tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60427854475699089402024-03-21T06:49:11.267-07:00Very Joe & Bullishfrequent musings about the people, ideas, and things that inspire meJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.comBlogger6212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-62454884042905365432016-01-24T13:10:00.001-08:002016-01-24T13:47:28.570-08:00Love wins at the Supreme Court...and in America! This is my final post for this blog.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qdwwnV40qeQ" width="500"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a victory we received on June 26th, 2015, when the Supreme Court ruled that laws against same-sex marriage were un-Constitutional. And what a moment of great joy for me, my family, my community and my country! We have worked so hard to achieve this moment. I still feel that a great sense of satisfaction and contentment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No longer do I feel like I am a second-class citizen, at least in many of the blue states of America, I have most of the same rights as heterosexuals. A big THANK YOU to Barack Obama, who has done so much to make the lives of LGBT Americans more equal and better. (<a href="http://www.hrc.org/resources/obama-administration-policy-legislative-and-other-advancements-on-behalf-of">Read the long list</a> of the President Obama's accomplishments to better the lives of the LGBT.) I am glad that I supported him since he decided to run for president. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But we have much more work to do to ensure LGBT equality in housing, the workplace, and other areas throughout the country. We are dismantling the remaining pillars of institutionalized homophobia at every turn. In particular, I am working on making religious institutions and the world of sports more welcoming for the LGBT. On a broader level, I believe that 'none of us are free until all of us are free' so I will continue to advocate for laws and policies that provide more equality for women, racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel that it is time to sunset this blog and invest my time and energies in emerging projects. You can follow me on my two twitter accounts if you want to keep up with what I am thinking and advocating for:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you for visiting my blog and sharing this journey over the last five years with me. I send you my love, and remain very joe and bullish. </span>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-39469547960269905652015-06-24T11:53:00.000-07:002015-06-24T11:53:07.525-07:00Love is winning! The march of progress on equality...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g2Y9abmNuRw" width="560"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-68217136758327846722015-05-31T16:10:00.004-07:002015-05-31T16:13:50.538-07:00The universal struggle and movement for human rights for LGBT people ...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HWFh2begEHM" width="560"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-28451639826197736752015-01-06T08:29:00.002-08:002015-01-06T08:29:47.398-08:00This is what love and democracy look like in action when a Miami judge lifts a stay in the marriage equality case. Let freedom ring!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GQj2jnfE8xA" width="500"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-51845058647501121482014-10-30T12:42:00.003-07:002014-10-30T12:42:27.148-07:00What a way for the Giants to win the World Series: 3 reasons I love this team<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reason #1: They don't buy into conventional wisdom about what is "likely to happen." They create their own reality, by showing up, doing each thing to the best of their ability, and having patience with themselves and the game</div>
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Reason #2: They play as a tight team, recognizing each other's strengths and abilities.</div>
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Reason #3: They are resolute. When they fail like they did in game 6, they get up and dust themselves off and try their best again.</div>
<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-22992793801872449282014-10-23T08:29:00.000-07:002014-10-30T12:33:13.937-07:00What a tragic end for this Canadian soldier. RIP, Nathan Cirillo <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-89064230926941784082014-10-22T07:57:00.000-07:002014-10-22T07:57:06.158-07:00Pope Francis is changing the Catholic Church's relationship with the LGBT by forcing a conversation about being more welcoming<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gqVezzXyEYQ" width="500"></iframe><br />
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<i>Headlines called it a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/catholic-synod-ends-no-agreement-gays-divorcees-181448074.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #2e6d9d; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;" target="_blank">“setback”</a> for Pope Francis that the initial draft of the synod of bishops released last week that spoke of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/10/14/synod-draft-furthers-welcoming-tone-towards-gay-people-from-pope-francis/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #2e6d9d; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;">“welcoming homosexual persons”</a> was silent on them in the final document. But I don’t see it that way at all. The pope let the genie out of the bottle. And, as we all know, it’s difficult to put him back in once released.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>What the synod did at the outset on paper, Pope Francis has been doing since ascending to the papacy. He’s been talking about gays and lesbians in the Catholic Church with an unheard-of humanity and care. So what that the more conservative bishops succeeded in watering down the gay paragraphs so much they couldn’t get the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/catholic-bishops-at-vatican-scrap-welcome-to-gays-in-synod-vote/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #2e6d9d; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;">two-thirds majority</a> necessary to include them in the new document released on Oct. 18. They may have won this battle, but they aren’t going to win the bigger battle with this pope... </i></blockquote>
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<i>...As Francis <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/pope-beatifying-paul-vi-at-remarkable-synods-end/2014/10/19/f1c782ba-576c-11e4-9d6c-756a229d8b18_story.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #2e6d9d; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;">said yesterday</a> during his homily, “God is not afraid of new things! That is why he is continually surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways.” By the time the bishops reconvene next October to finalize the synod document, we might be looking at a very different outcome. </i></blockquote>
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<i>What could happen in the Catholic Church is analogous to what is happening in the United States. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/10/20/gays-and-lesbians-owe-thanks-to-president-george-w-bush-and-justice-scalia/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #2e6d9d; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;" target="_blank">As I wrote this morning</a>, in an odd way, the anti-gay political maneuverings of President George W. Bush and the sneering anti-gay Supreme Court dissents from Justice Antonin Scalia sparked a national conversation and action among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans that has resulted in same-sex marriage being legal in more than 30 states and support for it at 59 percent. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="line-height: 32.4000015258789px;"><i>No, no, no. I’m not saying the church or the pope will become a champion of LGBT rights. And I’m definitely not saying they are going to support marriage equality. What I am saying is that by talking about the humanity of gay and lesbian Catholics and worrying about their place in the church, Pope Francis is openly recognizing them as children of God. After centuries of demonization, that’s a revolutionary act that can’t be undone.</i></span></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/10/20/pope-francis-and-gays-will-win-by-losing-this-round-on-synod-draft/">Full article </a>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-88430365875973144582014-10-20T10:24:00.001-07:002014-10-20T10:24:38.240-07:00Quote of the day, on marriage equality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-45605920361498448932014-10-18T15:13:00.000-07:002014-10-18T15:14:41.376-07:00The desperation of America's social conservatives is hard to miss as they continue to lose in the court of public opinion<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Tx2HN8oL6iE" width="500"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-33595632607582739692014-10-18T14:44:00.000-07:002014-10-18T14:45:32.504-07:00Watch Travis Ishikawa's homerun send the Giants to the World Series. He personifies this team, with his patience, perseverance, and work ethic<iframe frameborder="0" height="224" src="http://m.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=36821231&topic_id=28898650&width=400&height=224&property=mlb" width="400">Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-68114099096316294232014-10-18T14:37:00.000-07:002014-10-18T14:37:23.872-07:00One of my favorite scenes from the movie "Pride," on power of empathy and connection<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/j77eKSHWufQ" width="500"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-25992652759129710522014-10-16T20:18:00.002-07:002014-10-18T14:39:14.362-07:00G-I-A-N-T-S! NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPS, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-889496591821653712014-10-16T14:12:00.000-07:002014-10-16T14:12:06.233-07:00Watch this 8-year-old dancing boy. Thank God, the norms of masculinity are being redefined...for the better<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="375" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XuddLqN3nYo" width="500"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-43917876000359475312014-10-13T09:04:00.004-07:002014-10-13T09:06:53.959-07:00Matt Baume captures last week's growing (and history-making) adoption of marriage equality by many states<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/u04CyfailGE" width="500"></iframe>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670541075291171712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042785447569908940.post-8290400709306894092014-10-10T07:53:00.000-07:002014-10-10T07:54:01.215-07:00Colbert laughs at the social conservatives' suggestion comparing marriage equality to slavery. Me, too<div style="background-color: black; width: 520px;">
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<i><span style="color: blue;">We, as judges, deal so often with laws that confine and constrain. Yet our core legal instrument comprehends the rights of all people, regardless of sexual orientation, to love and to marry the individuals they choose. It demands not merely toleration; when a state is in the business of marriage, it must affirm the love and commitment of same-sex couples in equal measure. Recognizing that right dignifies them; in so doing, we dignify our Constitution.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">REPEATEDLY over the last year and a half, I’ve written
about teachers in Catholic schools and leaders in Catholic parishes who were
dismissed from their posts because they were in same-sex relationships and — in
many cases — had decided to marry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">Every time, more than a few readers weighed in to tell
me that these people had it coming. If you join a club, they argued, you play
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">The rules of this particular club prohibit divorce, yet
the pews of many of the Catholic churches I’ve visited are populous with
worshipers on their second and even third marriages. They walk merrily to the
altar to receive communion, not a peep of protest from a soul around them. They
participate fully in the rituals of the church, their membership in the club
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most of the Catholic families I know have no more than three children, which is
either a miracle of naturally capped fecundity or a sign that someone’s been at
the pharmacy. I’m not aware of any church office that monitors such matters,
poring over drugstore receipts. And I haven’t heard of any teachers fired or
parishioners denied communion on the grounds of insufficiently brimming broods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">About <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/opinion/bruni-one-schools-catholic-teaching.html"><span style="color: #326891;">teachers</span></a>: When gay or lesbian ones are let go,
the explanation typically cites their c<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/bruni-lessons-in-catholic-judgment.html"><span style="color: #326891;">ontractual obligations</span></a>, as employees of
Catholic schools, not to defy the church’s strictures, which forbid sexual
activity between two men or two women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">But there are many employees of Catholic schools
nationwide who aren’t even Catholic, who defy the church by never having
subscribed to it in the first place. There are Protestant teachers. Jewish
ones. Teachers who are agnostic and, quite likely, teachers who are atheists
and simply don’t advertise it. There are parish employees in these same
categories, and some remain snug in their jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Is it more important to believe in the church’s
teaching on same-sex marriage than to believe in the Resurrection — or even
that God exists?” asked the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and the author
of the 2014 best seller “Jesus: A Pilgrimage.” “I don’t hear anyone calling for
the firing of the agnostic parish business manager.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12.0pt;">The blunt truth of the matter is that during a period
when the legalization of gay marriage has spread rapidly in this country, from
just six states in 2011 to more than three times that number today, Catholic
officials here have elected to focus on this one issue and on a given group of
people: gays and lesbians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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