2005 Archives
Today out of curiosity I bought a block of Limburger cheese. I was shopping for the ingredients of Pasta Puttanesca with the requisite capers, anchovies, garlic cloves, linguine, etc. Also, as it's that time of year, I bought some Chestnuts....
Continue reading Limburger Virgins and Puttanesca Whores.
Here is my variant of Sudoku. Instead of the numberals 1 through 9, use the letters found in the two words 'lesbian' and 'gay' but use 'a' only once. Therefore, in each row, column and 3x3 grid, the solved puzzle will contain each of the following 9 letters: L E S B I A N G Y...
Continue reading Sudoku (LESBIANGaY).
Within the gay community, sexual addiction runs rampant. When sex is rendered a meaningless transaction only about pleasure, it becomes another form of recreational drug use. Sexual addiction robs the addict of healthy views of sexuality and intimacy. Are you sexually compulsive?...
Continue reading How Much is Too Much?.
The Gay Lesbian Civil Rights Movement's most important success will be that of creating an environment in which gay people feel free and welcome to express their basic core humanity without regard to their sexuality. The energy that out gay people now must expend in order to make their place openly and honestly...
Continue reading Gay People Are Not From Mars.
For most out gay teens today, they will mature into a country (USA) that will, for the most part, bar them from marrying the one they love. Many may enter adulthood in states that categorize them as unfit to foster or adopt children...
Continue reading Gay Teens Confront Their Humanity.
Jonathan I. Katz posted an article through his school's website entitled "In Defense of Homophobia" (hat tip Good As You). In it he calls gay people basically diseased, immoral and repulsive. Here follows my emailed response...
Continue reading Jonathan I. Katz: In Defense of Thought Turds.
Newsbusters.org denounces the Time magazine article The Battle Over Gay Teens by John Cloud as playing with the facts. I ventured into the comments and found myself in a sea of stubborn prideful dismay at John Cloud's audacity to report gay teenagers as (GASP!) mostly happy well-adjusted people....
Continue reading A New Generation of Irrational Haters Arise.
What happens when you come out as a kid? How America's gay youths are challenging the right--and the left. The appearance of so many gay adolescents has, predictably, worried social conservatives, but it has also surprised gay activists...
Continue reading John Cloud: The Battle Over Gay Teens.
I fear that many who call themselves Conservative but aren't themselves Christian Fundamentalists are choosing not to make a distinction given the current theocratic climate of the GOP. Too many Conservatives don't seem to worry about or understand the implications of the Christian Fundamentalist takeover of...
Continue reading John Roberts, Bill Moyers and Fascist Fundamentalists.
They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite corners of the state, Jack Twist in Lightning Flat up on the Montana border, Ennis del Mar from around Sage, near the Utah line, both high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered...
Continue reading Brokeback Mountain: Annie Proulx and Ang Lee.
There were loud cheers as lawmakers voted 41-35 to approve an historic gay marriage bill. The bill's supporters compared the legislation to earlier civil rights campaigns, including efforts to eradicate slavery and give women the right to vote...
Continue reading Mark Leno Leads, Gov. Schwarzenegger Cowers.
The national disgrace continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as some evangelical right-wing religious leaders confidently explain God's will, while some mainstream corporate newsreaders begin acting like responsible journalists (or at least caring human beings) after getting fed up with the official spin...
Continue reading Katrina Purges Sin and Spin.
As it stands, Federal hate crime legislation sends a powerful signal to the states that the assumptions on which hate crime statutes are based are fundamentally accepted as correct...
Continue reading Hate Crime, Statistics and Apathy.
Inspired by the organizing successes of early anti-gay crusaders like Anita Bryant, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, fundamentalist political activists have turned the anti-gay movement into a virtual industry over the last three decades...
Continue reading The Anti-Gay Industry and Paul Cameron.
In the past 30 years since leaving the
"ex-gay" ministry I have seen nothing but shattered lives, depression
and even suicide among those connected with the "ex-gay" movement...
Continue reading John Evans: Shattered Lives of the "Ex-Gay" Movement.
Two gay teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, were publicly executed in Iran on 19 July 2005 for the 'crime' of homosexuality. Iran enforces Islamic Sharia law, which dictates the death penalty for gay sex. (more photos)
Continue reading Compassion for Iranian Gay Teens Lost to Religious Insanity.
As long as society treated them as queer, many homosexuals threw the taunt back by embracing the party lifestyle, forming a rich underworld where they could feel accepted and safe. Now, at last, they can feel that way in the light of day.
Continue reading A Long, Dark Era is Over (for some).
Today, the Spanish society answers to a group of people who, during many years, have been humiliated, whose rights have been ignored, whose dignity has been offended, their identity denied, and their liberty oppressed...
Continue reading Avoiding Senseless Suffering of Decent Human Beings.
Jesus did teach about marriage. In the gospel of Mark, Jesus is remembered to have said that if a man "divorces his wife and marries another, he commits adultery against her." There are no exceptions noted...
Continue reading The UCC and Gay Marriage; Jesus and Adulterers.
An unconscious indoctrinated people, fed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical...
Continue reading Moyers: Orthodoxy Is Unconsciousness.
I think this has been the most difficult speech I have ever had to write and to deliver. It is a long speech. I pray you will bear with me until its end. It is an attempt to give you some idea of who and what we are up against...
Continue reading Larry Kramer: The Tragedy of Today's Gays.
Yesterday it was 'Purity of Race'; today, 'Sanctity of Marriage'. Jim Crow is reborn as One Man One Woman. The wicked Jesse Helms is replaced by the wicked Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson. The racist white majority has reappeared as the homophobic evangelical majority...
Continue reading Everyday Evil Reborn.
"I will never understand those who proclaim love as the foundation of life, while denying so radically protection, understanding and affection to our neighbors, our friends, our relatives, our colleagues," Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told parliament in a 'state of the nation' address...
Continue reading What Kind of Love Excludes?.
Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Watch the film online at PBS Frontline...
Continue reading Paragraph 175: The Holocaust and Homosexuals.
In the late 1970s there was a takeover. Ostensibly the issue was the Bible, but the real issue was control: who gets to decide how the Bible's interpreted, whether women could be ministers, what the agenda of the Church will be. And slowly, but effectively, they took over the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention...
Continue reading Totalitarian Evangelical Domination.
A nation at war - and especially one fought far away - ought to bare the reality of that war, at the very least, by seeing up-close what it means for those fighting or living through it: pain, suffering, misery, gore, torture, humiliation and death. The media ought to serve the public interest by giving us the full story...
Continue reading Amy Goodman and Corporate Media Propaganda.
Recent changes in marriage are part of a worldwide upheaval in family life that has transformed the way people conduct their personal lives as thoroughly and permanently as the Industrial Revolution transformed their working lives 200 years ago. Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies...
Continue reading The Evolution of Marriage.
My integrity, identity and power to defend them form the bases for all other good things in my life. Being willing to seek others who don't cowardly comply with the extremist aspects of society but seek to change it or, at the very least, oppose it is incredibly important to me now. Queer Visions is but one embodiment...
Continue reading Out of the Darkness: A Message from the Editor.
Evan Wolfson (Freedom to Marry Coalition) and Lou Sheldon (Traditional Values Coalition) debated 'gay marriage' last night. “In 1948, 90 percent of the population was against interracial marriage, but California’s courts were the first to have the courage to strike down the ban as unconstitutional,” Wolfon said...
Continue reading Love, Commitment, Fairness, Freedom.
What happened to the 'sanctity of marriage'? It appears the anti same-sex marriage folks have again abandoned rationality and facts in favor of the hearsay supporting gut emotional reactions. Many of course claim their views represent 'God's Will'. This I find especially immoral, arrogant, self-serving...
Continue reading The War on Michael, The Legacy of Terri.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where .. no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; .. that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish - where no public official .. accepts instructions on public policy from .. any .. ecclesiastical source...
Continue reading JFK on Church State Relations.
Contrary to an all-too-common misperception, it is simply not the case that all clergy and religious communities in Kansas support this amendment. In our considered view, this proposal threatens to dignify discrimination and undermine religious liberty. Furthermore, we feel that it violates a basic tenant...
Continue reading 50 Clergy in Kansas Come Out Against Amendment!.
Trolley drivers on this city's F Line rang their bells as a minister in a purple shirt and ecclesiastical collar, a 16-year-old girl and her two lesbian mothers, and 150 other supporters of same-sex marriage celebrated a court decision that California was violating its Constitution by not allowing gays to marry...
Continue reading Judge Rules "No Rational Basis Exists" Opposing Gay Marriage.
For the first time in our history ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven. Ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but always blind...
Continue reading Moyers, Ideology, Theology & The Rapture Index.
One of the most persistent debates surrounding homosexuality regards whether gays are “born that way” or whether homosexuality is a “chosen lifestyle.” The debate is ill-formed from the start, in that it conflates two separate questions: How did you become what you are? Can you change what you are?
Continue reading Nature? Nurture? It Doesn't Matter..
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin kicked off parliamentary debate on the same-sex marriage bill Wednesday giving the following speech: I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people...
Continue reading Canadian Prime Minister Martin: "Equality for All".
Recently, I skimmed a discussion thread between an evangelical christian and a non-evangelical gay person regarding salvation, sin, god and of course homosexualtiy. the gay person was trying to reason with the evangelical while the evangelical was trying to exorcise the gay man. It was all rather insane...
Continue reading Santa Boogey - Myth, Mystery and Manure.
What statements do I hear or read over and over when people object to gay human beings in one form or another? I discredit a few here or at least address them. I won't waste my time on the one that generally goes, "well that's just what I believe". Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts...
Continue reading Arguing 4 the Gay Agenda w/Apples & Oranges.
BILL C-38
An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes WHEREAS the Parliament of Canada is committed to upholding the Constitution of Canada, and section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that every individual is equal before and under the law...
Continue reading The Canadian Gay Marriage Bill.
Sweet 'Buster' is far from radical By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff January 29, 2005 12:34:56 PM 12:34:56 PM The most incendiary thing about the controversial lesbian episode of the kid's show "Postcards From Buster" may be the food. I mean really, who puts a pickle on a plate with maple syrup, shaved ice...
Continue reading Hypocrites Influence PBS, Censor Children.
Keeping faith in a better tomorrow does not require belief in a supernatural omnipotent god being. Keeping faith in a better tomorrow requires only keeping. Belief in a supernatural omnipotent god being is unnecessary and often confuses. Having hope for a better tomorrow does not require belief in a supernatural...
Continue reading Faith without a God Being.