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My Regular Daily Homosexual Lifestyle

Posted on April 27, 2010 | 5 Comments

wakeup and kiss my wife

make pancakes for our daughter

wake up our daughter

make lunch and pack it in our daughter’s lunch box/bag

remind our daughter to finish eating her breakfast

take a shower

get dressed

look in mirror (sometimes I forget about this part)

remind our daughter to get dressed and stop reading books and playing with toys

brush our daughter’s hair and continue reminding her to get ready

point to the clock and say, “you only have 5 minutes left before we’re leaving for school!”

check email/facebook/twitter in those 5 minutes

walk daughter to school (unless my wife drops her off)

sometimes stay at her school for their “morning circle” of all the kids and teachers and staff

go to work via public transportation and/or walking

do work that makes money and pays taxes

txt my wife throughout the day

chat with my friends at the office

try not to forget to eat lunch

remember to return the library books

wonder what we can make for dinner and try to remember what’s in the fridge

do work that makes money and pays taxes

pickup daughter from school (unless my wife picks her up)

make dinner and cocktails

maybe, just maybe, get a chance to chat with my wife in between requests from our daughter

make a bath for our daughter and help her get ready for bed

catchup on email/facebook/twitter while she’s in the bath

fold laundry while she’s in the bath

play piano

read books to our daughter

my wife helps our daughter get to sleep at night

read a book, read various news sites, watch a movie, make food for the next day, make lists like this one

kiss my wife

sleep

repeat

(In previous post there’s the text of an email sent to me from a pastor of a church which references the church not affirming a “homosexual lifestyle”)

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Scared of what?

Posted on April 21, 2010 | Leave a comment

“I’m scared of something and I don’t know what I’m scared of and I’m scared of not knowing,” says Lucy, 5 1/2 years old.

When I was a kid I was afraid of the dark and afraid of whatever lived (according to my imagination) in the trees near our house.

I’m still afraid of the dark and also afraid of the political and environmental state of the world.  Maybe that’s what Lucy doesn’t know yet.

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Don’t call me a “homosexual”

Posted on November 25, 2009 | Leave a comment

Will Phillips, a 10-year-old boy in Arkansas, has been refusing to stand for or say the pledge of allegiance because, he says. “I really don’t feel that there’s currently liberty and justice for all.” (he’s referencing no liberty/justice for gays/lesbians who cannot be legally married according to the federal government)

I first read this story, thanks to this a post on Twitter from a friend who protects her tweets.  I thought it was a great story and was impressed with the kid and glanced at the headline, and I wondered why The Examiner used the term “homosexual” when plenty of current newspapers specifically don’t.

Really, now, the term “homosexual” only belongs on a card like this:

"my mother made me a homosexual"

The Examiner’s headline reads, “10-year-old refuses to pledge allegiance to country that discriminates against homosexuals” with story by Jennifer Chou.

The source article that is referenced resides at The Huffington Post where the headline reads, “Will Phillips, 10-Year-Old, Won’t Pledge Allegiance To A Country That Discriminates Against Gays.”

GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) writes about how the Associated Press, New York Times, and Washington Post have all restricted usage of the term homosexual in recent years because:

the term “homosexual” — a word whose clinical history and pejorative connotations are routinely exploited by anti-gay extremists to suggest that lesbians and gay men are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered, and which, as The Washington Post notes, “can be seen as a slur.” AP and New York Times editors also have instituted rules against the use of inaccurate terminology such as “sexual preference” and “gay lifestyle.”

’nuff said.

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My Special Gay Rights Thanks to Prop 8

Posted on November 2, 2009 | Leave a comment

For years the right-wing has used a mantra something like “no special rights for gays” or “gay rights are special rights” to fight against and to legally deny any sort of protection or rights for LGBT people and couples.

In 2002, “President Bush announced that ‘gay rights are special rights,’ as his defense against criticism that came when he refused to enact various civil rights laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people from discrimination in their daily lives.”

March 5, 2009 in front of California State Building

 

The campaign for Prop 8 in California last year mostly used slogans of “marriage is one man plus one woman” and themes of “protecting” marriage and “protect the children” and so on.

However, by passing Prop 8 they unwittingly gave those exact “special rights” to a special class of approximately 18,000 couples who remain legally married, caught in time, in California in spite of Prop 8.

Yeah, sure that wasn’t their intent of Prop 8 but they didn’t include anything retroactive in their proposition language.

That’s exactly the “special rights” that these campaigns have been trying to fight against – to keep us from having any protection, from having any rights and responsibilities within our families, all in the name of “protecting children” and “protecting marriage.”

So then what’s my special locked-in-time-marriage status?  It’s special gay rights!

These anti-LGBT slogans and campaigns are slowly dying.  Even if, fingers crossed this doesn’t happen, Ref 71 in Washington is rejected and Question 1 in Maine is passed, the mantras of “protecting children from gays” and “keeping gay marriage out of school curriculum” and “saving traditional marriage” are being slowly dismantled because the anti-gay groups have no proof that marriages such as mine do any damage at all to the institution of marriage, to schools, and to children.

My special gay marriage protects my kid.  Before my special gay marriage was legal, domestic partnership protected my kid and me and my sweetie and helped define our family and give our family rights to each other that married people usually take for granted.

Approve Referendum 71 in Washington State!

Vote No on Question 1 in Maine!

Be kind.

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