Titanic Post

Come see The Vagina Monologues

Rohovec Performing Arts Center NMSU-Alamogordo campus

Friday February 11 at 7:30 pm
Saturday February 11 at 7:30 pm
Sunday February 13 at 2:00 pm

Tickets $5 at the door or at River’s Web Strategy,  708 Granada Center  off of 1st street in Alamogordo near the laundro-mat. 575-430-7543

Being a V-Man is recognizing that we men are privileged. This means that we men often claim the privilege of being the head of our households – that we men sometimes claim the privilege of making financial decisions at home.  We are aware that men can claim a higher status than women. We are aware that if we are white, we can claim undeserved privilege over other races. (more…)

Living in a homophobic county as I do, and seeing that most of the anti-gay rhetoric is based on statements from evangelical ministers’ interpretation of the New Testament, I was pleased to find the following piece by Dr. William Stacy Johnson, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Arthur M. Adams Associate Professor of Systematic Theology.

Printed in The Christian Century, January 15, 2008

SEX AND SLAVERY: William Stacy Johnson notes that there are three forms of homoeroticism:

Age-differentiated homosexuality, known as pederasty and common among the ancient Greeks, is when a younger person is expected to give sexual favors to his mentor as a rite of passage.

Status-defined homosexuality, in which a superior performs a sexual act with a passive inferior who is often stigmatized, was common among the ancient Romans.

Egalitarian homosexu­ality, in which the partners are in an equal and mutual relationship, is the pre­dominant form today.

Johnson points out that no biblical text addresses this third type of homosexuality and that the sec­ond (more…)