Though I am not officially a member of the Episcopal Church, I have while living down here in Baltimore been attending it. This past Saturday was a joyous occasion for the Maryland Diocese with the official consecration and ordination of the new Bishop, Rev. Canon Eugene Sutton. It was joyous as we ordained the first African American bishop for the Maryland Diocese, also it was a time to celebrate the now bright future for the church in this state. As many of you know the Episcopal Church is a very traditional denomination, worship wise. While they do incorporate new ideas for worship, the style is very true to its liturgical roots. The denomination however has become very well known in the recent times for being progressive in its beliefs, mainly pertaining to the stance the church has taken towards the involvement of homosexuals in the faith. [Read more →]

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Hi all, well this will probably be a very brief post, cause well this boy has to get up early and face the Baltimore rush hour to go to work. So my thoughts on some reason events that, well, appeal to my lifestyle. The California marriage situation. My opinion, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY!  In a nation that prides itself on providing equality for all of her citizens, we have for long enough been denied the equal right to marriage. I understand there is this battle over the definition of marriage. We constantly have the “Man and Woman” mantra shoved down our throats. If marriage is a legal concept, then why do the right wing evangelicals, who dare to call themselves Christian, have the right to change the laws? I think too long we have been show bigotry because people fail to understand homosexuality. Hetero’s seem to be under the assumption that being gay was a choice, just like being straight is. How would they know? How can they tell me about what’s right when they don’t know the facts. They constantly throw scriptures out at us to try to scare us into thinking that we are some kind of mistake. That God would never create something “abnormal” and that it is a sin. Ok I’m going to step off the religious soap box right now, that can be a different topic altogether. Anyway if this makes little to know sense I do apologize as it is now my bedtime.

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