Laws with terrible consequences...

This was up yesterday, but stuck with me. Because it shows what happens when bigots force laws which only enforce their narrow views, and cause a lot of suffering elsewhere. And exactly how, please, is this 'defending marriage'?

I was trying to think of what would have happened if Peter had decided we would live stateside, and became ill, as he did here. Is that what things would have looked like? (Not that we ever considered it, it was a no-brainer.)

My heart went out to those two men in the clip. It's worth the few minutes.

This is why I can get despondent....

That teacher should be fired, tried for ruining someone's soul, and when I see stories like this, it isn't any wonder that I think I got of lucky, even if my experience wasn't as terrible...

Link Here.

That poor kid...

This... is heart-breaking...

Some of us have been through some of what this man talks about in one form or another, but it is a horrific look in what can happen when things get very extreme.... And I think it is worth talking about... especially when the impetous for such vile draconian things comes from the US so-called Christians. And if you think, 'that can't happen here', well, there was a recent nut-job who would like to get the Supreme Court to outlaw same-sex of any sort, and put you in jail for it. I believe it was Senator Cornyn, or whomever, it was despicable.

Don't EVER think that things 'have gotten better', or 'that can't happen here'. EVER. There is a fringe who are so friggin' nuts, they would do anything hateful, anything at all...

Here we go again....

I ended up crying on the bus home today.... Silently. Just tears running down my face.

How very weak, n'est-ce pas?

No, non, nein... I was furious.

With the so-called 'Christian Democrats'. The ones who have held up gay rights reform here for over 35 years, when the Germans and Spaniards had no trouble with it, and now even Portugal.... but us? Uh-uh.... They won't lift a finger until the central government of the EU FORCES them to, or they won't be in the club. Jeebus, even the English have civil unions, and a few decades ago they were put in jail if they got caught being intimate with what they thought was an inappropriate partner.

How often.... I think 'marriage' and even civil unions are hoke, in my eyes.... And I still think that.

HOWEVER, if you spend 35 years with someone, you should also have some rights and some say in what is decided if things go wrong health-wise.

And as we all KNOW.... things aren't what they should be, chez Ren.

Today was especially bad. Peter can't even get himself up out of bed and onto his wheelchair. His breathing was so bad.... I really think he wants to die, and was just shattered.... shattered.

And I kept pleading with him, 'Let me call an ambulance, you can't go ON like this...'

And he goes off on tirades, I tell you, absolute tirades, and refuses.

The main point here is.... short of a life-threatening crisis like a heart attack or stroke... I have no right to do ANYTHING if he doesn't wish it. Even with the stroke, it was 'touch and go'. Just don't ask, ok?

With the heart attack, it was clear what was happening.

Now... these past weeks have been horrific.

And I get so frustrated, and so bloody angry at him... AND at the government, who can discern who gets which rights.

So yeah, I cried. I'm only human, after all...

Pecksniffian.....

Rick Warren got 'skeered' and sent out a video via his web-site to Ugandans.

Pecksniff was a character in a Dickens novel, and for a very long time, became synonomous in the English language with the term 'hypocrisy'.

And of course, he was lying....

Link HERE.

And if you really want to barf, check out the video. HERE.

This is what tolerance is.....

This speech moved me. Very much. One of the things that really popped up and intrigued me was the concept of 'home'. I worked with a colleague on that a couple of years ago. 'Home'. She barely missed a Fulbright scholarship. I was shattered.



It is not about wanting approval, but respect.

Y'a know...

there is so much hate out there regarding gay people, and it grows.

Today's lesson is from Uganda. African 'Christians' will go after you, and cut you right out of their lives. And Peter said today, 'Well I don't understand this. My friend Franz (a Lufthansa steward) said they were so nice, and loved him because he was blonde. That was the 60's....

And I said, 'Well take a lesson... Things aren't that way any more.'

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/01/warren-tweet/

So who is behind the nsidiousness? Rick Warren. YEAH, the fake preacher who got picked to give the invocation at the Obama inauguration.


He is legitimised by being on the tee-vee All the time.

Slick.



What the Fuck are these people doing.

Update: The video I chose got pulled by whoever put it up there. Go Google the Rachel Maddow show, and take a look at the last three days. Just pick a date, and click on 'Uganda be kidding me'.... US evangelists behind it all the way, and not only Rick Warren... They've been setting it up for decades. Separation of Church and State my arse.... And if I could get my hands on Sen. Inhofe... I would love to put him in Gitmo for the time being, and then to the Hague.

Evil.

I have been holding back...

I wasn't well, November depresses me to the max, and the weather is matching my mood... Peter is driving me crazy as usual, the air is bad, my asthma is worse.... it's a pit month.

But it hasn't stopped me from following the last days of the off-term elections. After all the blather about the race in NY23, and the unspeakable Sarah from Alaska sabotaging the Republican candidate for being 'too liberal', and going with the 'conservative' candidate, ooooohhhhhhhhh the drama. I didn't know she had weapons of mass destruction, but as we know, she can see Russia, Virginia, New Jersey, and upstate New York from her house. Awesome.

It must have 1050 floors, at LEAST!

And I'll 'betcha' she has her WMD's embedded in her Facebook page.

Who taught her that? Al Quaida? She has a playbook, but so coded that only she knows what is in it because she doesn't do teamwork.... uh uh...

So what is her game plan? Splitting the party, and then leading the crazies in the next presidential bid as an 'independent'? Or what else does she have in her cotton candy brain? What?

If things keep going on like this, I fully expect to find a three-party election in 2012. I do...

On other fronts... well, the elections for governors in NJ and VA are 'seemingly' normal... except the witch from the NW is trying to horn in on what happens...

But the reality is, it isn't a national template. It is local, affecting what local people want.

And last but not least.... two referendums. It looks like Maine will lose it's governors' yes to gay marriage by a very small margin. If they do lose, well the fucking Catholic Church found over one million dollars to squelch it. So where did they get it, after nearly going broke with molestation lawsuits? And in the state of Washington, there is a referendum which will probably pass. But they only have civil unions. Not full rights and benefits, and DUTIES.

And WTF is that whole thing about being a danger to hetero relationships? If YOU fuck it up, it won't be because of us.

It's YOUR thing...

I wouldn't GO NEAR a married man, knowingly. I HAVE been with what I thought was a single man on a Saturday nite, and ran across him on the main drag after church with his wife and kids in tow, and thought, 'what the fuck did I DO? I didn't know that...'

I was devastated. Except HE came on to ME.

I didn't know....

People can get vicitmised in so many ways.

And it is always, ALWAYS, the ones who hide behind their 'religion'.

Will go under the bed, which is like crawling in the closet, and hope for the best...

Waking up tomorrow probably won't be very 'happy'.

Soap Operas... can make me laugh...

YouTube made me interested....

The parents were the worst acting in a soap opera I have ever seen, the idiocy of discussion didn't surprise me... but otherwise... One Life To Live just makes me cackle with hilarity.

Ok, my triggers for hilarity aren't very loose these days... Talk about drama queens... shee-it. But there is something in the dialogue that makes me think...

Well, as former being in the closet and having fears, some kid it going to just be who he or she is without the fear.

And some people are going to scream, 'Indocrination'. Except it won't be.

Values Voters...

are sorta crazy. To underscore what I asserted below... pornography will make you gay, and that has to be one of the weirdest things I have EVER heard. We're talking about Playboy or Hustler type pornography here, btw. So... you tell your eleven year old sons, grandsons, great-grandsons that if they ever ever look at any of those... it will turn them gay. I don't know where that guy went to school, but am spitless when it comes to his illogical conclusions. And the other stuff wasn't much more logical Were these people all home schooled?

Because I do not get it. And how did they get where they are? A close friend of mine used to say, 'Who did he/she have to FUCK to get THAT job???' Always a valid question....

And for those who don't believe Jimmy Carter... that 'joke' at the beginning... is so racist, I would like to get out some eye bleach, but the audience loved it. I know, I know... Obama has so much on his plate, he doesn't need to add that to his plate. But am not so sure that is a sure-fire recipe for quelling what is becoming the flames.

I want to see THIS movie... scary....

It almost looks 'real', after seeing all the values voter blatherers over the last weekend. In fact, it's like the Fifties.... but I didn't like the ending. /snark

Oh...

I am not so a fan of Barney Frank... But I do like his zingers.....



There are DAYS... when gay guys got the sarcasm gene along with the gay gene.

Or maybe you just learn to fight.