Prop. 8- Sewing the Scarlet "b"

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 3:46 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 15:46

(Originally posted on my adoption related blog, under the title "Sewing the scarlet "b"- California’s newest bastards, and other abysmal anti-Queer anti-child bastardization" Please also note that I self-identify as a "Bastard", which with the capitalized "B" is used in a positive manner not dissimilar to "Queer" amongst the politically active community of adoptees. The act of being "bastardized" with the small "b", however is about the shame and delegitimization heaped on kids societally and by the state. Thus Bastards are critical of the way by which kids are bastardized.)

Legal scholars will no doubt be tied up in knots about whether or not California’s prop. 8 will or will not retroactively affect the pre-existing G/L/B/T marriages. But the bottom line is, IF Californians eliminated the right of Queer couples to marry (enshrining such in the California Constitution,) at least some of California’s Queer families’ kids will be treated as "illegitimate."

For the moment, the ballots are still being counted.

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 7:33 PM PDT

2008/03/13 · 19:33

This diary began as a comment, but "Metz" interwove with my own personal activism in a way that deserved a small diary entry. I was born and raised an Ohio girl, after all.

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What I believe to be my very first public political action was marching in my hometown's Fourth of July parade with other local Democrats (which in some small way meant something, just being that visible presence, considering the Republican machine that my county was overrun by at the time.)

We wore baseball hats, and carried baseball paraphernalia, pennants and gloves, balls and bats and wore stickers proudly slapped on stating "Go Metz!" (Somewhat ironic in retrospect, considering his threatening to repeal the exemption from antitrust laws Major League Baseball enjoyed.)

I was 7 years old at the time, but even I knew how important he was to Ohioans.

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Sunday February 24, 2008 · 4:08 PM PST

2008/02/24 · 16:08

Cross-posted from Baby Love Child

A Screenplay: Juno 2
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[As credits roll]

Images of "baby's scrapbook." The book opens and inside we see, neat little photo corners holding hand lettered cards each dated month by month. As the pages turn we see letters from June, July, August, September.

Scene 1

[Camera focuses on a mail slot in a front door, then pans down to a pile of mail beneath it, a hand rifles through and stops when it comes to an envelope matching those in the scrapbook.]

J, holding a letter to her heart with a broad smile on her face. She sets the letter down on a table and picks up a phone.

"L! You'll never guess what I got in the mail today! She invited me to his first birthday party!" (pause) "of course I'm conflicted, but how could I not? I have to be there!"

[Fade to black.]

[Title] JUNO 2: WHEN YOU'RE REALLY SCREWED

Not written by an ex-stripper

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 11:15 PM PDT

2007/10/29 · 23:15

Shame on dKos.

The number one recomended diary about the Obama-McClurkin 69ing (a mutual deep throating clusterfuck) is by pastor Dan?

No folks, it's time Queer voices were heard about this, not religious apologists. (Then again, you may not find too many of us Queers commenting around here 'cause one look at the rec list tells us everything we need to know.)

It is long past time to stop giving these assholes a fucking pass.

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Sunday January 21, 2007 · 6:22 PM PST

2007/01/21 · 18:22

In the long lead up to the Obama announcement, we’ve watched as some Democrats, many of them religious, some of them politically inexperienced, have begun the ‘great effort’ to push the a-religious - atheists, nonbelievers, etc. - ‘over there’ somewhere, in a completely misguided attempt to somehow gain ‘respectability’ from some mythical ‘moderate middle mainstream America’. I’ve watched the non-stop praise for a man who has essentially made secular Americans and non-believers out to be (the usual) conspiratorial boogeyman du jour. (See Fred Clarkson’s analysis of how Obama is buying into a frame damaging to us all.)

Hi. That would be me so many seem to think is a problem. One of THE problems, not just with the Democratic Party, but with America itself. And why? Merely because I am not a believer.

This does not bode well, not merely for nonbelievers, but for the work ahead of all of us and the direction this country may take.

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Wednesday January 03, 2007 · 6:28 PM PST

2007/01/03 · 18:28

SusanG's diary last night singing Gerald Ford's praises as having allegedly kept his faith and his political acts separate finally crossed some threshold that pushed my partner, Mike Doughney and I, into commenting. We wrote for the first time about an event we were present for where Ford threw the full weight of his status as Former President behind one of many key groups in the Biblical American, or what some might term the "dominionist", youth movement; by personally appearing at Teen Mania's "Stand Up" event in Michigan, back in 2000.

This diary, then, are some of the details of that, and unlike almost most every other piece of writing I've seen since Ford's death, this is based on a first hand experience, it reflects an event that happened almost 7 years ago, not during the 1970's.

This has been exceptionally difficult for me to write out, the gravity of what we saw and how to bring information forward; ourselves, holding to some value of civility even as we have seen incredibly uncivil things. But ultimately, I think it's critically important to look at Ford's 'legacy' in light of his actual actions. So at this point, I'm just going try to write 'what I know', while incorporating some quotes from my partner, Mike.

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 8:15 PM PST

2006/12/01 · 20:15

Guess what?

I hate world AIDS day.

I hate the compression of empathy into a 24 hour period. To really understand AIDS you have to get this simple fact through your skull- there is not a single day that is not 'world fuckin' AIDS day'. If you compartmentalize, taking annual notice December first then slumber on through 'til next December you don't know a damn thing about AIDS.

I hate 'they live as long as you remember them'.

Because my friends are not alive- no matter how much I remember them. That's what AIDS really means, and no amount of the endless wallowing in our second hand 'stories', or 'prayers', etc can ever fix that simple reality- that those we loved are really gone, and are not 'alive'.

I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of the annual ritual- lighting candles and reading names, and all of it.

Tears, and 'prayers' and candle wax mean so little in the face of not just who and what we've lost, but who and what slips through our fingers every minute of every day due to this obscene plague.

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 5:05 PM PDT

2006/09/28 · 17:05

What's the point of diarying this? Reid's convinced the Supreme Court will fix it. Dems are whining, and Kossaks are diarying everything from "obits" on through to casket metaphors, how poetic.

The facts are simple enough, it passed. No need to dress it up in with metaphors, parables, or any other cutesy writer's gizmos.

If Reid and the other dems actually BELIEVED the first sentence of his statement,

The Framers of our Constitution understood the need for checks and balances, but this bill discards them.

then we would have at minimum seen fist fights break out on the Sentate floor. Read More

Maryland primary- I will not be voting for Ben Cardin

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 11:26 PM PDT

2006/09/11 · 23:26

The bit below the fold was written in response to this diary, but I found the subject at hand diary worthy all by itself.

Ben Cardin has associated himself with John Hagee, the San Antonio, TX megachurch pastor, televangelist, and National Chairman of "Christians United for Israel", a group of the usual wingnut suspects, (Falwell, Parsley, Bauer, etc.) and involved in the Ken Blackwell campaign in Ohio, that is backing Bush's Iran entanglement folly.

Hagee also, once upon a time, back in 1996 managed to piss off African Americans by announcing a "slave sale" as a fundraiser- an event he was forced to apologize for and change the name of.

Hagee's certainly not the kind of fellow I want my next Senator sharing podiums with. Read More

PT 9/11- it's all about what's IN and what's OUT

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 9:23 PM PDT

2006/09/10 · 21:23

Yes, I watched it, and TIVOed it. Guess that makes me public enemy #1 around here at the moment, but if you'll bear with me for half a second, I'll lay out the barest of bare bones of why.

In short, I'm an oppositional researcher- it's what I do. I've been studying the tactics and cognitive undermining work done by those who are determined to gut the America we know and love for several decades at this point.

But tonight? Well, the Mouse must pay. Rat-fucking of this order must trigger consequences- and that means arguing from a position of strength and knowledge- not just blowing smoke out one's ass.

Follow me over the flip. Read More

Wingnut boycott ends, work on "fictionalized" PT 9/11 begins

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Saturday September 09, 2006 · 7:17 PM PDT

2006/09/09 · 19:17

Foxnews.com had already announced the start of work on "The Path to 9/11" (PT 9/11) by May 2, 2005.

The various religious groups boycotting 'ended' (or some varriation on 'ended') their boycotts starting the next month, with among others;

* American Family Association 'ending' thier boycott at the tail end of May with the publication of their June Newsletter.

* Southern Baptist Convention ending thier boycott June 22nd, 2005

Filming on "The Path to 9/11" began July 7th, 2005, as pointed out in this
JULY 8th, 2005 piece from Foxnews.com.

From the beginning, all the way back in the May 2nd, 2005 Foxnews.com piece, PT 9/11 was referred to as "fictionalized";

Nevertheless, ABC seems to be readying a major and secret "fictionalized" multi-parter about the history of terrorism, from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the disasters of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Sunday July 30, 2006 · 8:48 PM PDT

2006/07/30 · 20:48

This will be a very brief diary entry, as I wanted to draw additional attention to both a specific article and the ongoing work of a researcher.

Marley Greiner, a researcher, activist, writer for the Columbus, Ohio Free Press and blogger behind
Theoconia: a Central Ohio Theocon Report has written an important initial article in the Free Press on Ron Luce and the Teen Mania Ministries Battlecry initiative:

photo credit: Marley Griener

And the article itself-
Teen Mania: Lift the Banner by Marley Greiner

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Prop. 8- Sewing the Scarlet "b"

A personal note, Goodbye Howard (Metzenbaum.)

Juno 2: A Screenplay

One Queer's take on bigotry and brand names

Those damned nonbelievers

Ford's "Dominionist" Prayer - a firsthand account

World AIDS Day- is it midnight yet?

The dog ate my democracy, and other lame excuses.

Maryland primary- I will not be voting for Ben Cardin

PT 9/11- it's all about what's IN and what's OUT

Wingnut boycott ends, work on "fictionalized" PT 9/11 begins

Battlecry/ Teen Mania Ministries article plus an Ohio resource