Transgender, Homosexual Activists Hail Victories at Episcopal Convention

Not so keen on disordering boundaries when it comes to suing parishes and dioceses!

Glasspool celebrated communion with several transgender-themed prayers.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

#1, Martha, Touché

I saw Bob Dylan in Nuernburg in the late 70s.  The concert was attended by about 80,000 people, sitting on the field where the National Socialists held their big rallies in the late 30s.  Now the platform was occupied by a Jewish bard and a there were a good number of U.S. soldiers in the crowd.

Should my wife and I be kept on earth into our 80s and reach our 50th anniversary, maybe we’ll go renew our vows in Indianapolis.

I see what you did there, Fr. Fountain, and I like it.  A lot.

“Tell your stories because it is the only way we change minds…”

And reading the Bible or catechesis will lead to a different outcome.

This prayer could arguably be used by pagans.  I am not claiming that was the intent of the author(s).  However, it is a reflection on their theological formation that they didn’t recognize it themselves.

Jill, I’d say it is pagan.  They worship a god made by their own hands, in their own image.

Does the Holy Spirit disrupt “boundaries”? Does the Holy Spirit “release our desires”? Or, is that the work of the other spirit?

I would like to see the text of that entire “Eucharistic prayer.”  What religion is this anyway?  It seems that the age-old link between immorality and idolatry is being demonstrated once again.

<blockquote>“Spirit of Life, we thank you for disordering our boundaries and releasing our desires as we prepare this feast of delight,”<blockquote>

What the heck is that?

Lord, in your mercy ...

TEc is already getting behind. They need generous provisions for foursomes, or whatever.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/10/california-bill-would-redefine-family-allow-for-more-than-2-parents/

Gotta bless the whole family of god.

No boundaries…

the basic lesson of psychoanalysis is that what is unconscious is, at its most radical, not the wealth of illicit “repressed” desires but the fundamental Law itself.

So, even in the case of a narcissistic subject dedicated to the “care of the Self,” his “use of pleasures” is sustained by the unconscious, unconditional superego-injunction to enjoy. Is not the ultimate proof of this feeling of guilt which haunts him when he fails in his pursuit of pleasures? According to sociological investigations, people find less and less attraction in sexual activity; this uncanny, growing indifference towards intense sexual pleasure contrasts starkly with the official ideology of our postmodern society as bent on instant gratification and pleasure-seeking. So, we have a subject who dedicates his life to pleasure and becomes so deeply involved in the preparatory activities (jogging, massages, tanning, applying cremes and lotions…) that the attraction of the official Goal of his efforts fades away; a brief stroll today along New York’s Christopher Street or Chelsea reveals hundreds of gays putting extraordinary energy into body-building, obsessed with getting old, dedicated to pleasure, yet obviously living in permanent anxiety and under the shadow of ultimate failure… the superego has again successfully accomplished its work: the direct injunction “Enjoy!” is a much more effective way to hinder the subject’s access to enjoyment than the explicit Prohibition which sustains the space for its transgression. The lesson of it is that the narcissistic “care of the Self,” and not the “repressive” network of social prohibitions, is the ultimate enemy of intense sexual experiences. The utopia of a post-psychoanalytic subjectivity engaged in the pursuit of new, idiosyncratic bodily pleasures beyond sexuality has reverted into disinterested boredom; and the direct intervention of pain (sado-masochistic sexual practices) seems the only remaining path to the intense experience of pleasure.

Thus, the fact that “the big Other doesn’t exist” (as the efficient symbolic fiction) has two interconnected, although opposed, consequences: on the one hand, the failure of symbolic fiction induces the subject to cling more and more to imaginary simulacra, to sensual spectacles which bombard us today from all sides; while on the other, it triggers the need for violence in the Real of the body itself.

http://www.lacan.com/zizekother.htm

Dr. N, #13, that’s so two hours ago.  Chris Johnson at The MCJ has news that “psychology experts” in Canada are now saying that pedophilia - having sex with children -  is a sexual orientation.

“Pedophiles are not simply people who commit a small offence from time to time but rather are grappling with what is equivalent to a sexual orientation just like another individual may be grappling with heterosexuality or even homosexuality,” emphasized Van Gijseghem.

“True pedophiles have an exclusive preference for children, which is the same as having a sexual orientation.  You cannot change this person’s sexual orientation.” He added, however: “He may however remain abstinent.”

Abstinence??  What a total L-7.  Not in **this** church!  We live into our true selves in this organization.  I got dibs on the nursery!!

But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don’t bother, they’re here.

#16 - Just reference Trinity Wall Street

Let’s see now…how did that go?  Every man did what was right in his own eyes…