All Be Afraid

Should I be afraid that the group Concerned Women for America, which threatened a boycott against Starbucks for gay themed coffee cups “Hot Coffee & Bitter Women” /August 05 posting, are also getting calls from the White House for Supreme Court nominee referrals?

I believe in God, he is all forgiving. It's Christian women with insider power that frightens me. Maybe we should all be afraid.

Anti-gay Group with Gay CFO OK's Bush Choosing Samuel Alito for Supreme Court
http://pageoneq.com/news/2005/Alito_pick_Court_1031052.html

Free Speech Fading Out

Ranked 17th in 2002 and then 22nd last year, the United States is moving fast down the list, placing 44th on this year's international press freedom index. What is happening to our free speech?

What is happening to one of the pilliars of our Constitution?

Look at the shiny penny over here: War in Iraq, Supreme Court nominations, CIA leaks, Brad and Jenny split up. Should I go on? All the while, free speech slowly fades out.

U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=254376&rel_no=1

QOTW 10.28

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Invisible Mary Cheney Reappears

The world’s most invisible lesbian Mary Cheney reappeared this week and has been hired by America on Line. According to inside sources, in this an untitled position, she will “assist in managing the advertising, e-commerce and search engines and… will help the company develop LGBT content.”

Hello! Mary Cheney knows about as much about the real LGBT community as we know about her, (meaning very little). Is she even really a lesbian?

Anyhow, I heard Hooters needs someone to help develop “straight” content. I drink beer, I fart and burb. Do I get the job?

Vice President's Daughter to Join AOL
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-10-27-aol-cheney_x.htm

Psalm 24... and Counting

Prayer for Our Future

George W. is my president; yet I shall not fear.
He maketh me cry now for greener pastures.
He leadeth us to a desert slaughter.
He slumpeth in the polls.
He forces me down paths of HIS morality for his small supporters’ (with deep pockets) sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of dread,
I will fear no two-term evil,
for truth is with me;
its power and its certainty,
they console me.

God prepare a future for me
in unity with my enemies;
enlighten their heads with wisdom;
(who knows? maybe their capital will overflow).
Surely decency and actual “gentle conservativeness” shall follow all the days of ours lives,
and we shall dwell in a homeland of free thinking
forever.

© 2005

Pagans, Let Us Pray

So the ultra-Christians win again. And we, the liberals and moderates (a.k.a. most America) are left to ponder what life may have been with a extremist we somewhat knew verses to extremist we don't.

As "conservative backers had doubts about her (Harriet Miers) ideological purity," (fancy words for saying she is not as tight-assed as us,) Bush's next nominee will be far more right, far more righteous and far more frightening. The immediate outlook is not looking so bright. Let's keep our fingers crossed and despite what the conservatives believe about us anti-family anti-God pagans, let us pray for the future of our country. (See "Psalm 24”)

Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Nomination
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9837151/

Gay in Spirit

Please excuse my two week hiatus. I was out of town. Got sick. And reconnected with my old high school friends for a wedding.

Congratulations to Rich and Pam! Thank you for inviting us to the party. Which brings me to my current posting below…
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Like the women's liberation movement of the 70s that lead way to female world leaders, CEOs, doctors, police officers and unisex restrooms at your local gas station, gay liberation is creating its own results that many would not have foreseen, and some even sadly, bitch about. I am talking about the growing number of straight men in gay bars and at circuit parties. Dude! What the hell is this about?

Dude! Who cares? I think it's great.

With their girlfriends (or wives in tow,) or even single and hanging out with their gay friends or siblings, they are joining the party for all the fun and celebration. When I was “straight,” the company of men I kept was not as cool. Going to a “fag bar” was not an option. Drinking beer chased down with shots of chilled Southern Comfort then hitting a Del Taco drive thru with our pants down in a shopping cart, now that was good night! Okay was it senseless.It was straight guy fun, bro! Now, I can barely remember those drunken escapades.

Now, the gays and the straights have become friends. Shaking my gay shimmy against a straight money-maker is not as bothersome as it is powerful. They grow older with us, they grow wiser with us. They will father children who will receive gifts on Christmas morning not only from Santa, but as well as from Uncle John and Steve or Aunt Cindy and Stephanie. These straight men who share our bar stools and chuckle at our secrets will settle down as adults with their children in a new world that welcomes us as part of the family; a real home that accepts gay and lesbians for all our goodness and faults without question, fear or prejudice.

Remember your childhood, as you sat at the Thanksgiving card table at your grandparents and heard your families talk about their proms and youthful histories. "Member, you member..." Now close your eyes, and look into your future at the same holiday, as you and your friends (gay and straight) regale about favorite clubs that are now furniture stores or parking lots, prides, parties or Cher no-shows. The laughter and children abound. Yes, the times are a changing and are we only the better for it. And that coy straight guy hanging out with his gay friend is the sign of this change.

I know some would argue that because Grace has a friend named Will, this is sign that all is good in the world, but let's face it; we are still on the road less traveled.

This world was not made in a day and nor will the new one evolve after a three day weekend in South Beach. When you stare at that straight guy who reluctantly but inevitably takes his shirt off at the dance club, know he is more than a dance partner who needs coned off floor space, he is, maybe for his first time, feeling what we often feel on a bar bar- comfortable being himself. And at that moment at least, he is one of us, gay in spirit. Having a great time, feeling it, being it.

Smile at him and tell him “Thanks for coming.” Invite him to the next party, ask him to bring friends. As time and we move onward, attitudes change. He is proof of that. "Why can't we all just get along?" This man questions society not his or your sexuality. He is the face of a greater future and our inevitable right to marry.

Maybe in return, this straight man in a gay bar may invite you into his home. Or even to be best man at has wedding. He will invite into his home and into his life for big mug of friendship. And with this, a new world comes into being where there may no longer be straight bars or gay bars, just bars- where as always, friends come to have a good time, laugh out loud and maybe dance (to Cher) together.

QOTW 10.7

For my LA friends:

"Rosas! Rosas!...Rosas!?"

http://www.davidology.com/roses/

Ban on Lesbians

Who would ever think I would miss Ronald Reagan and his policy of "less government."

Indiana Considers Ban On Lesbian Pregnancies
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100405birthBan.htm

QOTW 9.30

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

~Karl Rove

Gay Republicans Invited For Drinks Only

Gay Republicans do you get it yet?

Gay Republican Representative David Dreier has finally hit the glass ceiling of conservative society this week, being overlooked to step in as House majority leader for indicted Tom Delay. No doubt David pretends that his lack of promotion has nothing to do with his sexual orientation. Ya, right.

Wake up David! Don’t you get it? Being a Republican will not change the fact that you are not a heterosexual. The GOP does not care how much money you contribute to their party- they eat hamburger, you suck hot dogs. When you are not in the room, your colleagues and so-called friends are repulsed by your "choice."

Yes, you are invited for drinks but do not bother staying for dinner. You are not really wanted. And you never will be. You are the GOP’s ugly step child. This is true for David Dreier, and it is true for all gay Republicans.

Maybe it is time all gay Republicans get up of their knees in Banana Republic chinos and stand up for more than their personal need for acceptance from the intolerant. The GOP does not like you. They do not want you. Why keep pretending that they do?

Republicans Dump Gay Leader, Pick House Whip Blunt
http://pageoneq.com/rssfeedstuff/index.php?id=2928

Eliza Jane Scovill 2002-2005

This is a sad and sobering posting. With a war in Iraq and floods in the South, when I read this story I could not help but think it was the saddest thing I have heard all year.

It seems a HIV-positive mother who does not believe AIDS is real, continued in her denial and refused to test and treat her three-year-old daughter for the same condition. This child died of an AIDS-related illness. In this time of information and medicine, this should not have happened. Senseless is the only word that comes to mind.

A mother’s love is blind but it should never be merciless. Pretending AIDS is not real does not make it go away. Over 20 millions lives lost to this disease since 1981 are a testament to this. Now, due to a heartless woman whose own personal demons may have caused her own child’s death, add one three-year-old little girl to that total.

It is senseless. It is sad. It feels hopeless. And still I hope. I hope that this mother is the exception and not the rule, and that people are greater than this woman. For this hope and the soul of little Eliza Jane, today this I pray.

God bless you Eliza Jane Scovill. And may God forgive your mother.

A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-eliza24sep24,0,1725776.story?coll=la-home-headlines

QOTW 9.23

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Happy Birthday Mom!

Thank you Mom for EVERYTHING!

I love you more that words can say!

Gods' Work Not For Limp Wristed

Job Announcement:

Title:
Family Catholic Priest

Requirements:
Must be a man who heeds God’s calling.
Must be heterosexual, willing to travel and free of “any serious personality disorders,” (a.k.a. homosexuality). Must live by the Lord's Golden Rule-

most of the time.

Benefits:
Free room and board and automatic access to vulnerable children.

Gays not need apply.

Pope Approves Gay Priest Ban
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/092005vatican.htm

Republicans: Embrace Your Butt-holes

We gays have been around for a long, long, long time but recently it seems that we are getting blammed for everything that goes wrong. From terrorist attacks to floods and hurricanes, if it's devasting news, it is the gays' fault.

Oh, how I long for days when Communism was the great evil that society feared, not men who have found pleasure in regions where sunshine is restricted.

Quite honestly, if conservatives would get over their fear of their anus,' we would have peace in the Middle East.

God-fearing is a given, but butt-hole fearing too? Will there ever be joy in a conservatives' Mudville? (Pun intended.) Maybe. Show me a true "compassionate conservative," and I will show you a conservative who probably owns a hand mirror or maybe even has a drunken-frat-boy story he still secretly ponders .

To all social conservatives: Embrace your butt-holes and let's give peace a REAL chance.

Ban Gay Student Group Or God Will Send A Hurricane
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/09/092105schoolBd.htm

Calm After The Storm

These eerie yet arresting images were supposedly taken in rural Tennesse as Hurricane Katrina moved inland.

Maybe There Is A God

When godliness, abortion and eye burning, but yet quite intriguing man on man sex are to be blamed for the downfall of American society, who do moralist blame when their own organizations that are meant to protect us from ourselves, begin to crumble?

It seems the Christian has lost the Lords' upper right hand, as it slowly fades to black. Good news for free thinkers, maybe free will will once again become the norm and not the condemnation ... And maybe the Christian Coalitions' slow failure is the proof that there is a God, and they do not support hate and fear or those who preach it.

Christian Coalition Fading Fast
http://www.thestate.com/mld/state/news/local/12676171.htm

QOTW 9.16

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

~ Emma Goldman

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger

September 13, 2005

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-445-4633

Honorable Governor Schwarzenegger:

I am writing you in hopes that you will reconsider signing AB 849, the Civil Marriage and Religious Freedom Protection Act that is coming to your desk within the month.

Presently, marriage is a historic compliance of both a religious sacrament and a state contact. This is in conflict of our country’s founding policy of a separate church and state.

Regarding AB 849, it grants equal rights while separating church and state procedures regarding marriage. The state may issue civil union licenses and religious institution may provide a separate recognition. Those with moral objections are not forced to comply with the states legislation. Passing this law only extends the legal aspect of marriage already grated to heterosexual couples; the religious aspects remain separate and valid.

I understand that it’s a hot topic and both sides are very vehement about their positions. But I whole heartedly believe that signing this bill will set precedent and be “the gold standard” and model legislation for the rest of our nation. This is your opportunity to ensure a legacy of fairness and equality, not discrimination within our state. I hope you can see the bigger picture and not fear a few headlines. No doubt that it will be news for a week, but one year from today it will be old news and California will still remain the Golden State due to your leadership and courage!

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Pablo from L.A.

Take Action Now! Email The Governor
http://action.angelides.com/campaign/civilmarriage