FLASH: WTC contained Mosque!!

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Tuesday September 14, 2010 · 11:47 AM PDT

2010/09/14 · 11:47

News revelation: There were two Islamic religious sites in the Twin Towers!!

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Friday July 30, 2010 · 8:53 AM PDT

2010/07/30 · 08:53

My dear sister,
I'm sure you don't follow the national sources or any kind of news sources of gay issues, except what you might see thru general news sources and your religious filters, so here's something frighteningly dangerous that illustrates what I mean about Christians "giving permission" to harm gay people. Right there in Mpls an anti-gay pastor, most likely of a more fundamentalist church, gave a speech at a NOM (National Organization for Marriage) rally. His attendance there can only mean that he supports the philosophy and actions of NOM by being there and remaining silent about the other event that happened in Indianapolis, the knowledge of which has surely swept thru NOM and he has to have heard of.

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Sunday February 21, 2010 · 11:12 AM PST

2010/02/21 · 11:12

One of my sons, the more conservative one, and I have been having a continuing "dialogue" about conservative vs liberal issues, politicians and pundits. He's been trying to get me to be less exclusive in my reading and listening and Glenn Beck has become a particular sticking point. So I decided to finally start listening to him. Here's my take.

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Saturday June 20, 2009 · 4:15 AM PDT

2009/06/20 · 04:15

In a June 18 article in Huffington Post, Max Munchnick laments the absence of a prominent national gay leader, a "Martin Luther Queen" and aims criticism at President Obama for not staking out a stronger leadership role, going so far as to suggest that he, the President of the United States, should be that leader. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

I agree with his sentiment but not his aim at Obama. Obama is NOT to be OUR leader. He is to be the leader of all Americans. If gays have no national leader (a Mousavi or MLK for gays?) then it is because we have no man or woman strong enuf in character to be one, or the willingness to do it. Harvey Milk touched at the edges of national leadership, but a white phobe murdered him.

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Saturday April 18, 2009 · 5:16 PM PDT

2009/04/18 · 17:16

Gradually over the past few years, my evangelical sister and I have been sharing a respectful dialogue about the complex mix of homosexuality, religion and politics in our society. She and others in my family were Bush and McCain voters and very concerned about abortion and gay issues. I recently sent her an article about the seeming recent demise of Evangelicalism which she found interesting and replied with another article from the Christian Chronicle on the same theme suggesting that Evangelicalism is not dying, but perhaps refocusing to being less political. I want to share here my reply to her.

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 11:17 PM PST

2009/02/16 · 23:17

I am a father of two military officer sons, one of whom was in Iraq. He was lucky. He was a commander of an intelligence unit so not in one of the more dangerous missions, but he had to dress for battle anyway any time he went off base, which was often, and for extended periods, on intel missions.

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 7:55 AM PST

2009/01/19 · 07:55

I'm very disappointed at the Daily Kos cheap shot advertisement seen directly to your right. I have no love or respect for Bush, but the book is a fictional cheap shot and for Daily Kos to play it up in the advertisements like it's something real is disheartening to see.

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Sunday January 11, 2009 · 3:35 PM PST

2009/01/11 · 15:35

Hi sis,
The following article is more strongly and sarcastically worded than I would if I was talking with you about this subject but it does, in a very pointedly direct way, present essentially the same argument, which no religious objector to homosexuality can refute with any degree of intellectual honesty. I refuse to use the word "hate". I regard it as carelessly overused hyperboly tho I do understand that reaction among my own tribe. No doubt there are those to whom it applies, but I know you and millions of decent christians are not among them. Trouble is, too many of those decent christians do not do the honest introspection presented by this article, and THEY give christianity a bad rap, which many christians do seem to have a penchant for (the Crusades, the Inquisition, religious wars, approval of slavery and recently, corruption of Constitutions as in California, many other states and President Bush...need I go on?). They take the Apostle Paul's admonition of the mind as a great deceiver much too seriously. We were given that mind to use, after all and if we didn't, we'd still be living in caves and beating our female mates into sexual submission. OH, that HAS gone far beyond the caves, hasn't it, and some religious fanatics apparently still believe in it!!.

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Sunday December 21, 2008 · 11:02 PM PST

2008/12/21 · 23:02

Many of our "gay leadership" are too busy patting their own backs, protecting their own turf and indulging their egotistical militancy. As a result, they can't see the forest for the trees. Which, in this matter means they can't see that overall, we're winning this "war" and that what is needed is not more militancy, but competent, knowledgeable presentation of our case to everyone who will listen who(get a clue)will mostly NOT be at high profile political fund raiser ga(y)las (pun intended).

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Monday December 08, 2008 · 1:23 PM PST

2008/12/08 · 13:23

How does it come to this? http://brandon-friedman.dailykos.com/ It's beyond absurd. It's incomprehensible. How does Gates do this with a str8 face?!?! There is no more room for equivocation. Obama won't spend his political capitol on this immediately, but it IS going to change during his administration, probably first term. Stuff like this simply won't stand much longer.

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What should be done about gays in the military?

48 votes Vote Now!

What should be done about gays in the military?

Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

12 votes

Rage at Congress

1 vote

All gays resign from military en masse, crippling military.

2 votes

All gays in military come out en masse, frustrating military.

7 votes

Million gay march at the Pentagon

2 votes

Kiss in at the Pentagon

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Lose the apathy. Get angry.

0 votes

Come out locally with letters to local newspapers.

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Come out. Come out. Come out.

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All of the above

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Response to my son

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 7:09 PM PST

2008/11/14 · 19:09

My son is a Coast Guard officer in California, McCain supporter and FOX hound and we had been going round and round via email about both until it got too charged and we decided to call a truce.

But now, the Calif Prop 8 nationwide challenges have reared their occasionally ugly heads. While they have maintained residence in another state and couldn't vote, I think he and his wife would have voted NO as they are respectful of my life.
But they have NO respect for violent demonstrations and thus, this exchange that I would like to share with you.

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 11:32 PM PDT

2008/10/30 · 23:32

The great Roman Lawyer and Orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote," Just as a builder must have a plan on his paper to build wisely and well, so must a people have a Constitution in order to guide them. But we have abandoned our plan and our map so painfully wrought by our fathers. Hence, we have dictators, men who lust for centralized power in order to oppress us."

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