• SCOTUS, Passover and Gay Rights

    Intolerance is also proved by Gays and Lesbians, Bi’s and the Transgendered, that hate discussion involving religion and/or politics, while hypocritically demanding ‘rights’ they can neither verbalize nor define.

    is not that “automaton” the same “zombie” for which the LGBT community condemns the “religious?” the “conservative?” the “uneducated?” the “bigot?” the “intolerant?” the “bully?”

    It's not just "conservatives" that hate the concept of same-sex marriage while enjoying their own marriage protections.

    It's not just "liberals" that promote marriage-equality, while condemning the tyranny of religious rites as “legal rights.”

    Two women married to each other are not ‘gay married,’ they are Lesbian Married.

    I am Gay, I am not a Lesbian. I was born this way. There is no “woman trapped within.” I’ve never worn womans’ clothes nor desire to. I am just a man. I am not “attracted to guys,” I am attracted to the ONE GUY I am dating, if dating one. Being Gay is not a “choice,” nor an “attitude” to be “re-orientated” through “conversion therapy,” as opponents of Gay and Lesbian Rights claim.

    A Lesbian claiming she is ‘gay,’ is robotically repeating the same OldSchool chant against Gay Rights as the intolerants that forced us into the hallowed halls of Legislators and Supreme Courts.

    A Gay Marriage is between one man and one man. A Lesbian Marriage is between one woman and one woman. A Same-sex Marriage refers to either/or.

    -- we all do it, use the wrong terms, abuse our own language while thinking we are making “big points,” while only spewing nonsense, if not outright insults. Any questions why equality is taking so long?

    Likewise, for the Jew/Jew-ish, to communicate with the ‘christian’ (and vice versa) is very challenging. Ancient concepts, common words, phrases, holidays, traditions, behaviors, both abstract and obvious, are “commonly known” in ‘christian society’ as something completely different. The language-barriers are huge.

    Yet, we must use the same words.

    -- and the Hebrew was first.
    -- and, ‘christian’ ‘dialects,’ English or otherwise, really do have enough words, with enough flexibility, to facilitate communication.

    Understanding the roots of these “modern conflicts,” celebrates the defenders of liberty, all whom served, protected and sacrificed for equality, for freedom, man or woman, Straight or Gay, religious or not, Christian and Jew.

    THE SPIRIT OF PASSOVER

    To the nonreligious, the word “Passover” has something to do with blood and murder, a ‘holy-(i)-day’ for religious zealots.

    To ‘christians,’ it means about the same, an “out of Africa” theory, but the concept is lost in literalist interpretations, boring out-of-context sermons, and bad but expensive and religiously-celebrated movies.

    The concept of “Passover” is the price of tyranny. If the tables were turned, against the tyrant, against the Masters, by the slaves, who then suffers? Who then would have freedom? Becomes the Tyrant? Who then, is wrong?

    From tyranny, the liberated must be granted freedom, must have equality, not become the tyrants.

    The ‘price paid’ is proof that tyranny is wrong. The ‘price paid’ while in bondage, was every new love, every ‘first-born’ accomplishment, and who would inflict that, willingly, against another peoples? If that were to be the case, there would be no justice.

    Why then seek an Exodus from that, only to become the same?

    Nobody wants tyranny, nobody wants to be oppressed, to be a ‘slave,’ but being a Tyrant is no “salvation.”

    For the Jew/Jew-ish, faith is about justice; knowing the concept of ‘eye-for-an-eye’ is not ‘just,’ as that would be tyranny, zero forgiveness, zero understanding, how Masters treat slaves: zero equality.

    WHAT IS EQUALITY?

    It becomes very complicated. The terms, the definitions, the wording. Just a summary is difficult. A glossary is necessary. A dictionary. A history book. Several legal volumes. And for those who challenge Same-sex Marriage, to discuss it with them, we need understand their terms, their definitions, their customs, and the merits of their complaints, or we fail at communication, let alone solutions.

    The court can't tell you how to "get along." It can help define laws; but it can't help you as a Traditionalist stop discriminating against a Same-sex couple, at work or in the neighborhood, or vice versa. And yes, tolerance is a two-way street.

    The LGBT community ("GayLandIs" for the worldwide GLBTQ peoples), most everyone has heard that President Obama has provided a legal briefing to SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) in favor of Same-sex Marriage in the state of California (Prop8 abolished it). The SCOTUS will determine the equality issues, namely if Prop8 enacts a "2nd-class" citizenry in terms of 'marriage' {which is a religious concept}.

    Just wording that, is hard to do. Every summary leaves out so much, misses something, and no matter how it's said, somebody wishes it was stated differently.

    Neither President Obama nor SCOTUS is addressing protections for GayLandIs or any particular LGBT local community; that is not before the court, only the issue of California’s Prop8 and the constitutionality of denying marriage equality in California.

    Understanding the “spirit of Passover” allows us to clearly distinguish between the concepts of tyranny and equality, and, celebrating the liberation of all people equally from such conundrums.

    Pasach (Passover) is the Festival of Freedom, freedom from tyranny, freedom from slavery, both (freedom from being a slave, and freedom from being a tyrant).

    It is an ancient annual Jewish Holiday. Much is missed by literalist interpretations, cartoon-ish movies and the robotic chants of the uneducated. Often, the most educated robotically-repeat, just use more words and complicated phrases than the uneducated.

    Today, we see a huge divide between the ancient origins of freedom, justice, equality, pursuits of happiness, life and liberty, ‘christians’ vs ‘jews.’ It’s all in the education and language-forms.

    Hebrew is a concept-language-form. English is a literalist-language-form.

    Likewise, we of GayLandIs (world GLBTQ peoples) have language-barriers within our own LGBT communities, and between “straights” (Str8s), while robotically-repeating religious-terms unknowingly, demanding ‘rights’ while confusing our own terms, thereby confusing them.

    The billions spent on education is proof these barriers are by “intelligent design,” not “happenstance,” as the institutions that sell careers in “educating” profit from atop the confusion, rubble, misery and grief, while Legislators photo-op. All of it IN PLAIN SIGHT, “tyrannies and oppresses,” “masters and slaves.”
    -- each oblivious to their “part” within the whole: AllThings.

    For a Christian to define it to their followers, confusion abounds; to a Jew, the ‘christian’ ‘reasonable-sounding’ attempts at explanations are nothing but babble, and vice versa.

    All of that, is Pesach, the “spirit of Passover” within the Festival of Freedom .

    It’s up to us …

    Our very existence in reality is a PORTION of that ‘spirit.’ We are all in it together. We must fix it, together.

    PASSOVER HAGGADAH

    (Haggadah: the liturgy (a form of public service to formally declare intentions) during the Seder service (ceremonial dinner) celebrating Passover (Pesach).

    These are the ancient words, an introduction.

    (I will borrow from Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch and his preparation of various translations in his book, “The Family Seder, A Traditional Passover Haggadah For The Modern Home.”)

    Oh, SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States), our Justices:

    We have gathered to recall, retell, and reenact the early history of our people, who from ancient days onward were infused with a burning desire to achieve freedom.

    We strive for family assembly and friendship, and as we relive in words and symbols the ancient quest for liberty, that we shall become infused with renewed spirit and inspiration and understanding. May the problem of all who are downtrodden be our problem; may the concern of all who are afflicted be our concern; and may the struggle of all who strive for liberty and equality be our struggle.

    In this spirit, let us recall the Festival of Freedom celebrating Exodus from tyranny:

    "Since the Exodus," said Heinrich Heine, "freedom has spoken with a Hebrew accent." Today it speaks in the language of all men (people).

    Although it is the Pharaoh of old who is the tyrant of the Exodus, it is not he alone of whom we speak. We speak of other tyrants and other tyrannies as well. We speak ...

    ...Of the tyranny of poverty
    and the tyranny of privation,
    ...Of the tyranny of wealth
    and the tyranny of war,
    ...Of the tyranny of power
    and the tyranny of despair,
    ...Of the tyranny of disease
    and the tyranny of time,
    ...Of the tyranny of ignorance
    and the tyranny of color.
    ...Of the tyranny of bigotry
    and the tyranny of denial.
    ...Of the tyranny of exclusionary marriages
    and the tyranny of gender supremacy.
    ...Of the tyranny of discrimination
    and the tyranny of judicial bias.

    To all these tyrannies do we address ourselves. Passover brands them all as "abdominations before AllThings."

    With Thomas Jefferson we say: "I have sworn upon the altar of g-d eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind."

    And with Abraham Lincoln we affirm: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

    The spirit of Passover, understanding inequality, the tyrannies of being the tyrant, or the oppressed, is what Pesach, the ancient Jewish Festival of Freedom (Passover) truly is: adoration of heart, compassion, justice for all.

    Kind regards, always,
    Clayton Leon Winton
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