One Queer's take on bigotry and brand names
Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 11:15:18 PM PDT
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.
Obama was warned five ways to Sunday what was going to happen, and he went forward anyway.
Worse, Obama in his best Janus imitation, first issued a statement a couple of days back trying to say how much he strongly disagrees with McClurkin's views, then at the concert itself, Obama did a taped introduction as reported in the CNN piece:
Obama, while not present, appeared on a videotaped message to the crowd, saying, "The artists you’re going to hear from are some of the best in the world, and favorites of Michelle and myself."
(Hint folks, no qualifiers in that.)
To try to objection handle the situation preemptively, Obama tried to appease Queers by adding to the program, what else, a white gay preacher. (Nothing like sticking a white gay preacher on the program to tell a bunch of blacks about homophobia in South Carolina. D'oh!)
But predictably, even with his addition to the program, he said nothing of consequence and most of the audience wasn't even in place when he spoke.
So the "embrace the change" concert went forward, with the final half hour basically a non-stop McClurk-off (hint rhymes with jerk-off) in which the audience (who applauded right along) were treated to McClurkin's 'personal testimony' of how he claims god can and will obliterate Queerness.
Naturally, there was a "vigil" all of about 15-20 "gays and lesbians" outside who the NYT piece reports "stood quietly across the street." Those crowding into the auditorium had no problem walking right past their real live bodies. They had no qualms stepping over us.
As if this were not enough? Obama is headed to San Francisco Nov. 14th, for a "Countdown to Change" event, where no doubt he'll be met with open arms, not rotten tomatoes.
No, this is not a time for to be nice.
It is not a time to 'open new dialogs,' it is a time to call bullshit. Bullshit on providing a national stage and 1/2 long church infomerical for anti-Queer biogtry.
Time to call bullshit on all the other democrats who let this shit go by without screaming bloody fucking murder. This is their party. This is the face of their party. They ALL fucking own it. (Me, after this, I have no clue where I stand in relation to such, other than completely revolted.)
And as for dKos?
Well, if you want to sit and rec christian apologists, who are upset, ney outraged (yawn) that the very thing they are a part of continues to pull this shit over our real live selves, then maybe the time is coming to begin asking the real question- if they're all so fucking upset, whining to the wind 'but they're not doing it right!' does all their blather even matter? It doesn't to me.
I honestly don't don't give a rats ass what the excuse is. I'm just sick of people listening to the apologists rather than the people who are directly affected. It's easy to hit 'rec' on a christian diarist saying other christians "aren't doing it right" nothing radical ("to the root") there. At the end of the day it certainly makes people feel they did something- when they didn't.
Christians can't by definition clean up their own act.
Think you really care about what just happened, then shut up and listen to those who really are affected, not people oh so hurt that their brand name ("christian") just got a black eye.
And as for "Queer," Dan, you haven't earned the right to use that word.
