Comments on: An Unlikely Friendship http://www.mombian.com/2009/06/10/an-unlikely-friendship/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:34:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Polly http://www.mombian.com/2009/06/10/an-unlikely-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-92330 Polly Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:23 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=4812#comment-92330 Thank you Dana for calling our attention to this amazing post. I look forward to taking it in. You're so right, that one of the most important next phases of the process includes the unglamorous, patience-taxing work of carefully examining and disentangling the complex knots that bind up people's spiritual beliefs with a notion that they obligate the state to reflect them. Even when they cancel out many other equally deeply-held spiritual beliefs. Genuine pluralism -- religious, political, social, what have you -- is very hard to achieve, and it seems it takes a great deal of respect for other people to get there. Thank you for fostering that here, and for helping us see it at work elsewhere. Thank you Dana for calling our attention to this amazing post. I look forward to taking it in. You’re so right, that one of the most important next phases of the process includes the unglamorous, patience-taxing work of carefully examining and disentangling the complex knots that bind up people’s spiritual beliefs with a notion that they obligate the state to reflect them. Even when they cancel out many other equally deeply-held spiritual beliefs.

Genuine pluralism — religious, political, social, what have you — is very hard to achieve, and it seems it takes a great deal of respect for other people to get there. Thank you for fostering that here, and for helping us see it at work elsewhere.

]]> By: St http://www.mombian.com/2009/06/10/an-unlikely-friendship/comment-page-1/#comment-92329 St Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:14:48 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=4812#comment-92329 Wow, even as a straight Christian I can't seem to find it in me to understand those who oppose same-sex marriage. Thanks for the challenge! Wow, even as a straight Christian I can’t seem to find it in me to understand those who oppose same-sex marriage. Thanks for the challenge!

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