Comments for Radical Militant Librarian http://ames58.wordpress.com musings on politics and topics of the day Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The 1.5 million by Ray http://ames58.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/the-15-million/#comment-124 Ray Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:33:22 +0000 http://ames58.wordpress.com/?p=309#comment-124 thanks for the website, Tikkun. That was first time I had seen the term spiritual progressive and I'm looking forward to finding out more. thanks for the website, Tikkun. That was first time I had seen the term spiritual progressive and I’m looking forward to finding out more.

]]> Comment on Gay marriage – Can we bridge the gap? by J. L. Hillhouse http://ames58.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/gay-marriage-can-we-bridge-the-gap/#comment-122 J. L. Hillhouse Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:58:02 +0000 http://ames58.wordpress.com/?p=244#comment-122 The problem is, Ames, you want to leave the religion part out of the argument and it IS the argument for most people against gay marriage. I divide people against gay marriage into two or three groups and the religious ones are the main ones. See, they are stupid because they think we are trying to steal the holy ceremony part of marriage. They are too dumb to realize we already have THAT part. All a gay person has to do is find a gay friendly church or a gay church and there it is. We get the ritual. Neener neener Asshats. They can't take that away from us. You knew my dad, Ames. He was about as conservative as you can get and yet he supported gay marriage. He was stunned that other conservatives don't. He saw it as a conservative issue and a conservative right because it is about having control over one's own body, money and property. ...and what is the difference between my dad and other Southern conservatives? He was an atheist. This is the part we are fighting for. Being able to sign ONE document and having all these rights. We already have the holy moley part. Another type of people who are against gay marriage are the Morons. The people who are dumb as a sack of crap and think the complexities of humanity can be distilled down to idiotic metaphors about jigsaw puzzles and the way they fit together. Someone just needs to point out a little biology to them. Homosexuality exists in just about every species. Our uteruses don't fall out when we come out. ...and gay men don't stop producing fertile sperm. We can still carry on the species. The only difference is, when we have babies it is because we decide to. We think about it and what we could offer a child and what a child of ours might offer the world. We don't just have babies because someone forgot the rubbers. ...and the last group are the squeamish ones. The ones who are classic, psychology-wise, homophobes. They get a little hard and stiff when they think about it and THAT freaks them out. So they hate those of us who are happy with it. I don't know what to do with any of these three groups. The last two groups are the ones easiest, in my opinion, to change but they are the ones in the minority, imo, as far as groups going around fanatically trying to squelch our rights. What to do? What to do? I just don't know. Jeff The problem is, Ames, you want to leave the religion part out of the argument and it IS the argument for most people against gay marriage. I divide people against gay marriage into two or three groups and the religious ones are the main ones. See, they are stupid because they think we are trying to steal the holy ceremony part of marriage. They are too dumb to realize we already have THAT part. All a gay person has to do is find a gay friendly church or a gay church and there it is. We get the ritual. Neener neener Asshats. They can’t take that away from us.

You knew my dad, Ames. He was about as conservative as you can get and yet he supported gay marriage. He was stunned that other conservatives don’t. He saw it as a conservative issue and a conservative right because it is about having control over one’s own body, money and property. …and what is the difference between my dad and other Southern conservatives? He was an atheist. This is the part we are fighting for. Being able to sign ONE document and having all these rights. We already have the holy moley part.

Another type of people who are against gay marriage are the Morons. The people who are dumb as a sack of crap and think the complexities of humanity can be distilled down to idiotic metaphors about jigsaw puzzles and the way they fit together. Someone just needs to point out a little biology to them. Homosexuality exists in just about every species. Our uteruses don’t fall out when we come out. …and gay men don’t stop producing fertile sperm. We can still carry on the species. The only difference is, when we have babies it is because we decide to. We think about it and what we could offer a child and what a child of ours might offer the world. We don’t just have babies because someone forgot the rubbers.

…and the last group are the squeamish ones. The ones who are classic, psychology-wise, homophobes. They get a little hard and stiff when they think about it and THAT freaks them out. So they hate those of us who are happy with it.

I don’t know what to do with any of these three groups. The last two groups are the ones easiest, in my opinion, to change but they are the ones in the minority, imo, as far as groups going around fanatically trying to squelch our rights. What to do? What to do? I just don’t know.

Jeff

]]> Comment on The majority’s tyranny by J. L. Hillhouse http://ames58.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/the-majoritys-tyranny/#comment-121 J. L. Hillhouse Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:24:58 +0000 http://ames58.wordpress.com/?p=231#comment-121 As you say, Ames, this is a Constitutional Republic. A pure Democracy is a dictatorship of the majority, a mob rule. You can't vote away people's rights. Etc. We know this. Question...Do I HAVE to be nice to the homophobic bigoted sicko, above? Lastly: "My husband, Martin Luther King Jr., once said, 'We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny…an inescapable network of mutuality.… I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.' Therefore, I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people." ...Coretta Scott King Jeffrey Lee As you say, Ames, this is a Constitutional Republic. A pure Democracy is a dictatorship of the majority, a mob rule. You can’t vote away people’s rights. Etc. We know this.

Question…Do I HAVE to be nice to the homophobic bigoted sicko, above?

Lastly:

“My husband, Martin Luther King Jr., once said, ‘We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny…an inescapable network of mutuality.… I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.’ Therefore, I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.” …Coretta Scott King

Jeffrey Lee

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