Okay SisterFriends and BrotherBuddies…here’s a few links for you, some poignant, some funny.

I want this puppy boy!
Sometimes you just need to hear it one more time.
And sometimes you need to hear this.
Play with this for a while and see how the story turns out.
Finally! I thank you. Our linen closet thanks you.
I have a special [...]

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I just learned that lesbian pioneer Del Martin (left) passed away today with her wife Phyllis Lyon at her side. After a 55 year long partnership, Del and Phyllis were legally married on June 16 of this year.
That’s an incredible thing my dear friends and I thank God they lived to have such a [...]

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I ran across this video over at Good As You and wanted to share it with you. Talk about poignant.

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Dear Advocate for Yes on Proposition 8,
I found the handbill you left on our front door Saturday morning with the handwritten note, “Sorry I missed you.” I’m sorry I missed you too. No really. I am. I would have liked the opportunity to meet you and made a little neighborly chit chat before inviting you [...]

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In my childhood home there was a strictly-enforced no swearing policy. Swearing and name-calling were so off-limits I was afraid of them; afraid that if one of those dreaded nuggets of blasphemy passed over my lips, it might void my ticket on the glory train. I’m not even talking the big swear words known, loved, [...]

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All around it seems to have been a quiet week among bloggers; at least among those I regularly follow, which at last count on my NetNewsWire was hovering around 65. Frightening isn’t it? I don’t have time to read the newspaper and yet I have no problem carving out chunks of time to devote to [...]

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In a recent post Gay? Okay! Sex? No Way! I wrote
Were the prohibition against premarital sex a decree of God’s the inclusion of the Song of Songs in the Old Testament becomes a problem. While it’s often been interpreted as an allegorical depiction of the relationship between God and Israel (as husband and wife) it’s [...]

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The communion bread yesterday was three layers of delicious! Members of the congregation take turns baking or buying the bread each week for the table. Every one of those dear people bakes a great loaf of bread but yesterday was Suzanna’s turn. That would be Suzanna, as in Suzanna the professionally-trained pastry chef, bread baker, [...]

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I’ve got a hankering to do some organizing around here and so over the next few weeks I’m going to be playing around with the categories section and at the same time adding tags to all the posts. This will allow visitors to SisterFriends to more easily locate topics of interest to them and help [...]

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In my last post I offered the main Biblical passages (at least of which I’m aware so enlighten me if you know of others) that address the question of celibacy and nothing in those passages suggested that celibacy was mandated in the Scriptures for any one individual or any particular category of people, but rather, [...]

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