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Ran 2 miles yesterday, 13 mile…

Ran 2 miles yesterday, 13 miles on the bike. Light day, about to go for a two mile run.

Post of the Day

Post of the day goes to one of my favorite local bloggers, Steph Mineart:

“In reality, religious people seem more obsessed with anal intercourse than gay people are. So here’s the thing, for all you religious homobigots out there – it’s not about the butt sex. Really. And if you so obsessed with it, please just go off and do it yourself, rather than trying to bash us because of your obsessions with your own sphincter.

I want to propose that this year when people are testifying about SJR-7 and some of the other legislation related to gay issues, that we play “Butt Sex Bingo” – create a grid of all of the cliched arguments that the religious nuts trot out, with Anal Intercourse being the bonus in the center square (how apropo!). And when they get up to testify, mark off every argument, until they trot out the bonus free space — when everyone shouts “Bingo!” at the same time, it will truly highlight how absurd they are.“

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OH LOOK A TRANSGENDER CHARACTER ON ALL MY CHILDREN!!!

The Fox News of the internet, “Accuracy In The Media,” has just informed us that there’s going to be a transgender character on AMC.
From the story:

“It’s another new low for daytime television, otherwise known as the “soaps.” But it’s another first for the gay rights lobby, which has a stranglehold over much of the media. Perhaps the next step in this progression is for a character to come out as a pedophile simply exercising his or her ‘sexual orientation.’”

First of all, um… maybe next week you’ll cover the November elections! Maybe by May you’ll start covering things that happened in 2007!

Speaking of the Zoe/Zarf character on AMC… Check this out….

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Jesus Said “LOVE!”

In response to the “No Comparison” blog entry at the Indy Star, “Joi” said

“my religious beliefs are against the act of homosexuality, but I LOVE YOU ANYWAY, just as Jesus loves you.”

S/he went on to say that

“HOWEVER, injustice is injustice. This country lacks a whole lot of LOVE and RESPECT! Why should I care who you choose to sleep with, just like why should you care about the color of my skin? It SHOULDN’T MATTER!!! NO ONE deserves to be discriminated against based on race or sexual orientation. PERIOD!”

I responded with the following email:

“AMEN! I can’t believe how some Christians defend their hatred by use of scripture. It’s reminiscent of how the Bible to defend slavery. Love and compassion aren’t bound by law. Allowing hatred, bigotry, and discrimination to happen to anyone is and never has been love.

Arguing who has been discriminated worse, does not benefit anyone. Is there a difference in the murders of Mr. James Byrd Jr.( His throat was cut, then he was chained by his ankles to a pickup and dragged to pieces along three miles of road), Gwen Araujo (she was struck on the head with a soup can, then struck again with a frying pan so hard that the blow caused her head to make a hole through an adjacent wall. She was then taken to the garage and strangled with a rope, hog-tied, wrapped in a blanket, and placed in the bed of a pick-up truck. Four of the men drove her body to a wooded area in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada where she was finally buried in a shallow grave) or 15 year old Sakia Gunn ( who was murdered on the streets of Newark because she admitted to being a lesbian)? I think not.

Martin Luther King Jr said”Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” In Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus Christ said much the same thing when he was asked what the greatest commandment was. He said ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Little else needs to be said.”

Little else besides the fact that S/he has given me hope that Christ’s love and compassion truly is manifested in a few Americans.

Christians Said Knock You Out

From todays Indy Star “At least three council members said Wednesday they had received menacing messages.” I doubt very seriously that these messages came from angry gays, lesbians, or transgenders.

Also from the same article, Council member Patrice Abduallah said “the 1,500 letters, faxes and e-mails he has received will help him determine the desires of his district. Studies show his Downtown district has the highest percentage of gays and transgender residents, he said.” He mentioned that hand written letters from members of his district get his attention.

Does this guy flip flop or what?

“I don’t think that I should be forced to compromise my integrity and my beliefs as to what God put here for us to obey and to accept.” – April 2005

Then in early December he said that he would vote for it but he would not cast the deciding vote… and now this. Guess all you guys in Patrice’s district better start writing letters.

Republican Hypocrite

I posted something similar to this post on my “Transadvocate Blog” but I thought I’d post it here as well, for my Digital Dog Meat readers.

It looks like Prop. 622, The Human Rights Ordinance(HRO), has a chance at passage next week. Council member Lynn McWhirter (R) said:

“(Party leaders) see it’s moving forward, so they said everyone should vote their conscience this time.”

Is it just me, or did she just let the cat out of the bag? If you take her words at face value, it would seem that when the ordinance was defeated last April there was a concerted effort from Indiana Republican Party to thwart the HRO.

I find that amusing, considering that council member Jim Bradford (R) said that the co-sponsor of the HRO, Scott Keller (R), had “sold his vote” on the police merger and should leave the GOP. Apparently it’s only fair to play politics when there you tow the party line. Could it be that Scott Keller wasn’t supposed to “vote his conscience?”

Rev. Bosma At It Again

With the Indiana job market stagnating and highway funding in doubt, what is the Speaker of the House worried about?

Prayer. That’s right, prayer. Indianapolis has lost more than 15,000 jobs since spring. Maybe Reverend/Speaker Bosma can lead the House in prayer for a replacement for those 15,000 jobs.

Further reading at Taking Down Words