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I know I’m pulling from the same few blogs here, but Queerty has yet another great story about Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King. And I’m sure Martin Luther would be ever proud to share this eponymous day with his underrepresented spouse.
Sadly this article was one of the first places I had heard of Coretta. It sounds like she was an amazing advocate for social change in all of its forms. The civil rights movement lost a hero when she died in 2006.
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 5:41 pm. Add a comment
I found this copy of their interview from 5 days ago. Got to love our famous queers.
Some of my favorite moments:
Rachel Maddow was eloquent but straight to the point when referencing the Gay’s disappointment in Clinton e.g. “The Clinton administration threw the Gay and Lesbian people under the bus.” She also asked some good questions about Obama’s 1996 flip-flop on Gay Marriage.
And of course, perhaps a slight faux-paus, but I giggled like a school girl when Robinson said “No one had a bigger tent than Jesus.”
Come on. Gay men should know better….
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 5:22 pm. Add a comment
Fair is fair. If we’re going to give free speech rights to bigoted Rick Warren or sodomite Gene Robinson, we’ve got to give everyone a soap box.
The Washington Post has an interesting (if awkwardly written) story on a number of very angry “street preachers”, aka those guys who think that everyone is going to hell, even you, Sport Nut.
Equipped with bullhorns and vitriol, these preachers wanted to make sure everyone heard their messages.
“Obama, he’s only a human,” said one of the unnamed preachers from the Washington Post article. “Don’t make a human being your lord and master. Your messiah. It’s very simple. You return to the Bible or you return to the jungle.”
Another called out those damned “Baby Killing Women, Porno Freaks, Sport Nuts, Drunks, Homos, Jesus Mockers, Mormons.”
Guess the father’s of all the abo’d babies get off scot-free. Unless of course they’re a little too into the Mariners.
But all this frivolity doesn’t get us past the reality:
“A 17-year-old walked up to one of the preachers but was unable to speak. He wore an Obama button and a rainbow cuff. He was trembling. His name was Victor Eilering and he was a high school exchange student from the Netherlands. ‘What is the problem?’ he finally asked the preacher, quietly. ‘We did nothing to you.’”
Shit’s hurtful. Jeese.
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 4:19 pm. Add a comment
It’s 8:44 PM. In the last hour, I have had a doorbeller for www.healthcareforamericanow.org stop by, a phone call from the Seattle Radical Women, who are putting together a rally in Olympia to celebrate reproductive freedoms, and literally as soon as I hung up with Radical Women, a great young activist from ThinkOutsideTheBottle called to ask if I had any pledges yet…oops, I don’t.
To quickly summarize: Follow those links and make all those things happen!
To add a bit more depth:
Washington CAN and HealthCareforAmericaNow are tackling one of the most important issues of our time. I’ll go as far as to say it was the most important issue 50+ years ago, but no one seemed to have the balls to tackle it. Insurance companies are synonymous with evil villains. Health care is a human right in a country with this much wealth. By nationalizing it, we’re able to offer all Americans a better shot at life, and also LOWER the costs to businesses. On their website, they state that despite the media’s claim to the contrary, among small businesses:
- 59% of small business owners support a reform plan with a choice of public or private options
- 75% say there should be more oversight of private insurers
- 70% see a strong role for government in guaranteeing health care for all
It makes no sense that your employer should be paying for your Health Care. Currently only large corporations can offer decent health insurance, which puts smaller businesses at a disadvantage. Smaller businesses are fundamental to our economy. Universalize it already.
Seattle Radical Women are…rad. They are organizing a rally in Olympia in Defense of Abortion rights. Typically, the “March for Life” gathers at the Capitol every year on the 22nd. Somehow Radical Women reserved it first this year.
They are organizing a carpool from Seattle leaving at 10 am. Those wanting to ride down for the day can call 206-722-6057.
Think Outside The Bottle is doing a lot through relatively simple steps. Currently our politicians spend a lot of money each year on bottled water for their conferences and meetings. This is a waste of money, and incredibly inappropriate. As our public servants and the stewards of our public water supply, they should really be drinking the same water as the rest of us. Plus, you don’t want to privatize water. I think that was the main plot point behind Kevin Costner’s Water World. And I remember a scene where they drank pee. Help this organization!
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 9:44 pm. 2 comments
So the gays finally got what they wanted. After weeks of whining and bitching (sometimes within reason, often well beyond the bounds of…) about the evangelical and bigoted Reverend Rick Warren, Obama has invited openly gay Reverend Gene Robinson to lead yet another invocation.
Good step? Yeah, probably. Very inclusive, although now the right is whining just as vocally about Robinson as the left (well, the queer left, the other dems didn’t care) has for weeks. (Yes I know, I am too fond of parenthetical statements.)
First, how many freaking innaugural events can Obama throw? I’ve always been a partier, but this is just silly. A kick-off inauguration Sunday before the big event on Tuesday? I get it, he’s kinda a big deal. At the same time: close Guantanamo. Give me health care. Raise my property values already!
Beyond it being a little excessive, I am happy to see some real tokenism out of our elected officials. But you know who’s really getting left out? The atheists. While I’m glad we have a gay and a bigot lined up for the big days… why the hell do we have preachers at government events anyway? Kind of against the whole point of secularism. This wouldn’t fly in a fortune 500 company. No one prays before company meetings (or if they do, they sure has hell didn’t at mine). I think the general consensus is it would be really inappropriate if the head of your Human Resources department asked you to bow your head and think about creationism. Adam, Eve and Steve. (There’s your anti-poligamy slogan right there! Sorry, last parenthetical.)
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 4:39 pm. Add a comment
The Windy City Times has finally published the article which has already made its way around the entire Internet.
In 1996, President-Elect Barack Obama filled out a questionnaire for the then Outlines newspaper (since merged with Windy City). In a signed document, he announced he supported same-sex marriage.
Even better, in 2004 Obama conducted an interview with the Windy City Times while preparing for his successful run for Senate. In it, Obama explicitly described his new vigor for civil-unions instead of same-sex marriage as a purely strategic decision.
“WCT: Do you have a position on marriage vs. civil unions?
Obama: I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been thrown about, primarily just as a strategic issue. I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation. I know that’s true in the African-American community, for example. And if you asked people, ‘should gay and lesbian people have the same rights to transfer property, and visit hospitals, and et cetera,’ they would say, ‘absolutely.’ And then if you talk about, ‘should they get married?’, then suddenly …
WCT: There are more than 1,000 federal benefits that come with marriage. Looking back in the 1960s and inter-racial marriage, the polls showed people against that as well.
Obama: Since I’m a product of an interracial marriage, I’m very keenly aware of …
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Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 3:39 pm. Add a comment