Archivo etiqueta «Homosexualidad»
By Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/03/10):
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity — or because of their sexual orientation. Nor should anyone be excluded from health care on any of these grounds. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification… Seguir leyendo
By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, partners in the Washington law firm of Baker & Hostetler; they served in the Justice Department under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/02/10):
When the Pentagon’s top brass announced last week that they no longer believe military unit cohesion suffers from the presence of openly gay men or women in the ranks, they effectively transformed a policy question into a legal one, to which the answer is clear: Congress can no longer mandate discrimination in the armed forces on the basis of sexual orientation.
In the… Seguir leyendo
By Eric Lax, the author of the forthcoming Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/02/10):
The election, two months ago, of the Rev. Mary Glasspool, a priest who has been in a committed relationship with another woman for more than 20 years, as a suffragan (assistant) bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, has brought added turmoil to the Episcopal Church in the United States and to the worldwide Anglican Communion. There has been sporadic schism since the regular ordination of women as priests in 1977 and especially since the election of the Rev. Gene Robinson… Seguir leyendo
THE WASHINGTON POST, 07/02/10:
The Post asked pollsters and others to explain the politics of changing the ban on gays serving openly. Below are responses from Scott Keeter, Ed Rogers, Dan Schnur, Michael Buonocore, Douglas E. Schoen and Sue Fulton.
By Scott Keeter, Director of survey research at the Pew Research Center.
Support for allowing gays to serve openly in the military has been stable for several years and is significantly higher in many polls than it was when President Bill Clinton raised the issue in the 1990s. When the Pew Research Center asked about this issue last March, we… Seguir leyendo
By Savitri Hesman. She was born in Sri Lanka and lives in London. She has worked for many years in the voluntary sector and contributed to several books and periodicals, and sometimes writes for the Ekklesia and LGCM websites (THE GUARDIAN, 07/12/09):
The election of Canon Mary D Glasspool as an Anglican bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles has been slated by some, praised by others. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, wants Episcopal church leaders to block her appointment, and has warned of “very important implications” if they do not. But to Giles Fraser, “This is another nail… Seguir leyendo
By Tom Wright, bishop of Durham (THE TIMES, 15/07/09):
In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States has voted decisively to allow in principle the appointment, to all orders of ministry, of persons in active same-sex relationships. This marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion.
Both the bishops and deputies (lay and clergy) of TEC knew exactly what they were doing. They were telling the Archbishop of Canterbury… Seguir leyendo
By Theo Hobson, a writer (THE GUARDIAN, 06/07/09):
It is good news that those Anglican parishes that are strongly opposed to homosexuality are forming a new movement. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) was launched last year as a pressure group within the international Anglican communion, but only now is it trying to exert grassroots influence, raising awareness for its cause on the parish level. If it is successful, then it will be easy to identify the sexual politics of your local parish church. It will be impossible to deny that there is a church within the church, that division… Seguir leyendo
By Michael Hamill Remaley, living in New York (THE WASHINGTON POST, 27/06/09):
I was born on the day of the Stonewall riots, June 27, 1969, so my life is an individual history of the 40-year-old modern gay rights movement. What makes my story particularly representative is just how conventional my life has become.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. My parents were liberal college professors, but I was aware in high school — in the 1980s, when AIDS had no treatment and hatred for gays reached a fever pitch — that they wanted both of their boys to… Seguir leyendo
By Peter Tatchell, a human rights campaigner, and a member of the gay rights group OutRage! (THE GUARDIAN, 26/06/09):
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York when, for the first time in history, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people fought back against decades of police harassment.
Previously, LGBT people worldwide had largely complied with arrest and criminalisation. But not in New York on the nights of 27 and 28 June 1969. What began as a routine police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, turned into sporadic street battles. In the aftermath… Seguir leyendo
By Lucian K. Truscott IV, the author of Dress Gray and the forthcoming online novel General Bongo’s War (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/06/09):
I was perhaps the unlikeliest person in the world to cover the Stonewall riots for The Village Voice. It was June 27, 1969. I had graduated from West Point only three weeks earlier and was spending my summer leave in New York before reporting for duty at Fort Benning, in Georgia. After a late dinner in Chinatown, I was about to enter the Lion’s Head, a writers’ hangout on Christopher Street near the Voice’s offices, when I… Seguir leyendo
By Fred Sargeant, a retired lieutenant from the Stamford, Conn., police department (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/06/09):
I was 19 years old when I met Craig Rodwell. He was 26. It was just after Thanksgiving in 1967, shortly after he’d opened the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on Mercer Street near the New York University campus.
One day in the shop — considered to be the first literary gay bookstore — the beat cop stopped by to tell us we needed to pay him off each week. Craig told him we wouldn’t pay; a few days later we had a break-in… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan José Tamayo, teólogo (EL PERIÓDICO, 20/05/09):
El Parlamento belga solicitó al Gobierno de su país que condenara las declaraciones del Papa contra los preservativos como remedio para combatir la pandemia del sida en África y que elevara una protesta oficial ante la Santa Sede por tan graves declaraciones de una personalidad tan influyente en el terreno religioso y moral. Una abrumadora mayoría de parlamentarios aprobaron la protesta, que el embajador de Bélgica envió al Vaticano. La reacción de la jerarquía católica belga no fue inculpatoria del Papa, pero tampoco exculpatoria. El arzobispo de Bruselas, Godfried Daneels, una de… Seguir leyendo
By James J. Lindsay, Jerome Johnson, E.G. “Buck” Shuler Jr. and Joseph J. Went. Retired Army Gen. James J. Lindsay was the first commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. Retired Adm. Jerome Johnson was vice chief of naval operations. Retired Lt. Gen. E.G. “Buck” Shuler Jr. was commander of the Strategic Air Command’s 8th Air Force. Retired Gen. Joseph J. Went was assistant commandant of the Marine Corps. They are founding members of Flag and General Officers for the Military (THE WASHINGTON POST, 15/04/09):
With the nation engaged in two wars and facing a number of potential adversaries, this is… Seguir leyendo
Por Nicole Muchnik, periodista y pintora (EL PAÍS, 02/03/09):
Hace algunos siglos, la Iglesia dirigía su atención al problema, diríase poético, del sexo de los ángeles. ¿Tiene hoy Benedicto XVI algún problema con el sexo de los mortales?
Nadie en su sano juicio espera que el Papa aliente la libertad sexual de los gays y las lesbianas, se sienta cómodo con los travestis o firme un manifiesto en favor del Orgullo Gay. No obstante, su toma de posiciones sobre estos asuntos, unas ampliamente difundidas, otras prácticamente desapercibidas, dan que pensar.
El reciente llamamiento del Vaticano a boicotear la despenalización universal… Seguir leyendo
By Owen West, a commodities trader who served two tours in Iraq with the Marines (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/02/09):
Generals are scolded for preparing to fight “the last war,” but if President Obama intends to keep his promise to allow gays to serve openly in the military, he would do well to study President Bill Clinton’s attempt of 16 years ago.
The Clinton argument, based largely on protecting the civil rights of gay troops, was systematically dissected by senior officers and legislators, who focused on how the presence of homosexuals could affect combat readiness. Generals circulated videos made by… Seguir leyendo