Woe to you American Christians! You say I'm the "son of God" and yet you bully the defenseless in my name.

Open Letter from Jesus to ¨Christian America¨


¨You American Christians utterly defaced the name of Christianity with your racism, your slavery and your bigotry against women.

And now you're doing it again in your war against gay men and women and in your war against the poor who have no health care.

Some of you even have had it as part of your wicked program to reestablish the Biblical law demanding death to gay people that I clearly showed must be broken by the greater law of love.¨


Do you understand the parable of the Good Samaritan?

Let me refresh your memory:

One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!” The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Some of the Ugandan ¨oppressed¨ are in grave danger of GENOCIDE. Many American religious fundamentalist/zealot Christians are exporting fear/hatedriven lies, bigotry and MONEY for corrupting Clergy Leaders and Members of Parliament in UGANDA. HERE

¨In case you missed the point of that parable as I'm quoted as telling it in the book of Luke it was that the theologically correct evangelical born-again "saved" passed by on the other side of the road when confronted with a human being in need. It was the "unsaved" theologically incorrect foreigner, today's equivalent of your atheists or Muslims or gay men and women, the unloved and the outcast, who stopped and did my Father's will and took care of the injured man.¨

Archbishop Rowan Williams, The Anglican Communion. Please help Episcopalians in America care for the ¨least of these¨ and speak out against crimes of hate, prejudice and discrimination in American, Jamaica, England and UGANDA. Dr. Williams you´ve lost moral authority with your gross sin of silence/inaction and looking the other way in the face of International thieving, greed and bloodshed generated at The Anglican Communion

¨Put it another way: Did you miss the point when I said that those who come to me saying "Lord, Lord we followed you and believed correctly" are the very ones that I will cast out of the Kingdom of Heaven, since they did not care for the least of these, the downtrodden, the poor and the oppressed?¨ Refresh your understanding of ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ HERE

UPDATE: US Christians Denounce Gay Hate in Uganda

¨Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a betrayal of Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. As followers of the teachings of Christ, we must express profound dismay at a bill currently before the Parliament in Uganda. The “Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009″ would enforce lifetime prison sentences and in some cases the death penalty for homosexual behavior, as well as punish citizens for not reporting their gay and lesbian neighbors to the authorities.

As Americans, some may wonder why we are raising our voices to oppose a measure proposed in a nation so far away from home. We do so to bear witness to our Christian values, and to express our condemnation of an injustice in which groups and leaders within the American Christian community are being implicated. We appeal to all Christian leaders in our own country to speak out against this unjust legislation.¨
read it all, HERE

¨Regardless of the diverse theological views of our religious traditions regarding the morality of homosexuality, in our churches, communities and families, we seek to embrace our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters as God's children worthy of respect and love. Yet we are painfully aware that in our country gays and lesbians still face hostility and violence. We recognize that such treatment degrades the human family, threatens the common good and defies the teachings of our Lord -- wherever it occurs.¨

"This bill is an affront to human dignity and offensive to Christians around the world who take seriously Christ's command to love our neighbors as ourselves," read it all, plus review the notable signatures, click HERE

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HARK! BEHOLD! A Gift for The BABY JESUS from the miraculous DRUMMERS of the diocese of LOS ANGELES

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum...
When we come.

Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and ¨first amongst EQUALS¨ at The Anglican Communion

¨The spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion issued an unusually sharp and swift rebuke to Episcopal Church leaders over the election of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

In a terse statement, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams delivered a warning to bishops, clergy and lay representatives of the U.S. church about the confirmation of the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool, a lesbian who has been in a partnered relationship for two decades.¨ HERE

The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, The Right Reverend Jon Bruno and Suffragan Bishop-elect The Reverend Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool

“The election of Mary Glasspool by the Diocese of Los Angeles as suffragan bishop elect raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole,” Williams said in the statement.

The Drummer Boy

The lyrics tell the apocryphal story of a poor young boy who, unable to afford a gift for the infant Jesus, plays his drum for the newborn with the Virgin Mary's approval. Miraculously, the baby, although a newborn, seems to understand and smiles at the boy in gratitude. The story is somewhat similar to an old twelfth-century legend retold by Anatole France as Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (French: The Juggler of Notre Dame), which was adapted into an opera in 1902 by Jules Massenet. In the French legend, however, a juggler juggles before the statue of the Virgin Mary, and the statue, according to which version of the legend one reads, either smiles at him or throws him a rose.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is a celebrated 16th-century icon of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ

A ¨compass¨ Rose for the Archbishop of Canterbury to help guide him on his spiritual journey...pa rum pum pum pum

UPDATE: Chicago Consultation responds to Archbishop Williams

¨We hope that when the Archbishop realizes the damage he has done to the Communion’s ministry among gay and lesbian Christians and those who seek justice for them, he will reconsider both the words he has spoken and the words he has not.”HERE

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Heterosexual priest SPEEDILY ELECTED: The Very Reverend Thompson was elected 11th bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana Saturday! Not a word from ++Rowan

·The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, remains silent today, yet committedlike, approving the ¨lifestyle¨ choice of a Heterosexual MALE BISHOP at The Episcopal Church/The Anglican Communion·

The Very Reverend Morris Thompson, Bishop Elect of the Diocese of Louisiana is a well-known Heterosexual.

"I believe the church is moving in a direction that is more inclusive when it comes to the issue of sexuality, and I think the church needs to support people who are gay," Thompson said in an interview Saturday.¨ By Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune, HERE

¨That a candidate who voted in favor of opening all ordained ministries to all the baptized and in favor preparing rites for same-sex unions is a milestone here in Louisiana. Those of you from other areas of the country may not fully realize the election as the break-through that it is.¨ Grandmere Mimi, read it all, HERE

SPECIAL NOTE: Apparently, Dr. Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury was unavailable (again) to congratulate, and wish ¨well¨ in the confirming process, a Heterosexual, like himself, The Very Reverend Thompson. Father Morris, no doubt riskless, is however considered a possible, and scary, ¨revisionist¨ by former Episcopalian conservatives, bigots on the run and monied ¨family¨ members and worst of all he SMILES at people.

A Bishop Michael G Smith of North Dakota, frowner, and a confidant and self-proclaimed ¨conservative¨ buddy of Archbishop Rowan (the ABC recently received Smith and six other manuvering types at Lambeth Palace) was also a candidate for 11th bishop of Louisiana (oddly Smith currently serves as 11th Bishop of North Dakota and will return to his ¨calling¨)...he lost the election to The Very Reverend Thompson, swiftly and surely as these elections sometimes go.

Dr. Williams was apparently reluctant to peep-a-word of encouragement/congratulations regarding Thompsons election and confined himself today to admiring his new gold pectoral cross, with precious stone, which is a recent gift from the beloved Roman Pope.


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BISHOP SUFFRAGANS ELECT: Rev. Canons Bruce & Glasspool ·The Episcopal Church Los Angeles ·HORRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD

The Right Reverend Jon Bruno, Bishop of the Episcopal Church diocese of Los Angeles and the two Canons who were elected on Saturday and will become his Suffragan Bishops after confirmation (the diocese of Los Angeles is huge and there is much to be done)


I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:34-39

The Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool

And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14b, RSV)

The Rev. Canon Diane M. Jardine Bruce

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:36b-40


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BIGOT BISHOP JACKSON ALERT: Men of God try to help people instead of making threats against politicians that don’t suck up to homophobic bigotry!

¨D.C.'s Anti-Gay-Marriage Crusader Ponders This Week's Loss¨ U.S. News and World Report

Harry Jackson, the presiding pastor of a Maryland megachurch

¨...In future races, religious people are going to start going after people’s political careers. In D.C., some very vulnerable black councilmen went along with the city council, and some of these guys will not be sitting in those chairs in 2010 elections. Many in our coalition are wising up, looking for candidates. Political action committees are going to be formed. You’re going to see a bloodletting that is going to mark a new style of engagement for people who are against same-sex marriage...¨ Reverend Jacksons REVENGE, Dan Gilgoff, click HERE

¨They created a gay organization of clergy? What? Like anti-gay Christians created NOM, Focus on the Family, and other anti-gay religious organizations? And they’re going to start going after peoples careers? Wow, now there’s a “Christian” comment if I’ve ever heard one!

Mr. Jackson (and I use the term Mr. very hesitantly),
I suggest you take your overstuffed ego and stuff it somewhere else. You are not God, and you better be careful playing God, because if there is one, I’m sure he or she is not going to take too kindly to you pretending you are.

Going after peoples careers? How about this, I’m coming after your career! No, I can’t bring you down as pastor of your megachurch, but I can hound the IRS to tax your homophobic behind! You are a bigot to the worst degree and you live a lavish life off of tax-free dollars. How about this Jackson, you start paying taxes, then you can become as politically involved as you want, until that day, shut the hell up!

We as a LGBT community need to create more than a ‘gay organization of clergy’, we need to create a task force focused on maintaining and enforcing separation of church and state.

Jackson, I won’t step one foot inside your church, but I welcome you into my home for a nice long talk. Other than that, keep your personal religious ideology out of my life! If you were a man of God, or even a man for that matter, you’d be trying to help people instead of running around making idol threats against politicians that don’t suck up to your homophobic bigotry.

I’m sure you have galvanized your sheep to believe the lies that come from your mouth, but you need to remember, you’re not the only one pissed off here. I’m equally, if not more pissed off at you and I take this very personally, because your tax-exempt money is working to maintain discrimination against me.

I’m sure you feel you’ve made a name for yourself. I hope you’re enjoying your five minutes of fame and even longer stint of fortune, but you are challenged and I am going to become your biggest challenge yet. I will not stop until you stop or you pay taxes. I will build an organization to lead a crusade against you! You will not overcome this! Bigot Jackson: The IRS will tax your homophobic behind, Jim Hipps, click HERE

If you feel the same as I do, write Jackson a letter at: Hope Christian Church! HERE

Bishop Jackson and his ¨family¨ of hate/fear-mongering religious accomplices such as Anglican Bishop Henri Orombi of Uganda IGNORE the United Nations Human Rights Sexuality Statement

Please contact:

NOTE: The ANGLICAN UN, United Nations, HUMAN RIGHTS Observer, Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa from Uganda, has an office and staff provided by the Episcopal Church (USA) at the Church Center 815 Second Avenue, New York, 10017. The direct office line is (001) 212-716- 6263 and the email address unoffice@episcopalchurch.org

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URGENT HELP REQUEST: People who harass LGBT Christians often get away with it because clergy/laity do not respond/UPDATED!

There is a murderous ¨anti-Homosexuality Bill¨ pending at the Parliament of Uganda and it is being LOUDLY and enthusiastically promoted by Fundamentalist Protestant religions and by The Ugandan Anglican Church .


Dear Friends, we are faced with a Homophobic INTERNATIONAL HATE CRIME Campaign that has been initiated by extremist hatedriven religious CLERGY leaders and wildly supported by their ill-informed and frightened puritan zealot followers.

It´s focus TODAY is in UGANDA and in the form of a deadly¨anti-Homosexuality Bill¨ pending in the Parliament of Uganda and promoted by Fundamentalist Protestant Churches and by The Ugandan Anglican Church. The pending ¨anti-Homosexuality Bill¨ in Uganda is JUST NOW being addressed by The Canadian and British Government at the Commonwealth of Nations Meeting in Tinidad and Tobago:

Britain and Canada today led Commonwealth protests against a law proposed by the Ugandan parliament which would introduce the death penalty by hanging for "aggravated homosexuality".

Gordon Brown expressed Britain's concerns about the parliamentary bill when he met Yoweri Museveni, the veteran Ugandan president, at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Trinidad and Tobago Fury at Uganda proposal for gay executions, HERE


What Is Homophobia?

¨Homophobia is a word often used to describe a fear of homosexuals. However, it is more useful to consider the ingredients - it's created using societal norms of masculinity/femininity, gender roles and difference. For individuals, homophobia can lead to deep rooted low-self esteem, fear of familial and community rejection and various mental health issues; including feelings of isolation, depression and suicide. In the community and larger society, the impact of homophobia can mean increased violence in communities and increased rates of HIV. In all its forms, homophobia makes health education, HIV prevention and treatment extremely challenging. We must not let hateful and abusive treatment from others undermine our ability to care for ourselves and each other.¨

Be an Ally to Black Gay people:


¨When you see something, say something! People who harass LGBT people often get away with it because people in the community do not respond. Violence often happens against people who are most marginalized, whom an abuser feels like he/she can attack without reproach. If you witness this kind of verbal abuse, harassment, or physical violence you have the power to stop it by intervening, or calling someone in the community who the perpetrators know and respect and get them to stop.¨

Accept Diversity in the Community:

¨Open your doors! There are no LGBT centers in the Black Community. We often must travel outside the community to find places of support and care. You can open your home, apartment or community garden to provide a meeting or social space for people to find comfort and support in their own community. HERE


President Museveni, of Uganda, has not endorsed the private member's bill, which was introduced by a backbencher, David Bahati, in the Ugandan parliament. But Uganda's ethics and integrity minister, James Nsaba Buturo, welcomed the anti-human proposal, saying that he regards the demonizing bill "with joy" because it will "provide leadership around the world". Government ¨ethics¨ Minister Nsaba Buturo ¨thinks¨ his Homosexual Bill ¨executing¨ Homosexuals will provide ¨leadership around the world.¨ Leadership in murdering LGBT people and imprisoning our family and friends. Minister Buturo needs to ¨think¨ again.

BBC Radio 4's "Sunday" program has looked into the situation in the Ugandan Parliament with a bill promoting anti-gay measures and found more of the "deafening silence" within the Anglican Communion that has many asking for a voice of intercession or appeal.

Lowell Grisham of The Chicago Consultation and Colin Coward of the UK-based advocacy group Changing Attitude are among the interviewees in this week's edition of "Sunday."

Grisham:

We believe that the leaders of the Anglican church should speak out, especially to those who are frightened and threatened by this legislation in Uganda. This is a matter of justice and of compassion. We see this as legislation that violates Christ's command that we love our neighbors as ourself and his example to show compassion to vulnerable and marginalized people. HERE


·RESPECTFULLY CALL FOR COMPASSIONATE AND CLEAR STATEMENTS OF CONDEMNATION from Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Caterbury, The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu (a refugee from Idi Amins brutal dictatorship in Uganda who suddenly remains quiet at the desperate plight of LGBT Ugandans who, like him, may be forced to leave Uganda or be killed), Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of The Episcopal Church and Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda·

¨When you see something, say something! People who harass LGBT people often get away with it because people in the community do not respond.¨

UPDATED: Monday, November 30, 2009

¨The voices of lgbts of color must be heard,¨ HERE

UPDATED at NOON: Monday November 30, 2009

Americans must take urgent action to let the State Department know that it IS their job to prevent the misuse of taxpayers’ HIV/AIDS dollars to slaughter gay people, enrich evangelicals, and deny Africans access to condoms.

Please write letters to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding a hold on PEPFAR funding until strict human-rights, privacy, and free-speech controls are imposed upon all PEPFAR aid. PEPFAR aid must not be given to sectarian religious interests, especially those with violent and inhumane intentions.HERE

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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U.S. Department of State
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(202) 647-4000

EMERGENCY NOTE: The ANGLICAN UN, United Nations, HUMAN RIGHTS Observer, Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa from Uganda, has an office provided by the Episcopal Church (USA) at the Church Center 815 Second Avenue, New York, 10017. The direct office line is (001) 212-716- 6263 and the email address unoffice@episcopalchurch.org

"reprehensible, vile and hateful"

¨The Anti-Homosexuality Bill (2009), now before the House's Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, proposes life imprisonment for acts of homosexuality and introduces a serious crime called "aggravated homosexuality".

According to the proposed law, offenders must face death if they have sex with a minor or a disabled person, or are found to have infected their partners with HIV. The proposed law, if passed in its current shape, would also punish attempted homosexuality as well as the failure of a third party to inform the authorities of homosexual activity.¨

¨...In Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean nation that is hosting the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reportedly raised the issue with President Museveni. And the Canadian government, which is conservative, reportedly described the proposed law as "reprehensible, vile and hateful". HERE, from All Africa

LATE MONDAY EVENING NIGHTCAP:

U.S. Warns against International Efforts to Criminalize Homosexuality

Although her subordinate Eric Goosby seemed to defend no-strings aid to Uganda last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this afternoon said international efforts to criminalize homosexuality are “unacceptable.” HERE

Anderson condemns Uganda anti-gay law

Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson has issued a statement condemning the pending Ugandan legislation that would imprison for life or execute people who violate that country's anti-homosexuality laws saying it would be a "terrible violation of the human rights of an already persecuted minority." HERE

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ATTENTION ANGLICAN PRIMATES/BISHOPS: ¨None of us are exempt¨

Recently, while pursuing actions related to the VILE ¨Anti-Homosexuality¨ proposed law before the Ugandan Parliament I discovered a NEW BLOG ¨Living Out Loud with Darian¨ HERE . Darians blog I quickly added to my sidebar because the author spoke directly to my heart with clearcut sensibilities and STRAIGHT FORWARD reporting from the ¨frontlines¨ of everyday LGBT life. You know, the kind of words of ¨right vs. wrong¨ clarity that once we assumed only were owned and belonged to religious (appearing) heteroseuxals who PREACHED at us because we PRETENDED homosexuality didn´t really exist and we must not matter anyway if we did exist, we were mostly writeoffs as human beings, we had seeped through the cracks of society and lived on edge.

If ¨Gay existed ¨they¨ were a subject that wasn´t often discussed for FEAR of discovery and/or brutal consequences of the, discrimination/outcasting, HATE CRIME generating kind...or simply ¨they/Gay¨ were considered demented sinfilled clowns acting out in the ¨side show¨ of life...best to be ignored, whenever possible, by family and friends sort of like locking up a drunk aged aunt in the attic...except that we hung out at the local dark, really dark, Gay Bar.

Darian reminds me that LGBT people are part of EVERYONES everyday life. We aren´t weird or evil. We are your brothers, sisters, Moms, Dads, cousins, nephews, schoolmates, coworkers and everyday best friends and passing acquaintances. We are no more likely to be ¨sinfilled perverts or clowns¨ than our heterosexual counterparts. We are people just like YOU!

These past few years I´ve been following the progression of ¨out of the closet¨ activitism by LGBT citizens (often with worldwide scope and often at The Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion). I´ve discovered the very worst reactions that ¨deep down¨ I knew to exist, do exist amongst millions of folks worldwide. HERE I´ve noted time after time that danger lurks for LGBT Christians/citizens both now and in the decades long history of HORRORS at CHURCH HERE

In my own experience of ¨horrors¨ --both self-inflicted and not-- there have been times when I actually bought into the ugly stories generated about people like me. It took years for me to FULLY discover that Gods gift to me was the actual, authentic person of me! It took years for me to see that God simply wanted me to be me and that meant that I would have to become more responsible and accountable too...the hardest part was facing, and not running away from REALITY!

·I have always known that my College friend, Brad, need not have killed himself after his Father caught him with his arm casually draped over the shoulder of his male friend while sleeping over at his folks house in a doublesized bed one weekend after a football game. I went to the funeral, I saw Brad in his coffin and I looked at his expressionless Dad...I looked into his blank stare and I did not speak.

·I have always known that my College friend, Phil need not have killed himself after his first, and only, lover left him without a word, without a note but left him for another man. I went to Phils funeral, I saw Phil in his coffin. I saw him being buried at the Cemetery at Santa Clara. His former ¨loved one¨ was not there. But there were hundreds of bewildered family members and family friends present at the luncheon afterward who didn´t understand why musically very talented Phil died. They grabbed us, hugged us, looked deeply into our eyes with great joy to know that Phils ¨friends¨ were there...a Fraternity Brother and a female friend and I were the only ¨friends¨ in attendence but somehow we seemed to ¨grow into many people¨ like loves and fishes.

·I have always wondered why my dear Jose died. He was murdered in his own home execution style just two weeks short of being 35. He was a kind and gentle person who was not into drugs and always, yes always, HELPED everyone at all levels of society. Why did he die? His death is yet another act done by unthinkable madness. Jose was not a permiscous man but a man with a loving easy-going soul. Why was he murdered? I went to visit him at his tomb to honor him and tell him how I still love him on All Saints day. It´s over eleven years later now and I still don´t know why this good and loving man is dead.

·I think of the young suicides HERE that we´ve seen so many of (documented here at my blog) recently, within the past year. I think of the many and increasing brutal hate crimes generated in the name of a God HERE that I´ve never known.

I think of Archbishop Orombi of Uganda and Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria as they promote/instigate by endorsing ¨legalized¨ hate campaigns against Anglican, Christian and other LGBT FAMILIES. Families and people they will never know, and certainly never knew anything about their innermost character, hearts and/or souls of those whom they marginalized and damn to Hell. You see, Bishops Orombi and Akinola are amongst other grandstanding blowhards seeped in ignorance and feardriven bigotry who only ¨listen¨ to the sound of their own rationalized vicious voices and their ¨conservative¨ backers/accomplices in the United States HERE

Back to Darian and his ¨Living Out Loud with Darian¨ blog. This morning Darian greeted us with a THANKSGIVING FAMILY PORTRAIT including his very best wishes for us all during this Season of Thanksgiving, 2009...I immediately thought of my friends in Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya and Jamaica who I believe will find a measure of HOPE in Darians message from his family and most of us in the United States too...afterall, as Darian says ¨None of us are exempt¨ read it all, click HERE

Onward! I challenge Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ugandan (refugee) Archbishop John, Lord of York, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Primate of The Episcopal Church and ALL the Anglican PRIMATES and ALL the BISHOPS of The ANGLICAN COMMUNION to speak out immediately against the murderous anti-Homosexuality Bill pending at the Parliament of Uganda.. The faux religious slandering that promotes hate crime atrocities must STOP!

Lord have mercy

·Thanks to Darian
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·Thanks to Father Jake, sidebar
·Thanks to Brad, Phil and Jose (for being my friends)
·Thanks to The Reverend Colin Coward
·Thanks to Changing Attitudes, United Kingdom

Lord Hear My Prayer: For those who seek justice in OUR world and deserve a place in American Thanksgiving

The Most Reverend Martin de Jesus Barahona, Primate, Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central de America, The Anglican Communion



Dr. Louie Crew, Founder, Integrity, The Episcopal Church, The Anglican Communion




The Rt. Rev. Catherine S. Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Bishop Roskam served on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church as Chair of the International Concerns Committee and is a representative from the Episcopal Church to the Anglican Consultative Council, The Anglican Communion



The Rt. Reverend David Alvarez, Bishop of Puerto Rico and President Bishop of Province IX of The Episcopal Church, The Anglican Communion



The Most Reverend Mauricio José Araújo de Andrade, Primate, Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, The Anglican Communion



The Most Reverend Frederick J Hiltz, Primate, The Anglican Church of Canada, The Anglican Communion



Father Geoff Farrow, The Roman Catholic Church



The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, The Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, The Anglican Communion




The Rt. Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris (born 12 June 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the first woman ordained a bishop in The Episcopal Church and at The Anglican Communion.



The Most Reverend Barry Morgan, Primate, Archbishop of The Church of Wales, The Anglican Communion




The Reverend Terry Martin aka ¨Father Jake¨ The Episcopal Church, The Anglican Communion



The Right Reverend Eva Brunne, Bishop of Stockholm, The Church of Sweden



The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, The Episcopal Church, The Anglican Communion



Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is since 1992 of New York City’s Congregation Beth Simchat Torah (CBST), Sharon Kleinbaum is as immersed in politics as one can get. She is the openly lesbian leader of the world’s largest gay religious congregation, and is at the forefront of the movement to secure basic civil rights for lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.



The Most Reverend Carlos Touche-Porter, Primate, La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico, The Anglican Communion


The Reverend Canon Mark Harris, Member Executive Council and House of Deputies, ¨Preludium¨, The Episcopal Church, The Anglican Communion



Lord hear my prayer

For ALL of us who seek, and attempt to speak, for justice and mercy in the world and deserve a place in American Thanksgiving.

Christ have mercy

Remembering those persecuted, marginalized and abused daily especially in UGANDA, NIGERIA and JAMAICA at The Anglican Communion and in everyday life elsewhere.
Amen


!FELICIDADES!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Sacatapequez, Guatemala, Central America
November 2009