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The location...
Sorrento, Italy (The Mountain is Mount Vesuvius in Napoli)

The story.....
Lovers in this city place these key locks with their names on it, they lock them and throw the keys in the sea. This way, the key locks will stay forever, and their love will last forever.

Head of Episcopal Church Calls Homosexuality 'A Gift'

From the folks at QUEERTY:

While Pope Benedict thinks of the gays as dangerous bushwhackers destroying the rainforest of heterosexuality and Rev. Rick Warren defends his homophobia by saying he's actually met some honest-to-goodness homosexuals in his life, Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church told the Washington Post over the weekend that homosexuality "Is a reality of creation, not just the human species … For some people to say it’s against the order of creation, it’s a very interesting comment – it doesn’t accord with what we can observe in nature" and then called homosexuality "a gift."

It is refreshing to see a religious leader promoting that which constantly seeks to come to some limited understanding of the Divine and to use it to live better, more meaningful lives instead of the Fundigelical's cudgel which assumes that it fully knows God and seeks to impose its set of ancient rules on mankind (usually others).

Whether or not one believes in a deity, I think it's pretty clear which type of religion (and religious person) makes a better neighbor.

Well Said... With a SNAP!!!

Washington Post's Cohen to Obama: The Party's Off

Richard Cohen's editorial in the Washington Post ("Warren On? Party Off.) gets to the point, quite well, I think, attacking Obama's failings as a moral leader. Here's the end of it:

"I can understand Obama's desire to embrace constituencies that have rejected him. Evangelicals are in that category and Warren is an important evangelical leader with whom, Obama said, 'we're not going to agree on every single issue.' He went on to say, 'We can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans.' Sounds nice.

But what we do not 'hold in common' is the dehumanization of homosexuals. What we do not hold in common is the belief that gays are perverts who have chosen their sexual orientation on some sort of whim. What we do not hold in common is the exaltation of ignorance that has led and will lead to discrimination and violence.

Finally, what we do not hold in common is the categorization of a civil rights issue -- the rights of gays to be treated equally -- as some sort of cranky cultural difference. For that we need moral leadership, which, on this occasion, Obama has failed to provide. For some people, that's nothing to celebrate.

The party's off."

Well said.

Warren On? Party Off. [washington post]