Debate over ordination of gays and lesbians - Article about the debate in the Church of Norway following bishop Køhn's reinstation of a chaplain living in a lesbian partnership.
Registered Partnership - From Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. Describes the Partnership Act, which enables two homosexual persons of the same sex to enter into a registered partnership with one another.
The Data Lounge: Norway - News items and discussion forum. Issues include marriage, clergy, and adoption.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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-- G. K. Chesterton You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
