Monthly Archives: July 2015
Watch: Beyonce posts cute rainbow-filled video to celebrate US same-sex marriage ruling
Watch: Beyonce posts cute rainbow-filled video to celebrate US same-sex marriage ruling
Celebrating the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision last Friday to legalize same-sex unions across the country, Beyoncé Knowles’s video is slightly late but ‘never too late’.
The 20-time Grammy winner’s video on Instagram features herself in a rainbow-striped bikini with a giant rainbow flag cape and eye mask among numerous costume – all in rainbow hues, of course – changes goofing off for the camera and dancing to one of her newer singles ‘7/11.’
This isn’t the first time the star has publicly shown support for gay marriage.
In 2013, she posted a handwritten note on Instagram that read, ‘If you like it you should be able to put a ring on it,’ with the hashtag #wewillunite4marriageequality.
A video posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Jul 1, 2015 at 10:35am PDT
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"We Do!"– Episcopalians OK Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
"We Do!"– Episcopalians OK Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
The Episcopal Church took a giant step forward today by removing barriers for same-sex couples desiring to be married in the church. Meeting in Salt Lake City, the General Convention an overwhelming majority of the House of Deputies concurred with the actions of the House of Bishops earlier this week, adopting two resolutions: A054 (authorizing new marriage liturgies for trial use) and A036 (removing references to marriage as being between a man and a woman in the church’s canons.)
Taken together, these actions make marriage – which the Supreme Court ruled last week is a “fundamental right” for all Americans – equally available for all Episcopalians. Carefully and prayerfully crafted, they provide as wide a tent as possible for the historic diversity that characterizes the Episcopal Church – guaranteeing access to marriage liturgies to all couples while protecting the conscience of clergy and bishops who dissent theologically.
The genius of today’s action is that the conscience of a dissenting bishop is protected but not at the price of denying same-sex couples access to the sacramental rite of marriage. It will be a “bridge too far” for some and not far enough for others. But it is an exemplary illustration of the hard, faithful work of a church refusing to let the perfect be the enemy of the good as it strives to become a more expansive and inclusive church.
The journey to this day has been long and the challenges have been great. We have worked, prayed, argued, debated and compromised to this moment. We have been on a forty year journey in the Episcopal Church working to turn the ‘full and equal claim’ promised to LGBT Episcopalians in 1976 from a resolution to a reality.
There is still work to do to reach the audacious goal of a church where there are no barriers to full inclusion for any member of the Church but today we celebrate an important and incremental victory toward that goal. It is a proud day to be an Episcopalian as we journey together into God’s future – a diverse people united in our commitment to the Jesus Movement our Presiding Bishop-elect has called us to claim and to proclaim to a world hungry for love, justice and compassion.
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June’s 12 Hottest Shirtless Celebrity Selfies: PHOTOS
June’s 12 Hottest Shirtless Celebrity Selfies: PHOTOS
We love Instagram. We also love shirtless selfies. Ergo, we created a round-up of the best shirtless selfies from male celebrities on Instagram posted in the month of June.
Take a peek below and tell us which is your favorite.
Have a hot Instagram we should be following? Email us at [email protected].
A photo posted by Adam Devine (@andybovine) on Jun 29, 2015 at 8:22am PDT
Today on set with @parkergregory1 and @riverviiperi thx @giampaolosgura for the shot!
A photo posted by Pietro Boselli (@pietroboselli) on Jun 19, 2015 at 10:52am PDT
A photo posted by Jack Laugher (@jacklaugher) on Jun 28, 2015 at 12:24pm PDT
Simon Dunn (@bobsleighsimon) on Jun 18, 2015 at 1:21pm PDTTo much fun #selfieworldtour #londonpride getting ready for @londonlgbtpride #bathroomselfie @clonezoneuk
A photo posted by Alex Minsky (@mminskyy) on Jun 27, 2015 at 1:53am PDT
Is someone trying to get baptized again in #MyBigFatGreekWedding2 ?
A photo posted by Nia Vardalos (@niavardalos) on Jun 25, 2015 at 9:55pm PDT
A photo posted by iansomerhalder (@iansomerhalder) on Jun 4, 2015 at 8:22am PDT
A little Heat won’t hurt anybody, #EFFENVODKA #FRIGO #SMSAUDIO
A photo posted by 50 Cent (@50cent) on Jun 16, 2015 at 9:38pm PDT
Progress selfie… #3months #21lbsgained #hardwork #TheWorkDoesntStopHere
A photo posted by Ryan Guzman (@ryanaguzman) on Jun 13, 2015 at 4:04pm PDT
A photo posted by Colton Haynes (@coltonlhaynes) on Jun 29, 2015 at 10:30pm PDT
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Texas Pastor Who Threatened to Set Himself Aflame Now 'Loves' Gays
Texas Pastor Who Threatened to Set Himself Aflame Now 'Loves' Gays
Don’t get all misty for Pastor Rick Scarborough, who wrote an op-ed explaining that his ‘love for homosexuals’ is so he can ‘offer God’s redemption.’
Dawn Ennis
As Same-Sex Couples Line Up To Wed, Others Celebrate The Right To Divorce
As Same-Sex Couples Line Up To Wed, Others Celebrate The Right To Divorce
While courthouses around the nation are flush with same-sex couples ready to tie the knot, a New Orleans court has already seen another effect of marriage equality: divorce equality.
Shortly after the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling on Friday, Anna Wellman and Stephanie Baus filed for divorce at the Orleans Parish Civil District Court in Louisiana after years of waiting.
Making “bittersweet history” — in the words of The Times-Picayune — the couple quickly finalized their divorce before the city’s first same-sex couple wed a few hours later.
Wellman and Baus were married in 2009 in Massachusetts, where marriage equality had been the law of the land since 2004. But when the pair decided to separate five years ago, they couldn’t divorce in their home state since Louisiana didn’t recognize their marriage.
Many states, such as Massachusetts, don’t have a residency requirement to get married, but do have one to divorce. Depending on local laws, couples are required to reside in the state from six months to two years before getting a divorce. Before the Supreme Court’s ruling, a same-sex couple seeking a divorce could end up tied financially, legally and emotionally to a partner regardless of whether they wanted to be.
And while that hurdle has been overcome in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling, a host of other complexities involved in dissolving a same-sex union have cropped up.
Family attorney Michael Bialys with the California-based Gay Family Law Center told The Huffington Post that the tricky part with same-sex marriages is knowing when the clock starts on those unions, which affects common divorce issues like the division of property.
“Let’s say I live with my partner in 2000. The minute we can become domestic partners in 2009, we do. And in 2012, we get married officially. And in 2015, we want to divorce: That issue hasn’t been really addressed,” Bialys said. “Are you entitled to all the benefits of marriage retroactively?”
Traditionally in common-law states such as Colorado or Kansas, the clock on a union can start once a couple passes the cohabitation threshold for a common-law marriage, even if they never get officially married. In civil states such as Louisiana and California, assessing the couple’s community property starts only when they officially marry, regardless of how long they were together before that.
Custody may prove another tricky situation for divorcing same-sex couples, due to traditional perceptions of caregiver roles (which usually favor the mother) and biological ties when a child shares DNA with one or neither of the parents.
Just as overall divorce laws took a few decades to be fully formed, laws surrounding same-sex divorces may take a while to get up to speed.
“In the ’50s, people weren’t getting divorced, and in the ’60s when it was happening more, the law caught up — but it realistically took about 20 years for the law to catch up,” Bialys said. Same-sex couples, he notes, may be in for a similarly long wait.
“It’s going to be a while, and there are going to be inconsistencies in the decisions.”
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SCOTUS Marriage Equality Ruling A “Victory For The Mentally Ill” According To Legislator
SCOTUS Marriage Equality Ruling A “Victory For The Mentally Ill” According To Legislator
Dwight Kiefert, a Republican from Valley City, ND serving in the state House, is the first person to admit that he is neither a doctor nor a psychiatrist.
Of course, he’d never let a couple of minor details like that get in the way of sharing his esteemed insights into mental health.
Just hours after the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages should be recognized by the entire nation, Kiefert took to Facebook to offer his medical psychiatric opinion:
Google it, he says.
Dwight’s stance on the gays was hardly a secret — he’s previously said of homosexuality, “I don’t think that it’s normal. You can’t reproduce. I mean, a man and a woman is what it takes to make a child.”
Even so, his Facebook mini-rant seems to exhibit the telltale signs of a paranoid conspiracy theorist. But then again, we aren’t psychiatrists either.
When pressed on the since-deleted post, Kiefert said he didn’t think it was a “public statement,” adding “There’s a lot of question marks. Was what I read true? I don’t know. The bottom line is: Through my faith, I have to oppose it.”
House Majority Leader Al Carlson, R-Fargo, was quick to distance himself from his fellow representative. “Dwight speaks for himself. He has a lot of strong opinions,” Carlson said, emphasizing that he “absolutely” doesn’t agree that homosexuality is a mental illness. “That topic shouldn’t even be discussed.”
And the crazy train keeps on chugging.
via Inforum
Dan Tracer
Episcopal Church Advances Two Resolutions In Favor of Gay Marriage
Episcopal Church Advances Two Resolutions In Favor of Gay Marriage
The Episcopal Church voted late Wednesday to adopt two new liturgies on a trial basis that aim to enable same-sex couples to marry in the church. The Church had convened in Salt Lake City to discuss the question of same-sex marriage. Today’s vote is the beginning of a process that if continued would amend the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer and require action from two successive General Conventions.
The House of Bishops on Monday approved two liturgies for trial use that will permit same-sex couples to be married in the Episcopal Church, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent of this year. Their action came just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can now be married in all 50 states.
The two liturgies, which were in Resolution A054, include a gender-neutral version of the current marriage service in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, as well as a version of a liturgy that was approved in 2012 for blessing same-sex unions that now also provides vows of marriage. These rites do not refer to “man and woman” or “husband and wife,” but instead use “these persons” or “the couple” to refer to the two people being married.
Bishop Gene Robinson, famous for being the first openly gay bishop in the church, was present for today’s debate:
“I think it is time for us to do this,” [he said]. He disagreed with Bishop Edward Little of Northern Indiana that the church’s love and respect for gay and lesbian people was made clear in the Rite of Baptism. “We wouldn’t have been clawing our way into this church if that was true,” he said.
UPDATE #1: Having passed The House of Bishops, the resolutions are now being considered by The House of Deputies.
UPDATE #2: The House of Deputies has passed the two resolutions.
On a vote by order HOD concurs with bishops on marriage liturgies for all. #gc78 pic.twitter.com/IrmDOGvdU4
— Scott Gunn ن (@scottagunn) July 1, 2015
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Sean Mandell
Episcopal Church Advances Two Resolutions In Favor of Gay Marriage
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