Wednesday, June 30, 2004
The Rapid City Journal
July 14, 2004
So desperate is the panic from those angered by the lack of fire and brimstone agreeing with their wholesale corruption of Church and State that with Activist Priests denying communion to politically-opposed parishioners, on June 4, President Bush demanded the Pope pressure his American bishops to take a "more active, visible role" in advocating the Federal Marriage Amendment.
The call for "the majority to speak" has backfired. The majority is speaking -- not with the voice of out of state political ads funded by town millionaires. The real majority doesn’t want the constitution tampered with for political mileage.
Champion Rick Santorum admits the bill has no chance of passing. It’s just a show vote in July for attack ad footage. "Saving marriage" is a multi million dollar business for groups like Focus on the Family and the SD Family Policy Council, which should be investigated for their political "unendorsements."
The true majority showed up for last weekend's vigils, likely infiltrated by those being inducted by statewide "conservative activist training sessions" of the increasingly irrelevant Christian Right.
Matthew 21:13 "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
July 14, 2004
So desperate is the panic from those angered by the lack of fire and brimstone agreeing with their wholesale corruption of Church and State that with Activist Priests denying communion to politically-opposed parishioners, on June 4, President Bush demanded the Pope pressure his American bishops to take a "more active, visible role" in advocating the Federal Marriage Amendment.
The call for "the majority to speak" has backfired. The majority is speaking -- not with the voice of out of state political ads funded by town millionaires. The real majority doesn’t want the constitution tampered with for political mileage.
Champion Rick Santorum admits the bill has no chance of passing. It’s just a show vote in July for attack ad footage. "Saving marriage" is a multi million dollar business for groups like Focus on the Family and the SD Family Policy Council, which should be investigated for their political "unendorsements."
The true majority showed up for last weekend's vigils, likely infiltrated by those being inducted by statewide "conservative activist training sessions" of the increasingly irrelevant Christian Right.
Matthew 21:13 "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
Saturday, June 19, 2004
The Rapid City Journal
June 27, 2004
While continuing his denial that the Iraqi prison torture was "unAmerican" and "unacceptable," Donald Rumsfeld continues to find excuses not to provide the people he serves with documents which might prove the administration did all it could to bypass Geneva Convention guidelines and allow torture.
Excuses from talk radio have been right, but for the wrong reasons. These photos were indeed locker room and hazing behavior. But we accept it as "character building" and "rites of passsage." We accept torture by student, and blame the weak for being weak.
They shouldn't have have looked / acted that way toward their predators. As a member of their race/gender/religion/social class, they should know better. Women can avoid domestic torture by doing what their man says in the first place. Children can avoid the belt (or worse) by knowing not to anger their parents. Wealthy students can afford off campus housing or finagle a single room in the dorm and avoid being hazed.
We should demand schools be safe for all students, truly punish abusers (be they parents, spouses, coaches, teammates, classmates, preachers, cops), teach students valid relationship (life) skills, ban hazing, and stop accepting bigotry because it's "traditional" thought or behavior.
June 27, 2004
While continuing his denial that the Iraqi prison torture was "unAmerican" and "unacceptable," Donald Rumsfeld continues to find excuses not to provide the people he serves with documents which might prove the administration did all it could to bypass Geneva Convention guidelines and allow torture.
Excuses from talk radio have been right, but for the wrong reasons. These photos were indeed locker room and hazing behavior. But we accept it as "character building" and "rites of passsage." We accept torture by student, and blame the weak for being weak.
They shouldn't have have looked / acted that way toward their predators. As a member of their race/gender/religion/social class, they should know better. Women can avoid domestic torture by doing what their man says in the first place. Children can avoid the belt (or worse) by knowing not to anger their parents. Wealthy students can afford off campus housing or finagle a single room in the dorm and avoid being hazed.
We should demand schools be safe for all students, truly punish abusers (be they parents, spouses, coaches, teammates, classmates, preachers, cops), teach students valid relationship (life) skills, ban hazing, and stop accepting bigotry because it's "traditional" thought or behavior.
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader
June 8, 2004
The absolute worst scenario for the billion dollar anti-equality movement if a majority of states approved same-gender marriage would be for ... nothing to happen.
The legal recognition of durable, secure, stable and yes loving relationships robs these groups of a longstanding fundraising myth: homosexual as grotesque promiscuous sub-human.
It's not about morality, but political power. How serious is the fear among these groups that the nation will "reward" the families created by their gay friends -- the bland unassuming unremarkable neighbors they've never wanted to really know -- with legal responsibilities that extend far beyond the honeymoon suite?
Concerned Women for America's James Kimball invokes McCarthian paranoia, labeling a same-gender couple, legally wed in Canada, "Domestic Terrorists." Focus on the Family's leader, baring his claws, marks Anthony Kennedy "the Most Dangerous Man in America" for not falling in line with the fundamentalist agenda. Pat Robertson advised his (increasingly decreasing) flock to pray for the end to the terms of the appointed-for-life Supreme Court Justices who overturned the Texas Sodomy ruling.
Those profiting the most from a radical caricature of gay and lesbian society lose the most if sharing the ritual union of spirits dares result in societal gain.
June 8, 2004
The absolute worst scenario for the billion dollar anti-equality movement if a majority of states approved same-gender marriage would be for ... nothing to happen.
The legal recognition of durable, secure, stable and yes loving relationships robs these groups of a longstanding fundraising myth: homosexual as grotesque promiscuous sub-human.
It's not about morality, but political power. How serious is the fear among these groups that the nation will "reward" the families created by their gay friends -- the bland unassuming unremarkable neighbors they've never wanted to really know -- with legal responsibilities that extend far beyond the honeymoon suite?
Concerned Women for America's James Kimball invokes McCarthian paranoia, labeling a same-gender couple, legally wed in Canada, "Domestic Terrorists." Focus on the Family's leader, baring his claws, marks Anthony Kennedy "the Most Dangerous Man in America" for not falling in line with the fundamentalist agenda. Pat Robertson advised his (increasingly decreasing) flock to pray for the end to the terms of the appointed-for-life Supreme Court Justices who overturned the Texas Sodomy ruling.
Those profiting the most from a radical caricature of gay and lesbian society lose the most if sharing the ritual union of spirits dares result in societal gain.
