RELIGIOUS

A Joke To Keep In Mind When Dealing With Some Religious Fanatics

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals (this is arguable; it may be fewer) and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Click Here For A Satire About Gary Bauer et al
Responding To The News That King James
(of the The King James Bible) Was Gay

Click here for a satirical letter to Dr. Laura,
requesting her help on the finer points
of Biblical injunctions.

April 12, 2001: A New Paper On "The Third Sex" In Classical Hindu Literature
Classical Hinduism recognized "The Third Sex", in fact analyzed at least 20 types of it and recognized 8 types of marriage. One of these 8 types was gandharva, which included homosexual marriage. [The gandharva marriage is defined as a union of love and co-habitation, recognized under common law, but without the need for parental consent or religious ceremony. It also occurs with heterosexual couples.] To read the full paper, click here.
April 12, 2001
Retired Zen Master Robert Aitken now lives on the Big Island. He has a great web site, http://www.flex.com/~aitken Robert Aitken gave extraordinarily moving testimony to the Commission on Sexual Orientation and the Law.
October 21, 2000
Hawaii has a chapter of Americans United For the Separation of Church and State. To see their web site, go to http://www.geocities.com/au_hawaii/
March 9, 2000
Dignity USA calls on the Pope to extend his apologies for the sins of the Roman Catholic Church to LGBTQ folks. The Roman Catholic Church has lied about gay people in public testimony opposing civil rights for gay and lesbian people. The Roman Catholic Church has encouraged the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases by opposing condom use. The Roman Catholic Church has propagandized many gay Catholics into lives of private despair and even suicide. For the full text, click here.
November, 1999
The Episcopal Church of Hawai'i endorse the full inclusion of gay men and lesbian women in the life of the church. They find that sexual orientation is itself morally neutral and that those in faithful and committed relationships are to be supported. For the full text of the resolution, which passed by an overwhelming majority, click here.
October 24, 1999
Tania Jo Ingrahm, Cheryl Embry and Evelyn Crow have opened a new Yoga studio in Kaimuki. Click here for more information.
September 25, 1999
The Mormon Church really hates gays and lesbians, and is no longer being "nice" about it. Check out their latest web site devoted to attacking LGBTQ civil rights (and turning America into a religious state?).
http://lds.about.com/library/weekly/aa091499.htm
August 25, 1999
The HRC Foundation has just issued a 35-page report on attitudes toward LGBT's in 10 major U.S. religious groups. To learn more about that report and how to order it, go to Mixed Blessings. A copy is available for reading at the Marriage Project Hawaii office, 2424 S. Beretania St., 942-3737 (email MPH@hawaii.rr.com).
July 10, 1999
John Boswell's controversial book, "Same-Sex Unions In Pre-Modern Europe" brought to the world's attention this startling fact: the Roman Catholic Church has an official same-sex marriage ceremony among its official rituals (in the sources, right next to the two different heterosexual marriage ceremonies). At least one church in Rome used these ceremonies as late as the mid-18th century. Here is Paul Halsall's 1996 review of Boswell's book, available from Britannica.com: http://www.bway.net/~halsall/lgbh/lgbh-marriage.html
June 29, 1999
AIKANE, Traditional Hawaiian Same-Sex Relationships
June, 1999
Who are the Friends (Quakers) and what do they have to do with marriage?
by Robert Stauffer
April, 1998
Sexuality, Marriage, Morality And The Bible

~From The Updates~

An Op-Ed Piece By Honolulu's Roman Catholic Bishop DiLorenzo
"Always Our Children" National Council Of Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter Is On-line
Jerry Falwell On "Gay" Marriage
Duplicity And Complicity
A New Catholic-Based Political Action Committee Forms To Oppose Same-Gender Marriage
Hawaii Council Of Churches Issues Statement On Same Gender Marriage
Hawaii Council Of Churches: An Interfaith Perspective On Same-Gender Marriage
Educating Our Own Flock -- A UUA Example