It's All About THE GAY

Quite a while back I was talking with a few people about what the Telebangelists were after with regards to THE GAY. See Michigan and Kentucky domestic partnership rulings and legislation.

What I said then and what I see more evidence of today is this:

First they will define us and our relationships (DOMA etc)
Next they will attack where we can work (this is being subtlely done by limiting where we want to work thru passage of bills to prevent partnership benies and all that)
Next they will attack where we live (again by making rules against our existence they will limit where we live, too) But look for neighborhood exclusion laws, mortage restrictions, property ownership and draconian code enforcements (limits on unmarried people co-habitating in a single family dwelling)

With this momentum they will actually limit types of places where we can work. What is left?

But what if we are still here?

EX-Gay movements rooted in Telebangelists dogma, psycho babble to effect our affect, they count on most folks not being curious enough to question the misquoted or contrived stats or too bleary-eyed to battle ideas slimed in circular logic.

But why, you may ask?

Well here it is in a wingnut's shell:

Its all about salvation. If all your eggs of faith are in one basket (society), then not one of the tenets (eggs) can be removed without the whole basket coming into question. They all rest on one another. And remember its about salvation. If your belief is that salvation is achievable only one way and that salvation is possible, given a belief that there is something one must be saved from- dust or devil, then everything you do must be hinged on that belief. Or else it is dust or devilment for you.

We count heavily on bad being punished and good being rewarded. In this way of thinking it is the only way of making sense. Since some bad folks do not get punished here, they are to be punished somewhere. This keeps our current society in check, or so it is thought. There is this notion that if a punishment is not looming for bad deeds then nothing will keep one from committing said bad deeds. Society goes headlong into the abyss, Fidel comes sailing over the Rio Grande, we are on the way to absolute rack and ruin and we never are saved from ourselves.

So anyone cited in the texts (which are translated, altered and edited for whosever purpose it served at the time) as wrong doers, any acts cited as damnable, those must be held as true as nothing can be in question. If they are, in the end, it is all questionable and then salvation is not the end result for good folks and afterlife punishment does not capture those who slipped through the legal cracks on Earth. And if you're not Christian, you are far more likely to comiit evil because you do hold fast to the tenets. We are told a previous push to save folks from being evil and doing evil was the Crusade to the Middle East. Hmm might be again, but this time around, the Crusade here is all about THE GAY.

There are the passages in the Bible known as the Clobber Passages. Verses and chapters detailed against behaviors now viewed as GAY, but oddly enough not stated as being gay in original transcripts. Those pesky translators...No word existed in ancient times for what we now call GAY. Must not have been very important if it wasn't named, right? But I digress. These verses now cited, are the means by which Telebangelists legislate to limit and ultimately eliminate us.

So let's recap: Gay= Bad. Straight and Christian=Good. Bad= damnation Good=salvation

The Telebangelists have to be victorious. A loss means utter damnation experienced now and for eternity. For the faithful are the victors. If they do not win now they most certainly lose everything forever.

There is no swaying them from their death grip on the basket, folks. There is no intellectual victory to be won here. We are either here and they lose forever or we are not here and they win forever. Imagine what Telebangelists would do if they were ever proven wrong, or asked to change. Remember EVERYTHING is resting on their salvation. There is no room for any other thought or belief. There cannot be. Its absolute.

As for me, anyone else hot in here?

(hattip: Pam's House Blend )

Lost and Far From Found

Lost recently- Molly Ivins. A fave quote: "The reason religion and policy make such a bad mix is that religion brings the dread element of certitude into what needs to be a constant process of questioning." Molly Ivins Dec 06
I choose to be in a bad mood over this loss. Very few people have written well enough to make me laugh, wince and tisk all in the same article. The din of complacency is louder without her.

Molly is why I ask questions. Which has led me this week to what I think has got to be an obvious question among about 100 others: what privacy of Mary Cheney and her gestating spawn?

Should she have privacy? Yes, absolutely. But she has created or at least help ALOT to keep her pregnancy a matter of civil discourse. In fact I am sure that her pregnancy, juxtaposed with her efforts prior, will charge the batteries of some-dead legislation to ban single women from having children: single is spelled L-E-S-B-I-A-N. Cuz it jus tain't natchrul.

I hope she pays attention to all the states rights loving states out there who supported her daddy and his puppet. Because in some of those states if she were to get sick and Heather "herlesbianpartner" Poe were left to make decisions- even so much as decide to put the child in a car and take it home- she might not be able to. Infact, by law in some of those fine states, their extrastepswetaketoprotectourlovedonescuzwedon'thavetherights legal parenting documents would be null AND void. Meaning, ol'Heather "herlesbianpartner" Poe would just be another Joe with no say and no way. But then if Darth Daddy comes to the rescue or folks choose not to follow the law then is it not simply a case of some Poe's are more equal than others?

As for Mary's child and act of childbearing not being political- Mary, you have only aided and abetted gay pregnancy to be political. You cannot have rights and not work for them...let alone against them.
How much kool-aid does one have to drink to not see the personal and greater damage fighting against your own rights has? Does it come in flavors, pill form, or in a patch? It certainly has caused inflammation and poor judgement.