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On Responding to Anti-Gay Religious Bigots

When coming upon a conversation questioning the wholeness of human beings who happen to be gay or transgender, feel free to use the text below as your response. An anti-lgbt homophobic religious bigot isn’t worth a long rebuttal. And since … Continue reading

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On The Sexuality Characteristic & Wicked Debates

A comment I left on a Facebook contact’s note entitled Being Christian and Being Gay: “Life is profoundly & naturally diverse in almost every characteristic you can think of. The sexuality characteristic is no exception. To believe homosexuality is an unwhole, … Continue reading

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No on 1: Those Last Horrible Hours

Photos I took while volunteering for the Maine No on 1 campaign from Oct 1 – Nov 3, 2009. Until those last horrible few hours on Election Day when a majority of voting Mainers (53%) voted away the hard won … Continue reading

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47% of Voting Mainers Support Full Marriage Rights for LGBT Folk

The insidious power of fear, smears and ignorance has snatched marriage equality, once again, from lgbt folk. This time in Maine. 47% of voting Mainers supported marriage equality; not enough to be done with this madness now. But still, 47% … Continue reading

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Maine No on 1, Marriage Equality and a Tsunami of LGBT Youth Activism

The most recent poll has Maine’s No on 1 at 53% and Yes on 1 at 42% with Undecided’s at around 6%. Soon, data land, where I volunteer, comes to an end (hurray!) and the final massive Get Out the … Continue reading

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Everyday Evil Reborn

hate filled mobYesterday 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

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Gay People In Iran Are Being Massacred

Insanity. Religious insanity. This is what happens when the priestly class takes over a country. Absolutely vile. Thugs in robes. A disgrace. The anti-gay industries in the USA are only moderate because they must be, not because they believe any … Continue reading

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Fundies Write The Darndest Things (as read by actors)

“You know there’s a lot of things in life I’ve concluded to be wrong without studying them in depth. Evolution is one of them. You know the fact that I don’t know a thing about it doesn’t bother me in … Continue reading

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Is There Value in Appeasing Anti-gay Bigots?

No. There are many reasons for bigotry, for supremacist belittling views of gay people. There were many reasons for supporting slavery, Jim Crow. Those reasons were and still are fundamentally based upon aggressive ignorance and dogmatic fear. And, you see, … Continue reading

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The San Francisco Tiger Christmas Attack and the Bogarting of God

Cat Teeth Remember the Asian Tsunami a couple Christmas’s ago? What a birthday present for His Son! And how omnipotent of Him, right? Yet this time He willed a monstrous beast to feast on a young man while giving two others literally a gut-wrenching preview for when it was their turn. I’m starting to think that Jesus is hard to please. Continue reading

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