this little light of mine

"If anyone believes that gay men can actually become ex-gay men, I have just one question for you: Would you want your daughter to marry one?" Dan Savage 2/2006

This week has been a galvanizing one.

From testifying to the Ohio Senate Education Committee advocating for protection of ALL children in their currently lame anti bullying bill, to getting word Thursday that in the Ohio House ten extremist Representatives lied about LGBT parenting and introduced a bill banning LGBT adoption and anyone from adopting who has an LGBT person living the same household.

Ohio's Representative Hood said this would protect children by placing them in homes where there is a mother and a father. However the bill does not limit single parent adoptions.(plain dealer saturday edition)

WTF

If you don't like something or someone, then fine- leave it at that but don't start heaping lie upon lie to drive your point home. Your bias is unfounded for sure, but the additonal lies just tilt the foundation of your weak argument and soon it will topple. And some have already begun to. See Dobson and Focus on the Family support a poor but gay friendlier bill. Hmmm

The House Speaker for Ohio said this adoption ban bill won't see light. Well three cheers for him and he get's my support on this matter, but the extremists have no compunction against lying, so watch out, Husted, they'll say you lick all the chocolates in a box and all your kind does this and this promotes price tag switching by consumers and this is why we have a trade deficit.

And nothing they say makes any better sense either.

The ten extremists said they would continue to introduce this bill until it sees the light of day. Perhaps they are of the cockroach, scorpion, Cher human/animal cross cloning Bush talked of in the SOTU. They might exist beyond the nuclear winter or the green house summers just to accomplish this one task.

This diatribe has been brought to you by endtimes rhetoric fear mongering lying U.S. Patriot Talibanists who for expediency have curried favor with the weaker of our religious sectarians to catapult the propaganda so they can accomplish what they want which, I think, is short term gain at all costs.

This is an experiment to see how far they can carry their ideals. Wrong or right, it matters not to them. In a vacuous state, they are merely enthralled with seeing how far they can push this message. The message that they are right and the they in those who are right is a small group of maybe 100 folks merely wanting to expend everything for the test. It doesn't have to make sense. All they seem to want is to see if they can shove any message and then make us believe it.

Natural Law bedamned. Machiavelli is God and everything we thought America was about is merely a obsolete myth.

Unless we say no.

And act

And make folks accountable.

The integrity of the constitution has been breached violently. But we the rowdy the unruly masses that make up America and push for progress can actually stem the destruction. We can repair it. It will be stronger and better for it. But we've not much time.

Fear has sedated us into complacency and apathy. The promoters of the fear are vulnerable now, mistakes are being made. We have a window of opportunity. There still are some rights left with which we can make our voices and presence known.

I attended a meeting of 5 Ohio Democrat state Representatives (republicans were invited too, but declined to attend) what they needed from me/us. They said they get several pieces of mail month from extremists and next to nothing from us.

They want and need to hear from us. They yearn to hear from us. Those who are supportive need to hear from us frequently. The more often they do, the more certainly they will represent us accurately.

But we also need to cultivate relationships with those who oppose us. To them we should not seem silent and interpreted as defeated or inconsequential. We can be a force to be reckoned with, giving those who oppose us pause when they want to pass legislation that impinges on civil liberties. To those who support us and those we support, legislation making the trouncing of civil liberties even more difficult can be created and passed.

But only if we snap out of our fear induced coma and call, write, email, and read read read.

Many reasons we find to not get involved when really we only need one reason to get involved.

Find that reason and find it soon.

We really shouldn't wait any longer.