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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Oklahoma Homo-Haters Trying Their Best for an Arrest
It would seem that biblical devotion to literalness and inerrancy precludes the ability to read, interpret, and understand this law. We know that bible fundies aren't really interested in truth, but just in maintaining their flat-earth dream world made in their own image.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Feeling Like a Lost Raffle Ticket?
(1 comments) As we GLBTs emerge sweaty and disheveled from our post-coital ruckus in Maine, I'm reminded that this is America and everything is for sale, including our gay/lesbian equality--that's the American way, you know. You want to know how we're going to sell it? What's it going to be: always the bridesmaid, never the bride; always the best man, never the groom?

Monday, September 21, 2009
Gay Men Should Quake and Quail?
(1 comments) Only when court decisions go against the Joke-lahoman's perceived order of labor kow-towing to management, does it find the rule of law to be inconvenient and flawed. Along with the School Board, I think the editorial staff of the Joke-lahman needs some remedial reading instruction.

Saturday, August 15, 2009
GOPer Okie Rep Fallin's not for Vegetarians
Ms. Fallin's event menu was not for the vegetarians. She served red meat to the red necks, boiler plate to the beer can crushers, and a cold shoulder to any possibility of a different POV. I'm not interested in moving down the insurance food chain, I want to move up to what Congress has NOW!

Monday, July 27, 2009
Did You Feel the Earth Move? Feeling Reclaimed Yet?
Now that I've attended one of the far right's inspirational conclaves on a prominent college campus, I'm not surprised that progressive churches, health clinics, and national museums are attacked by inspired followers.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
His and Her Kern Revolutionary Regiment
(2 comments) Pastor Steve Kern and his bullying colleagues are trying to impose apartheid on this country's gay and lesbian citizens. Gays and lesbians pay taxes, hold steady jobs, volunteer in the community, maintain families, get elected to public office, and serve in the Armed Forces. We bleed, live, and die just like everyone else.

Sunday, July 12, 2009
Why Isn't What's Good for the Goose also Good for the Gander?
Inhofe enjoys the best medical care we taxpayers can provide, so why isn't what's good for the goose also good for the gander? I wonder if speaking French and eating cake is requisite for working in Inhofe's office?

Sunday, July 12, 2009
It's Always OK to Lie for Your Religion?
Kern's proclamation has been shown to contain invented quotes and out-of-context references in order to sugar-coat and disguise the civil-rights violating intent of her disregard for truth and history in the pursuit of her theocratic dogma. Would Mrs. Kern actually lie in order to try and dissolve the First Amendment?

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Is Sally Kern's Soul Infinitely Deep?
What if that target to be "exposed and attacked" turns out to be a birth certificate with her name on it as the mother of the child?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
So, Just What is the True Definition of Marriage
(3 comments) By what fiat of bigoted ignorance can anyone deny me and millions of other gay and Lesbian Americans this legal right of marriage just because the gender of the two people is the same, choosing to share their bounty and their concerns for as long as they're able, be it one year or hopefully a long lifetime? How is that any different from what opposite-gendered people choose to do?

Monday, June 1, 2009
Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows
(1 comments) If politics makes for strange bedfellows and change is the buzz word for this political season, then I think it's time to change the sheets.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Denial, Denial, Denial--This is the Great Given Guarantee of America
(1 comments) If the River of Denial isn't in Africa, then it's running full flood in Oklahoma. The "fair-minded electorate" has not only voted to make Okie gay and lesbian citizens 2nd-class it will now have the opportunity to deny the right of the ballot box to otherwise qualified voters who are too financially or physically disadvantaged to acquire a government-issued photo identification card.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
What's so difficult to understand about the Iowa Supreme Court Decision?
(12 comments) Civil law is not the place for opposing religious dogmas, be it the Southern Baptist Convention that opposes, or United Church of Christ that supports, our same-gender marriage. Religious cafeteria debate among opposing sects that hurls selected bible verses as if they were lightening bolts has impeded the recognition of our birth right as citizens for generations.

Friday, March 27, 2009
Oklahoma-born John Hope Franklin, Renowned Historian Dies
(1 comments) Racism lends itself so easily to other discriminatory "-isms" and "-phobias".

Sunday, February 22, 2009
Goose and Gander for the GOPers
GOPers clearly want their vindictive political cake and eat it, too. The GOPer opposition strategy is obviously to obstruct, obfuscate and obliterate as best they can any legislative or administrative bill the GOPers don't like or can't take credit for. The GOP is definitely on a trajectory that will send them out of our solar system.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Knickers Twister Hits Oklahoma House of Representatives
(1 comments) No other previous prayer had been subjected to a vote of approval from the House membership. It wasn't the prayer itself that the GOPers objected to, it was the diversity Jones alluded to that was found objectionable.

Thursday, January 1, 2009
The Responsibility for Our Future - "The Times of Harvey Milk"
(1 comments) Listening to the confession clips of Dan White and ravings of Sally Kern of Oklahoma and her other Kern Krew members, they have a single uniting fear: fear of change, be it social, legal, environmental, or scientific. Michelle Goldberg, author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, has written, "Modernity is the enemy of fundamentalist religion and gender-bending is the hallmark of modernity."

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Close, but no cigar!
(3 comments) Two states have understood the rights of gays and lesbians to have civil marriage, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with a handful of states having various marriage-like rights available but not the real thing. Close, but no cigar! Thanks to our enemies, our own equality prospects been brought to the forefront and our equality will be won.

Saturday, December 6, 2008
Homo-Hater's Hubby Gets Outed in Phone Call
Among some of the blockbuster revelations in the article are Steve Kern's remarks, husband of infamous YouTube Queen and gun slinger Rep.Sally Kern, that have been transcribed from a phone call wherein he uses derogatory language about gay men, thinking he's talking to one of his brothers-in-Christ. Steve Kern says gay men should be forced by law to attend to "education programs"

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Oklahoma: Sanctuary for the Bu$h Junta in Exile?
(1 comments) Is Oklahoma going to be the sanctuary for the Bu$h Junta-in-exile? Is Oklahoma going to be a time machine living the years of 2000-2008 over and over in a video loop?

Sunday, November 9, 2008
The Time for Waiting is Over! The Time for Action is NOW!
(1 comments) Our self-appointed equality leaders who counsel shyness and acceptance of a later time should get out of our way. The time is long past for coyness and politeness. Dr. M. L. King said it best in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail", April 16, 1963 with this paragraph: We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Saturday, November 1, 2008
In 20 Words or Less Tell Me Why...
(18 comments) Why, in 20 words or less, am I forced to follow the religious tenets of people who believe wine can be turned into blood, an Arab rode a horse into "heaven", and a migrating tribe of nomads walked a path through the Red Sea while I and my partner are denied civil liberties such as those enjoyed by these cult believers who have no questions asked as to what they do with their genitals.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Noted Homo-Hater Named Honorary Gay/Lesbian Person
(2 comments) To commemorate National Coming Out Day on Saturday, October 11, 2008, I am exercising my gay genetic heritage and declaring Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma an honorary gay/lesbian person in recognition of the fine work she has done to keep our community's issues in the forefront of media attention, both here in Oklahoma and nationwide.

Friday, October 3, 2008
I'm no match for the words of Lincoln or the voice of Paul Newman....
Only an overwhelming number of Obama/Biden marked and accurately counted ballots can prevent the McCain/Palin combination from stealing another election in the USA. This must not be another close vote, this must be the largest Democratic majority vote in history.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Ugly is as Ugly Does
(5 comments) Why do gay GOPers devalue their own lives even as they seem to know the value of money and material possessions so well? Why do gay GOPers aid and abet in the suppression of their own lives?

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Flagging Down the GOP
(1 comments) The GOP has no compunction about trashing the Democratic Party when it furthers GOP falsehoods. Yet I've not heard of any bill promoted by the GOP to limit the use of the American flag on retail items that are invariably trashed without a second thought.

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Marriage is a sometime sacred thing (With apology to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess)
(1 comments) What is the message sent to American high school students when a jock knocks up the governor's daughter? He now stands on an international stage, the world watching, and can have the biggest locker room brag in the history of high school Monday mornings.

Saturday, August 23, 2008
Pillow Talk with Jesus--Faith and Worldview
(1 comments) This history of what happens when church/faith and state/politics are allowed to mate and breed mongrels of exceeding ferocity is why our Founders wrote the First Amendment allowing religion to be exercised separately from the exercise of the civil legislature. If only the fundamentalists would treat the Constitution with the same intensity of scrutiny as the Old Testament we would be farther towards a just society.

Friday, August 8, 2008
Oklahoma Homo-Hater Kern Needs to Crack Some Books
Last Tuesday GOP Rep. Sally Kern revealed her latest conversation with her god and she's been named a cultural warrior for Judeo-Christian values. But historical reality has never stood in the way of true deceiver-believers such as snake oil salesmen, bible-bangers, and homo-haters: Kerns's true holy trinity.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Watch Out, Gays and Liberals -- Hate Radio Has Put a Target on You
Scapegoat is part of the definition of being a minority. Loners with fragile self-esteem and access to guns make targets of those who, mirage-like, appear in their befogged brains as the cause for their sleepless nights. The 2nd Amendment doesn't trump the First Amendment!

Monday, July 28, 2008
Okla-Homo-Haters Club -- When Hope is Not Enough
When was the last time an openly gay/lesbian opened fire on a collection of bible fundies? When did you last hear an openly gay/lesbian legislator use their personal privilege on the floor of their state legislature or Congress to lobby for the passage of a bill that would limit any demographic group's aspect of their protection of the law?

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Homo-Haten', Rootin' Tootin' GOPer Duo of the Wild West
(1 comments) Who Needs California Same-Gender Marriage When You Live in Oklahoma?

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Must Magazines be Dumbed Down to the Level of the Limbaugh Listener?
(2 comments) Some of us are being scared witless and s***less by the counter-intelligence tactics of the right-wing. I think we need to leave behind the right-wing paranoia and get on with electing Democrats all across the country.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Jesse Helms, now deceased, the role model for Sally Kern?
The glass homophobic ceilings, built by the backwardly religious or the double-speaking politicians of any party, won't break unless they're pushed. What bible-bangers pound in their own or others privacy is none of my business and I want them to leave me and my LGBT brothers and sisters alone!

Friday, May 30, 2008
Purity Balls and X-tian Daddies
(1 comments) It would seem hetero-fundie daddies can't keep their pants zipped without holy threats of some kind. By the way, why aren't there Purity Balls for fundie mothers and their sons? Why is the purity of marriage a one-way street directed at the daughters? Are the fundies afraid of making their sons into sissies?

Sunday, May 18, 2008
The Dracula of Free Speech, Kirk Humpreys, Rises From the Political Grave
(1 comments) If the past is prologue, I think we can expect some more Humphreys hauntings at the expense of the Oklahoma City taxpayers. It's been shown that the Constitution, its Bill of Rights, and especially the First Amendment --if applied in time--can counter the poisonous vapors that waft from Humphreys.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Rep. Sally Kern Rants in a One Woman Show
(1 comments) Her "discussion" in the form of a monologue centered on, what else, her bible's version of what is or is not sinful and the usual steam-tray of cafeteria-style pick-and-choose bible verses.

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Can Larry Craig be Found Guilty in the Court of Public Opinion
(1 comments) There's nothing wrong with being gay but there is something wrong with using your Senate vote to deprive honest men and women their equality under the law even as they work to contribute to a decent American society

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Just How Vulgar Will a Desperate Candidate Get?
Just as violent rape of women by men is described as an attempt at power, with nothing to do with lust, so is the use of sexual penetration by antagonists used to inculcate their ideas of power and superiority at the basest level of human society.

Sunday, December 23, 2007
Births of Babies in Unlikely Places -- Or the Grinch Who Impeded
(2 comments) Perhaps dreams come true in the religious sphere, but dreams don't come true in the political world without work and commitment. There are no real grinches or miracle births, only our own sweat equity and perseverance.

Friday, December 7, 2007
I've heard JFK, and Mitt, you're no JFK
(1 comments) By the starkest verbal contrast imaginable President Kennedy speaks of the right to attend church, or NOT to attend church. He elaborates that he would work for an elimination of the divisiveness caused by virulent religious differences and refers to history to prove his point.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Brokeback Mountain--the prequel
(2 comments) Gay men are not the creation of anyone's religious devil or representative of the decay of the Western World, but rather the ever renewing vanguard of the need for same-sex companionship.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
Peace from Christian or Islam? Give me Freethought!
(2 comments) The belittlement of women is a central point of the desert religions and should not be forgotten in attempts to appease the lurking proselytizers hideing behind sheep's clothing whether they carry a crucifix or crescent and star.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
SEVEN THOUSAND Lashes and Twenty Blows to the Head
(4 comments) I'm terribly disappointed at the smugness and self-righteousness of our national self-appointed, self-hired gay leadership. In a Dorian Gray sort of way it seems they become more like the portraits of our capitalist enemies.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Procreation Uber Alles
As our American society devolves into a seriously reality-adverse gulag of religiously based proscriptions against equality, and as the "demos" is removed from Democracy and replaced with "theos", I've written a proposed bill that someone like Trent "gays have kleptomania" Lott, Larry "I'm not gay" Craig, David "diaper" Vitter, or Jim "no gays in my family" Inhofe will take up on the floor of Congress.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Why keep the lights off? Low-maintenance bait?
Is the darkness a passive policy of enticement purposely engineered by OKC city government? Is the darkness being used as a low-maintenance bait for entrapment? If the city was really interested in reducing lewd behavior in public parks wouldn't the lights be on throughout the night? Why weren't all those sensors operational?

Sunday, July 29, 2007
How to Spell Equality? I before E except after C. L before G except Before B?
(1 comments) Why should we develop these sensitivities about spellings and acronyms? Gayness is about having the right to privacy to exercise our affectional and emotional bonds as we like with consenting adults. Gayness is about having the same rights as any other man or woman who has chosen opposite-gender marriage or co-habitation, with or without progeny.

Sunday, July 15, 2007
TXT MSGing our LGBT Equality
The American LGBT equality movement has its own list of TXT MSG acronyms that represents the core of discrimination still being directed at us, even as many countries in western Europe, the Southern Hemisphere, Canada, and Mexico have recognized the inherent right of their own LGBT citizens to the legal equality of a modern, humane society.

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Supreme Court -- Bu$h Junta's Single Success?
(1 comments) The Bu$h Junta won't be gone in January, 2009. It will live on for a generation in the Supreme Court

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
"Gay people aren't broken and don't need fixing"
(1 comments) Mr. Bob Lemon, a staunch Oklahoma Democrat and devoted supporter of LGBT equality, was named the recipient of the 2007 Margaret Tyson Award given annually by the Oklahoma Gay and Lesbian Caucus (OGLPC) (http://www.oglpc. com/). The award was a complete surprise for Mr. Lemon but he was not at a loss for words. "Gay people aren't broken and don't need fixing," he said...

Friday, May 25, 2007
In small advances, in incremental improvements, LGBT equality is gaining ground in Oklahoma
There's some great news that I just can't wait to share. The Oklahoma Democratic Party has finally found some courage on GLBT issues. Not one, but THREE resolutions regarding GLBT rights were passed at the party convention this past weekend. (May 19-21, 2007)

Saturday, May 12, 2007
Congressman Boren Hiding Behind a Small Bush
(1 comments) The rabid minds of gay-haters such as Fred Phelps and Pat Robertson who publicly spout foaming rants of condemnation would still be free to continue whether or not the Hate Crimes bill is passed by Congress. Passage of the bill would give second thoughts to hooligans who single out their victims based on suspicion of being gay.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
It's the Supreme Court, Stupid!
(1 comments) Let's remember the slogan from a prior presidential election: "It's the Supreme Court, Stupid!", and vote accordingly in November 2008 for the enforcement of the Constitution and not the Bible.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Riddle: How Are Pregnant Citizens like Gay Citizens?
(1 comments) The keyword is privacy. Without it our human qualities of independence of action, critical thinking, right of association become strategic playthings in the political arena.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Phelps, Corpses, and Dollar $Democracy
The demented demagoguery of the Irreverent Fred Phelps, as he and his tribe demonstrate at funerals, has hit a very sore spot indeed with our human feelings concerning the mystery of death and its remains.

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Child Abuse Convictions and Bankruptcies Have a Silver Lining for Gay People
(2 comments) I find a silver lining in this disgusting misuse of trust. No more will we hear from Catholic pulpits of be-robed priests making hortatory, perjured, fulminations about gay men being child molesters--the admonishing stones are falling through their stained--glass houses.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
We've been warned!
(2 comments) The time is here that our gay equality leaders recognize that our civil equality will not be won in an endless contest of dueling bible verses. Religious teachings are based on historical conflicts of a Bronze Age mentality that has very little to do with us here in the 21st century other than as examples how ignorance should not be used to advance human decency.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Surge Protector Fallin Orders Peace Activists to Leave Public Building
Today, CD 5 Congresswoman Mary Fallin ordered a contingent of 30 peaceful constituents to leave not only her public office but the entire building as well.

Friday, January 19, 2007
Rep. Mary Fallin Posing as Ado Annie?
Mary Fallin, former lite-governor of Oklahoma, prefers to serve her CEO backers rather than the voters.

Thursday, December 14, 2006
Just as Pinochet, who recently died, was hounded for HIS war crimes...
(1 comments) Plan our strategy, Bide our time. Revenge is best served cold.

Friday, November 17, 2006
Hungry, Will Work for Pansies
Who could have known that the green of grass and living plants could mutate into the barren, ugly desert of homophobia and religious intolerance. Remember, however, that it's the common, everyday activities that make up our society's view of our surroundings--gay or straight, physically or mentally--and is the glue that makes our society work.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Gay Pride Day Isn't Just in June Anymore
Let's make Election Day, November 7, Gay Pride Day too!

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Logically Obese with Religious Candy
(2 comments) Restrictive religious proscriptions and civil law to not mix well. Laws should not be used to promote a particular religious viewpoint.