tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642262011-08-15T11:15:37.436-04:00The road to the sacred runs through the carnal. Not only the Bible but Life itself reveals that sexuality is more spiritual than biological. The erotic is God's poetry of love calling us out of ourselves to awareness of beauty and to an expansive creativity and giving of ourselves. We go to God through one another, via loving, not apart from one another. --Paschal.Paschal Bautehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03101641572623529983noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9964226.post-89492736372280379282010-04-28T12:21:00.001-04:002010-04-28T12:21:55.666-04:00

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Sex Pheromones are Bending the Laws of Attraction(ARA) - Sexual attraction may have a lot to do with chemistry after all. Throughout history, it has been a mystery why certain humans are intimately attracted to each other. Scientific research has now concluded that dating and mating is highly influenced by pheromones, powerful chemicals produced by the body.Pheromones are natural air-borne

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CommonwealJune 15, 2007 / Volume CXXXIV, Number 12ARTICLEHomosexuality & the ChurchTwo ViewsNote: Since this is lengthy and the second view is rambling and not well done,I am deleting the second, which you can find on the Commonweal website if desired.Scripture & ExperienceLuke Timothy JohnsonIs the present crisis in Christian denominations over homosexuality really about sex? I don’t think so.

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There are no homosexuals in Iran. We know this because President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came all the way to New York to tell us so. In a speech at Columbia University, he said: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country." There are no gays in hockey. The reaction to the movie Breakfast With Scot tells us so. This 2007 Canadian flick tells the story of a gay man, a former Toronto

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Why Hillary Is Ready By Patricia Schroeder Women's Media Center Wednesday 24 January 2007 I've been asked, as one who has thrown her own hat in that particular ring, what advice I'd give to Hillary Clinton now that she's announced her candidacy. But Hillary probably knows more about running for President of the United States than anybody on the planet. After all, she's been up-close

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Ellen Goodman: From Stay-at-Home to Speakerhttp://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070103_ellen_goodman_stay_at_home_speaker/Posted on Jan 3, 2007By Ellen GoodmanBOSTON—And so Nancy Pelosi ascends to the speakership with a series of "firsts" raining down on her like confetti. She's the first woman, the first Italian-American, the first Californian, probably the first chocoholic to take her place

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December 21, 2006N.J. Governor Signs Civil Unions BillBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSTRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's governor signed legislation Thursday giving gay couples all the rights and responsibilities of marriage allowed under state law -- but not the title.When the law goes into effect Feb. 19, New Jersey will become the third state offering civil unions to gay couples and the fifth allowing

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I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. My very belief and experience of a loving and endlessly creative God has led me to trust in both.I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world. This life journey has led me to love

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Time gave Dobson a platform to misrepresent -- again -- science on same-sex parenting Summary: In a Time magazine guest column, James Dobson baselessly claimed that "the majority of more than 30 years of social-science evidence indicates that children do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father." In fact, studies have consistently found that children

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Questions for Dr. Louann BrizendineHe Thought, She ThoughtBy DEBORAH SOLOMONNew York Times Sunday Magazine, Dec 10Q: As a professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, you’ve drawn some strange conclusions about “The Female Brain,” to borrow the title of your debut book, which argues that a woman’s brain structure explains a good deal of her behavior, including a

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Comments on Pope Benedict by Rev. Andrew Greeley, published in Commonweal.November, 2005, Review of David Gibson's book, The Rule of Benedict.abstract . . . .Two events since then have confirmed that inclination: Benedict’s reconciliation with Küng, a remarkably gracious event; and Deus caritas est, Benedict’s astonishing first encyclical.The latter, which Gibson dismisses as not new and not

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By Founder, www.catholics4justice.comWould an Angel turn a deaf ear to the cries of a sex abuse victim or a blind eye to the pain and tears of sex abuse victims and their families?::::::::October 21, 2006Dear California Bishops (via email):As recently reported by the Catholic News Agency and Renew America (www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/061019), as Catholic Bishops in California you have

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Published on Sunday, July 9, 2006 by the ProgressiveHorrible Judicial Reasoning on Same-Sex Marriage in New Yorkby Matthew Rothschild Equality took one on the chin Thursday.The decision by New York State’s highest court not to grant marriage equality to same-sex couples was pathetic, so backward and irrational was the reasoning.The main argument was that heterosexual marriage is better for the

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GOD'S POETRY OF LOVE AND LEFT-HANDED SHEPHERDSsubtitle: The Theology and Politics of Sexuality: Copyright, Paschal Baute, 9/10/97, 31st draftHope has two lovely daughters: anger at the way things are and the courage to change them. -AugustineAs a marital therapist working with many Protestant and Catholic couples for 25 years, and as psychologist and lay theologian, I connect many sexual and

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February 14, 2006Op-Ed ColumnistThe Kiss of LifeBy JOSHUA FOERNy TimesWashingtonSINCE it's Valentine's Day, let's dwell for a moment on the profoundly bizarre activity of kissing. Is there a more expressive gesture in the human repertoire?When parents kiss their children it means one thing, but when they kiss each other it means something entirely different. People will greet a total stranger

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February 10, 2006Op-Ed ContributorDon't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay CowboysBy DAN SAVAGESeattleFIRST, a little of that full disclosure stuff: I have not actually seen "Brokeback Mountain"Dan Savage or "End of the Spear," both of which I'm going to discuss here.But since when did not seeing a film prevent anyone from sharing his or her strong opinions about it? Before the posters for "

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But in contrast to his public reputation, Benedict, 78, elected last April, began his encyclical with this premise:Conceding that the church has at times viewed sexuality as something "negative," he placed erotic love between married men and women at the center of God's plan. Sex, he wrote, should mature into unselfish concern for the other — creating a love that ultimately demands charity and

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January 22, 2006Op-Ed ContributorThree Decades After Roe, a War We Can All SupportBy WILLIAM SALETANWashingtonEVERY year, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, pro-lifers add up the fetuses killed since Roe and pray for the outlawing of abortion. And every year, pro-choicers fret that we're one Supreme Court justice away from losing "the right to choose." One side is so afraid of freedom it won't

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(The RC Church and its vendetta against homosexual priests: Wrong once more!)By Joan Chittister, OSBThe church has endeavored more than once, however poorly, to solve the problem of sexual abuse of minors by priests. And now it's trying again. But maybe a little history is in order.First, in the era before pedophilia was even a word, let alone a syndrome, bishops moved pedophile priests away

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The Vatican decree to be released this week, just as the teaching on the intrinsic evil of artificial contraception and masturbation, on celibacy, etc., is based upon a false psychology of sexuality and therefore a false theology of sexuality.Briefly, and others have written about this, it is a physicalist approach, looking only at the physical act.These people make an intrinsic evil out of the

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Oral Sex at the SynagogueUncomfortable or not, it is time for clergy to speak out about how God wants our kids to use their bodiesWEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARYBy Marc GellmanNewsweekUpdated: 1:54 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2005Nov. 9, 2005 - Last Sunday afternoon I had a nice chat with sixth-grade children and their parents about oral sex. Let me assure you that when I studied to be a rabbi, oral sex was not an

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Love is not “Quid pro Quo.”Quid pro Quo is Latin for “something for something”meaning an exchange in which both get something.A similar saying would be ‘Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.”Love means many things to many people.“I love my new (whatever).”A mother’s love is not quid pro quo.A parent’s love cannot be quid pro quo,Because a child cannot be expected to pay back,but the paradox is

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To Our Gay Brothers in Priestly Ministry or Preparing for ItThe Pope and his highest advisors are said to be preparing a statement on homosexuals and the ministry, and have also launched an examination of the seminaries in the United States with what seems to be a particular focus on homosexuality. The Celtic Christian Church is aware of the deep pain this activity will cause in many completely

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(http://www.boston.com/news/globe/) JAMES CARROLLA Catholic moment of truthBy James Carroll | October 3, 2005 ROMETO BE A Roman Catholic in Rome this week is to remember, among so much else, the way in which leaders of this church have squandered their moral authority in recent years. In 1968, it was the disastrous anti-birth control encyclical ''Humanae Vitae," which opened a gulf between

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What matters is not who said it, but what is said. -- St. Thomas Aquinas.One of the issues causing breakdown of communication, division and bad feelings in many church denominations is the diverse views of homosexuality. Two Baptist churches were expelled from their conference yesterday in Atlanta for their views, with the conference refusing dialogue they requested. This disagreement involves

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Sunday, Oct. 02, 2005The Battle Over Gay TeensWhat happens when you come out as a kid? How gay youths are challenging the right--and the leftBy JOHN CLOUDTime magazine, Oct 2, 2005.In May, David Steward, a former president of TV Guide, and his partner Pierre Friedrichs, a caterer, hosted an uncomfortably crowded cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser--there

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A Vermont Mom Speaks Out By Sharon Underwood Originally published in the Valley News of Vermont and New Hampshire in 2000, this letter has been extensively re-published in diverse publications and is presented here with permission from the author. As the mother of a gay son, I've seen firsthand how cruel and misguided people can be. Many letters have been sent to the Valley

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ARTICLEA Gay Priest Speaks Out the vatican, homosexuals & holy ordersRev. Gerard ThomasCommonweal, Lay Catholic Opinion, January 28, 2005.Sometime in the next few months, the Vatican will issue a much-anticipated document addressing the issue of whether gay men can be ordained priests. The policy is being written by the Congregation for Catholic Education in preparation for the upcoming

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September 25, 2005New York TimesAdmirers of Fallen 9/11 Hero Disdain the Vatican's Likely Plan to Bar Gays as PriestsBy ANDY NEWMANThe Rev. Mychal F. Judge, the Fire Department chaplain who died in the rubble of 9/11, was, and still is, one of the most widely loved Roman Catholic priests in New York City's recent history.For 40 years, Father Judge tirelessly ministered to firefighters, their

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Allow me to suggest that this faith community, scattered and virtual such as it is, might work together to develop a letter of loving concern for our gay brothers and sisters in canonical traces and those preparing for ministry and the vowed life. Here is a first draft. You are invited to comment and edit for this purpose.Brothers and Sisters:Pope Benedict XVI has decided to declare your natural

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Celtic Spirituality: Listening to the Heartbeat of Godby J. Philip Newell, Paulist, 1997, 112 pp.ISBN 0-8091-3795-3a few notes by Paschal Bautewith a mention of other books by Martin Prechtel.N. emphasizes in this little book the essential goodness of creation and humanity, that is to say, that God’s Presence is to be found in the whole of human life, in Nature, in all creation, in human love,

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MARITAL INTIMACY AND SPIRITUALITY Many years ago I did my doctoral research at University of Pennsylvania, on “Intimacy in the Conjugal Relationship: A Description Analysis of the Felt Experience.” (Dissertation Abstracts, Vol XXIX, No. 1, 1968, Order N. 68-9862). I set out to discover the components of the phenomenon of intimacy as it existed in the social unit of happily married couples. Here

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First, let me say, hello from here in Lexington, and thank you for your warm and enthusiastic response to my workshop completed today, Feb. 19. This was the 3 hour workshop on Sex and the Sacred at the Spirituality and Psychology conference for Ohio Psychologists, Deer Lake Resort, Feb. 18-19. We had 17 present, my memory is about 5 men and 12 women.Apart from the content, I chose also to teach

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On a recent list posting a list of theways men are, humor about “men.”I laugh about those puns about mencase there is always some element of realityin the Laughing At men's idiosyncrasies.But another part of me says, womencannot take that kind of kidding from us men,NO Way. Their sensitivities would be outraged.Any man who talks about"how women are"is certainly amalechauvinistpig–His stereotyping

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She was lovelybeautifulbeyond compareuntilshe beganto find faultwith me.I was no longerthe “Perfect lover”that sheimaginedI was.But it washer thinkingthat made meso.It was not mebut whatshe wantedme to be.Once she startedlooking at me criticallyit seemedshecouldnotstop.Shechanged.From being “the perfect lover”I became insteadthe man whocould notdo anything right.I began to lookfor ways to avoid

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See my letter to a friend on the "Love's Poetry Blog" posted tonight.

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"THE SENSUOUS IS SACRED. FOR TOO LONG in the Christian tradition we have demonized the sensuous and pitted the 'dim senses' against the 'majestic soul'. This turned God into an abstract ghost, aloof and untouchable; and it made the senses the gateways to sin. But the world is the body of God. Hopkins is the great poet of God's beauty. He writes: Glory be to God for dappled things. . . All things

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Poets alone have risked expressing a view of the erotic as Mysterious Presence that invites us into otherness, and Otherness. Churches, theologians and psychologists have been leery of attributing any transcendent value to human sexuality and sensuality--all aspects of the erotic of our bodies, minds, hearts and souls. Early Christianity saw sexuality as opposed to spirituality, and that

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The core question is: by what strange alchemy has the liberating gospel of Jesus who unconditionally accepted wounded humanity become translated into a contemporary sexual ethic that is restrictive, uninspiring and guilt forming? In this paper I strive to answer this, more often using the Catholic context as a larger frame for one dominant Christian view. Other questions that must be addressed

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Your blog editor is Paschal Baute, Ed. D., a psychologist in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky for 34 years and long time member of APA Division 36, Religion and Psychology. Also marital therapist, pastoral counselor, married Catholic priest, now semi-retired. He is a co-facilitator of the Spiritual Growth Network of Kentucky for 15 years. He has written on the interface of psychology,

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