Category: Commonplace Book

A commonplace book

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George Lucas didn’t rape a goddamn thing. He GAVE me my childhood. He provided the fat, pale and sensitive boy I once was with a vibrant, imaginative and optimistic idea of what storytelling could be. George Lucas engineered a waking dream that evolved into an overwhelming desire to become a creator on my own right.… Continue reading Untitled

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In the period up to roughly the thirteenth century, male bonding ceremonies were performed in churches all over the Mediterranean. These unions were sanctified by priests with many of the same prayers and rituals used to join men and women in marriage. When A Medieval Knight Could Marry Another Medieval Knight | The Awl

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I’m stunned,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby founded by sisters. Her group was also cited in the Vatican document, along with the Leadership Conference, for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/us/vatican-reprimands-us-nuns-group.xml

The Minnesota archdiocese is sending people into the Minnesota Catholic schools and saying things like this: Bliss told Tevlin that when someone in the audience stated that two men, for example, were perfectly capable of enjoying a loving, committed, stable relationship, the diocesan couple onstage equated that loving same-sex relationship with bestiality. Hannah was shocked by these comments, and she was equally shocked to hear one of the presenters characterize adopted children as “sociologically unstable.” I wonder if they’ll start denying communion to adopted kids now, too.

Minnesota Catholic High Schoolers Not Happy With Mandatory Marriage Discrimination Lecture