July 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
8 tags
Focus on Family, PJI, Michele Bachmann, Dick...
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!!!!
Did you know that Disney’s Grand California Hotel is hosting the Pacific Justice Institute’s annual gala on April 2? Dick Morris & Michelle Bachman are keynotes and VIP reception hosted by Focus on the Family.
http://www.pacificjustice.org/events/celebration-justice
Mickey is not pleased. It just so happens that April 2 is also mini-Gay Day at Disney...
December 2010
2 posts
Dear President Obama,
Dear President Obama - Thank you for honoring your word. This is what we expected and will continue to demand. NOW, as our fierce advocate, we expect you to make sure that the discharges end immediately and LGBT people can serve and enlist openly without delay. NEXT, if we can die for our country, we should fucking be able to be married and safe in our jobs. Sincerely, the very first...
September 2010
12 posts
We need not compare histories of oppression. This...
About voting your conscience ...
Is your conscience content with voting for liars? Is it content to vote for anyone who thinks we are not fully equal and who “disagrees” with same-sex marriage because of what the bible teaches or because the institution of marriage is defined as one man and one woman? We have been waiting for those millions of pissed off people for too long. The tea party didn’t start...
Lesser of two evils
Why would someone vote for a republican just because they are not voting for a democrat??? Are we so brainwashed and have we given up so much of our own power not to DEMAND a change?
How I am spending some of my time these days... →
Well, there goes masturbation in Delaware.
Bootstraps and @ltdanchoi #dadt
This is the kind of messaging that appeals to the center, right, or the right of the left (fearless fakers). It infuriates me. Look how hard Dan Choi worked - talk about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and extreme and consistent effort - and then he gets fired for being gay. WTF Obama????
I totally understand the magnitude and urgency of hard work and effort. However, any...
Effort
As a social worker and for many years, a school counselor, I understand the magnitude and urgency of hard work and effort. However, any “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” speech - especially targeted towards America’s youth and given by a Democrat - should include at least some reference to the fundamental impact of the many discrepancies related to opportunity and a...
So what you are saying ...
“So what you are saying” Jesus asks “is that you are against your second husband’s third ex-wife’s born out of wedlock’s daughter getting married for the first time to the woman she has lived and loved with for the last 12 years? I’m so glad you are adhering to Bible’s teachings.”
I wonder how many people who pose for those NO H8...
Welcome! →
August 2010
17 posts
Looking forward to another day to practice my...
I am looking forward to a full day of practicing my homosexuality and hoping to become an even better homosexual. Perhaps if SOME Christians and Jews and … would start practicing Christianity and Judaism and … they would become better Christians and Jews … . Sadly I think that the Mormon Church has it down in such a way that the only option is a complete redo.
Lay it on me...
Sounds like Obama to me... Democracy, in...
President Obama on the Mosque at Ground Zero…
On Friday: “Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country,”
On Saturday: “I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque … I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding.”
...
No Freedom Fries Here
There will be no Freedom Fries for LGBT Americans, not yet. And when people finally
get that it was extremists that were responsible for 911, and not an
entire religion, we’d be a much better America. Good thing there are no
Christian, Jewish, or Mormon extremists. Oh…
“No gay marriages in California before December, court rules… No equality...”
– No gay marriages in California before December, court rules | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
"I Have No Regret to Anybody in the Military. This... →
If you have not watched Dan Choi’s interview with Amy Goodman, you should. Dan Choi is exactly the kind of American we need to be defending our freedom, and now he is an American who has been kicked out of the military for doing so.
“I might not have a uniform to wear, to drill anymore, and I might not have a...”
– Dan Choi
Unsung anti- #Prop8 Heroes! How Rob Reiner became... →
The battle to defeat Prop. 8 had launched the 63-year-old actor-turned-director-turned-political activist into a whole different sphere. Working closely with political strategist and longtime ally Chad Griffin, Reiner helped found the American Foundation for Equal Rights. As Griffin reached out to the gay community, Reiner used his Hollywood insider status to court a handful of millionaires and...
#Prop 8 Defend the Decision
Donate | American... →
Do it.
Want to make a donation that will go DIRECTLY to...
Want to make a minimal donation to feel really really good about?? The plaintiffs from the Prop 8 Federal Trial, including Ryan Kendall and Jeff Zarrillo and me @Laura Kanter, are asking for your support, for donations that will go DIRECTLY to the ongoing defense of Judge Walker’s ruling… …Help Defend it and Win Marriage for ALL—Text EQUAL to 25383 to donate $10...
Re: #Prop8 If the Federal Government ever started...
If the Federal Government ever started legally discriminating against dumbasses, the people who disagree with Judge Walker’s ruling would be singing a different tune.
GetEQUAL.org | Thank you, Judge Walker! #GetEQUAL... →
GetEQUAL gets the reward for doing the right thing.
Celebrating #prop8 but with a heavy heart...
I know it is a wonderful day and we are celebrating this really huge ruling by Judge Walker… I know it is a significant ruling, the effects of which will be played out over the next few years. I do feel happy, but my heart is heavy.
The stay means people in California still cannot get married and who knows how long that will last. LGBT people still cannot marry in most states,...
Daily Kos: Prop. 8 proponents file hilariously... →
The irony of hypocrisy…
“Yes. You actually read that. You really did. The Prop. 8 proponents admit, and are worried about, the harm inflicted on gay couples who are put through the ordeal of a trial and then denied marriage rights. They said that.”
I hope the #Prop8 defenders spent all night and...
that Prop H8 is upheld and then I hope they feel really really empty, lost and confused when God lets them down.
Another Decision Day ... #prop8
Amazing, isn’t it, that so many of us now, across this country, and even in other countries, are waiting and hoping that one man, Judge Walker, will issue JUST SOME of US, JUST SOME of OUR rights, so that JUST SOME of US will be treated equally under the law with our non-LGBT fellow Americans … and what makes this e…ven more amazing is that there are many people who are...
I love my wife ...
Karla says she has two ways of tracking my whereabouts. The first is facebook. The second is to go to our bank’s website and check on our debit card activities.
July 2010
5 posts
I love my wife ...
I love my wife. Especially when she looks at me with her beautiful brown eyes and says “well it seemed like a good idea at the time.”
“Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest…if you behave in...”
– Janeane Garofalo, “Feel This Book,” with Ben Stiller
May 2010
3 posts
April 2010
24 posts
#getequal #dadt LISTEN LIVE TOMORROW @LTDANCHOI at... →
The talk, called “Truth and Consequences: One Man’s Quest to Openly Serve his Country” will begin at 6 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, in Cambridge. NOTE: This event will be web-streamed live, so make sure to tune in: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Multimedia-Center/All-Videos/The-Forum-LIVE To view this and other events after their conclusion, visit the Forum...
Daily Kos: State of the Nation Repeal DADT - make... →
“The Daily Kos at its best is a place that moves people to take action, share information that may be tiny and obvious but ultimately have great significance and spur great movement.”
This should be all of us at our best, at least once in a while.
“#GetEQUAL #DADT #LGBT
Not to gloat at the president’s frustration, but this...”
– View From Washington: Why Wait? | Washington D.C. | Advocate.com
“While we clearly are made up of every creed, color and controversy, this...”
– equality blog
Written by my wife, Karla Bland, with whom I...
On April 20, 2010, a group did something that some found heroic while others found unconscionable. Many people have criticized this group, one of which is my wife Laura. In the days leading up to this event, she agonized over what to say to President Obama because she wanted to make sure the point was made regarding DADT yet still show respect to the man who she voted for and supports. Many...
“#getequal #dadt #lgbt
“Those who profess to favor freedom, yet...”
– Frederick Douglass
PandemicSoul tumblng: How will history judge... →
It was a dreary April morning that opened the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City. Rain was soaking the crowd, and many of the promised exhibits were not yet open at what was intended to be a cosmopolitan show of the United State’s industrial and commercial power. Nonetheless, 10,000 people…