Minnesota: The Path I must take

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Saturday May 21, 2011 · 8:37 PM PDT

2011/05/21 · 20:37

9,000+ Miles away, and I am riveted by a typical Minnesotan talking about the Gay Marriage Ban that is being voted on the the State House shortly.

An Australian co-worker of mine told me last week that the American Gay Community seems so hung up on the idea of Gay Marriage. He, an older, gay man, have been with his partner for 21 years but has never had the want, or the need, to get married.

"Perhaps it is another cultural difference" I told him. Americans seem to be brought up with the expectation of Marriage, this milestone that everyone should go through... and to have it taken away because some people think loving someone of the same sex is "sinful" and "wrong" means I don't get that milestone... and I for one... and a completionist.

I told him that Australia has a significant, and realistic alternative to marriage, and that both straight and gay couples exercise that right.

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Wednesday May 11, 2011 · 7:50 PM PDT

2011/05/11 · 19:50

I am not sure if this has been covered here, but I wanted to give a slightly different viewpoint on the old argument.

Yesterday, the Presbyterian Church voted to allow open Lesbian and Gay Clergy to serve as Clergy. This is now the Fourth* major Denomination in the US to openly allow L and G Clergy within its ranks.

As an Atheist, I applaud this. It may be weird that someone with no belief in God expressing happiness at anything Church related, I find that I am not an ordinary Atheist.

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Wednesday May 11, 2011 · 2:51 AM PDT

2011/05/11 · 02:51

I am an american living in a foriegn, crazy land named Australia. Here, people say "Aluminium" instead of "Aluminum", U's appear in words they shouldn't belong, and it is "Zed" not "Zee"

Despite these oddities, I love it here. I am in love with a Wonderful man who lives here, and I made the decision to pick up my live and trudge across the hemispheres and the Pacific ocean to follow my heart, and seek adventure. It seemed destined. I had decided to move here... and then I met him.

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Monday May 02, 2011 · 12:34 AM PDT

2011/05/02 · 00:34

At 12:25pm (Sydney Time) I began to see messages on Facebook: The president will be speaking tonight about National Security.

My heart dropped. "This is not a good thing" I thought to myself. The President, going on TV on a Sunday night... well outside the normal news cycle... addressing the nation before the 11pm news on the East Coast?

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Thursday April 07, 2011 · 8:00 PM PDT

2011/04/07 · 20:00

I understand. I completely understand where you are coming from. I call it the wall, the part where you feel like giving up because no matter how hard you try, things just seem to get crazier...

I would tell you to stay... but I think you may be able to do more good in the world, and lend a hand back home.

acluka

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Wednesday February 16, 2011 · 4:07 PM PST

2011/02/16 · 16:07

This is a somewhat brief Diary, but I am glad to report on it.

The Hawaii Legislature has pass a Same Sex Civil Union Bill and Governor Neil Abercrombie will sign it into law.
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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 6:48 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 18:48

“They will not force us,
They will stop degrading us,
They will not control us,
We will be victorious.”

- Muse, from the song “Uprising”

“There is no such thing as part freedom.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

- Nelson Mandela

These statements sum up my thoughts on Prop 8. What has happened, what is happening, and what will need to happen with gay equality in the US.

acluka

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Thursday November 26, 2009 · 4:54 AM PST

2009/11/26 · 04:54

I live in the Washington DC area. My family lives out in Illinois, and my sister is in Texas meeting her Husband who is going through Basic Training in Texas (he is in the Air force). He graduates this weekend.

So I am staying home here in DC. I decided to go to work because... what else is there to do? I awoke at my normal time (5:30 am) and turned on the radio (WTOP: News, Traffic, Weather).

The Traffic was dead (excellent), the weather however caught my ear... Dense Fog Warning.

I hurried awake, and was out the door within 25 minutes.

acluka

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Wednesday November 04, 2009 · 3:45 AM PST

2009/11/04 · 03:45

I awoke with a start. "What was the final vote in Maine?" my my instant thought. I checked my computer, sitting beside my bed, it was open to the election results for the State of Maine. After some reloading, and waiting, I got my answer.

Yes.

Yes was bad.

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Thursday October 22, 2009 · 8:37 PM PDT

2009/10/22 · 20:37

I really haven't been all that involved, per se. My husband's a highway patrolman, so that's really the only way that I've known about it.

Now when I first found out, I just thought it was horrible. I just, I can't... Nobody deserves that! I don't care who you are.

But, the other thing that was not brought out... at the same time that happened, that patrolman was killed. And there was nothing. Nothing. They didn't say anything about the old man that killed him. He was driving down the road and he shouldn't have been driving and killed him. It was just a little piece in the paper. And we lost one of our guys.

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 11:01 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 11:01

I am not what many would say a "dye in the wool" progressive. I tend to be a moderate, and I believe that bipartisanship is not a dirty word. I tend to be quiet about the situation with Healthcare because I didn’t know a lot about what was happening. I began researching more when the town halls got more insane, and began to understand the implications.

It all came suddenly this past weekend.

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 4:47 PM PDT

2009/04/28 · 16:47

How we got to today:

in 2004, Senator Arlen Spector faced a surprisingly tough primary against Congressman Pat Toomey. Toomey, recruited by a group named the "Club Growth for Change," ran against Spector because he was perceived as too moderate, and not a true Conservative.

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