17 posts tagged “gay”
Part 2: Former AFA columnist Joe Murray answers your questions
... As for the larger issue of homophobia, it is clear that throughout a large portion of the “family values” world there is a fear of homosexuals. This fear almost borders on paranoia, for many believe that gays are out to recruit the young and overrun the culture. Any advance made by gays, thus, is a loss for Christendom. It is my belief that this zero sum mentality has been interwoven into AFA’s fabric, and the fabric of most “pro-family” groups. ...
He developed Quark, and is now targeting local and state officials who are trying to legislate hate and discrimination all over, instead of funding national or presidential candidates--The software mogul Tim Gill has a mission: Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started.
great post by Silber at his Power of Narrative on the emotional reality of being marginalized, being excluded, and very often being ridiculed, and even demonized in our society for all sorts of reasons.
... It is one thing to be openly hated and despised, as gays and lesbians are by many on the right. We're used to that, and we got used to it a long time ago. As was required, we manufactured intellectual and emotional armor to protect ourselves. In the current climate, we have to put it on every single damned day. It weighs a great deal, and it exacts an awful price. But without it, we would suffer injuries too grievous to be borne.
But how much worse it is to be cajoled into taking off that armor -- to hear you tell us that you understand we're "just like you" in all the ways that matter, and that we're really "just the same" -- and then to read or hear about "how easy" you think it is to "make fun" of us, especially when our status as Freaks is too obvious. How much worse it is when we believe you, when you tell us you think we're all equal -- except that you can get married, while almost every leading Democrat will say, well, no, we can't get married. But we can have "civil unions." Because, you see, Freaks don't get married. ...
Same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses descended on clerks offices from one end of the country to the other on Wednesday, marking the 10th Freedom to Marry Day. As in the past nine years in every state except Massachusetts they were refused. ...
just horrendous, and not uncommon--- I feel sick too.
... I can say, after reading this, that I truly hate Betty, the mother of this child. It doesn’t matter to me how devoutly she believed what she was doing and saying was right; it doesn’t matter how much she loved him; it doesn’t matter how bad she feels now that he’s dead. She was a direct cause of his death, and she could have prevented it with a single apology. ...
This has to stop.
which totally didn't exist when i was in HS.
There's a court case now in FL, and the guy defending the school's forbidding of it is the Schiavo guy:
(Joseph of the Bible--the technicolored dreamcoat guy) --incredibly fascinating and illuminating--from Jewish Mosaic: The National Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity (they have a new torah portion essay each week)
1. Joseph's Fabulous Technicolor Dreamcoat
2. Hide and thou shalt weep, seek and thou shalt find
3. Joseph: Liberation of a Soul (the most recent)
The Advocate has People of the Year too--an interesting bunch. (on left hand side a little ways down)
