You'll look back on the struggles you've faced with compassion and wisdom.
There's nothing wrong with your monitor. It's green because so many Christianists are puking up bile onto their screens and blogs and websites and desks and carpets and dogs.
The President delivered an "It Gets Better Speech" last night. He got some kudos, but not enough from the LGBT community to make a dent in their disappointment. His Department of Justice put DADT back into play. It doesn't balance out. But there will be hell to pay nevertheless. And both the LGBT community and the President will suffer.
So now, what?
As a diversion, it's time for the Tony Perkins "Homosexual Agenda Show!" What awful pun will he use for his first headline? The suspense kills. Then there will be the Bryan Fischer radio rant chanting "perverted president;" "Christians are always right,"gays are Nazis!" ("pssst: kill them!").
Concerned Women for America will release a statement like, "Of course, we want ALL children to be safe, but must we push the homosexual agenda on infants?" Southern Baptist ministers across the land will be nixing their Sunday sermons and feverishly drafting new ones to tell people that their Halloween Hell Houses will contain an "Abominable Obama" rainbow-colored monster. And FOX News ... will live for the next YEAR on this one.
Yes, I feel sorry for the President. He was pressured to do the right thing, of course, but it still took a certain amount of courage to do it. He could have abstained by lauding Hillary Clinton's speech as sufficient. Still, some people in his own party may be distancing themselves from him even more than they have been recently. The Democrats are so scattered right now, you 'll hear groans amongst the faint cheers.
To some, Obama may have shown the wrong time to deliver compassion.
Compassion. Seriously, that's a word that the Christian Right has now taken to demonizing as a soft, wimpy word, not commensurate with the bold measures needed to "Take Back America" from the godless secularists. Ironically, however, compassion will be the word the Right will need to adopt before looking totally hard-hearted. It will need to convolute the definition to mean something, well, less compassionate and more boot-strapsier.
"We've got to dispel the myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage-that it's some inevitable part of growing up. It's not."
This is when the Right will turn and say, "Yes it is!" Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle are shouting, "Man up!" The red states will say, "He's teaching our kids to be sissies!"
Compassion will be banned from the conversation. If there is a conversation. But instead it will be a one-sided bray from the Right, backed up by righteous indignation.
Yes, I also feel sorry for the LGBT community. The bullies may win the day: after all, they still have Hell Houses to give the bullies justifiable support. After Oct. 31st, we may wake up to a spate of gay bashing the likes of which we've never seen since the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic.
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