Mr. Rick Santorum – I am soooo sorry you had to hear about a family and their child that was forced to have a TRANSGENDER kid in the classroom…You make me want to vomit

A Mother/Son Exchange

sweet son,

I love you always. I’m sorry that you can’t continue a conversation with me because you feel the need to protect yourself. From what? The truth?? The truth is this. God is good. God loves you, (my partner), and all of your homosexual friend’s. However, you have been lied to. And you have believed the old lie from the beginning. That God is holding out on you. I remember when you would come home from college and go out alone with your Bible to seek God. I know now that you were praying for deliverence and it didn’t come as you expected. You finally became discouraged, disallusioned, and angry. Angry at God. And that is where all of this comes from. You are so angry. You claim that you’re not, but, one read of your blog says that you are a very angry person. That makes me very sad. You also claim to be a student of theology. From who do you study, and how do you know the truth?? Do you believe only those that make you comfortable in what you already FEEL is right? or are your really seeking the truth? I challenge you and your friends. Come over and talk to dad. Bring it. Let’s really get to the truth. Let me know. Love you! I know that you don’t celebrate the risen Lord, and the new life He gives, but still, He cares for you and longs for you to come to the cross.

BTW You never know what is going to happen in the future. (your grandparents) wonder why you don’t call. I know about the money. I don’t understand what that was about though. You can be mad at me if you want, but, don’t ever be angry at them!! They have done everything to bless you since you were born! If anything makes me angry at you, it would be your treatment of them. It would be a terrible thing for you if something were to happen to them and you were on bad terms. They aren’t getting any younger. Keep these things in mind. Also, time marches on. Things change. You’re loosing touch with your family. It’s a sad shame that you continue to choose your changing friends over your family.

mom

My Mother,

Not one thing you just wrote answers any questions to which I have posed to you and dad both. If you choose to use my blog, than please answer at least a few of the questions I posed from “Bible Problems,” in which you may find by searching the title. You may remember that I asked you and dad to answer some of those questions in an email I wrote over a year ago. No response. Yet your email talks of only your own “feelings” about my life.

In regards to money, I now do not owe anybody in my family anything, thankfully. The one loan (and the one thing I asked them for in years) has been payed back fully.

I am not angry at all. I just do not want to come to Easter at your house. And I have no desire whatsoever to come anywhere near a place where I am not accepted fully. Even if I was single, I would not want to come, because you would only accept me there because I am so.

I was having a wonderful time having lunch with you and dad on occasion; because I thought we were at the point were we could accept our differences. But I have never told you that you are living a wrong lifestyle because you refuse to meet my partner…and there have now been 3 of them. And to note, each one has been for a year each…dad talked and talked about (my sister’s) 3 month endeavor during lunch….

The reason I ended our phone call is because I know the very instant you start to attack. It always starts with a couple glasses of wine and wanting to admit that I am wrong. I will not talk to you under any such circumstance. Bring demeanour and candor and I would be glad to discuss anything you wish to talk about.

I love you very much momma, but I will delete any following email you send without reading because, as I have gathered from your most recent, has nothing do do with actual reality, but only your self-protecting lifestyle. Answer my questions like an adult and than we may treat each other as such.

-chaser

Why am I gay mom?!?!

Homosexuaity–Is There a Cure?

Preaching Hate in Uganda

What’s Morally Wrong with Homosexuality?

Miss Beverly Hills (gays should die)….. “I’m a Christian, and it’s in the bible.”

It’s Not God Saying Gays Should Be Put to Death, It’s YOU

Alright. Let’s get one thing straight, fundie homophobes- you don’t get a pass when you “quote” the Leviticus Bible verse saying:

If man lies with a man as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.
This may come as a shock to the “hate the sin, love the sinner” set, but by quoting that verse, it’s not God saying that gays should be put to death- it’s YOU. It’s not simply a personal religious view or a debatable “political difference” or a great talking point. YOU are saying that I should be put to death.

This week we’ve heard it from everyone from a Ugandan Pastor to another California Beauty Queen, Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley. And despite them both saying they ‘don’t hate gay people’, there’s not much love in saying I should have ‘blood upon me.’ That’s not really a debatable point.

Of course we’ve all heard that Leviticus quote in every debate about homosexuality and LGBT rights that comes up. Everyone from Focus on the Family to politicians to Westboro Baptist Church throws that verse up as a bump-sticker quote that explains why they hate us- and why it’s beyond their control that they do.

They just can’t help it- God says so.

Uganda’s Porn Peddling Pastor Martin Ssempa uses the quote to explain why his country should pass the “Kill the Gays” Bill, even while at the same time he says he doesn’t hate gays. It’s just about the act, not the person. It’s out of his hands- that verse means we should die. It’s not up to him.

Even the new Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley uses the verse to explain why it’s okay if she hates the gays:
The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white. I feel like God himself created mankind and he loves everyone, and he has the best for everyone. If he says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that’s a pretty stern warning, and he knows more than we do about life.
Yet in the same breath, she says she personally doesn’t hate gays, we just have a friendly difference of opinion:
That isn’t really the issue. I have a lot of friends that are gay, and … I have a lot of friends who have different views, and we share our views together.
See? It’s not Miss Beverly Hills who thinks you should die- just ask her gay friends!

This verse has become a homophobic cover for people to try to wash their hands of the damage they are doing and the violent, extremist views they hold. It’s become an accepted talking point for bigots and haters, parroted without any real thought about the consequences of saying a swath of people should be killed because their personal idea of ‘God says so.’ (Oddly, the same people breeze over other ‘abomination’ verses in the same book and put on their mixed fiber clothing and eat their shrimp scampi after church.) I’ve personally heard that ‘gays should be killed verse way too much in my life. It’s what started my life as an activist when a skycap played it over the intercom in Fort Lauderdale Airport as a joke. Because saying I should die is simply hilarious.

Think it’s a stretch to mention the Ugandan Pastor and a California Beauty Queen in the same post? It’s not. It’s the “trickle down” hate effect. Leaders crow about how gays should die and then small-minded bigots use it in casual conversation. It’s all the same hate.

That’s why it’s important that we don’t give passes to people like Miss Beverly Hills. She invoked ‘death for gays’ in a discussion on gay marriage (and pageants) and wasn’t challenged by the interviewer. That’s how accepted the talking point has become. That’s what we are facing.

And that’s why we have to always call it out.

Let’s be clear: when you trot out this Bible verse, you are endorsing it, embracing it, and wrapping yourself in it. No amount of “I have gay friends”, “it’s just the act”, or excuse-making will soften it. YOU are saying I should be killed.

You can’t wipe your hands of it, you can’t act shocked when violence happens to LGBT people, and you can’t distance yourself from it. YOU own it. YOU are part of it.

And no amount of fancy pageant walking will change that.

Why the Village People Don’t Play Kampala – Huff Post

I’m not sure if any of you have been following the news coming out of Uganda lately, but if you haven’t, I think it’s about time you got caught up to speed. The situation over there has become so ludicrous that this columnist can no longer sit idly by and not make fun of it.

First, however, I want to pose a hypothetical question: If you showed up for church one Sunday, and the priest (or reverend or rabbi or imam or whoever) showed the congregation some gay pornography, what would you think?

Maybe you’d think it was great, and you’d tell your friends, and they’d start going to that church with you each week in the hopes of seeing more. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Chances are, though, that instead you’d wonder why someone would show gay porn at church. I know that would probably be my first reaction. Actually, my first reaction would be to get up and leave, but after that I’m sure confusion would set in, and I’d wonder why God wanted me to spend my Sunday morning watching men having sex with each other. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume most of you would be similarly befuddled.

Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I feel it’s only fair to say that I haven’t read the Bible. As far as I know it could be chock full of gay sex. I know that sort of thing was supposedly going on back in Sodom and Gomorrah, but if memory serves, God wiped those places out for exactly that reason, so, again, I’d be left wondering why my priest was showing me gay porn. (Insert your own Catholic joke here. I’m not going there.)

OK, more disclosure: I lied. That was not really a hypothetical question at all. The situation described above actually took place recently in Uganda, where Pastor Martin Ssempa showed said porn to his flock to drum up support for a proposed law that would make homosexuality, which is already considered a crime in Uganda, punishable by the death penalty in some cases.

Pastor Ssempa justified his decision to show the gay porn by saying, “In Africa, what you do in your bedroom affects our clan, it affects our tribe, it affects our nation. … We are in the process of legislation, and we have to educate ourselves about what homosexuals do.”

I’m not gay, and I haven’t watched any gay porn, but I have seen some straight porn, and I can tell you as a heterosexual that it’s not exactly what heterosexuals “do.” I mean, sure, maybe there are some lucky stiffs out there who get to, but for the majority of us, porn-style sex isn’t a big part of our lives. I can only assume the same thing holds true for homosexuals.

To claim that porn is what gay people do and use that as justification for killing them is … well … I’ll let Nthateng Mhlambiso, from the African gay rights group Behind the Mask, sum it up for me: “Showing pornography in church in the presence of minors is twisted homophobic propaganda … It is not surprising, but rather disappointing, that in Africa in the 21st century yet again discrimination and prejudice is legitimized through religion.”

So by now you may be wondering how Ugandans got the idea for a bill making homosexuality punishable by death in the first place. Surely such an idea could only have been dreamed up in a place as backwards as Africa, right? Wrong.

The bill was first proposed in April 2009, a month after a seminar held by Ugandan pastor Stephen Langa. One of the keynote speakers at the seminar was American Scott Lively, an anti-gay activist and author of the book The Pink Swastika, which attempts to draw links between homosexuals and the Nazi Party.

Langa essentially quoted Lively verbatim in helping to compile the bill, which included full paragraphs of Lively’s work in its first draft. Thus, the idea to kill gay people is more or less an American one. Granted, it’s the idea of a few sick, evil Americans, but Americans nonetheless.

Now, as I said, I haven’t read the Bible, and I don’t know much about God, but I certainly hope that if God exists he would never condone killing anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation. And if somehow God is OK with gay porn being shown in his house … I’ll be honest; I’d have no idea what to make of that.

A GAY STORM – ITS….A COMING

And…..some satire…. 🙂