Monday Morning Haiku

A joke was said to
someone with no sense of hu -
-mor. Now we suffer.

Dear Governor of Rhode Island

As a gay citizen of the United States, I am appalled at your latest decision vetoing legislation granting gays and lesbians funeral rights to their deceased partners. You say it should be up to the voters, but we both know what the voters will say, won't we? Especially if Maine and the other 30 states are any indication.

But are you not, sir, suppose to defend ALL citizens, not just the ones who would vote for you? As a gay man in the south, I can tell you how vicious people are towards me and others like me, including members of my own family. The law does not protect me and my relationship from them. I can be barred from my future partner's funeral or him from mine; our home can be taken from us; our hospital can deny us visitation.

In America. This happens in America, supposed Land of the Free.

You are suppose to protect ALL citizens, Governor Carcieri, not just the ones you like, not just the ones you prefer, and not just the ones who are exactly like you.

For I and every other gay and lesbian person are citizens of the United States of America. And as such, we deserve the same respect, recognition, and protection as every other citizen of this great country.

One day, you will see that this decision was wrong, hateful, and thoroughly un-American.

Your Saturday Morning Cartoon

Maine, WTF?!

Only in a failed republic would citizens rejoice at the removal of rights from their fellow citizens.

Has this what America has become, folks? That the majority of our citizens enjoy the sight of a targeted group of people continuously being marginalized? That we have members of our society say, without any sense of irony, that "marriage is now safe in Maine" when the divorce rates still skyrocket? Saying "our children are now safe" when they're involved continuously in nasty custody battles where straight couples use them as legal leverage? Wasn't there a verse, dear Christians, about removing the plank from your own eye before tending to someone else's?

I am heartbroken by Maine's loss, because just like California, rights that were granted by our government have been stripped by our fellow citizens. I am heartbroken because next will be New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Iowa, undoing all the progress we made this year. I am furious because our chicken-shit president stood by and did NOTHING, despite the promises he made to the HRC a month ago.

But most of all, I'm tired. I'm tired of justifying myself every single election year. I'm tired of having my life put up to a popular vote. I'm tired of lies being told about me and others like me. I'm tired of being told that my relationship would never be on the same level as, say, Bill O'Reilly's.

I'm tired of being told I shouldn't care about marriage. Well you know what? If it's not such a big damn deal, then you, who are married, should get divorced right now. Still live together, still love one another. Just don't be married. Of course, you'll have to change your wills, life and health insurance policies, bank accounts, house deeds, car titles, next of kin........oh. I guess marriage *is* a big deal, huh?

All of my life, I've been told I'm nothing of value: from kids in school, from family members, from churches, and from government. And for a while, I believed them. I believed that because I was different, because I was weird, that it would be better for me to not exist anymore. I couldn't foresee my life being worth living because so many people fucking hated me.

I hope none of you have ever felt that way, because it is a truly horrific way to grow up: to love Jesus only to be told He hates you; to love your extended family only to be told they hate you; to reach out to your classmates only to be ridiculed. Gay teenagers commit suicide not because they feel there's something wrong with them, but that they believe they will never find happiness amidst all this hate that surrounds them.

And if you have contributed in any way to the marginalizing of someone else, shame on you.

The Gays Are Coming! The Gays Are Coming!

I fear that Maine is going to be California Prop 8 all over again. The tired argument of "Your small children will learn about gay marriage in pre school!" is working once again. Never mind the measure has NOTHING about public education in it. And never mind the irony of a predominantly Christian base lying to get what they want. Homosexuality may be an abomination, but "Thy shall not bear false witness" is a freakin' Commandment, people.

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2009/10/28/ME/412

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Monday Morning Haiku

Boss is setting new
goals. Mine is doing his wife.
He won't like that goal.