"The
Apostolic Truth Tabernacle is in Greensburg, Indiana. That's the town
where Billy Lucas was bullied to death for being perceived to be gay by
his classmates. I wonder if they stood up and cheered at Apostolic Truth
Tabernacle when Lucas died—hey, another homo in hell. I wonder if any
of Lucas's tormenters attend services at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle. And
remember: I'm an anti-Christian bully for pointing out the connection
between what straight kids are taught about 'homos' in the shithole
mega-churches they're dragged to by their parents and what they turn
around and do to 'homos' they encounter in classrooms. And what if that
precocious little four-year-old singer is gay? Praise the Lord and pass
the barf bags." - Dan Savage, whose It Gets Better Project was launched in response to Billy's suicide.Wednesday, May 30, 2012
JMG HomoQuotable - Dan Savage
"The
Apostolic Truth Tabernacle is in Greensburg, Indiana. That's the town
where Billy Lucas was bullied to death for being perceived to be gay by
his classmates. I wonder if they stood up and cheered at Apostolic Truth
Tabernacle when Lucas died—hey, another homo in hell. I wonder if any
of Lucas's tormenters attend services at Apostolic Truth Tabernacle. And
remember: I'm an anti-Christian bully for pointing out the connection
between what straight kids are taught about 'homos' in the shithole
mega-churches they're dragged to by their parents and what they turn
around and do to 'homos' they encounter in classrooms. And what if that
precocious little four-year-old singer is gay? Praise the Lord and pass
the barf bags." - Dan Savage, whose It Gets Better Project was launched in response to Billy's suicide.
JMG Reader Locates "Ain't No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven" Church
Joe says:
Thanks to the web sleuthing of a JMG reader, last night we learned Indiana's Apostolic Truth Tabernacle is where that four year-old child was filmed singing Ain't No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven. Shortly after I posted that repulsive clip,
I was contacted by several media outlets, including CNN, who now know
its source. Contact details for Pastor Jeff Sangl are at the first link
and I suspect he is about to have a very interesting week.
Reposted from Joe
Via JMG: TEXAS: ExxonMobil Shareholders Vote Down LGBT Employee Protections
Despite
facing years of protests including one outside of today's meeting, the
shareholders of ExxonMobil have once again refused to grant employment
protections to LGBT workers. The Dallas Voice reports: Meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Dallas Arts District, the ExxonMobil shareholders voted 80 percent to 20 percent Wednesday morning against a resolution asking the corporation to amend “its written equal employment opportunity policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and to substantially implement the policy.” The 80-20 margin of defeat was among the largest for the proposal, which has been introduced each year since Mobil and Exxon merged in 1999. The percentage of shareholders voting for the policy had increased steadily over the years to about 40 percent, before dropping off significantly after gender identity was added in 2008.Before the two companies merged, Mobil had been one of the first major corporations to provide domestic partner benefits and workplace protections for gay employees. Those benefits were rescinded when Exxon came on board.
Read the full Dallas Voice report.
All the dead people say yes By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Somewhere along a forgotten branch of your family tree, there she is.
Somewhere deep in your lineage, there's at least one, maybe two, maybe even quite a few more whom you know nothing about -- relatives who, when they were alive, never made a sound or ruffled any feathers, hidden like thwarted relics, long deceased but right now whispering at the top of their ghostly lungs straight into your most lucid, semi-hallucinogenic dreams: "Get the hell on with it, already."
Can you hear them? Can you possibly say there are no closeted gay or lesbian, radical or repressed relatives back in your family history -- people who, due to the times and constraints under which they lived, never in a million years could have lived the life you are now free to lead, never could have revealed their true selves in public, much less celebrated that self, much less (heaven forefend) married someone they actually loved, gender/kink/ideology regardless?
Somewhere deep in your lineage, there's at least one, maybe two, maybe even quite a few more whom you know nothing about -- relatives who, when they were alive, never made a sound or ruffled any feathers, hidden like thwarted relics, long deceased but right now whispering at the top of their ghostly lungs straight into your most lucid, semi-hallucinogenic dreams: "Get the hell on with it, already."
Can you hear them? Can you possibly say there are no closeted gay or lesbian, radical or repressed relatives back in your family history -- people who, due to the times and constraints under which they lived, never in a million years could have lived the life you are now free to lead, never could have revealed their true selves in public, much less celebrated that self, much less (heaven forefend) married someone they actually loved, gender/kink/ideology regardless?
Via AmericaBlogGay:
AP: Norwegian terrorist was a feminine momma's-boy who wore make-up, so maybe he was gay
I'm
really surprised that AP didn't handle this story better. They have
the nerve to do a story suggesting that the Norwegian mass-murderer
terrorist might have been gay because - get this - he was kind of
effeminate, lived with mom, and liked to sometimes put on make-up.
And what gay man doesn't lisp, put on make-up, and live with mom.
We're all Norman Bates, now.
my note:
SHAME ON YOU AP!
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma May 30, 2012
Breaking Through Resistance
Thinking
and talking about practice are easy substitutes for the real effort
that a practice life requires. We resist facing life as it is because
that would mean abandoning our views of how we think it should be. The most basic form of resistance is wanting life to be other than it is.
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- Ezra Bayda, "Breaking Through"
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