Is the Republican's belief that the sanctity of marriage and the protection of marriage is to prevent gays

It is not yet clear if this female staffer Congressman Mcallister is seen kissing was fired or if she quit. (C&E)

A Republican politican in wis. will be going to court on Mon. for s*xual battery. In 2011,he assaulted a woman and fellow Republican who believed he was trying to rape her and she for the good of the party did not report the attack, but did have her attorney write him a letter after she reported him to the police to tell him if he ever does this to anyone else, she would press charges!

He did and she did. (C&E)

I wonder if any of this will have any effect on the two Republican female Senators who voted against the equal pay for women that killed it in 2009 which will be up again tomorrow for votes (C&E)

Bodhisattva Wisdom Accumulated questioned Manjushri, saying, "This sutra is very profound, subtle, and wonderful, a treasure among sutras, a rarity in the world. Are there perhaps any living beings who, by earnestly and diligently practicing this sutra, have been able to attain buddhahood quickly?"

Manjushri replied, "There is the daughter of the dragon king Sagara, who has just turned eight. Her wisdom has keen roots and she is good at understanding the activities and deeds of the sense organs of living beings. She has mastered the dharanis, has been able to accept and embrace all the storehouse of profound secrets preached by the buddhas, has entered deep into meditation, thoroughly grasped the doctrines, and in the space of an instant conceived the desire for enlightenment and reached the level of no regression. Her eloquence knows no hindrance, and she thinks of living beings with compassion as though they were her own children. She is fully endowed with blessings, and when it comes to conceiving in mind and expounding by mouth, she is subtle, wonderful, comprehensive, and great. Kind, compassionate, benevolent, yielding, she is gentle and refined in will, capable of attaining enlightenment."

...And, because Buddhism believes a B-U-D-D-A is anyone who has been able to over come the 4 sufferinigs of mankind...
1. Birth...
2. Sickness...
3. Old Age...
4. Death...and has been "enlighten' to be come h-a-p-p-y by way of having removed the 4 objects of life's sufferings can become a "BUDDAH in one'slife time...

What Steve has just commented on is how women have been able to be 'equally' a Buddha as men can be. (C&E)...Something still needed to day but was so missing in especially in Congress, 4-9-14, as well as our society at large...