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 want to thank my compadre John “Torch Boy” Shore over at Suddenly Christian for giving me the heads-up on this article. I’m not Anglican or Episcopalian nor do I play one on TV, but nevertheless I had the good fortune several years ago to meet Bishop Gene Robinson. He was delightfully personable, gentle in [...]

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I don’t know how much the rest of the country and world is hearing about the recent decision by the California Supreme Court, extending the fundamental right to marry to same-sex couples but understandably it’s made it’s appearance on the front page of California newspapers more than a few times since May 15th court ruling. [...]

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By today most of you have probably already heard about the tragic death of Steven Curtis Chapman’s five year old daughter Maria on Wednesday. I was going to blog about it this morning (Thursday) when I first heard read the news but I was scheduled for a 13 mile training walk and so instead I [...]

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