Offsite Post: ‘Faithfulness to Family’

 

Around the still waters of the lake,

We hail our kinsmen and shyly stutter

Out a greeting to shorten the distance

That has grown up between us after a year

Has passed.  But as the gap closes

And we rejoice in the communion

Of those standing visibly with us,

We become aware of a deeper mystery,

The lingering presence of those

Who have gone before us – like the fresh smell

Of rain after an evening shower –

 . . .

The rest is at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/faithfulness-to-family .

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Russia Nullifies European Court of Human Rights’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

 

If Russia, which has little historical experience with the practice of nullification, is willing to defy Europe’s high court, why can’t the South, which does have a long history of practicing States’ rights/nullification, do the same with regard to our own federal courts when it comes to these same social issues:  abortion, LGBT rights, and so on?  Perhaps it is because we are not as Christian as we think we are, but are instead a weak shadow of and a disgrace upon our forefathers and mothers.

Here is the report on Russia’s actions:

 

Russia is rejecting the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) call to legalize gay marriage as it fundamentally contradicts the federal constitution. 

 

Having heard the complaints of three gay couples from Moscow and the Lipetsk Province, the ECHR stated in its decision published yesterday that the prohibition on same-sex marriage violates the private and family life rights provided for by the European Convention on Human Rights. 

 

“As regards same-sex couples, the Court has already held that they are just as capable as different-sex couples of entering into committed relationships. They are in a relevantly similar situation to a different-sex couple as regards their need for formal acknowledgment and protection of their relationship,” the decision reads (§ 48). 

 

While the Court noted that it can’t impose a direct requirement to recognize gay marriages, it believes the state needs to compromise on the issue and find the most suitable form of registration of same-sex couples, taking into account the social and cultural context. Granting minorities official recognition of their status in a form other than marriage would not contradict the traditional understanding of marriage prevailing in Russia, the Court argues. 

 

Last June, Russians overwhelmingly voted for a set of constitutional amendments that included the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, thus strengthening the existing prohibition on gay marriages and civil unions. 

 

Responding to the decision, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called the ECHR judges incompetent and called on them to resign. 

 

“When making such decisions, the ECHR judges should know the national legislation of the country to which it applies… In this matter, the judges showed a lack of qualifications, having made, in fact, an illegal decision that contradicts national legislation,” Volodin wrote on his Тelegram channel. 

 

“It would be right for them, in this regard, to resign,” the Speaker stated. 

 

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The rest is at https://orthochristian.com/140521.html .

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘I Love Old Dixie’

By Paul Yarbrough

I love that old refrain. Of place

That wreathes with eternal song;

That suckles those whose love is

Of the South.

Oh, Dixie land             

 

Where the deep-rooted ages

Are swept to memory in such view.

“Away, away” its chorus cries

And cries its name,

Oh, Dixie land

 

Where God placed pastoral grips

Of His children enriched in spirit;

Heeding masculine pleas with code,

And all same, toil for His will.

Oh, Dixie Land    

 

Existing from the flow of water

That clears and browns from

The reaches of the mountains,

Unto its deltas spread.

Oh, Dixie land

 

It brings rich dreams to us.

Those men of soil and life for

Their ladies strong of heart and mind;       

Whose feminine manners reach out,

Oh, Dixie land

 

Those Yankee hymns; craven shameless

Lyrics cry for blood to flood the land;

And bury the blissful times

Of those whose home was sacred.

Oh, Dixie land

 

Its knights brave and dashing;

All did climb those bloody walls, 

And waged and sang the final song,  

To eternity; yes,

Oh, Dixie land

 

It is a love, a love and love,

That takes my mind to heights

Before unknown but to God;

And stirs my thoughts.

Oh, Dixie land

 

It lets me sleep with fertile dreams

Of the people and their world;

Such a place claims Injun Batter,

And Buckwheat cakes, too.

Oh, Dixie land

 

It can cry, while its tears softly run.

From folk: set to work, raised by prayer;

And strong of mind and spine, and

Always their souls to be lifted up.

Oh, Dixie Land

 

Of haranguing Yankees’ jealousies

My love will not be slaked;

That love but grows protecting it,   

While we stood; now stand, against such evil bent.

Oh, Dixie land

 

Oh Lord I love the life down wherein

It breathes from unlike chests.

But all and all molded as Southern,

And never, never will we annul.

Oh, Dixie land

 

It flies its flag within its heart.

And hears that Rebel cry’s brave shout,

In spite of those who hate

This valiant land of love and hope.

Oh, Dixie land

 

I love old Dixie. My home.

That holds a well of dreams; wherefore

All mystic visions are special,

And are in God’s eyes, ascended splendor.

Oh, Dixie land.

--Paul H. Yarbrough was born and reared in Jackson, Mississippi. Attended Miss. State, served in the USMC and finished college at University of Louisiana (Lafayette) in Mathematics. He moved to Houston, Texas in the oil industry and has lived there since 1973. He is a widower and has a son and daughter-in-law who live in North Louisiana. He began writing fiction as a hobby several years ago. He had 4 published novels (all on Amazon) and a handful of short stories and poems out there.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!