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	<title>Indwelling Spirit Blog</title>
	<link>http://indwellingspirit.org</link>
	<description>Thoughts, Rants and Prayers for LGBT Christians</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A new “front line” in the “culture wars”</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/24/a-new-%e2%80%9cfront-line%e2%80%9d-in-the-%e2%80%9cculture-wars%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Catechism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Christian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am still working slowly on the materials for an extended Gay Catechism, which I announced last spring. But since that time, the amazing window of light opened for same-gender marriage, and the election, with all its promise and problems, slammed down upon us. Obama is ready to change America (read: undo most of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Yes&#8221; won and the welcoming churches were quiet.</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/21/why-yes-won-and-the-welcoming-churches-were-quiet/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/21/why-yes-won-and-the-welcoming-churches-were-quiet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fundamentalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Christian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reflecting a lot ever since November 4 about why the &#8220;Yes on Proposition 8&#8243; side won, and the whole thing has gotten me upset enough to launch a web site, &#8220;NoOn8Church.&#8221;  There are many factors, which I examine there (see the Why Yes Won page), but here I am concentrating on the &#8220;liberal&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught totally off-guard by small-town politics.</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/19/caught-totally-off-guard-by-small-town-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/19/caught-totally-off-guard-by-small-town-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Public Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I serve on the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles—one of almost 100 small and serious councils of ordinary citizens–volunteers all–who vet public issues for their neighbors and attempt to provide a link between citizens and City Hall.  In a city as large as Los Angeles, the GGPNC could represent as many as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It has become our business.</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/19/it-has-become-our-business/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/19/it-has-become-our-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PD</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carl had been telling me of his &#8220;water-cooler conversations&#8221; with people at work about Proposition 8. One work friend, who lives in the San Gabriel Valley, who had attended our wedding a few days before, had actually marched across the street from his home to talk with a neighbor who had posted a &#8220;Yes on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Distortion and Four Lies</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/14/scientific-distortion-and-four-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/14/scientific-distortion-and-four-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HIV and AIDS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ex-Gay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In late October Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out that another researcher has announced that the National Association for Research &#38; Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) &#8220;grossly and deliberately distorted&#8221; her research regarding sexual orientation. I have mentioned Besen’s own research and credentials in this blog several times, and his book Anything But Straight here).
Dr. Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fable About Equality</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/13/a-fable-about-equality/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/13/a-fable-about-equality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PD</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ecumenical Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This just in by e-mail from Andrea Szeredy:
One day, the Catholics of the world realized that they far outnumbered all the other kinds of Christians.
&#8220;Look,&#8221; they said &#8220;There&#8217;s over 1.1 billion of us. There&#8217;s only 16 million Southern Baptists, 12 million Mormons, 5 million Lutherans&#8230; Let&#8217;s use our numbers to change some things.&#8221;
So they used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformative Power and Public Drunkenness</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/07/277/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/07/277/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Christian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Coming Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I see first hand the results of the 12-Step ministry every time I meet someone in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction. As you probably know, Alcoholics Anonymous has been called the most important spiritual movement of the 20th century. There is enormous transformative power in faith and solidarity to overcome addictions and its derivatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A big issue for a young journalist.</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/02/a-big-issue-for-a-young-journalist/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/02/a-big-issue-for-a-young-journalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was interviewed by a young journalism student whom I met at our wedding a few weeks ago. She came by the office, and was loaded with broad questions that kept me talking for over 80 minutes. When she left, with a notepad and a tape recorder, explaining that she would transcribe every word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last one in this love run.</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/01/the-last-one-in-this-love-run/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/11/01/the-last-one-in-this-love-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Christian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I officiated at another of those same-sex weddings.  The last one on my list of more than a dozen since June 17, and as touching to me as any of them.
The grooms have been together 25+ years, but had not properly celebrated that incredible milestone.  They were planning a big party for next Spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presbyterians Against Proposition 8</title>
		<link>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/10/28/presbyterians-against-proposition-8/</link>
		<comments>http://indwellingspirit.org/2008/10/28/presbyterians-against-proposition-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lesbian/Gay Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Christian]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I applaud Rev. Dan Smith both in his courage and in his reasoning why Proposition 8 is wrong and unfair:
For public release  October 28, 2008
Brothers and Sisters of many faiths,
Let us be absolutely clear that in our opposition to Proposition 8 we are asking nothing more than what already exists in the respectful balance between the [...]]]></description>
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