• Good and Joyful Things

    P-Town Races Five Miles Long

    BOSTON – A federal judge Thursday rejected a last-minute bid by conservative groups to block the nation’s first state-sanctioned gay marriages from taking place in Massachusetts next week. The line to get married forms on the far left in Provincetown – get ready, set, go! Run like the wind, couples in love, and get hitched while the hitchin’ is good! And yes, so far my own marriage is still not threatened one little bit by the marriage of gay persons. So there, nyah.

  • Good and Joyful Things

    Oregon Freezes Before The Thaw

    The only US jurisdiction currently to allow homosexual weddings has suspended them while equally moving to grant such unions historic legal recognition. A circuit judge in Multnomah County, Oregon, ordered a freeze on gay marriage licenses to give the State Legislature a chance to formalise them. Judge Frank Bearden also ordered the state to recognise the 3,022 licenses issued in the county since 3 March. The move is a first for the entire US, where the issue has divided opinion. There are plenty of related links in the right hand column in this article. When I lived in Oregon, in…

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    See You In Virtual Church

    Via AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Fools’ Errand, a new interactive virtual church experiment at Ship of Fools. With pews made from pixels, the congregation logging in from their home computers and the collection sent in by mobile phone, the world’s first 3D online church is going to be church like never before. The House of God is set to become the Mouse of God. Well, it sounds interesting, might be fun to log in and check it out when they get it running – it begins May 11th, but they’re still looking for funding.

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Maundy Thursday

    The Ineffable Bass asks: Hopefully you haven’t ruined your mind yet with that Harry Potter stuff, ’cause I have a question: What time is the choir assembling on Thursday night? And the service is at 8 pm, right? We’re getting there at about 730pm, the Maundy Thursday service is at 8pm. The vigil lasts until midnight, but the formal service (that we sing at) isn’t longer than a normal service, IIRC. Which reminds me that I really need to update the church website. Eeesh, Front Page. Eeesh.