2004 Archives

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good...

Krishnamurti says that all it takes is an instant "seeing" of the things as they are. Not thinking or idealizing or pursuing or progressing towards other things or ideals but just "seeing" things as they are in this very moment. This is opposite to the psychological evolution that most operate under. Psychological evolution is the problem...

LESSON ONE: Homosexuals are a minority of human beings. We naturally experience both emotional affection and physical attraction toward others of the same sex. For a sampling of nature's messiness and unwillingness to exist in 'black and white' see How Common are Intersex Conditions?. LESSON TWO: Homosexuals are...

Since the anti-gay marriage amendments passed and President Bush threw his support behind a federal amendment, the forces which seek to segregate the homosexual back into 'the closet' have, of course, grown more confident. CBS and NBC (see below) have outright acquiesced to the further oppression, exclusion and...

Starry, starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey, Look out on a summer's day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Catch the breeze and the winter chills, In colors on the snowy linen land. Now I understand what you tried to say to me, How you suffered...

This morning found KKK hate fliers decrying racial mixing atop many of the cars of my little city of Shepherdsville, Kentucky. This is in Bullitt County where I grew up and although I'm not the least bit surpirsed, I am disgusted and angry. I can't but think how these fliers might effect any of the minority groups now living...

...For nearly a decade, Nancy Rodriques has battled the demons that swirl around the murder of her son, Paul Broussard, her first of three children by two husbands. She asks herself whether she was accepting enough when Paul came out to her not long before his death. She regrets not being able to comfort him after...

I'd like to speak to all my gay friends out there about the recent anti-gay state amendments. I think it's important to understand what has happened. The movement to protect the 'sanctity of marriage' is really the doctrine of segregation reborn. The very phrase 'sanctity of marriage' is no less putrid and powerfully evil than was...

Today while flipping channels I came across a black minister decrying the argument which equates today's gay civil rights movement with yesterday's black civil rights movement. He said it was immoral and offensive. Shame on that segment of the black community which falsely believe they alone are entitled to civil rights and...

1 Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, heart transplants and birth control are not natural. 2 Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people cannot get legally married because the world needs more...

1. Hopefully, if there is a god, it is far removed from our human lives, for if a god exists in the way many sincere people believe - a transcendent being who watches over us and takes a first hand...

This year, married couples were the stars at the 34th annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. Organized by Marriage Equality California, which is trying to legalize same-sex marriage, many of the couples marched carrying enlarged copies of...

...science helps us avoid dogmatism: the basing of conclusions on authority rather than science. For example, how do we know the Earth is round?: 1. a parent told us. 2. a teacher told us. 3. a minister told us. 4....

Just as activist judges legally ended segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, so to have activist judges begun ending the exculsion of gays from the rights of marriage. Long live these so called 'activist judges' who counter the tyranny...

Homosexuality is an uncommon yet natural variant in all societies throughout all of time. Heterosexuality's 'traditional family' has never been and will never be in danger due to the existence of homosexuality. Those who are right-handed have nothing to fear...

My year old Labrador Retriever 'Bella' was set loose to play this afternoon. Snow had come. In the past, she ran the moment I unleashed her. But never too far from me. She was just playing with her temporary freedom...