As the saying goes, only the good die young. If that's true, being only just in my 20's I can rest assured that I won't kick the bucket until well into my 90's. So after I've lived a full life making immoral, and irresponsible decisions and I'm beating young whippersnappers off my lawn with my cane while grunting "back in my day…", if I can consider myself one-quarter of the badass that Clint Eastwood is, I'll be a happy grumpy old man. Clint E … Read More
Don’t believe it? Here’s a short list of things they did in the House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee on Thursday morning: Approved, by a 33-27 vote, to require all four Service Chiefs to certify that the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell will not hurt the troops ability to fight. Presently the law requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Defense Secretary, and the President to certify that DADT can be safely rescinded. It seem … Read More
One of the most common untruths, especially in the religiously fundamentalist worldview, and even among many in the gay community, is that homosexual men are unable to form long term, stable, loving relationships. “Studies”, using information from 50 years ago (and concentrating only on men – apparently lesbians are invisible in these “studies”), are used to support the lie that gay men are emotionally damaged, fragile, and unable to love. Well … Read More
Meet Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup. They’re the Dallas couple recently wed in a novel method, using Skype, the Internet, and an officiant located in Washington, D.C. After the wedding, Mark and Dante tried to get their wedding announcement printed in the Dallas Morning News. The newspaper refused, sayi … Read More
I’m a frequent reader/contributor at the online forums of the local paper, the Visalia Times Delta. There’s been an ongoing “discussion” about gay rights, and a recent post about how ‘nobody cares about you being gay’ spurred me to write a rebuttal. The typical ‘if you’d just stay in the closet everybody would be happy’ bullshit was spread around again, so I fired off a salvo in reply. I’ve reposted it here after the fold. You can read the entire thread, if you wish, here.
Proposition 22. Proposition 8. Ballot initiatives in Maine. Almost anywhere there is legal recognition for our relationships, some right-wing religious nutjob is trying to destroy them. In some places, they’re winning, at least for the moment.
But stop and think for a moment. This is what they are fighting against:
Love.
Lord Alfred Douglas, in 1894, called it “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name”. Things have changed some since then, but there are still people out there that want to shove it back into silence. Force it back into the dark corners and hidden places, remove all mention of it from public discourse. For them, only swift and severe condemnation is acceptable. Any other conversation about the subject is immediately labeled “promoting homosexuality”.
It has bothered me for some time why this is so. Why the rabid response to the issue any time it comes up? I think I’ve figured it out…
I’ve posted a blog at TulareCountyAtheists.com about Rhode Island’s Bishop Thomas Tobin and his recent order to deny communion to Representative Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy recently voted against the Stupak amendment to the health care bill currently before Congress, and the Bishop decided that this meant Kennedy was supporting abortion in violation of the Church’s orders to Catholic politicians. Read my blog here.
Random thoughts, occasional rants, illuminating commentary, and an odd story now and then from the world of 9-1-1 dispatching. All this and more from a gay liberal atheist living in California’s Bible belt. Some names have been omitted to protect the innocent, but the guilty will be hung out to dry!
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As the saying goes, only the good die young. If that's true, being only just in my 20's I can rest assured that I won't kick the bucket until well into my 90's. So after I've lived a full life making immoral, and irresponsible decisions and I'm beating young whippersnappers off my lawn with my cane while grunting "back in my day…", if I can consider myself one-quarter of the badass that Clint Eastwood is, I'll be a happy grumpy old man. Clint E … Read More
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The Republicans Hate You (via Queer Landia)
May 12, 2011
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