5 posts tagged “homophobia”

What have I done!

Checking out the equality score card to find out if GLBT citizens in my state are second class citizens, I got a shock (not a huge one...but still...)

I have taken you, my Trentie, from a state with a 4.0 score (out of six) to one of the three worst states in the union with a score of 0.5 Ohio is in the company of only Idaho & Mississippi...we're behind Alabama fer Buddha's sake!

How does your state fare?

http://www.equalitygiving.org/States-of-Equality-and-Gay-Rights-Scorecard

(Oh, and it doesn't matter if you pick the state I actually took him from: Massachusettes or the state of his birth: Maine...both have that 4.0 score).

Sigh...

I need a laugh...here:

Thanks to Heather who had this on her Vox & it made me larf so hard...since we live it every morning...minus the bat, though I do have recurring headaches lately, hmmm.

I loved to read when I was a tot (and a 'tween and a teen and now for that matter). I read "The Shining" and "Watership Down" as I was saying goodbye to "Alfred Hitchcock and the three Investigators" and never looked back.

I fell in love with a few authors very early. I loved Sheri Tepper--you know I still do. I loved the venerable Mr. King--and you know I still do. I also felt my heart skip fast when Meredith Ann Pierce came out with something new or F Paul Wilson wrote another. I still do in both cases.

I have, however abandoned two authors I used to follow closely. I had every novel Piers Anthony wrote until 1994. I opened up his newest Xanth novel...and his boob fixation coupled with his constant belittling of women finally turned me off for well and good. I sold them all. From Chthon to Harpy Time (Don't ask me how I made it through a book with a title like The Color of Her Panties without getting a clue...I was young!) and I had them all.

That was a little like saying goodbye to my childhood, growing up. Oddly, I started reading children's books when I said goodbye to childhood--but that's another story.

And the second author? That was harder and easier at once: when the I (finally, it turns out) became aware of Orson Scott Card's virulent homophobia, I had to give him the Anthony treatment.

He wrote an article in 1990 which I knew nothing of for nearly 10 years. The guy really needs a psychiatrist, here judge for yourself: http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-hypocrites.html It hurt, physically to read this. Wyrms and Homecoming and Treason and Songmaster were some of my favorite books. But I sold 'em all. I couldn't have words by someone so hateful in my house no matter how much they had meant to me in the past. Sad thing is I woulda' been all over the new graphic adaptations of his books...but nope!

I feel sorry for him. Reading that essay, I can't help but think there are some pink skeletons in his closet keeping him company IF you know what I mean <lascivious eyebrow wiggle> (Yes, Virginia, I mean he has some strong sexual feelings for other men he can't deal with).

If you're interested here is a bit of further reading on the subject.

http://www.leanleft.com/archives/2006/11/30/5813/

The God Box

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/6360.html

http://atheism.about.com/b/a/053881.htm

I was further saddened to hear his writing has gone into the toilet, but what can you expect?

Hey, Orson...here's a book you should read:

So NOW DeWine's office (my lovely Senator) contacts me with an even MORE insulting e-mail...telling me he thanks me for my e-mail and then going on to tell me he co-sponsored the bill I was asking him not to sign...

I just let him have it...for being a homophobe, for not listening to his ALL his constituents, for being one of the people responsible for writing prejudice into the constitution...my name just went up on those watch lists (ha ha ha...like they even READ the e-mail they're sent...)

Still working on yesterday's book. Can't really place it in time and that always bothers me. The writing is nice.

Desert Wind

Listening to one of my favorite singers before returning to lessons with Pema. Ofra Haza was a fantastic voice. (Israeli Folk-Pop Singer) I have the original language version (I believe she re-recorded it in English in 1994). I'm just glad she recorded a lot while she was alive.

Nothing more to report--I warned you I'd bore you--

Later Gator

Antichrist Superstar

So I "signed this petition" the ACLU sent my e-mail address that sent a form e-mail to Congressman John Boehner (Bone-ER) asking him to NOT try to vote yes on anti-gay legislation.

He sends me back a thank you e-mail that states that he "consistantly works to keep Congress from passing legislation that promotes homosexuality."

So I responded to him. I told him I had never in my life felt that Congress or any branch of my government had "promoted homosexuality." I felt, in fact, that as a homosexual my rights were consistantly being attacked by my own govenrment. I told him that I don't have the same rights as my neighbors despite the fact that I pay the same taxes. I told him I was tired of being a hot-button issue that the Right drags out every election to fire up their base. I suggested that he stop working to attenuate the rights of 10% of his constituents...since in dong that, he was NOT doing his job.

Ahhh, I was probably already on their watch lists