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The Spiritual Significance of Pride (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI CLAUDIA) What is the spiritual significance of pride?
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Les filles ne m’attirent pas et la beauté de certains amis me fascine. Je crains d’être homosexuel et condamné par l’Eglise Cher Jonathan,
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Tips para Salir del Closet Algunas de las decisiones más difíciles e importantes en la vida de las personas gays, lesbianas, bisexuales y trans están relacionadas al “salir del clóset” es decir, el decidir vivir abierta y honestamente su orientación sexual o expresión e identidad de género. Nadie te puede decir cuándo o cómo tomar el próximo paso. Es un viaje personal, pero no es uno que debes tomar solo.
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John Jay Report: On Not Blaming Homosexual Priests (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI MAURO F.) The new John Jay Report on the “causes and contexts” of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic church includes a finding that will probably surprise many observers. As David Gibson states in a piece on Religion News Service:
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Gay Christian embarks on homophobic ‘hurt’ journey “Gay Christian embarks on homophobic ‘hurt’ journey” declared the BBC website on 16 June, as I set out from Birmingham on my pilgrimage of repentance for homophobia. I was both pleased and annoyed. On the one hand, my walk was drawing media attention to the issues involved. On the other, the coverage included a major inaccuracy.
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James Alison and Catholicism’s “Field of Mendacity” about Homosexuality (TRADUZIONE DI ADRIANO) On my recent trip to the west coast, I decided to reread James Alison’s excellent On Being Liked (2003). I’m stunned, as I wrote in my most recent journal entry, by Alison’s perceptiveness and prescience in the book.
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Homosexuals and the Catechism (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI MAURO F.) Many people believe that the Catechism teaching on homosexuality is well known: in effect, you can be gay, just don’t do gay (which makes as much sense as saying you can be left-handed, just don’t write left-handed – but I’m not getting into that, today).
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For Pentecost, Receive the Holy Spirit, Celebrate Catholic Inclusion (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI JESSICA) Pentecost is a major feast in the liturgical year – and one with special significance for LGBT Catholics and other Christians. This is when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on God’s people, and the inclusiveness of the Christian church, symbolised by the gift of tongues, which made explicit the inclusion of all language and ethnic groups, but which also extends to other forms of inclusion.
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Inhabiting a Queer Space (Traduzione in corso di Claudia) June is Pride month, a month for reminding ourselves how far we’ve come since that fateful day – 28 June 1969 – when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, New York, decided that they were through with government-backed harassment of gays. Their brave stand sparked a series of riots that many now see as the birth of the gay liberation movement. Without denying all the big and little moves that had already been made before, Stonewall became a defining event in the walk towards full equality for LGBT folk.
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Erotic Christ / Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ANDREA D) Sin is a difficult issue for many, if not most, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (“LGBT” or “queer”) people of faith. It is the primary reason why LGBT people are denied full participation in the life of the Church, including the denial of sacraments and rites such as same-sex marriage and ordination, as well as the denial of many secular rights such as civil marriage and anti-discrimination laws.
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Out Christ / Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ANDREA D.) The second christological model of sin and grace for LGBT people is the Out Christ. The Out Christ arises out of the reality that God reveals Godself most fully in the person of Jesus Christ. In other words, God “comes out of the closet” in the person of Jesus Christ; it is only through the incarnation, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ that we understand the true nature of God (for example, God’s solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed).
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Liberator Christ / Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People (Traduzione in corso di Laura C.) The third christological model of sin and grace for LGBT people is the Liberator Christ. This model is rooted in the liberation theologies of Latin American and Black theologians such as Gustavo Gutiérrez and James Cone. In other words, Jesus Christ is understood as the One who frees all those who are enslaved to systematic oppressions, including heterosexism and homophobia.
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Transgressive Christ / Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People (TRADUZIONE IN COPRSO DI ANDREA D.) The fourth christological model of sin and grace for LGBT people is the Transgressive Christ. The Transgressive Christ arises out of the reality that Jesus Christ was crucified by the religious and political authorities of his day for refusing to conform to their standards of behavior.
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Padres y madres que “salen del armario”
Conozco padres y madres que tienen hijos e hijas cuya orientación sexual no es eclesialmente correcta, y lo ocultan –cierran los ojos a esa realidad tan cercana y querida-, o simplemente expresan su rechazo visceral a dicha orientación.
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Un paso más hacia una Iglesia inclusiva y valiente (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ADRIANO) Mucha de la gente que entramos por las puertas de la Iglesia, en mayúscula, entramos heridos o heridas. Entramos con un bagaje que nos ha llevado a la exclusión de una manera u otra. Quizás hemos entrado con fuerzas y ánimo para predicar el Mensaje pero los años o las circunstancias nos han ido cambiado o acomodando y pensamos que ya nuestro trabajo ha acabado, y no hay nada más lejos de la realidad.
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An Analysis of Six Critical Texts Used To Condemn Homosexuality (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI MARTA) When I first began attending to Internet newsgroup threads about homosexuality and the Bible, I held the conventional view: the Bible condemns it. I knew of ways to discount each of the standard texts; I thought a person could in a piecemeal way discount all of them and stay just barely within the bounds of intellectual honesty.
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Catholic Hearts and Minds on Gay Rights (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI SILVIA LANZI) Earlier this year, a high school student in Minnesota penned a heartfelt and deeply moving missive, "Life as a Gay Teen," in his Catholic school's newspaper. In the piece, Simonsen confronted the homophobic work of many bishops in Minnesota, who actually spent nearly a million dollars this year sending out a DVD to Catholic families blasting same-sex couples.
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Gay theology pioneer trusts 'God's shrewdness' (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI LAURA C.) When The Church and Homosexuality was published in November 1976, its author, Jesuit Fr. John J. McNeill, became an instant celebrity. A front-page story in The New York Times told about the Jesuit theologian who had openly challenged the Catholic ch
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DISTANCE ET CONSTANCE D'UNE CAUSE: OPINION Se distancer de la cause de l'inclusivité LGBT parce ça prend trop de place dans notre vie, parce que nous croyons que ce n'est pas ou ce n'est plus notre place à cause des exigences dans l'action ou encore parce que nous ne voulons pas que notre vie soit en permanence identifiée qu'à cette cause est fort compréhensible.
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Pastore David Eck Asheville: No Designer Labels Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing
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EL SIDA NO ES UNA "ENFERMEDAD HOMOSEXUAL" A muchos padres les viene a la mente la enfermedad del SIDA cuando piensan que su hijo podría ser homosexual. Cuando la enfermedad fue conocida, a principios de los años ochenta, muchos consideraban que se trataba de una misteriosa enfermedad que afectaba a los varones homosexuales con un mortal cáncer de piel.
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Saliendo a la esperaza La invitación a "salir" ha sido un punto de encuentro en el movimiento LGBT. De este modo Isaías 49:8-16, con su explícita exhortación a "salir" (49:9) y sus promesas de libertad, parecería ser un pasaje ideal para una comunidad cristiana acogedora e inclusiva.
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"Le pido a Dios que me libre de Dios" di José Maria Castillo El problema no está en que cada creyente se invente “su propio dios”, de acuerdo con sus particulares conveniencias. No se trata de eso. El problema radica en que las personas que creen en Dios, por eso mismo, tienen la tendencia (inconsciente) a relacionar determinados ámbitos de su vida y su conducta, no con Dios en sí, sino con la “representación de Dios” que cada cual se hace.
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How to be Happy by Aaron (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO) di ANNA A.) I am gay. So what? I am not blind. Live in Malta where gayness is tolerated and not punishable to death like in Iran. Have work. Don’t live in a poor country, and so on. Count your blessings doesn’t mean feeling superior but knowing how fortunate you are.
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LOS COMIENZOS DEL "COMING OUT" "Paulatinamente, fui dándome cuenta de que era diferente de la mayoría de los compañeros de mi clase. Según sus relatos, ellos habían hecho cosas lindas e inquietantes con las chicas. La mayoría tenía una amiga. En una ocasión cuando me visitó un compañero de la escuela y me contó de algunos apretujones con una chica, me sentí terriblemente mal.
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Noemí y Rut. Una sola carne, un único destino
Leer el libro de Rut es adentrarse en un mundo diferente al nuestro, aproximarse a la vida de mujeres que para sobrevivir utilizaron las armas que la sociedad patriarcal dejaba a su disposición.
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Y vio Dios todo lo que había hecho: y era muy bueno (TRADOTTO DA ADRIANO) Las sanciones de la jerarquía eclesiástica contra el sacerdote de Valverde del Camino (Huelva) que ha declarado públicamente su comportamiento homosexual, así como las descalificaciones contra su persona (‘desorden moral’, según el portavoz de la Conferencia Episcopal, o ‘enfermedad’, según el obispo de Mondoñedo-Ferrol) vienen a confirmar que la sexualidad sigue siendo una de las asignaturas pendientes del cristianismo.
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Preocupaciones de los padres: ¿pueden los hijos ser felices? Aún si los padres tuviesen, desde el comienzo o luego de superada la crisis, una actitud positiva con respecto a la orientación sexual de sus hijos, siguen manteniendo las preocupaciones por su bienestar. Los hijos viven en un mundo que no siempre los acepta.
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¿Qué es ser Gay? (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ANNA A.)
Hasta hace algunos años, ser gay era socialmente visto como una sofisticación de lo homosexual, una moda frívola que trataba de abordar con eufemismos todo lo relacionado con una sexualidad disidente; percepción que aparecía en los chistes, en los medios de comunicación y donde fuera que el tema saliera a flote.
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Les crises se suivent (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI LAURA C.) Les crises se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas. D’abord, la crise financière, puis la crise de l’Église catholique, enfin la crise de la grippe A. Il est évident qu’elles ne se ressemblent pas.
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Catholicisme J'ai mal à mon Eglise (TRARADUZION IN CORSO DI MARA R.) Catho et homo, Henri de Portzamparc dénonce un « magistère austère » qui exclut plutôt qu'il n'accueille, qui divise plutôt qu'il ne multiplie.
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Homosexual o Heterosexual. ¿Se puede elegir? (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ANNA A.) Cuando la gente se enfrenta al debate sobre la homosexualidad y los homosexuales, generalmente lo hace teniendo en mente ciertos estereotipos, caricaturas, abstracciones, chistes obscenos, y estudios pseudocientíficos sobre el tema.
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Seeds of Change: Seeing Transformation in Ordinary Time Ordinary Time encompasses the months of agricultural growth and transformation in the Northern Hemisphere. Transgender people embody transformation in wonderful ways that can give us a new understanding of the meanings of this season.
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Elías y la experiencia de los gays cristianos (TRADOTTO DA ADRIANO) “La pasada tarde oraba en casa con unos chavales de Tarazona, y uno de ellos, Nachete, le dio un sentido muy atinado a la primera lectura de la Eucaristía, los comienzos del ministerio profético de Elías, en 1Re 17, 1- 6: el profeta es enviado por la palabra de Dios fuera de la ciudad; allí, en el desierto, lejos de casi todo, es alimentado por los cuervos y bebe del arroyo; el presagio de muerte, el ave carroñera sinónimo de ruindad, se convierte en instrumento del Señor para dar vida a su enviado, que cobra de este modo energías para encontrarse con el rostro de Dios, y ser su testigo en medio de una sociedad idolátrica.
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Oraciones para dejar de ser gay (TRADUZIONE DI ADRIANO C.)
Diez Padres Nuestros y diez Aves Marías. 75 miligramos de Ludiomil diarios y otros 20 de Dogmatil. Àngel Llorent se sometió durante 10 años a este tratamiento para dejar de ser gay. "Tenía que rezar si veía a un chico guapo en la calle", explica este catalán que quería ser heterosexual porque creía que estaba enfermo. Dejó su trabajo y a sus amigos. Cambió de vida. Por un tiempo fue un ex gay. No funcionó. Intentó suicidarse.
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Lorsque notre plus jeune fils nous a confié son homosexualité (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ANGELA DI G.) « Lorsque notre plus jeune fils nous a confié son homosexualité, il y a un peu plus d’un an, il avait 20 ans. Nous l’avons assuré qu’il restait toujours notre fils. A la réflexion, nous pensions que notre amour pour nos enfants devait s’exprimer par l’accueil de toutes les facettes de leur identité. ...
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El Reino: Fiesta de la Diversidad. Muchas predicaciones se centran en la primera parte: los dos caminos, y ponen énfasis en el recorrido que lleva a la puerta angosta: el sacrificio, la renuncia, la abnegación. Pero eso no es buena noticia para nadie. Jesús anunció un Evangelio liberador, sanador, inclusivo que es buena noticia para muchas personas.
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HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE (TRAUZIONE IN CORSO DI ADRIANO) In his book Living in Sin: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality John Shelby Spong speaks of a Southern pastor who wrote to him in opposition to his support for the blessing of committed gay and lesbian relationships. He relates that the pastor wrote "urging that I 'be in repentance and sorrow for the anti-scriptural stand on sexuality you have taken. The thought of blessing the very same perversions that have scripturally been promised due penalty is abhorrent to the very mind of Christ"
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Rev. Candace - When is it Fair to Call Someone a Homophobe? (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI VILIAN) "Why is it that those who support gay rights are quick to label someone a 'homophobe' if the person is against homosexuality? The reason that I ask is that many people who I know are against homosexuality based on their understanding (or misunderstanding, as the debate goes) of scripture, rather than any animosity or hostility or fear (thus the 'homophobia' label) of those who are homosexual.
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A Transgender Comes Out Hello, my name is Dix. First, and most importantly, I am saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit. I am a child of the Most High King. God is my Father, Jesus is my big brother and Savior, and the Holy Spirit empowers me.
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TESTIMONIANZA: A Mother's Love (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ELENA P.) I grew up in a Christian Fundamentalist setting. My beloved great grandparents were Assembly of God preachers. My father was very adamant about fundamentalism when I was growing up although now he has come to an understanding that Christ is what matters, not legalism.
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Is it possible to change from homosexual to heterosexual? (Traduzione in corso di Emilia M.) You've asked a very important question. My answer is: No, people do not change their sexual orientation and there is no proof that God ever changes anyone's sexual orientation. We are born gay or lesbian (without making the choice to be that), according to Jesus in Matthew 19:12, where He tells us, eunuchs are born that way.
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A Place in the Sun : Gay Immigrants Who Come From Countries Where Homosexuality Is Taboo Grapple With Some of the Most Difficult Conflicts as They Struggle for Acceptance (TRADUZIONE DI FRANCESCA S.) After her family immigrated to Southern California from South Korea when she was 7, the pressure was on for her to get good grades, attend a good college, marry a Korean man and eventually have children who would uphold the same traditional values.
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'homophobie dans les religions (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DFI ADRIANO) Les religions ont, en général, une vision négative de l’homosexualité. Elles la condamnent, comme toute pratique sexuelle qui n'aurait pas pour but de donner naissance à un enfant dans le cadre strict du mariage.
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Religions et Homophobie au Burundi (Traduzione di francesca S.) Le Burundi en avril 2009, pour la première fois dans son histoire a érigé les rapports sexuels entre deux personnes de même sexe en crime passible à deux ans de prison et/ou d’une amende de cinquante à cent mille francs. Les religions se sont posées comme des grands défenseurs de cette disposition et ont usé de leur influence (dans un pays où plus de 98% de la population est croyante) pour qu’elle soit maintenue en dépit de son rejet au Sénat et même de la tôlée qu’elle a suscité au sein de la société civile et de la communauté internationale.
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Gay bashing in Uganda: Silence is not an option As Canadians, we must be careful not to be lulled into complacency. After all, we live in a country that celebrates diversity, pluralism and acceptance. Canada was one of the first nations to legislate recognition of same-sex marriages. Sadly, many other places in the world are not as tolerant.
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OPINION: Gay rights in Cameroon Gay rights - or lack thereof - in sub-Saharan Africa are becoming an increasing cause for concern among human rights groups, campaigners and forward thinking governments around the world.
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Radical Love: Why Christianity Is A Queer Religion (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI CLAUDIA) There are many people, both on the right and on the left, who claim that Christianity is incompatible with queerness. I strongly disagree. In fact, I am convinced that Christianity, at its very core, is a queer religion.
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'Ex-Gays' and the Ninth Circle of Hell Who are the worst sinners of all? The answer may surprise you. According to the fourteenth-century writer Dante Alighieri, the most egregious sinners are traitors, or those people who have betrayed their families, nations, guests, and leaders. As punishment, these individuals are frozen in ice and are condemned to the ninth, or lowest, circle of hell, where Satan himself resides. All this is vividly described in cantos XXXI through XXXIV of Dante's Inferno.
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Trouver l'harmonie entre sa religion musulmane et son homosexualité Religion et homosexualité ne font paraît-il pas bon ménage. Une jeune fille a décidé de ne pas choisir entre sa foi et son orientation sexuelle. Un article recueilli sur le Lyon Bondy Blog.
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L’homosexualité d’Emmanuel a poussé ses parents à s’arrimer à leur foi, sur un chemin inconnu (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI FRANCESCA S.) C’est par une lettre posée sur leur oreiller qu’Emmanuel a informé ses parents, Martine et Jean-Pierre, de son homosexualité. Il a alors 17 ans. « C’était un vrai choc, explique Martine, 64 ans. Mais je me suis endormie en me disant : il faut se calmer, c’est déjà bien beau qu’il nous l’ait dit. » Le lendemain, Martine et Jean-Pierre vont voir leur fils, le remercient de leur avoir fait confiance. Emmanuel, qui a 26 ans aujourd’hui, est soulagé : « C’est précisément ce que j’avais envie d’entendre et qui m’a enlevé trois milliards de tonnes sur les épaules. »Ensuite… Il faut du temps pour que chacun fasse son chemin.
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In Defense of Desire The Theology of James Alison (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI SILVIA) It is said that there are two kinds of theologians: those whose subject is theology, and those whose subject is God. James Alison studies God. Best known as a “gay theologian,” for his extensive writings on homosexuality, Alison is a priest no longer attached to a diocese or religious order—in his own word, a “nonperson” canonically.
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Christianity and homophobia in Britain today (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ADRIANO) Many thanks to Camden LGBT Forum, who invited me to speak at their event entitled 'The Globalisation of Homophobia' on 17 May. The text of my talk is as follows (while there are slight differences between the text here and the exact words I spoke at the time, the substance is the same).
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Deux poids, deux mesures : quand le magistère s'embrouille (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ROSANNA B.) Tout semble cohérent, vu de loin, dans le magistère catholique : la relation sexuelle est ordonnée à la finalité de la procréation. Les actes homosexuels sont donc "intrinsèquement désordonnés."
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Long Invisible, Gay Seniors Seek Respect, Services (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI LAURA C.) Bob McCoy is a youthful, active 78-year-old. He sings in his church choir, takes a weekly computer class, and regularly attends social gatherings organized by a gay senior citizens group in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lives. But McCoy worries about a day when he can no longer care for himself: he has no close family, no partner, and he's outlived most of his friends.
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Coming Out. What Every Gay Christian Should Know Before Coming Out (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI Raphael B.) Coming out can be a dazzling adventure or a dismal disaster, depending on how you handle it and to whom you come out. If you’re young and hip, your friends probably won’t much care so being open and honest with them may not pose any problems.
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"Homosexuality" in I Corinthians and I Timothy (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ERIKA P.) Finally, we turn to two other letters of Paul, one to Timothy and the other to the Christian community in Corinth, passages which are used to condemn homosexuality in modern times. A closer look at those identified as "male prostitutes" and "sodomites" (in the New Revised Standard Version translation) reveals serious questions about who is being talked about in these passages.
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What happens when child says, 'I'm gay'? (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ADRIANO C.) Marge Mayer of North Hollywood, Calif., found out nearly seven years ago in a letter from her son Tim. "I want us to be closer and I want to be more open about my personal life," he wrote. "I am also sick of hiding who I am -- it's not fair to me or
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Coming Out As A Child of God (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI VILIAN) Living in the closet is sort of like staying in the womb! It's safe! At least we can fool ourselves into believing it is safe. But safe isn't always comfortable. It's a struggle between who we are and who we want to be. With how we wish to be known by others and how we really feel, about ourselves and about our sexuality.
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"Someone to watch over me" (traduzione in corso di Francesca T.) We women were with Jesus when he died. The men had run away - except John, who was with Jesus' mother. We women served him for three years while he went around teaching and preaching to anyone who wanted to listen. And to some who didn't like what they heard. We served him and helped him with our money.
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Père Jonathan - Eglise et homosexualité : un choc culturel... parmi d'autres (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI MARCO C.) L'avantage d'avoir étudié un peu l'histoire de l'Eglise, c'est qu'on peut comparer la situation présente à des situations du passé. Je propose donc de réfléchir à la question de l'homosexualité pour l'Eglise, en la pensant comme un « choc culturel », à l'image de deux autres chocs culturels : l'héliocentrisme, l'évolution des espèces.
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Love in the dock (TRADUZiONE IN CORSO DI LAURA M.) As a homosexual couple in Malawi start 14 years' hard labour, we talk to gay activists across Africa about why they're prepared to risk so much
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I’m an Active Jehovah’s Witness! – What Now? )(TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI LAURA M.) This essay is written specifically for active Jehovah’s Witnesses who are visiting this site who are self-identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or who are questioning their sexual orientation. While most of this web site is geared towards the individual who has left or been expelled from the Organization, we felt the need to build a page specifically geared for active Witnesses. Several chapters of A Common Bond have attendees who are active Witnesses.
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Témoignages d'homosexuel-les: Enlevez les étiquettes (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI DANIELA C.) Moi ? Hétéro
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Daniel Maguire: "Heterosexism, Not Homosexuality, is the Problem" (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI SILVIA LANZI) When he was in the Twin Cities last month, speaking on why Catholics can and should support gay marriage, theologian Daniel Maguire generously gifted me with a copy of Heterosexism in Contemporary World Religions: Problem and Prospect.
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Homosexuality in Sodom and Gomorra (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI GIACOMO TESSARO) Now, we move on to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-16, see text at end of post), the infamous cities of homosexual sin. Or is that their sin? Certainly, that is how tradition has passed them on to us - even giving us a name (sodomites) for the unspeakable sin and those who commit it. However, most modern Old Testament scholars agree that that may not indeed be true, and that the point of the story was Sodom's violation of the rather strict and universally acknowledged norms of hospitality - a code of ethics one still finds in Middle Eastern cultures today.
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The Audacity to be Proud (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI ADRIANO C.) Gay Pride Sunday. I do not know how many years ago it was when I first heard the words and associated those words with all the flamboyant images one can usually find at the Pride Parade.
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"Bad Theology" (TRADUZIONE IN CORSO DI CLAUDIA)
Liberals should not allow ourselves to be bullied by self-styled conservatives who accuse us of “bad theology.”
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