Bi guys ridicule and scorn me around women and Str8 men. They become schizophrenic bitches around 'em. Nice before, then schizo-bitch around 'em, control-freaking every free-choice, the food I eat, how I eat it, the beverage I drink, clothes I wear, word-choices, music 'likes/dislikes' silliness; endless nitpicked judgements; sensationalized excuses to display 'anger,'; belittling comments; scurilous accusatory pettiness. "..do it any way you want.." , followed by: "..why didn't you do it this way.." scoffing. All people with something to hide act that way. Nobody over '12' doesn't understand what's going on there...
-- a good analysts thinks of all angles --
One of my favorite Gayspiracies is that Bi's are a CIA plot, 'MANeuvered' into 'position' unawares; to 'soften' or 'de-sensitize' an environment; a 'cover' for undercover FBI, ATF, DEA, etc., and informants. lol
CRIMINOLOGY_101 hate crimes
-- "Do not turn over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master; he shall live among you in any place he may choose, among the settlements IN YOUR MIDSTS WHEREVER HE PLEASES, you MUST NOT MISTREAT HIM." (Torah D23.16 Ki Tetse')
Friday, January 04, 2013
Ki Tetse'
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Super SANDS of Time
SPECTACLES OF ROSE
-- (blog notes, unedited, intentionally disjointed -- I have only a few minutes at the library)
"Homosexuality is a birth-defect," is the thinking of Supremacists, straight "Str8-Bigotry," as hateful as men labeling women "inferior." Gay Rights was hookwinked by the unspoken 'facets' of that singular aspect in the Str8 bigots' Court, the "Great Whitey" System of HigherEd's that was against ending slavery, was (and some argue 'still is,') pro-segregation, anti-voting rights for POCs and women, filled with the shrill hymns of churches singing anti Civil Rights verses into the 1980's with Mormons leading.
I was there ... I don't give a fuck how THEY word their 'reasonable-sounding' DENIALS about it.
Hate is hate. Period.
May the love of GayLandIs find future in their STONEWALLED hearts.
1-in-6 households in the USA hungry, rely upon food assistance programs. Obesity is HigherEd Systems' most obvious symptom of failure, a sedentary worker system bragged about as "max efficiency," all the while selling their PRODUCT of credentials, diplomas, "job-security" for future-grads at taxpayer expense. The fatter, the the more gov't funded healthcare "job-security," that is. And another unspoken all-too-convenient "cover" for HigherEd's own LIFESTYLES of gluttony.
We're $16T in debt. Creating jobs in the space industry stimulates economy and scientific development (that's a good thing). Meanwhile, North Korea enters the Space Age with MINIMAL resources, fewer hungry families than us, now, no obese office worker credentialed systems.
Think of it. It's like cavemen building pyramids. Or small communities bringing major investors to build businesses and grow local economy. Here, HigherEd Systems would take a billion dollars, spend it pushing paperwork, never build anything, then send a bill for another ten billion to 'job-secure' their careers talking about working instead of doing any.
Workers didn't design sedentary systems. Workers didn't concoct paperFAKEwork systems. Workers didn't ridicule and scorn anybody for SMELLING LIKE WORK, or having dirt on their hands from doing REAL WORK.
I spent many years in offices REDUCING paperwork to conserve resources, while the gluttons concocted more, claiming they-themselves were "indispensible" to productivity. Not. "Customers? What customers?! We don't have customers!" says the VP of a major bank to me. Can you imagine? They think the paperFAKEwork isn't about customers, and make-up their own "benchmarks" to reward themselves raises, perks and benefits at the expense of investors and customers, usually the poorest customers of all are hurt most.
Republicans concocting excuses to be buttfucking Gay Rights will be this new Congress' miasmic intercourse, their "love offering" to "equality," lip-service as usual. TThey need a serious "image-makeover!" lol #sodomized
-- I think the GOP proved this election once and for all that religious zealotry is an expensive self-absorbtion that hurts the poor. SYMPATHY VOTE, vote for losers, or, vote for more of the same shit. And those Legislators are being rewarded for their $8Billion dollar debauchery at 'donors' expense.
-- Monday I came in to work and my numeric keypad was backwards. Reversed. They said "conversion." Friday I got reviewed "poor productivity" "does not meet". No raise. Fuckers.
-- but they gave themselves one. Union shop. I'm not union.
The view out the window of the world that the universe (all of reality) is the one and only deity, a living 'organism' we are all a part of, is affirming one's reality is the one and only existence, therefore what you verify with your five senses in the one and only reality is the only 'truth,' nothing imagined is 'truth,' therefore g-d is real, none before that, or after, the ONLY one. AllThings. And everybody is a part of that. G-d is real, not imagined. That's why we're all equals by law. It requires no belief. You update your opinions as real life experience is actually experienced. Verified with your five senses.
-- meanwhile, the "just believe" crowd, on the other hand, thinks 'truth' is about things imagined, because somebody said so. He-said, she-said, and all that. That things unverifiable with one's five-senses is 'truth.' "Spectacles of Rose," is what I call false philosophies, especially "Positive vs Negative" philosophies by which HigherEd SYSTEMS profit most, especially due to the violence, mass shootings especially, putting on one's 'blinders,' dumbing-down reality to ecclectic snippets of 'reasonable-sounding' imaginings, molesting religions and minds and countries the result.
And that's also why Jews are historically hated by those that think 'truth' is imagined. Interestingly, among "religio-jews," there are 'denominations' of conflicting belief-systems also, like all religions. Reality doesn't require belief. We have five senses to verify reality, to establish opinions about what is real or imagined, to prove truth.
Kerry? Obama promised "change" but all he's ever delivered is the same 'ole Old Boys Club.
Leonard Pitts Jr wrote on Mon Nov 19, 2012, "Who Knows God's Will?" and it's one of the finest OpEd's I've ever read, and one of the finest, if not THE finest ever written on that topic. I would have worded some things differently, but that OpEd was great.
Meanwhile, the HOURGLASS is emptying ... both for my computer use here at the library system of HigherEd design that censors the word 'gay' with a pop-up password prompt if returned in a Google search, and for the Fiscal Cliff fiasco that HigherEd Legislators concocted to divert attention from anything important, as usual.
-- I think some of the SANDS of TIME have been SUPERSIZED and got stuck ... cuz the excuses just keep repeating, re-worded, slightly, but same 'ole, same 'ole shit. What they said they'd do, they didn't, what they said they wouldn't, they did.
Meanwhile, my friends and I will be sharing a few crumbs together, while the gluttonous eat cake.
-- "You shall not steal; you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one another .." "..the wages of a laborer shall not remain with you until morning." Torah L.19.13
Congress cares not. It's about their own photo-ops.
Kind Regards, and chin up. We're all in it together, we must innovate a fix together.
-- (blog notes, unedited, intentionally disjointed -- I have only a few minutes at the library)
"Homosexuality is a birth-defect," is the thinking of Supremacists, straight "Str8-Bigotry," as hateful as men labeling women "inferior." Gay Rights was hookwinked by the unspoken 'facets' of that singular aspect in the Str8 bigots' Court, the "Great Whitey" System of HigherEd's that was against ending slavery, was (and some argue 'still is,') pro-segregation, anti-voting rights for POCs and women, filled with the shrill hymns of churches singing anti Civil Rights verses into the 1980's with Mormons leading.
I was there ... I don't give a fuck how THEY word their 'reasonable-sounding' DENIALS about it.
Hate is hate. Period.
May the love of GayLandIs find future in their STONEWALLED hearts.
1-in-6 households in the USA hungry, rely upon food assistance programs. Obesity is HigherEd Systems' most obvious symptom of failure, a sedentary worker system bragged about as "max efficiency," all the while selling their PRODUCT of credentials, diplomas, "job-security" for future-grads at taxpayer expense. The fatter, the the more gov't funded healthcare "job-security," that is. And another unspoken all-too-convenient "cover" for HigherEd's own LIFESTYLES of gluttony.
We're $16T in debt. Creating jobs in the space industry stimulates economy and scientific development (that's a good thing). Meanwhile, North Korea enters the Space Age with MINIMAL resources, fewer hungry families than us, now, no obese office worker credentialed systems.
Think of it. It's like cavemen building pyramids. Or small communities bringing major investors to build businesses and grow local economy. Here, HigherEd Systems would take a billion dollars, spend it pushing paperwork, never build anything, then send a bill for another ten billion to 'job-secure' their careers talking about working instead of doing any.
Workers didn't design sedentary systems. Workers didn't concoct paperFAKEwork systems. Workers didn't ridicule and scorn anybody for SMELLING LIKE WORK, or having dirt on their hands from doing REAL WORK.
I spent many years in offices REDUCING paperwork to conserve resources, while the gluttons concocted more, claiming they-themselves were "indispensible" to productivity. Not. "Customers? What customers?! We don't have customers!" says the VP of a major bank to me. Can you imagine? They think the paperFAKEwork isn't about customers, and make-up their own "benchmarks" to reward themselves raises, perks and benefits at the expense of investors and customers, usually the poorest customers of all are hurt most.
Republicans concocting excuses to be buttfucking Gay Rights will be this new Congress' miasmic intercourse, their "love offering" to "equality," lip-service as usual. TThey need a serious "image-makeover!" lol #sodomized
-- I think the GOP proved this election once and for all that religious zealotry is an expensive self-absorbtion that hurts the poor. SYMPATHY VOTE, vote for losers, or, vote for more of the same shit. And those Legislators are being rewarded for their $8Billion dollar debauchery at 'donors' expense.
-- Monday I came in to work and my numeric keypad was backwards. Reversed. They said "conversion." Friday I got reviewed "poor productivity" "does not meet". No raise. Fuckers.
-- but they gave themselves one. Union shop. I'm not union.
The view out the window of the world that the universe (all of reality) is the one and only deity, a living 'organism' we are all a part of, is affirming one's reality is the one and only existence, therefore what you verify with your five senses in the one and only reality is the only 'truth,' nothing imagined is 'truth,' therefore g-d is real, none before that, or after, the ONLY one. AllThings. And everybody is a part of that. G-d is real, not imagined. That's why we're all equals by law. It requires no belief. You update your opinions as real life experience is actually experienced. Verified with your five senses.
-- meanwhile, the "just believe" crowd, on the other hand, thinks 'truth' is about things imagined, because somebody said so. He-said, she-said, and all that. That things unverifiable with one's five-senses is 'truth.' "Spectacles of Rose," is what I call false philosophies, especially "Positive vs Negative" philosophies by which HigherEd SYSTEMS profit most, especially due to the violence, mass shootings especially, putting on one's 'blinders,' dumbing-down reality to ecclectic snippets of 'reasonable-sounding' imaginings, molesting religions and minds and countries the result.
And that's also why Jews are historically hated by those that think 'truth' is imagined. Interestingly, among "religio-jews," there are 'denominations' of conflicting belief-systems also, like all religions. Reality doesn't require belief. We have five senses to verify reality, to establish opinions about what is real or imagined, to prove truth.
Kerry? Obama promised "change" but all he's ever delivered is the same 'ole Old Boys Club.
Leonard Pitts Jr wrote on Mon Nov 19, 2012, "Who Knows God's Will?" and it's one of the finest OpEd's I've ever read, and one of the finest, if not THE finest ever written on that topic. I would have worded some things differently, but that OpEd was great.
Meanwhile, the HOURGLASS is emptying ... both for my computer use here at the library system of HigherEd design that censors the word 'gay' with a pop-up password prompt if returned in a Google search, and for the Fiscal Cliff fiasco that HigherEd Legislators concocted to divert attention from anything important, as usual.
-- I think some of the SANDS of TIME have been SUPERSIZED and got stuck ... cuz the excuses just keep repeating, re-worded, slightly, but same 'ole, same 'ole shit. What they said they'd do, they didn't, what they said they wouldn't, they did.
Meanwhile, my friends and I will be sharing a few crumbs together, while the gluttonous eat cake.
-- "You shall not steal; you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one another .." "..the wages of a laborer shall not remain with you until morning." Torah L.19.13
Congress cares not. It's about their own photo-ops.
Kind Regards, and chin up. We're all in it together, we must innovate a fix together.
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Your Christmas Haul?
Looking forward to what you're going to get? Chanuka (honor 'giving') is every day. Happy Chanuka. (there is no correct spelling for "Hannakuah", the Hebrew ROOT concept is "Tanakh in all.." the BRANCH is "honor giving". Happy Tanakh in ya'! :)
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Monday, November 19, 2012
Gays For Israel!
Gays For Israel!
We were marched to death camps together.
No matter where we live, our homes, our lifestyles, our families, our friends, attacked, vandalized, censored ... say anything, the hateful twist our words, accuse, sensationalize, in the pathetic attempt to 'justify' their meanness.
Only a Jew and JWit would feed me, clothe me, house me, when the Str8 Married fired me for being Gay Married.
Iran's GHAM Diversion actually has support here in the US, it goes like this: the US's "green-enviro-occupy-positive-thinking" philosophy is hammering Jews and Gays and Mormons as "negatives" against merciless "positive-cross-signs" -- just like Hitler.
-- it's funded;
-- it's organized;
-- and just like Berlin pre '39, it's a HigherEd Ca$hCow Golden Idol, worshiped, ignorance that kills.
GHAM Diversion: "Gaza Hamas Morsi Assad" -- and the "positive-thinking" crusade of hate and intolerance that proves love of Hitler, not peace, proves love of religious-extremism masqueraded as 'moderatism,' not the radical fanatacism it's always been since ancient Persia.
I pointed-out that Israel would be SAFER if Obama was not re-elected. That's not about the "Positive vs Negative" cycle of intolerance HigherEd sells to profit from atop rubble, misery and grief like religious extremists do. It's about BLAME, cuz that's his 'legacy' so far, and saying "we fully support" such and such, then faking it.
Morsi is a radical, not a moderate. He supports Hamas, which is the same as saying "Israel has no right to exist." That's what Hamas is. They hide WMD in Palestinian homes, don't care which woman or child is killed to stop a rocket or mortar fire, photo-op from atop the rubble, misery and grief, their goal: blame Israel, blame Jews, blame DIVERSITY, and teach the world to hate it too.
The religious extremism, be it HigherEd or Mosque or Temple or Cathedral or "positve-thinking" MUST STOP!
US Troops should be in Gaza and Lebanon and march on Syria, stop setting-up Jews and Queers as your catch-all "scapegoats". The situation is outrageous. The USERY is repugnant.
We were marched to death camps together.
No matter where we live, our homes, our lifestyles, our families, our friends, attacked, vandalized, censored ... say anything, the hateful twist our words, accuse, sensationalize, in the pathetic attempt to 'justify' their meanness.
Only a Jew and JWit would feed me, clothe me, house me, when the Str8 Married fired me for being Gay Married.
Iran's GHAM Diversion actually has support here in the US, it goes like this: the US's "green-enviro-occupy-positive-thinking" philosophy is hammering Jews and Gays and Mormons as "negatives" against merciless "positive-cross-signs" -- just like Hitler.
-- it's funded;
-- it's organized;
-- and just like Berlin pre '39, it's a HigherEd Ca$hCow Golden Idol, worshiped, ignorance that kills.
GHAM Diversion: "Gaza Hamas Morsi Assad" -- and the "positive-thinking" crusade of hate and intolerance that proves love of Hitler, not peace, proves love of religious-extremism masqueraded as 'moderatism,' not the radical fanatacism it's always been since ancient Persia.
I pointed-out that Israel would be SAFER if Obama was not re-elected. That's not about the "Positive vs Negative" cycle of intolerance HigherEd sells to profit from atop rubble, misery and grief like religious extremists do. It's about BLAME, cuz that's his 'legacy' so far, and saying "we fully support" such and such, then faking it.
Morsi is a radical, not a moderate. He supports Hamas, which is the same as saying "Israel has no right to exist." That's what Hamas is. They hide WMD in Palestinian homes, don't care which woman or child is killed to stop a rocket or mortar fire, photo-op from atop the rubble, misery and grief, their goal: blame Israel, blame Jews, blame DIVERSITY, and teach the world to hate it too.
The religious extremism, be it HigherEd or Mosque or Temple or Cathedral or "positve-thinking" MUST STOP!
US Troops should be in Gaza and Lebanon and march on Syria, stop setting-up Jews and Queers as your catch-all "scapegoats". The situation is outrageous. The USERY is repugnant.
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Gays For Romney? PART II
AFTER ELECTION
I know what real attacks are. I know what real wounds are. I know what real spilt-blood is. Words do not cause 'wounds' unless imagined, faked. I've never struck anyone, but have been just for being Gay, and one time for my free-expression about faith. NEVER FORGET.
My Jew-ish faith is in AllThings, all of us, all of you, all of 'them,' all of 'us,' that we'll celebrate our differences and empower diversity, not hate it.
It's not a "Mormon Loss." But I'm not stupid. The GOP won, the 'big agenda' more than one office or office-holder. It's about control. Controlling the GOP's Republican Strategy.
The infighting within the GOP is which denomination 'rises from the ashes' with a 'sparkling clean coat,' and which will forevermore be viewed as the religious extremists, obstructionists, throwbacks of bygone eras. And Catholicism has a vested-interest in that, too.
It was ''the usual,'' as far as US'an elections go. Tiny 'successes' hyped as 'major victories;' monumental blunders hailed as 'your fault' or anybody else's 'fault'; and the end-result is a $5,000/yr PAY CUT for workers, so HigherEd SYSTEMS' employees can give themselves more ...
... more, more, more, at the expense of successful businesses and The People, taxpayers. More for them, more job-security for generations of college-grads to push paperFAKEwork at taxpayer expense, building bureaucrazies, instead of reducing/eliminating forest-killing paperwork systems.
GLOBAL WARMING BULLYING
It really is related. Just as 'the masses' were never allowed to dispute religious dogma for fear of being cast-out as a 'heretic,' 'infidel,' blasphemer,' 'sinner,' 'possessed of evil,' etc., all we hear from "the educated" is "the science speaks for itself" (but you're neither a Monsignor nor Scientist), and, "just believe," so all who do not are cast-out for their "lack of faith." And that's not 'science' nor 'scientific' at all. It's religion, just another hateful religious-extremist agenda.
I read a letter to the Editor recently in the Spokesman Review from someone that says "the science speaks for itself." So, I ask, that's 'justification' for raising taxes, curbing development, blaming consumers for the "scientifically developed" products they consume? The 'credentials' came from the same place, afterall, those who developed "the system" and those who blame YOU for being BORN INTO IT as a mindfuck to take your pay and pay themselves.
HANDS OFF THE EARTH
It's extremism. It's outrageous. No plant, animal, fish or bird is of "higher value" than YOU, and I just don't give a flying-fuck who you fuck, even if you're the head of the CIA.
All this "fucking business" is a diversion. Whenever Legislators need one, they thrust crotches in our faces, blue dresses and PRIVATES, as if suddenly Privacy Rights, or lack thereof, is the only "moral value" there is. Perverts look through windows into the bedrooms of others. Legislators proving who they are, as usual.
A decorated war-hero, not pillaging, raping or robbing, but suddenly "unqualified" to serve and protect, due to sexual-orientation issues? It's an insult to all.
The Global Warming religion and cult-following, as well as the Bedroom Peeping Toms, are very similar in their "projecting," thriving on ridicule and scorn of others for "not believing" 'correctly,' in the pathetic attempt at making themselves-out as 'superior.'
Who uses the most paper? Who produces the most paper? Who developed the paper systems that "depletes forests" and who is promoting strip-mining of forests to extract the most resources for their "way of life"? HigherEd's people. One 'scientist' consumes more resources, more FOSSIL FUELS, more strip-mined forest products, contributing the most to energy consumption and travel-related air-particulate pollutions than all others. One flight across country to TALK about how to ridicule and scorn consumers for BREATHING uses more fuel, "up in smoke," than you driving an old shitty beatup pickup getting 12mpg for a thousand years.
And they scratch their heads claiming they'll "find solutions" about ECONOMY? Either one, the 'traditional' religionists or the 'scientific' version is one in the same: ECONOMY KILLERS, spewing Jeremiah-styled 'prophecies' of "world destruction if you don't ..." ... (endless list of 'sins').
It's bullying. It's oppressive. It's offensive. It's hateful.
Meanwhile, if anybody thinks this was a "successful" election-cycle, think again. It divided this country evenly. Split it in two. Taught half the country how to hate the other, and vice versa. And it cost $8B ... money that was 'donated' but not one dime went to the poor, or the starving, or the homeless, or a wounded war veteran, or a traumatized Gay, or stigmatized Lesbian, or developed a cure for anything, it was a Media GOLD RUSH, that's all. And they can't wait for another. The more expensive, the more divisive, the better (for them, 'to hell with the country' the message from that facet of HigherEd SYSTEMS failure).
But don't think about it, another Commander's penis is of 'higher value?' Fuck you.
When asked what I thought of the election, I laughed, stuck my nose in the newspaper I was reading, self-defense, said, "I don't care."
Palm slap on table, "Oh come on!" and "You do too!" in both ears, simultaneously. We all laughed. I never say who I vote for, I don't know the people I vote for, personally, I just evaluate the 'platforms' and 'results', their 'ideas' and their 'aspirations.' That's good citizenship, not hating people due to their votes. A guy on the news is calling for 'revolution,' in hatred of Democracy. Crazy shit, man. Utterly crazy.
But one thing is clear: religious-extremism won't stop until it's stopped. And the proved 'god' of 'believers' is about stopping people from pursuits of happiness, life and liberty. People they don't even know and will never meet, in SYSTEMS they've never experienced, are blind to, wearing shoes they've never 'walked' in, yet think they have a 'right' to condemn, punish, hurt. Doesn't matter if it's about "Curse of Ham" racism, or Womens' Rights to be free from religious oppression, or Same-sex Marriage or the 'blasphemy' of not being in lock-step with Theory Worshipers and claiming that's what 'science' is about. Religious-extremism must be stopped, in all it's ugly forms, all it's ugly permutations.
Republicans forgot their 'core values' to substitute somebody else's 'beliefs' to worship as votes. It's about Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, extremists posing as 'moderates,' usurping control, not just over life, limb and liberty, but the GOP, education, science, government, and blaming Mormons.
And they're not losing at that, at all. That's a real 'threat,' not an imagined one, nobody has to 'just believe' it, and you don't need "special ordinations" in order to be "enlightened" so "you too can know the joys of understanding it." It's a level of "political science" that is ignored, but everybody experiences it.
I wish I had notes, or more time, so I could edit, expound, re-arrange thoughts here, but I'm at the library, with a one-hour time-limit, quickly typing thoughts, and like all people, I have a lot of those! lol
So it's not a "Mormon loss," because those doing the 'winning' sold a $5k/yr PAY CUT for The People in order to give themselves raises, saying "just believe we're not doing that". And the 'believers' goose-stepped in lock-step.
NEW CONGRESS AGENDA: blame Gays. We're their 'whippin' boys' again, as usual. And they'll do anything to blame Mormons and Gays.
COMMONALITIES
Mr Romney (not that he'd ever read this), you ran a campaign of dignity, whether I agree with your positions or not, and that's an 'improvement' over usual campaigning. Thanks for that. Had you embraced diversity, GayLandIs (Gay, Lesbian, Bi, TransGender, GeneMod, Celibate, we of the assorted 'queer' world population), you'd have won, but the GOP wasn't looking for that.
Our differences are strengths. NEVER FORGET.
Mr. Obama, congratulations; I don't like your 'platform' either, and selling $5K/yr PAY CUTS (increased fees, fines, regulations, hastles, taxes, mandated ins., etc), as "economic recovery" is just as religiously-extremist disengenuous as that which you are entrusted to serve and protect We The People against. Please strive to improve.
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
I know what real attacks are. I know what real wounds are. I know what real spilt-blood is. Words do not cause 'wounds' unless imagined, faked. I've never struck anyone, but have been just for being Gay, and one time for my free-expression about faith. NEVER FORGET.
My Jew-ish faith is in AllThings, all of us, all of you, all of 'them,' all of 'us,' that we'll celebrate our differences and empower diversity, not hate it.
It's not a "Mormon Loss." But I'm not stupid. The GOP won, the 'big agenda' more than one office or office-holder. It's about control. Controlling the GOP's Republican Strategy.
The infighting within the GOP is which denomination 'rises from the ashes' with a 'sparkling clean coat,' and which will forevermore be viewed as the religious extremists, obstructionists, throwbacks of bygone eras. And Catholicism has a vested-interest in that, too.
It was ''the usual,'' as far as US'an elections go. Tiny 'successes' hyped as 'major victories;' monumental blunders hailed as 'your fault' or anybody else's 'fault'; and the end-result is a $5,000/yr PAY CUT for workers, so HigherEd SYSTEMS' employees can give themselves more ...
... more, more, more, at the expense of successful businesses and The People, taxpayers. More for them, more job-security for generations of college-grads to push paperFAKEwork at taxpayer expense, building bureaucrazies, instead of reducing/eliminating forest-killing paperwork systems.
GLOBAL WARMING BULLYING
It really is related. Just as 'the masses' were never allowed to dispute religious dogma for fear of being cast-out as a 'heretic,' 'infidel,' blasphemer,' 'sinner,' 'possessed of evil,' etc., all we hear from "the educated" is "the science speaks for itself" (but you're neither a Monsignor nor Scientist), and, "just believe," so all who do not are cast-out for their "lack of faith." And that's not 'science' nor 'scientific' at all. It's religion, just another hateful religious-extremist agenda.
I read a letter to the Editor recently in the Spokesman Review from someone that says "the science speaks for itself." So, I ask, that's 'justification' for raising taxes, curbing development, blaming consumers for the "scientifically developed" products they consume? The 'credentials' came from the same place, afterall, those who developed "the system" and those who blame YOU for being BORN INTO IT as a mindfuck to take your pay and pay themselves.
HANDS OFF THE EARTH
It's extremism. It's outrageous. No plant, animal, fish or bird is of "higher value" than YOU, and I just don't give a flying-fuck who you fuck, even if you're the head of the CIA.
All this "fucking business" is a diversion. Whenever Legislators need one, they thrust crotches in our faces, blue dresses and PRIVATES, as if suddenly Privacy Rights, or lack thereof, is the only "moral value" there is. Perverts look through windows into the bedrooms of others. Legislators proving who they are, as usual.
A decorated war-hero, not pillaging, raping or robbing, but suddenly "unqualified" to serve and protect, due to sexual-orientation issues? It's an insult to all.
The Global Warming religion and cult-following, as well as the Bedroom Peeping Toms, are very similar in their "projecting," thriving on ridicule and scorn of others for "not believing" 'correctly,' in the pathetic attempt at making themselves-out as 'superior.'
Who uses the most paper? Who produces the most paper? Who developed the paper systems that "depletes forests" and who is promoting strip-mining of forests to extract the most resources for their "way of life"? HigherEd's people. One 'scientist' consumes more resources, more FOSSIL FUELS, more strip-mined forest products, contributing the most to energy consumption and travel-related air-particulate pollutions than all others. One flight across country to TALK about how to ridicule and scorn consumers for BREATHING uses more fuel, "up in smoke," than you driving an old shitty beatup pickup getting 12mpg for a thousand years.
And they scratch their heads claiming they'll "find solutions" about ECONOMY? Either one, the 'traditional' religionists or the 'scientific' version is one in the same: ECONOMY KILLERS, spewing Jeremiah-styled 'prophecies' of "world destruction if you don't ..." ... (endless list of 'sins').
It's bullying. It's oppressive. It's offensive. It's hateful.
Meanwhile, if anybody thinks this was a "successful" election-cycle, think again. It divided this country evenly. Split it in two. Taught half the country how to hate the other, and vice versa. And it cost $8B ... money that was 'donated' but not one dime went to the poor, or the starving, or the homeless, or a wounded war veteran, or a traumatized Gay, or stigmatized Lesbian, or developed a cure for anything, it was a Media GOLD RUSH, that's all. And they can't wait for another. The more expensive, the more divisive, the better (for them, 'to hell with the country' the message from that facet of HigherEd SYSTEMS failure).
But don't think about it, another Commander's penis is of 'higher value?' Fuck you.
When asked what I thought of the election, I laughed, stuck my nose in the newspaper I was reading, self-defense, said, "I don't care."
Palm slap on table, "Oh come on!" and "You do too!" in both ears, simultaneously. We all laughed. I never say who I vote for, I don't know the people I vote for, personally, I just evaluate the 'platforms' and 'results', their 'ideas' and their 'aspirations.' That's good citizenship, not hating people due to their votes. A guy on the news is calling for 'revolution,' in hatred of Democracy. Crazy shit, man. Utterly crazy.
But one thing is clear: religious-extremism won't stop until it's stopped. And the proved 'god' of 'believers' is about stopping people from pursuits of happiness, life and liberty. People they don't even know and will never meet, in SYSTEMS they've never experienced, are blind to, wearing shoes they've never 'walked' in, yet think they have a 'right' to condemn, punish, hurt. Doesn't matter if it's about "Curse of Ham" racism, or Womens' Rights to be free from religious oppression, or Same-sex Marriage or the 'blasphemy' of not being in lock-step with Theory Worshipers and claiming that's what 'science' is about. Religious-extremism must be stopped, in all it's ugly forms, all it's ugly permutations.
Republicans forgot their 'core values' to substitute somebody else's 'beliefs' to worship as votes. It's about Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, extremists posing as 'moderates,' usurping control, not just over life, limb and liberty, but the GOP, education, science, government, and blaming Mormons.
And they're not losing at that, at all. That's a real 'threat,' not an imagined one, nobody has to 'just believe' it, and you don't need "special ordinations" in order to be "enlightened" so "you too can know the joys of understanding it." It's a level of "political science" that is ignored, but everybody experiences it.
I wish I had notes, or more time, so I could edit, expound, re-arrange thoughts here, but I'm at the library, with a one-hour time-limit, quickly typing thoughts, and like all people, I have a lot of those! lol
So it's not a "Mormon loss," because those doing the 'winning' sold a $5k/yr PAY CUT for The People in order to give themselves raises, saying "just believe we're not doing that". And the 'believers' goose-stepped in lock-step.
NEW CONGRESS AGENDA: blame Gays. We're their 'whippin' boys' again, as usual. And they'll do anything to blame Mormons and Gays.
COMMONALITIES
Mr Romney (not that he'd ever read this), you ran a campaign of dignity, whether I agree with your positions or not, and that's an 'improvement' over usual campaigning. Thanks for that. Had you embraced diversity, GayLandIs (Gay, Lesbian, Bi, TransGender, GeneMod, Celibate, we of the assorted 'queer' world population), you'd have won, but the GOP wasn't looking for that.
Our differences are strengths. NEVER FORGET.
Mr. Obama, congratulations; I don't like your 'platform' either, and selling $5K/yr PAY CUTS (increased fees, fines, regulations, hastles, taxes, mandated ins., etc), as "economic recovery" is just as religiously-extremist disengenuous as that which you are entrusted to serve and protect We The People against. Please strive to improve.
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Friday, October 26, 2012
Gays For Romney?
"Romnesia" irked me. It's the ad hom, scurrilous. When we 'non elitists' do it, we're cast-out, cut-off, ostracized, hammered as 'negative' against the merciless 'positive-cross-signs' of the 'positive-minded' intolerants. The 'pettiness' level is now so deep, re-evaluating some things is a citizen's duty.
Pres Bush II authorized military action in the Middle East as long as it was not a religious war, but defensive-action against religious extremism, and, as long as an entire army was not mobilized to 'go after' one man, Osama bin Ladin, because if that were the case, then thousands of troops would die along the way and countless innocent men, women and children too. So almost all agreed, regardless of politics, that 'heaven and earth' would not be 'moved' for one man, it's just not worth it, on many, many levels. Nothing 'Romnesian' about it. Now Pres Obama is ''coat-tailing'' from the 'inherited' military-action of a previous President, and insulting everybody with the use of that one term, because it's not just about Mitt Romney, nor Republicans, it's a petty insult against all ''water under the bridge.'' Scurrilous, and then some.
Meanwhile, I'm reminded that very few of we Gays have an ''improved economy'' under Obama, in fact, as a demographic, our spending-power is quite reduced, more of us jailed, our voting rights stripped over petty 'romanian-styled' lifestyle intrusions; more filed for bankruptcy, more foreclosures, more firings, more more more of all the things Obama promised to 'fix' and didn't, and the only 'protections' of merit were for Obama employees in gov't, not the private sector.
When I was fired for being Gay Married by the Straight Married, they didn't ask anything about job-performance, only if I had a roommate, if we were 'more than just roommates,' and then claimed they were 'defending the rights of women' on the workforce who were concerned we'd infect them with the 'gay disease' by 'osmosis' or something, which they'd take home, sicken and kill their children, then fired us. But we don't have HIV. And our marriages are still not recognized, and it's still legal to fire us for being either Gay Married or just Gay, or Lesbian, or whatever private-invasive excuse religious extremists concoct.
The way I see it, if you hate me for MY WORDS, what makes you 'better' than Hitler? Same to me.
And we Gays are getting upwards of a $1000/yr tax hike come January 1st, and another $2-4K/yr tax-hike for MANdated private-product purchases: health insurance. But we have less money, less spending-power, fewer opportunities, not more. It's just the same 'ole, same 'ole vaccuous promises and blather from candidates as far as I'm concerned.
I spoke with a DNC rep recently who told me being fired for being Gay Married is 'illegal.' I almost laughed in his face. Where? In his tiny little 'window' of the world? And so what? So is smoking pot.
I also spoke with a pot-smoker recently who is a staunch Republican. Why? So you can get arrested and have your medical needs decided for you?
Meanwhile, I spoke with someone last night that asked who I was voting for. I'm at the Public Library, a place where the word 'gay' is password protected by religious extremists, 'offended' by all their eyes see of we Gays. I suggest they pluck 'em out, problem solved. I have one hour max to type my thoughts. No speech writers, no spell-checkers, no piles of notes, no proof-readers, no nothin' -- just me, a keyboard, and as fast of typing as I can. Does misspellings and typos mean that much? To who? Why? In the pathetic attempt at making themselves-out as 'superior,' excuses to censor, ignore, cast-out, like Hitler? What's the difference?
I answered the question: Under Obama, things for Gays are not better except for a few in gov't, we're a poor demographic, beaten into submissiveness and we can't even say anything about it, and Faux 'gays' are paraded as 'real gays' when they're not. I've never slept a single night of my life in bed with a woman, but thousands with one of my Gay 'husbands,' the first died, the second I divorced for the same lieing/cheating that killed the first, and that Bi's and closet-fags do living double-lives, cowering behind women, pretending to be different things to different people; my third was Gay-bashed and I was threatened with arrest for attempting to see him in the hospital (where I was led through the back-door, like 'back of the bus', so Hospital Admin wouldn't know); and I remarried the 2nd, and after another ten years of that just couldn't take it anymore, so divorced him again.
-- the man asking the question, his wife told me the night before that her 14-yr-old nephew 'came out of the closet' ... I interrupted, That's not 'coming out', I said. Only those living double-lives, pretending to be 'str8' while sneaking around clandestine, lieing and cheating, ''come out'' of 'closets,' only after they can't stay ontop of their lies any longer, and their charade, their house-of-cards comes crashing down around them. They're not 'gay' -- they may do 'homo' stuff -- but that is NOT GAY -- and after 'coming out,' they proved they were Bi's all along, not Gays.
"Then what do you call it?" she asked.
FREE EXPRESSION. He doesn't have to share his privates with anybody, for any reason. He trusted you enough to love and accept and protect him, so he freely-expressed himself to you. It's a beautiful thing.
-- continuing the answer to the question of her husband, as to who I'm voting for: ...so we Gays can't really afford ''more Obama'' , errr, 'caring' ... and everybody knows the economy went in the toilet after '06 when the Democrats rode their mascott ass to town faking 'humbleness' .. and the empty-promises before and since are just more religious-extremist-styled blather ... he's done nothing to improve MY GAY LIFE at all -- nada, zero, zip, zilch, but the cost of gas quadrupled along with a pack of cigarettes, products I love.
BUT, Romney hates my Gay Equality. Perhaps there's integrity in that, cuz he doesn't give lip-service to it, just spits it out? And I know economy would improve, and taxes, fees, fines, hastles, paperFAKEwork complications would decrease under a Romney presidency. And Israel would be more secure. It's almost a coin-toss because either way, I see no REAL improvements to the quality-of-life for GayLandIs (world Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Tranny, 3rd-Gender, Celibates, assorted 'queer' population), but I do think world economy would improve under Romney and that does help GayLandIs, unlike the endless higher fees/taxes/fines of the DNC's ''big solutions'' which is job-securing positions for Universities to sell at taxpayer expense and always has been.
I do know this: 12 Million Mormons (not all) promised me to reduce violence/harm against GayLandIs. And that's a HUGE first-step. I of 'little faith' have big faith them, I know they will work with me, and do everything in their power to see that a Romney Presidency goes very, very well for all people equally.
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
Pres Bush II authorized military action in the Middle East as long as it was not a religious war, but defensive-action against religious extremism, and, as long as an entire army was not mobilized to 'go after' one man, Osama bin Ladin, because if that were the case, then thousands of troops would die along the way and countless innocent men, women and children too. So almost all agreed, regardless of politics, that 'heaven and earth' would not be 'moved' for one man, it's just not worth it, on many, many levels. Nothing 'Romnesian' about it. Now Pres Obama is ''coat-tailing'' from the 'inherited' military-action of a previous President, and insulting everybody with the use of that one term, because it's not just about Mitt Romney, nor Republicans, it's a petty insult against all ''water under the bridge.'' Scurrilous, and then some.
Meanwhile, I'm reminded that very few of we Gays have an ''improved economy'' under Obama, in fact, as a demographic, our spending-power is quite reduced, more of us jailed, our voting rights stripped over petty 'romanian-styled' lifestyle intrusions; more filed for bankruptcy, more foreclosures, more firings, more more more of all the things Obama promised to 'fix' and didn't, and the only 'protections' of merit were for Obama employees in gov't, not the private sector.
When I was fired for being Gay Married by the Straight Married, they didn't ask anything about job-performance, only if I had a roommate, if we were 'more than just roommates,' and then claimed they were 'defending the rights of women' on the workforce who were concerned we'd infect them with the 'gay disease' by 'osmosis' or something, which they'd take home, sicken and kill their children, then fired us. But we don't have HIV. And our marriages are still not recognized, and it's still legal to fire us for being either Gay Married or just Gay, or Lesbian, or whatever private-invasive excuse religious extremists concoct.
The way I see it, if you hate me for MY WORDS, what makes you 'better' than Hitler? Same to me.
And we Gays are getting upwards of a $1000/yr tax hike come January 1st, and another $2-4K/yr tax-hike for MANdated private-product purchases: health insurance. But we have less money, less spending-power, fewer opportunities, not more. It's just the same 'ole, same 'ole vaccuous promises and blather from candidates as far as I'm concerned.
I spoke with a DNC rep recently who told me being fired for being Gay Married is 'illegal.' I almost laughed in his face. Where? In his tiny little 'window' of the world? And so what? So is smoking pot.
I also spoke with a pot-smoker recently who is a staunch Republican. Why? So you can get arrested and have your medical needs decided for you?
Meanwhile, I spoke with someone last night that asked who I was voting for. I'm at the Public Library, a place where the word 'gay' is password protected by religious extremists, 'offended' by all their eyes see of we Gays. I suggest they pluck 'em out, problem solved. I have one hour max to type my thoughts. No speech writers, no spell-checkers, no piles of notes, no proof-readers, no nothin' -- just me, a keyboard, and as fast of typing as I can. Does misspellings and typos mean that much? To who? Why? In the pathetic attempt at making themselves-out as 'superior,' excuses to censor, ignore, cast-out, like Hitler? What's the difference?
I answered the question: Under Obama, things for Gays are not better except for a few in gov't, we're a poor demographic, beaten into submissiveness and we can't even say anything about it, and Faux 'gays' are paraded as 'real gays' when they're not. I've never slept a single night of my life in bed with a woman, but thousands with one of my Gay 'husbands,' the first died, the second I divorced for the same lieing/cheating that killed the first, and that Bi's and closet-fags do living double-lives, cowering behind women, pretending to be different things to different people; my third was Gay-bashed and I was threatened with arrest for attempting to see him in the hospital (where I was led through the back-door, like 'back of the bus', so Hospital Admin wouldn't know); and I remarried the 2nd, and after another ten years of that just couldn't take it anymore, so divorced him again.
-- the man asking the question, his wife told me the night before that her 14-yr-old nephew 'came out of the closet' ... I interrupted, That's not 'coming out', I said. Only those living double-lives, pretending to be 'str8' while sneaking around clandestine, lieing and cheating, ''come out'' of 'closets,' only after they can't stay ontop of their lies any longer, and their charade, their house-of-cards comes crashing down around them. They're not 'gay' -- they may do 'homo' stuff -- but that is NOT GAY -- and after 'coming out,' they proved they were Bi's all along, not Gays.
"Then what do you call it?" she asked.
FREE EXPRESSION. He doesn't have to share his privates with anybody, for any reason. He trusted you enough to love and accept and protect him, so he freely-expressed himself to you. It's a beautiful thing.
-- continuing the answer to the question of her husband, as to who I'm voting for: ...so we Gays can't really afford ''more Obama'' , errr, 'caring' ... and everybody knows the economy went in the toilet after '06 when the Democrats rode their mascott ass to town faking 'humbleness' .. and the empty-promises before and since are just more religious-extremist-styled blather ... he's done nothing to improve MY GAY LIFE at all -- nada, zero, zip, zilch, but the cost of gas quadrupled along with a pack of cigarettes, products I love.
BUT, Romney hates my Gay Equality. Perhaps there's integrity in that, cuz he doesn't give lip-service to it, just spits it out? And I know economy would improve, and taxes, fees, fines, hastles, paperFAKEwork complications would decrease under a Romney presidency. And Israel would be more secure. It's almost a coin-toss because either way, I see no REAL improvements to the quality-of-life for GayLandIs (world Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Tranny, 3rd-Gender, Celibates, assorted 'queer' population), but I do think world economy would improve under Romney and that does help GayLandIs, unlike the endless higher fees/taxes/fines of the DNC's ''big solutions'' which is job-securing positions for Universities to sell at taxpayer expense and always has been.
I do know this: 12 Million Mormons (not all) promised me to reduce violence/harm against GayLandIs. And that's a HUGE first-step. I of 'little faith' have big faith them, I know they will work with me, and do everything in their power to see that a Romney Presidency goes very, very well for all people equally.
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
All are unique
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
GayLandIs CALLING Koffi Annan
GayLandIs CALLING Koffi Annan
(a followup from Twitter/Facebook 'tweets')
The world needs Koffi Annan's coordination skills. A new project. A new direction. A new goal. A new but 'not-so-new' dilemna. A solution for all time, for all people.
Please see my last post about bloodguilt.
Let the world's miners know we love them, are thankful to them, that each gadget made from the toils of their loving labor is bloodguilt-free in our hands.
-- Koffi, like this: (SalesRep) "Thank you for your acquisition. Would you like $1 to go towards the Congo Miners' Fund? They risk their lives to make it for you, many die, throughout the world, the worlds' most hazardous work, knowing no luxuries, yet putting luxuries into our hands.''
-- every govt, agency, dept, public and private, every corporation, every business, every mfg or administrative firm.
-- if up to me, no more than 9% max administrative costs for all time, period.
-- three 'kings' as follows:
-- -- King1: 1%max compensation, for salary, expenses, staff if desired, works with bank/admin;
-- -- King2: same, but oversees govt/cleric and 'leverage';
-- -- King2: same, but oversees relief efforts, presentations, ACTS
-- 3% banking fees to BofA
-- 3% facilities/travel and no more, ever.
-- no 3rd-parties, no bureaucrazy, no paperwork, no photo-ops with politicians or religions, ever. Non-denom and non-partisan, period.
This is part of the GayLandIs (world GLBTQ population) Charities, the GayLandIs Friends Of Miners (Gi'vm) world outreach for bloodguilt-free products and services. Hundreds of miners die every year. We don't need another bureaucrazy for more generations of HigherEd careers claiming 'sacrifice,' consuming the most and paying themselves the most for endless paperFAKEwork at the expense of the poor who do the real work.
Miners and their loved-ones need immediate assistance, and the world needs immediate bloodguilt-free products. We don't need more taxes, and that's all 'diplomats' propose to 'job-secure' generations of college-grads pushing-paperFAKEwork, while men doing real work, pushing real dirt, die for them.
Now, whomever may read/know MY WORDS, what's your 'big plan'? If your 'oblations' are ridicule and scorn for me/mine, then your DanWhite-think fully endorses more of the same 'system,' and it's gargantuan, endless wheels-in-wheels-in-wheels of imbroglios, delays and quagmires, profiting from death.
Harvey Milk is remembered in our deeds and acts, through bloodguilt-free products. Even if your religious views hate us, you shouldn't be killed for it.
This can be established by week's end. If not, China, Sharia and the Ruble will.
Kind Regards, always
Clayton Winton
(a followup from Twitter/Facebook 'tweets')
The world needs Koffi Annan's coordination skills. A new project. A new direction. A new goal. A new but 'not-so-new' dilemna. A solution for all time, for all people.
Please see my last post about bloodguilt.
Let the world's miners know we love them, are thankful to them, that each gadget made from the toils of their loving labor is bloodguilt-free in our hands.
-- Koffi, like this: (SalesRep) "Thank you for your acquisition. Would you like $1 to go towards the Congo Miners' Fund? They risk their lives to make it for you, many die, throughout the world, the worlds' most hazardous work, knowing no luxuries, yet putting luxuries into our hands.''
-- every govt, agency, dept, public and private, every corporation, every business, every mfg or administrative firm.
-- if up to me, no more than 9% max administrative costs for all time, period.
-- three 'kings' as follows:
-- -- King1: 1%max compensation, for salary, expenses, staff if desired, works with bank/admin;
-- -- King2: same, but oversees govt/cleric and 'leverage';
-- -- King2: same, but oversees relief efforts, presentations, ACTS
-- 3% banking fees to BofA
-- 3% facilities/travel and no more, ever.
-- no 3rd-parties, no bureaucrazy, no paperwork, no photo-ops with politicians or religions, ever. Non-denom and non-partisan, period.
This is part of the GayLandIs (world GLBTQ population) Charities, the GayLandIs Friends Of Miners (Gi'vm) world outreach for bloodguilt-free products and services. Hundreds of miners die every year. We don't need another bureaucrazy for more generations of HigherEd careers claiming 'sacrifice,' consuming the most and paying themselves the most for endless paperFAKEwork at the expense of the poor who do the real work.
Miners and their loved-ones need immediate assistance, and the world needs immediate bloodguilt-free products. We don't need more taxes, and that's all 'diplomats' propose to 'job-secure' generations of college-grads pushing-paperFAKEwork, while men doing real work, pushing real dirt, die for them.
Now, whomever may read/know MY WORDS, what's your 'big plan'? If your 'oblations' are ridicule and scorn for me/mine, then your DanWhite-think fully endorses more of the same 'system,' and it's gargantuan, endless wheels-in-wheels-in-wheels of imbroglios, delays and quagmires, profiting from death.
Harvey Milk is remembered in our deeds and acts, through bloodguilt-free products. Even if your religious views hate us, you shouldn't be killed for it.
This can be established by week's end. If not, China, Sharia and the Ruble will.
Kind Regards, always
Clayton Winton
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Str8 Marrieds fire Gay Marrieds
When I was fired me for being Gay Married, fired by the Str8 Married, along with my spouse, we almost starved to death. Many did. Many driven to desperate acts, like Hugo's Jean Valjean who broke out a bakery window to steal a loaf of bread due to starvation, in Les Miserable,' the uncondensced book, the real book, not the musical, not the cartoon, not the movie, the real book.
We lost our housing, had no access to healthcare, our 'transportation dollars' coins from public fountains. (Is that 'stealing'? Please forgive).
We didn't resort to male prostitution, solicited no 'sugar daddies,' broke-out no windows, robbed no one, defrauded nothing, and at the Food Bank were asked "are you homosexuals?" and when we replied honestly, we were given a stack of paperwork, not food.
When called into the office, the Str8 Married wanted to know just two things: 1) did we live together; 2) were we 'more than just roommates.'
GAY RIGHTS MOMENT IN HISTORY: "We're monogomous. We're comitted. We're married. We love each other!' my spouse at the time, Marcus McKibben exclaimed, politely as always, and with that we were summarily dismissed, handed our PINK SLIPS (perhaps a 'metaphor' for their desire we do Drag?)
I've never worn womens' clothing, never would, never will, never a moment of desire for Drag as the Str8 married drag us through the mud of their own slinging.
We survived on prickly-pears found in the many odd undevelopable canyons of the San Diego geology, and a giant orange tree, just ONE BRANCH with many hundreds of oranges falling into the back yard, overhanging the fence, the neighbors' tree, the neighbors' fruit, is that 'stealing' too? Please forgive.
The jobs recruiter was brother-in-law of the employment counselor who said, "don't bother asking for services from that one.''
Meanwhile the Legislators were passing laws to outlaw Day Labor, "Papers! Papers!" like Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Heroes re-runs, unleashing their GESTAPO to arrest anybody for doing REAL WORK, insead of what they do, paperFAKEwork, paying selves the most.
70% of the people I grew up with Gay, dead, or drunks, or addics, or incarcerated, or murdered or suicided, can't vote to change it. Genocide.
I can vote, and my vote should count for all of them, and the many thousands nobody spoke-up for, that nobody knew, cuz they always hid, in fear.
I never hid in a closet, cowering behind a woman, never lived a double-life, never learned the perverse discipline of cheating and lieing, never 'came out of' anything, never a 'closet' of deception to hide within. I'm just me, Gay with PRIDE.
The blood-guilt of 'the system' that has yet to defend the Gay Married, has yet to grant equality, has yet to enact protections or defenses for GLBTQ youths and elders alike, is what religions have invested in. That's their legacy, their 'tithe' unto their nations, blood-guilt, every credential from their many thousands of colleges and universities steeped in blood-guilt, which they bring to employers and governments, enacting policies to 'pretect' themselves to invest in more blood-guilt.
WHAT IS BLOODGUILT? Our cellphones and computers are made from oars, minerals extracted, mined from the earth. Some of those minerals come from the Congo where miners are being slaughtered for want of pay. We need products free of blooguilt. Thats what "kosher" means, bloodguilt-free.
We need policies and laws that are bloodguilt-free, too. Please give to Washington United For Marriage for me, and you.
Thank you, kind regards always,
Clayton Winton
We lost our housing, had no access to healthcare, our 'transportation dollars' coins from public fountains. (Is that 'stealing'? Please forgive).
We didn't resort to male prostitution, solicited no 'sugar daddies,' broke-out no windows, robbed no one, defrauded nothing, and at the Food Bank were asked "are you homosexuals?" and when we replied honestly, we were given a stack of paperwork, not food.
When called into the office, the Str8 Married wanted to know just two things: 1) did we live together; 2) were we 'more than just roommates.'
GAY RIGHTS MOMENT IN HISTORY: "We're monogomous. We're comitted. We're married. We love each other!' my spouse at the time, Marcus McKibben exclaimed, politely as always, and with that we were summarily dismissed, handed our PINK SLIPS (perhaps a 'metaphor' for their desire we do Drag?)
I've never worn womens' clothing, never would, never will, never a moment of desire for Drag as the Str8 married drag us through the mud of their own slinging.
We survived on prickly-pears found in the many odd undevelopable canyons of the San Diego geology, and a giant orange tree, just ONE BRANCH with many hundreds of oranges falling into the back yard, overhanging the fence, the neighbors' tree, the neighbors' fruit, is that 'stealing' too? Please forgive.
The jobs recruiter was brother-in-law of the employment counselor who said, "don't bother asking for services from that one.''
Meanwhile the Legislators were passing laws to outlaw Day Labor, "Papers! Papers!" like Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Heroes re-runs, unleashing their GESTAPO to arrest anybody for doing REAL WORK, insead of what they do, paperFAKEwork, paying selves the most.
70% of the people I grew up with Gay, dead, or drunks, or addics, or incarcerated, or murdered or suicided, can't vote to change it. Genocide.
I can vote, and my vote should count for all of them, and the many thousands nobody spoke-up for, that nobody knew, cuz they always hid, in fear.
I never hid in a closet, cowering behind a woman, never lived a double-life, never learned the perverse discipline of cheating and lieing, never 'came out of' anything, never a 'closet' of deception to hide within. I'm just me, Gay with PRIDE.
The blood-guilt of 'the system' that has yet to defend the Gay Married, has yet to grant equality, has yet to enact protections or defenses for GLBTQ youths and elders alike, is what religions have invested in. That's their legacy, their 'tithe' unto their nations, blood-guilt, every credential from their many thousands of colleges and universities steeped in blood-guilt, which they bring to employers and governments, enacting policies to 'pretect' themselves to invest in more blood-guilt.
WHAT IS BLOODGUILT? Our cellphones and computers are made from oars, minerals extracted, mined from the earth. Some of those minerals come from the Congo where miners are being slaughtered for want of pay. We need products free of blooguilt. Thats what "kosher" means, bloodguilt-free.
We need policies and laws that are bloodguilt-free, too. Please give to Washington United For Marriage for me, and you.
Thank you, kind regards always,
Clayton Winton
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Monday, April 09, 2012
MY GAY PRAYER
AllThings, great and small,
adored by thy many places and names;
we are thankful to all who came before,
providing systems of nuture,
'daily bread,' past, present and future,
sacrifice and defense to serve,
protect, and lead us not to extinction: the
deception of intolerance, viewing diversity
as 'offense' and 'trespass' again, though
we walk in the 'shadow' of that history, we
strive to teach the ways of acceptance and
forgiveness;
PeaceOnEarth will come, together we make
'heavens' and 'earths' as one, faith in
each other be our PRIDE as thy power and glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
CLAYTON LEON WINTON
adored by thy many places and names;
we are thankful to all who came before,
providing systems of nuture,
'daily bread,' past, present and future,
sacrifice and defense to serve,
protect, and lead us not to extinction: the
deception of intolerance, viewing diversity
as 'offense' and 'trespass' again, though
we walk in the 'shadow' of that history, we
strive to teach the ways of acceptance and
forgiveness;
PeaceOnEarth will come, together we make
'heavens' and 'earths' as one, faith in
each other be our PRIDE as thy power and glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
CLAYTON LEON WINTON
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Gay Marriage Hoax
Washington Legislators photo-op'd from atop Gay Oppression, as usual, and, also as usual, during an election year, fomented many divides, taking money from all sides, million$ and million$ of 'donations' to political PARTY's ... ZERO TO GAYS.
No Gay or Lesbian people will benefit. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
But our time, resources, efforts, and most importantly (all HigherEd Legislators care about) OUR MONEY consumed by them.
It's the silliest racket ever devised. Claim to be 'helping' and 'liberating,' while concocting a massive SCAPEGOAT, a DIVERSION, it's about funding campaigns, not helping oppressed Gay people or addressing issues of EQUALITY at all. It's about themselves, their careers, their families, their 'values,' not ours.
The so-called ''Gay Marriage'' 'law' enacted in Washington is nothing more than a license for those whom HATE us to be EXEMPT from EQUALITY, to continue HATING us.
-- meanwhile, those religious groups, fanatics masquerading as 'moderates,' have put together one of the largest TREASURE CHESTS of 'political contributions' in history, funding Democrats to HATE US, and Republicans, to HATE US. A MANdated referendum BY Legislators FOR Legislators, to suck-off million$ from We The People, and after it's over, Gay Marriage will be illegal, and HigherEd Legislators will boo-hoo for photo-ops getting rich as usual, their massive deception, their SCAPEGOAT the religious orgasm of hatred: referendum. What a scam.
-- '' ... we tried, but this is democracy!''
-- '' ... we did everything to stop oppression, but the will of the people has spoken!''
Everybody knows it will 'play-out' that way. That tired-old scam wasn't concocted overnight, HigherEd devised it in 1806 to oppress POCs and WOMEN. Same shit, different century, re-worded. How convenient.
No Gay or Lesbian people will benefit. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
But our time, resources, efforts, and most importantly (all HigherEd Legislators care about) OUR MONEY consumed by them.
It's the silliest racket ever devised. Claim to be 'helping' and 'liberating,' while concocting a massive SCAPEGOAT, a DIVERSION, it's about funding campaigns, not helping oppressed Gay people or addressing issues of EQUALITY at all. It's about themselves, their careers, their families, their 'values,' not ours.
The so-called ''Gay Marriage'' 'law' enacted in Washington is nothing more than a license for those whom HATE us to be EXEMPT from EQUALITY, to continue HATING us.
-- meanwhile, those religious groups, fanatics masquerading as 'moderates,' have put together one of the largest TREASURE CHESTS of 'political contributions' in history, funding Democrats to HATE US, and Republicans, to HATE US. A MANdated referendum BY Legislators FOR Legislators, to suck-off million$ from We The People, and after it's over, Gay Marriage will be illegal, and HigherEd Legislators will boo-hoo for photo-ops getting rich as usual, their massive deception, their SCAPEGOAT the religious orgasm of hatred: referendum. What a scam.
-- '' ... we tried, but this is democracy!''
-- '' ... we did everything to stop oppression, but the will of the people has spoken!''
Everybody knows it will 'play-out' that way. That tired-old scam wasn't concocted overnight, HigherEd devised it in 1806 to oppress POCs and WOMEN. Same shit, different century, re-worded. How convenient.
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Friday, May 27, 2011
Dear President Hu Jintao PRC
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Subject: Defending Israel
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From:
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To:
""
Dear President Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the People's Republic of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission;
Jew and LGBT people were marched to death camps together. Israel protects the equality of LGBT people today for that reason.
Hateful religious oppression of LGBT people is the motivation behind refusals to recognize Israel as a State, aiding attacks against it, religion conspiring with religion today, with their own agenda of conspiring against each other tomorrow, agendas which are not peaceful, and, costing all governments dearly, hurting China too.
We seem to be going it alone. It seems that way. We love China, the PRC, but we do not have your assurances that you will help defend Israel's defense of LGBTs.
Can you reassure us? Let us know you are not supporting the hateful-religious oppressors of LGBTs whom foment attacks against Israel? The issues are inseperable.
Please reassure us. We love and need you.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
Spokane, WA, USA
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Subject: Defending Israel
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Defending IsraelMay 26, 2011 11:55:48 PM PDT
From:
"Clayton Winton"
To:
""
Dear President Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the People's Republic of China, chairman of the Central Military Commission;
Jew and LGBT people were marched to death camps together. Israel protects the equality of LGBT people today for that reason.
Hateful religious oppression of LGBT people is the motivation behind refusals to recognize Israel as a State, aiding attacks against it, religion conspiring with religion today, with their own agenda of conspiring against each other tomorrow, agendas which are not peaceful, and, costing all governments dearly, hurting China too.
We seem to be going it alone. It seems that way. We love China, the PRC, but we do not have your assurances that you will help defend Israel's defense of LGBTs.
Can you reassure us? Let us know you are not supporting the hateful-religious oppressors of LGBTs whom foment attacks against Israel? The issues are inseperable.
Please reassure us. We love and need you.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
Spokane, WA, USA
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Censoring 'Gay' at Public Library (cont'd)
To:
Shar Lichty, BSW
Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
Outreach Coordinator
Americorps/VISTA
509-838-7870
slichty@pjals.org
www.pjals.org
Re: Newport Library issue with Gay Pride Spokane search
From:
Clayton Winton
Thank you, Shar, however, the "call somebody else" routine is the run-around every gay man gets at the Newport Library. Nobody should have to ask permission to click a link from a Google search for GAY PRIDE SPOKANE.
Nobody should have to go to Admin, in a silent room, tell them they need GAY ACCESS.
Nobody should then have to wait for somebody to enter a password to bypass a CENSOR screen because they are GAY.
You know how a Google search is, if you look up GAY PRIDE, there might be a few dozen links you'd like to research. Wrong stuff? Well, too bad, the censor screen came up, you had to go ask permission, wait, they entered the password to bypass the censor screen, then you find-out it's the wrong info., so you click another link, another CENSOR block, go back to Admin ...
TIME'S UP -- you only get one hour.
We Gay people are CENSORED from PRIDE and GAY HISTORY at a Public Library in Newport, WA, and given the endless-run-around, call here, ask this, ask that, call somebody ELSE.
They sure 'sound reasonable' though. lol
It's discrimination. Period. Blatant. It's censorship. It's hate.
Please, before somebody gets so frustrated they go 'postal,' help me end the censorship, the discrimination, the hate.
Thank you, and kind regards, always,
Clayton Winton
Shar Lichty, BSW
Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
Outreach Coordinator
Americorps/VISTA
509-838-7870
slichty@pjals.org
www.pjals.org
Re: Newport Library issue with Gay Pride Spokane search
From:
Clayton Winton
Thank you, Shar, however, the "call somebody else" routine is the run-around every gay man gets at the Newport Library. Nobody should have to ask permission to click a link from a Google search for GAY PRIDE SPOKANE.
Nobody should have to go to Admin, in a silent room, tell them they need GAY ACCESS.
Nobody should then have to wait for somebody to enter a password to bypass a CENSOR screen because they are GAY.
You know how a Google search is, if you look up GAY PRIDE, there might be a few dozen links you'd like to research. Wrong stuff? Well, too bad, the censor screen came up, you had to go ask permission, wait, they entered the password to bypass the censor screen, then you find-out it's the wrong info., so you click another link, another CENSOR block, go back to Admin ...
TIME'S UP -- you only get one hour.
We Gay people are CENSORED from PRIDE and GAY HISTORY at a Public Library in Newport, WA, and given the endless-run-around, call here, ask this, ask that, call somebody ELSE.
They sure 'sound reasonable' though. lol
It's discrimination. Period. Blatant. It's censorship. It's hate.
Please, before somebody gets so frustrated they go 'postal,' help me end the censorship, the discrimination, the hate.
Thank you, and kind regards, always,
Clayton Winton
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Gay Marriage Anniversary
In response to:
EDGE Gay Blog
The Sky Has Yet to Fall in Mass.
Posted on May 17, 2011 by Michael K. Lavers
-- "Today is the seventh anniversary of marriage equality in Massachusetts."
MY WORDS:
Clayton Winton says:
May 18, 2011 at 5:26 pm (but it's 9:49AM here)
The courage to speak out, to dissent against Legislators’ religious-preferential-treatment which has quagmired courts well into the next century, is a BelovedTreasure, a Freedom taken for-granted all-to-often.
They teach us to say we are ‘equal,’ yet deny us the equal opportunities to unite our love through marriage, offering ‘alternatives’ instead which are Jim Crow-isms, ‘seperate-but-equal’ which is neither equal-marriage nor equality; deny health insurance plans due to sexual-orientation, hire us last and fire us first, and we can’t even serve in the clergy to dispute or interpret the obvious misinterpretations of liturgy that teaches hatred against us.
Until we can marry in the same churches that claim we must ‘apologize’ for being ‘gay’ in order to ‘reap the benefits of heaven,’ until our love is recognized as non-gender-specific just as ‘theirs’ is; then we are not ‘equal,’ we are second-class citizens in a fake ‘classless-society’ worldwide.
Both Christdom and Islamdom think if a Gay person ‘apologizes properly,’ then they may go to ‘heaven’, which means they will no longer be ‘gay’, but ‘fixed.’
There can be no such place as ‘heaven’ without gay people in it, or it’s a place of hate.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
Priest River, ID, USA
EDGE Gay Blog
The Sky Has Yet to Fall in Mass.
Posted on May 17, 2011 by Michael K. Lavers
-- "Today is the seventh anniversary of marriage equality in Massachusetts."
MY WORDS:
Clayton Winton says:
May 18, 2011 at 5:26 pm (but it's 9:49AM here)
The courage to speak out, to dissent against Legislators’ religious-preferential-treatment which has quagmired courts well into the next century, is a BelovedTreasure, a Freedom taken for-granted all-to-often.
They teach us to say we are ‘equal,’ yet deny us the equal opportunities to unite our love through marriage, offering ‘alternatives’ instead which are Jim Crow-isms, ‘seperate-but-equal’ which is neither equal-marriage nor equality; deny health insurance plans due to sexual-orientation, hire us last and fire us first, and we can’t even serve in the clergy to dispute or interpret the obvious misinterpretations of liturgy that teaches hatred against us.
Until we can marry in the same churches that claim we must ‘apologize’ for being ‘gay’ in order to ‘reap the benefits of heaven,’ until our love is recognized as non-gender-specific just as ‘theirs’ is; then we are not ‘equal,’ we are second-class citizens in a fake ‘classless-society’ worldwide.
Both Christdom and Islamdom think if a Gay person ‘apologizes properly,’ then they may go to ‘heaven’, which means they will no longer be ‘gay’, but ‘fixed.’
There can be no such place as ‘heaven’ without gay people in it, or it’s a place of hate.
Kind Regards,
Clayton Winton
Priest River, ID, USA
GAY RIGHTS EQUALITY MARRIAGE RELIGION POLITICS
GAY RIGHTS and FAITH
Monday, May 16, 2011
Don't pull funding from universities that offer benefits to gay partners
-- reprinted WITH PERMISSION of the author to me for re-posting here in my blog:
Guest Commentary: Don't pull funding from universities that offer benefits to gay partners
By:
Trevor R. Thomas
brief bio:
Media Matters for America
Director of External Affairs · May 2011 to present · Washington, District of Columbia
Equality Matters
Director of Programs · Jan 2011 to May 2011 · Washington, District of Columbia
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Director of Communications · Apr 2010 to Jan 2011 · Washington, D.C.
Human Rights Campaign
Deputy Director, Communications · Oct 2007 to Apr 2010 · Washington, D.C.
Published: Monday, May 16, 2011, 7:00 AM Updated: Monday, May 16, 2011, 7:55 AM
By Trevor Thomas
"I was 19 years old when I came out. It was 2004. I had driven from my campus apartment at Grand Valley State to my parents’ house in Marne in the same Chevy Camaro I had once contemplated running into a tree. The altar-boy at St. Mary’s Catholic Church (third grade through sophomore year) knew that homosexuality was a sin, but suicide was, too.
Mom sat on the couch and Dad on the love seat. I debated if I should use the word "gay" -- which I despised for its stigma -- or "homosexual."
"I went with gay. Mom pulled my college funding.
"Fast forward seven years later, it's not all that much different today with Dave Agema, my hometown representative, trying to pull funding from public universities across the state. Agema's recent amendment to an education budget bill will penalize our state schools and universities five percent if they offer any kind of financial assistance to lesbian and gay couples.
"This is homophobia in action and it is hurting our kids and our state. Michigan's unemployment rate continues to rank worst in the nation. Thousands have lost their jobs and their pensions cut (including members of my own family), and anyone with a job is in fear of being the next on the chopping block. And we've been steadily losing population since 2006, according to the 2010 census report.
"Our state desperately needs to attract young people as so many choose to attend schools and find much needed experience out of state. The homophobia isn't helping. The Grand Rapids Press pointed out in a recent editorial that opposition to gay and lesbian partner benefits is the "wrong direction for Michigan as it seeks to broaden its appeal to young people in particular."
"We must recruit and educate the best and the brightest talent for our area schools and universities -- not push people away with discriminatory measures. The generation of our parents helped put the world on wheels; we cannot allow a bigoted amendment to stop our path to progress.
"Luckily, there are signs of hope from the Corporate Equality Index, which rates many of our nation’s leading companies on inclusive policies and benefits. The Big Three, for example, have always ranked at the top, recognizing the critical need to train and attract the best work force on the planet -- including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
"Of the four companies in America jumping more than 30 points to attain 100 percent scores in 2011, two are from west Michigan: Steelcase Inc. and Kellogg Co. Both are leading the way in the private sector with a strong corporate ethos that recognizes that for their employees, this isn’t about “rights.” It’s about punching the clock and making sure their partner can get a mammogram or their kid can get a cavity filled.
"Even President Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids' “hometown son,” advocated for acceptance and recognition of for our gay brothers and sisters. In 2002, Ford joined the advisory board of the Republican Unity Coalition, a group of gay and straight allies working for more acceptance of LGBT Americans and issues within the Republican Party. At the time, Ford was asked by Detroit News reporter Deb Price if gay couples should receive equal benefits and he replied, “I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.”
"Mr. Agema should look to our corporate neighbors and our local leaders and stop his legislative gay-bashing. Life is already full of challenges. God knows it is not easy for struggling youth who grow up feeling different -- myself included.
"In 2004, The Press published a letter I penned about my own struggles and an incident where strangers in a car tried to humiliate me for simply being myself -- a gay man. At the time I wrote, "I understood where they were coming from. I, too, once thought those thoughts. But now I see things differently. I see a life, certainly harder, but a life of shamelessness. A life of hope.
"Since then I have come into my own as a gay man and as a professional. My parents, too, have come a long way. I plan to return to Michigan soon. And I hope by the time I do, Dave Agema and other legislators will realize that laws that reinforce stigma don’t just kill jobs in our state, they can kill people. I understand this stigma. I’ve lived it, and before coming out I had even believed it. We must end the bullying and end Mr. Agema’s crusade against gay and lesbian people, now."
Trevor Thomas, a Marne native, works for Equality Matters, a group working for LGBT equality in Washington, D.C.
------OnEdit: fixed some paragraph breaks; 2ndOnEdit, fixed last paragraph break
Guest Commentary: Don't pull funding from universities that offer benefits to gay partners
By:
Trevor R. Thomas
brief bio:
Media Matters for America
Director of External Affairs · May 2011 to present · Washington, District of Columbia
Equality Matters
Director of Programs · Jan 2011 to May 2011 · Washington, District of Columbia
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Director of Communications · Apr 2010 to Jan 2011 · Washington, D.C.
Human Rights Campaign
Deputy Director, Communications · Oct 2007 to Apr 2010 · Washington, D.C.
Published: Monday, May 16, 2011, 7:00 AM Updated: Monday, May 16, 2011, 7:55 AM
By Trevor Thomas
"I was 19 years old when I came out. It was 2004. I had driven from my campus apartment at Grand Valley State to my parents’ house in Marne in the same Chevy Camaro I had once contemplated running into a tree. The altar-boy at St. Mary’s Catholic Church (third grade through sophomore year) knew that homosexuality was a sin, but suicide was, too.
Mom sat on the couch and Dad on the love seat. I debated if I should use the word "gay" -- which I despised for its stigma -- or "homosexual."
"I went with gay. Mom pulled my college funding.
"Fast forward seven years later, it's not all that much different today with Dave Agema, my hometown representative, trying to pull funding from public universities across the state. Agema's recent amendment to an education budget bill will penalize our state schools and universities five percent if they offer any kind of financial assistance to lesbian and gay couples.
"This is homophobia in action and it is hurting our kids and our state. Michigan's unemployment rate continues to rank worst in the nation. Thousands have lost their jobs and their pensions cut (including members of my own family), and anyone with a job is in fear of being the next on the chopping block. And we've been steadily losing population since 2006, according to the 2010 census report.
"Our state desperately needs to attract young people as so many choose to attend schools and find much needed experience out of state. The homophobia isn't helping. The Grand Rapids Press pointed out in a recent editorial that opposition to gay and lesbian partner benefits is the "wrong direction for Michigan as it seeks to broaden its appeal to young people in particular."
"We must recruit and educate the best and the brightest talent for our area schools and universities -- not push people away with discriminatory measures. The generation of our parents helped put the world on wheels; we cannot allow a bigoted amendment to stop our path to progress.
"Luckily, there are signs of hope from the Corporate Equality Index, which rates many of our nation’s leading companies on inclusive policies and benefits. The Big Three, for example, have always ranked at the top, recognizing the critical need to train and attract the best work force on the planet -- including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
"Of the four companies in America jumping more than 30 points to attain 100 percent scores in 2011, two are from west Michigan: Steelcase Inc. and Kellogg Co. Both are leading the way in the private sector with a strong corporate ethos that recognizes that for their employees, this isn’t about “rights.” It’s about punching the clock and making sure their partner can get a mammogram or their kid can get a cavity filled.
"Even President Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids' “hometown son,” advocated for acceptance and recognition of for our gay brothers and sisters. In 2002, Ford joined the advisory board of the Republican Unity Coalition, a group of gay and straight allies working for more acceptance of LGBT Americans and issues within the Republican Party. At the time, Ford was asked by Detroit News reporter Deb Price if gay couples should receive equal benefits and he replied, “I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.”
"Mr. Agema should look to our corporate neighbors and our local leaders and stop his legislative gay-bashing. Life is already full of challenges. God knows it is not easy for struggling youth who grow up feeling different -- myself included.
"In 2004, The Press published a letter I penned about my own struggles and an incident where strangers in a car tried to humiliate me for simply being myself -- a gay man. At the time I wrote, "I understood where they were coming from. I, too, once thought those thoughts. But now I see things differently. I see a life, certainly harder, but a life of shamelessness. A life of hope.
"Since then I have come into my own as a gay man and as a professional. My parents, too, have come a long way. I plan to return to Michigan soon. And I hope by the time I do, Dave Agema and other legislators will realize that laws that reinforce stigma don’t just kill jobs in our state, they can kill people. I understand this stigma. I’ve lived it, and before coming out I had even believed it. We must end the bullying and end Mr. Agema’s crusade against gay and lesbian people, now."
Trevor Thomas, a Marne native, works for Equality Matters, a group working for LGBT equality in Washington, D.C.
------OnEdit: fixed some paragraph breaks; 2ndOnEdit, fixed last paragraph break
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Heather , the wrongs of 'labeling'
HEATHER ! Another name being molested into a derogatory LABEL to accuse gay people of being 'worse' than 'straights'. (more below)
35 minutes ago via Mobile Web
While growing up Gay, I got a figurative 40 LASHES A DAY, subtle comments about that, followed by comments about being blonde. If I were female, gay and blonde AND named "Heather," I'd probably have killed myself.
32 minutes ago via Mobile Web
I loved the movie, "Heathers," a 'cult classic,' as the saying goes, it's great entertainment, with alot of social imagry making for BIG statements in SMALL packages, best kinds of films there are.
29 minutes ago via Mobile Web
I know several women of that name, and I can just 'feel' the 'insecurity-vibe' developing in their 'straight' personas around gay people now, a form of pre-approved-4-discrimination 'clause' sweeping the social circuit, reverse imagry, 'gays' btaking the blame (as though we don't make 'straights' uncomfortable already, AS IS).
25 minutes ago via Mobile Web
THE same 'take it on the chin' and 'turn the other cheek' kinda 'vibe' when somebody uses the 'n-word' or the 'fag' label, or, since I'm blonde, makes "stupid blonde" innuendi in their so-called 'laughs,' no different than stealing crutches from cripples and calling it a 'joke' as they crawl away.
22 minutes ago via Mobile Web
And today, I see a bunch of new FB-usernames, like, "Heather Feather" sending 'friend requests' to my friends, leaving me wondering why? Why do they hide behind fake names? ARE THEY ASHAMED OF WHO THEY ARE? Or trying to shame us?
19 minutes ago via Mobile Web
We Gay people of the world (Gaylandis) have been the butt of 'straight' 'jokes,' set-up for failure, marched to death camps, economically and 'spiritually' CAST-OUT and denied equality, turned into human-experiments so often, so much, it's hard not to see the obvious patterns of USURY ...
14 minutes ago via Mobile Web
GAY DEFAMATION LEAGUE, Get it Gurl?
13 minutes ago via Mobile Web
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
-- (echoed from my FacebookWall, as I wrote it, typos and all)
35 minutes ago via Mobile Web
While growing up Gay, I got a figurative 40 LASHES A DAY, subtle comments about that, followed by comments about being blonde. If I were female, gay and blonde AND named "Heather," I'd probably have killed myself.
32 minutes ago via Mobile Web
I loved the movie, "Heathers," a 'cult classic,' as the saying goes, it's great entertainment, with alot of social imagry making for BIG statements in SMALL packages, best kinds of films there are.
29 minutes ago via Mobile Web
I know several women of that name, and I can just 'feel' the 'insecurity-vibe' developing in their 'straight' personas around gay people now, a form of pre-approved-4-discrimination 'clause' sweeping the social circuit, reverse imagry, 'gays' btaking the blame (as though we don't make 'straights' uncomfortable already, AS IS).
25 minutes ago via Mobile Web
THE same 'take it on the chin' and 'turn the other cheek' kinda 'vibe' when somebody uses the 'n-word' or the 'fag' label, or, since I'm blonde, makes "stupid blonde" innuendi in their so-called 'laughs,' no different than stealing crutches from cripples and calling it a 'joke' as they crawl away.
22 minutes ago via Mobile Web
And today, I see a bunch of new FB-usernames, like, "Heather Feather" sending 'friend requests' to my friends, leaving me wondering why? Why do they hide behind fake names? ARE THEY ASHAMED OF WHO THEY ARE? Or trying to shame us?
19 minutes ago via Mobile Web
We Gay people of the world (Gaylandis) have been the butt of 'straight' 'jokes,' set-up for failure, marched to death camps, economically and 'spiritually' CAST-OUT and denied equality, turned into human-experiments so often, so much, it's hard not to see the obvious patterns of USURY ...
14 minutes ago via Mobile Web
GAY DEFAMATION LEAGUE, Get it Gurl?
13 minutes ago via Mobile Web
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
-- (echoed from my FacebookWall, as I wrote it, typos and all)
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GAY PURGE: Pastor says "gays should die"
Clayton Winton
Pastor says : "KILL GAYS" FROM ARTICLE: Is a "Kill The Gays" bill headed for New York City?
At Sunday’s anti-gay marriage rally in New York City, sponsored by the National Organization For Marriage, one pastor, Rev. Ariel Torres Ortega of Radio Visión Cristiana, told the several thousand people in attendance that gays should die.
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MY COMMENT:
-- DEATH CAMPS 4QT , Christdom and Islamdom want 'peace' and that's the only thing they agree with.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/kill-the-gays-nyc-gays-should-die-says-pastor-at-nom-marriage-r
thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
12 minutes ago
This sentiment is growing, religions more rabid than ever, as I've said over and over and over, right here in FB, writing "FreedomPsalms" 4TheGurlz.
1000/babies born per day with HIV, the cost of anti-viral drug therapy is $15,000/yr, and the numbers of new infections are increasing, not 'decreasing,' but increasing. Funds, donated or 'granted,' have gone from 3% of total towards Administration costs, to as much as 90% to paperwork pushers making 'careers' claiming they are 'helping,' but only doing it for the photo-op, to profit from atop the rubble, misery and grief.
Gay Purges are in full-operation in many countries through-out the world right now. Most of it is economics, subtle, victims being blamed for 'self-destruction' after being targeted.
And it's occuring within US communities, also.
We are at war; an ugly evil declared against us, neither asked for nor wanted, but that's where we are right now.
As the healthcare costs increase, funds for Gay issues decrease, and of that decreased-$ amount, most is consumed by career-oriented paperwork-pushers and talkers, whom have never held the hands of the dieing, never spoon-fed the ill, never had the courage of a Drag Queen to raise a dollar to pay for quality-of-life items such as cable-TV for terminal patients, or 'Shock-n-Awe' awareness for the heroes defending freedom in the military.
We must set-aside our petty differences, unite in Harvey Milk's "rainbow of diversity" and build a PeaceBridge, a RingAroundTheWorld, our ARMS AROUND THE WORLD, in love with equality, with Humanity, the entire HumanityFamily.
there is NO OTHER WINNABLE OPTION.
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
2 minutes ago
==== OnEdit: 'christom' s/b 'christdom' typo fixed above
Pastor says : "KILL GAYS" FROM ARTICLE: Is a "Kill The Gays" bill headed for New York City?
At Sunday’s anti-gay marriage rally in New York City, sponsored by the National Organization For Marriage, one pastor, Rev. Ariel Torres Ortega of Radio Visión Cristiana, told the several thousand people in attendance that gays should die.
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MY COMMENT:
-- DEATH CAMPS 4QT , Christdom and Islamdom want 'peace' and that's the only thing they agree with.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/kill-the-gays-nyc-gays-should-die-says-pastor-at-nom-marriage-r
thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
12 minutes ago
This sentiment is growing, religions more rabid than ever, as I've said over and over and over, right here in FB, writing "FreedomPsalms" 4TheGurlz.
1000/babies born per day with HIV, the cost of anti-viral drug therapy is $15,000/yr, and the numbers of new infections are increasing, not 'decreasing,' but increasing. Funds, donated or 'granted,' have gone from 3% of total towards Administration costs, to as much as 90% to paperwork pushers making 'careers' claiming they are 'helping,' but only doing it for the photo-op, to profit from atop the rubble, misery and grief.
Gay Purges are in full-operation in many countries through-out the world right now. Most of it is economics, subtle, victims being blamed for 'self-destruction' after being targeted.
And it's occuring within US communities, also.
We are at war; an ugly evil declared against us, neither asked for nor wanted, but that's where we are right now.
As the healthcare costs increase, funds for Gay issues decrease, and of that decreased-$ amount, most is consumed by career-oriented paperwork-pushers and talkers, whom have never held the hands of the dieing, never spoon-fed the ill, never had the courage of a Drag Queen to raise a dollar to pay for quality-of-life items such as cable-TV for terminal patients, or 'Shock-n-Awe' awareness for the heroes defending freedom in the military.
We must set-aside our petty differences, unite in Harvey Milk's "rainbow of diversity" and build a PeaceBridge, a RingAroundTheWorld, our ARMS AROUND THE WORLD, in love with equality, with Humanity, the entire HumanityFamily.
there is NO OTHER WINNABLE OPTION.
Kind Regards, always,
Clayton Winton
2 minutes ago
==== OnEdit: 'christom' s/b 'christdom' typo fixed above
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N'night Gaylandis (worldwide gay popultn), N'night MFRK, delightful dreams, morning hearts warm like the sun ... :)
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
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Sunday, May 08, 2011
Death of Gay-friendly Father
Death of Gay-friendly Father
My ex-lover’s cat, Rama, died. I’d cared for him 18 years. I went out to a gay bar I’ve been going to for decades, Dempsey’s Brass Rail in Spokane, WA., although not a ‘bar=person.’ I just needed the comfort of friends, my ex-lover absent for a decade.
I was doing some house-sitting in Spokane, why I was in the city, months of Nov-Jan., off and on, a couple weeks here and there. While in town, I visited Dempsey’s, my heart ‘dead,’ as far as looking for romance goes, nobody and nothing ‘attractive’ to me, in years. And met a Drag Queen, not much of a fan of Drag, but with each visit, this particular performer warmed my heart, gradually healing wounds, bruises I thought were unhealable.
I watched him perform, talked to him a few times, met him, enjoyed everything about it, though did not become ‘close,’ but after Rama died, I thought I might like to try to be his friend, to get to know him. It took me a couple months just to admit to myself I was attracted. I thought that part of me had died too.
At Dempsey’s, an old friend Mark was there. I was there to have my heart warmed, and excited to tell him, and he interrupted to break it, telling me how Father Gigl SJ, PhD, was in intensive care. He’d introduced me to him not last decade, but the decade before. I kept trying to change subjects, because the news jolted me, threatened to erase the healing of my heart that I’d been struggling to heal for years. But he’d tell me to ‘listen,’ and I know it wasn’t to be mean, but because nobody had heard him and he was worried and grieving. So I did, I listened, and consoled as best I could.
My favorite performer came on-stage, and even so, I listened.
At the Care Center, the next day and every day, I held Father’s hand as he lay dieing. We had a very personal, confidential friendship, confidants with one another, my theological background and his own butting heads, he ashamed of my ‘gayness,’ embarrassed to be around me in the presence of ‘straights,’ due to all the insinuations, raised eyebrows, accusations and outright hateful rumormongerings. I knew that. I always struggled with it. It hurts.
And so I struggled with it, as he did, while holding his hand while he lay dieing. Every day for a couple weeks, I’d hold it together, emotionally, uplift he and I, telling him about one of the most wonderful people I’d ever met, someone with inner beauty, cute in and out, in so many ways, things I’d noticed right off the bat, every time he performed, when we’d chat briefly, occasional hugs of hello or goodbye.
And even while dieing, Father was ashamed of my ‘gayness,’ embarrassed that some stranger, a nurse, an aide, a visitor, might accuse him, judge him, because of me.
Every day, I told him more. Little at a time. I told him the first cute thing I noticed about him, “MFRK,” a stage-name, Miss Freedom Rights Kaine, was that he moved quickly, not a fake ‘majesty’ holier-than-thou ‘get-out-of-my-way’ while blocking isles or doorways or stairs type o person, but one that waited patiently, then moved quickly through openings in the crowd as not to disrupt or bother any one. And that is so cute.
And I told him that he doesn’t have that fake smile of self-important types, that he smiles genuinely, a wonderful smile, the smile of a cute person, someone I admire.
And I told him he was physically attractive too, and, whispering, softly, I told him he even has a cute little butt.
Father shifted uncomfortably, eyes darting around the room momentarily. I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable. “That’s enough of that,” he muttered. And the shame he felt for me for geing gay, burned in me.
I’d start over another day, because in telling him, while holding the hand of a dieing man, one of the hardest things a person may do in life, my love for MFRK helped me through, and more importantly, constructed a bridge over a massive divide between clergy and Gay, something all of our long confidential discussions over the years could never do.
The fourth cute thing I noticed about MFRK was he was attentive to the room, noticed who was doing what, not for attention to see who was ‘admiring’ him, but obviously because he was aware of more important issues, security, safety, and who may need assistance, or just a friendly encouraging word.
On some days, Father couldn’t stop moaning, the pain too great. I’d try to tell him wonderful things, anything to take his mind off the misery.
The fifth cute thing I noticed about MFRK is his kindness and respect for others, which relates back to the fourth cute thing, a sign of wisdom and compassion, concerned that the actions and words of others, including his own may cause discomfort, so out of respect he strived to be aware of that, and that quality of human existence is so cute, very cute.
The sixth cute thing I noticed about MFRK, was he has a unique and cute dance style, a discipline all his own, not something he ‘just happened’ to ‘discover,’ nor copied from a video, but an intense admiration of the art, and years of working at it, and that is so cute.
Father smiled. He was listening, even through the pain. He appreciated that. Was he starting to see? Was the other-side of that gulf visible from that figurative bridge?
He thinks Gay people are ‘weak,’ and ‘undisciplined,’ and need beg ‘forgiveness’ for their ‘sin.’ I think different. He never wanted to hear it. He just ‘knew’ what was ‘right,’ according to his Jesuit training, and all else was ‘bunk,’ not even ‘worth’ listening to.
“There can’t be a place called ‘Heaven’ without MFRK in it, Father, without Gay people in it, Father, our love is just as real is anyone else’s, our art, our history, our compassion, our talents, our existence just as EQUAL.”
And we’d had that discussion many times before, different words, different days, different moods, different circumstances. While dieing, those words, those thoughts, regardless of words, might have greater significance.
I told him the seventh cute thing I noticed about MFRK is how he sits, cute people sit a ‘certain way’ no matter how relaxed or poised, and he’s just cute.
He laughed, and I know it wasn’t at me. He knew. He understood. He was ‘getting it’ about me. And I cried, hugged him, told him I loved him. Then he got irritated, and said he wasn’t going to listen to anymore, stuggling with inner=pains.
I told him MFRK also displays another cute quality, he listens.
He laughed. Heart melting.
I sang him “Our Father,” and no matter what anybody says, under those circumstances, softly in his ear, anybody that says it’s “not appropriate” is just plain wrong.
And I sang it every day to him, because that’s what connected him to Earth, to humanity, what he knew most, and I took years of my life to learn about it, all of it, in respect not just for him, but for Jesuits the world over, with just as much scholarly diligence as the numerous other religions I have studied, seeking the ‘root’ which had gone ‘bad,’ fomenting hatred of Gays.
The Good Works of humans, the Human Family, what I call the HumanityFamily, is made by HANDS, and I told him MFRK has cute hands too.
He smiled. Looked me in the eye, touched my cheek, “You love him.”
“Uh,” I hadn’t admitted it yet, I choked up, “I guess so, Father.
“Doesn’t matter how he feels, you keep loving him, never stop.”
“I won’t, Father. I won’t. And he’s forgiving, Father, the cutest part of being cute there is.”
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My ex-lover’s cat, Rama, died. I’d cared for him 18 years. I went out to a gay bar I’ve been going to for decades, Dempsey’s Brass Rail in Spokane, WA., although not a ‘bar=person.’ I just needed the comfort of friends, my ex-lover absent for a decade.
I was doing some house-sitting in Spokane, why I was in the city, months of Nov-Jan., off and on, a couple weeks here and there. While in town, I visited Dempsey’s, my heart ‘dead,’ as far as looking for romance goes, nobody and nothing ‘attractive’ to me, in years. And met a Drag Queen, not much of a fan of Drag, but with each visit, this particular performer warmed my heart, gradually healing wounds, bruises I thought were unhealable.
I watched him perform, talked to him a few times, met him, enjoyed everything about it, though did not become ‘close,’ but after Rama died, I thought I might like to try to be his friend, to get to know him. It took me a couple months just to admit to myself I was attracted. I thought that part of me had died too.
At Dempsey’s, an old friend Mark was there. I was there to have my heart warmed, and excited to tell him, and he interrupted to break it, telling me how Father Gigl SJ, PhD, was in intensive care. He’d introduced me to him not last decade, but the decade before. I kept trying to change subjects, because the news jolted me, threatened to erase the healing of my heart that I’d been struggling to heal for years. But he’d tell me to ‘listen,’ and I know it wasn’t to be mean, but because nobody had heard him and he was worried and grieving. So I did, I listened, and consoled as best I could.
My favorite performer came on-stage, and even so, I listened.
At the Care Center, the next day and every day, I held Father’s hand as he lay dieing. We had a very personal, confidential friendship, confidants with one another, my theological background and his own butting heads, he ashamed of my ‘gayness,’ embarrassed to be around me in the presence of ‘straights,’ due to all the insinuations, raised eyebrows, accusations and outright hateful rumormongerings. I knew that. I always struggled with it. It hurts.
And so I struggled with it, as he did, while holding his hand while he lay dieing. Every day for a couple weeks, I’d hold it together, emotionally, uplift he and I, telling him about one of the most wonderful people I’d ever met, someone with inner beauty, cute in and out, in so many ways, things I’d noticed right off the bat, every time he performed, when we’d chat briefly, occasional hugs of hello or goodbye.
And even while dieing, Father was ashamed of my ‘gayness,’ embarrassed that some stranger, a nurse, an aide, a visitor, might accuse him, judge him, because of me.
Every day, I told him more. Little at a time. I told him the first cute thing I noticed about him, “MFRK,” a stage-name, Miss Freedom Rights Kaine, was that he moved quickly, not a fake ‘majesty’ holier-than-thou ‘get-out-of-my-way’ while blocking isles or doorways or stairs type o person, but one that waited patiently, then moved quickly through openings in the crowd as not to disrupt or bother any one. And that is so cute.
And I told him that he doesn’t have that fake smile of self-important types, that he smiles genuinely, a wonderful smile, the smile of a cute person, someone I admire.
And I told him he was physically attractive too, and, whispering, softly, I told him he even has a cute little butt.
Father shifted uncomfortably, eyes darting around the room momentarily. I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable. “That’s enough of that,” he muttered. And the shame he felt for me for geing gay, burned in me.
I’d start over another day, because in telling him, while holding the hand of a dieing man, one of the hardest things a person may do in life, my love for MFRK helped me through, and more importantly, constructed a bridge over a massive divide between clergy and Gay, something all of our long confidential discussions over the years could never do.
The fourth cute thing I noticed about MFRK was he was attentive to the room, noticed who was doing what, not for attention to see who was ‘admiring’ him, but obviously because he was aware of more important issues, security, safety, and who may need assistance, or just a friendly encouraging word.
On some days, Father couldn’t stop moaning, the pain too great. I’d try to tell him wonderful things, anything to take his mind off the misery.
The fifth cute thing I noticed about MFRK is his kindness and respect for others, which relates back to the fourth cute thing, a sign of wisdom and compassion, concerned that the actions and words of others, including his own may cause discomfort, so out of respect he strived to be aware of that, and that quality of human existence is so cute, very cute.
The sixth cute thing I noticed about MFRK, was he has a unique and cute dance style, a discipline all his own, not something he ‘just happened’ to ‘discover,’ nor copied from a video, but an intense admiration of the art, and years of working at it, and that is so cute.
Father smiled. He was listening, even through the pain. He appreciated that. Was he starting to see? Was the other-side of that gulf visible from that figurative bridge?
He thinks Gay people are ‘weak,’ and ‘undisciplined,’ and need beg ‘forgiveness’ for their ‘sin.’ I think different. He never wanted to hear it. He just ‘knew’ what was ‘right,’ according to his Jesuit training, and all else was ‘bunk,’ not even ‘worth’ listening to.
“There can’t be a place called ‘Heaven’ without MFRK in it, Father, without Gay people in it, Father, our love is just as real is anyone else’s, our art, our history, our compassion, our talents, our existence just as EQUAL.”
And we’d had that discussion many times before, different words, different days, different moods, different circumstances. While dieing, those words, those thoughts, regardless of words, might have greater significance.
I told him the seventh cute thing I noticed about MFRK is how he sits, cute people sit a ‘certain way’ no matter how relaxed or poised, and he’s just cute.
He laughed, and I know it wasn’t at me. He knew. He understood. He was ‘getting it’ about me. And I cried, hugged him, told him I loved him. Then he got irritated, and said he wasn’t going to listen to anymore, stuggling with inner=pains.
I told him MFRK also displays another cute quality, he listens.
He laughed. Heart melting.
I sang him “Our Father,” and no matter what anybody says, under those circumstances, softly in his ear, anybody that says it’s “not appropriate” is just plain wrong.
And I sang it every day to him, because that’s what connected him to Earth, to humanity, what he knew most, and I took years of my life to learn about it, all of it, in respect not just for him, but for Jesuits the world over, with just as much scholarly diligence as the numerous other religions I have studied, seeking the ‘root’ which had gone ‘bad,’ fomenting hatred of Gays.
The Good Works of humans, the Human Family, what I call the HumanityFamily, is made by HANDS, and I told him MFRK has cute hands too.
He smiled. Looked me in the eye, touched my cheek, “You love him.”
“Uh,” I hadn’t admitted it yet, I choked up, “I guess so, Father.
“Doesn’t matter how he feels, you keep loving him, never stop.”
“I won’t, Father. I won’t. And he’s forgiving, Father, the cutest part of being cute there is.”
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