People…
are fucking ridiculous. I’ve been on a kick looking at Christian videos that denounce homosexuality. Have you seen the videos of people defending the pastor from North Carolina who said that gays should be kept behind electrified fences so that they can’t reproduce? It’s astonishing. I don’t understand how people can speak in the name of Jesus Christ and his teachings and claim to be ‘saved’ only to be hateful and judgmental.
I was raised a devout Catholic and I was 100% convinced of the teaching I received. It’s disheartening to grow up and live outside of that classroom and see my fellow classmates turn into the very people that make me afraid to kiss my girlfriend on a street corner. (Mind you, there was no talk of homosexuality and how ‘wrong’ it is). Shouldn’t we all, as Christians, be concerned with our own well being and our own steadfastness in Christ? Shouldn’t we all be trying every single day to better ourselves and to live a sinless life? How can there be time to judge?
I hate the fact that I will let go of my partner’s hand when walking through the mall or a crowded street. I hate the coward that my religion has turned me into. I do nothing wrong by loving. I do no sin in my commitment. I show no hate and no judgement in my relationship.
I can only hope and pray that people will realize the error of their own ways. I can only hope and pray that they will be more concerned with their own faults than with my G rated PDA. The God I know will love me regardless of who I love.
Marketing Campaign of the Day: A new campaign called “Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry” — whose debut video will give you chills — takes aim at the Defense of Marriage Act and its impact on gay and lesbian military families. The video follows the devastating trajectory of a lesbian relationship when one of the women serves in Afghanistan.
Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, one of the organizations behind the campaign, spells it out for us:
Many people assume that, with the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay men and lesbians serving our country are now being treated fairly and equally, but that’s not the case. We ended the ban on open military service for gay and lesbian Americans, but there is still federal ban on treating married service members as what they are: married.
More Poetry.. Because it’s 6 am and I have yet to sleep:
the moon has not always been there for me.
i get her full attention so rarely, and when I do, I am so excited that I go a little mad.
her affection for me is dependent on her mood
a full meal or prosciutto.
a healthy serving, or a tease.
and i can’t help it, how i dismiss her inconsistency.
how i stand in her light and feel warmth as if she were the sun.
how i look across the Charles and know that nothing makes it shimmer the way her presence does.
i am a fool. and i know it.
gq:
The Week in Style: George Clooney
So now we know what George Clooney’s impersonation of a pterodactyl looks like. Cool.
i have seen your eyes dart,
as if watching a tennis match,
beneath your eyelids.
i have seen the thrill and terror of dreams you will forget in the morning,
and i have read your expression as only a lover can.
i have heard the gnashing of teeth/
the click of your jaw/
the springs of the mattress/
the rustle of sheets around you.
i have heard your voice call, unintelligible but firm, muffled by the pillow.
And it is then, in those unaltered moments, in those sounds and in that view,
that I know my dream.
Not The Onion of the Day: This is a screengrab from today’s Fox Nation story on President Obama’s support of gay marriage. It has since been changed to read: “Obama flip flops on gay marriage.” Still a fail.
Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.
That kid can’t be more than 4…
I hate people sometimes…
Big stupid, ignorant people make little stupid, ignorant people.
