Between June 1996 and January 1997, because a fellow teacher was concerned that a student who had been bullied for her perceived sexual orientation may not have been killed accidentally while crossing a major highway, but might have actually committed a hidden suicide, and had turned to me as the school’s openly Gay teacher to see what could be done to prevent future such deaths, I went to a local big chain book store and found books that dealt with the negative school environments, both obvious and subtle, that Gay students had to face daily which could lead to suicide attempts, and also books and reports on how school districts could remedy this. For those months, because they had a great sound system and, honestly, good drinks, and as some of the reports I found, although informative, were as dry as the Sahara and I needed noise to keep awake while reading them, I went to Tramps, the rather rustic Gay bar around the corner from where I lived in Oklahoma City and sat in a chair reserved for me by the bouncer, Chuck, that he had placed near the well-lit dart boards to do my reading.

Among the books I found were “Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” and “Same -Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe” by the late John Boswell, a historian and a full professor at Yale whose many writings deal with Christianity and Homosexuality along with the history of others at the margins of society. A common thesis in these two books was that the Roman Catholic Church had not condemned Gay people throughout its history, and had expressed no special concern about it, but even celebrated love between men until the latter part of the 19^th Century. Both books were so thoroughly researched that some pages are more footnote than text, and the fact he spoke seventeen languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, Catalan, German, French, Old Church Slavonic, Ancient Greek, and Latin meant he could wade through ancient Church documents without relying on someone’s translation.

When it came to marriage, he showed that the modern concept of marriage as a sacrament in the Catholic Church has only existed in the last quarter of the existence of Christianity so far, and, like many things we think today have always been, was one of those societal things whose acceptance or rejection was relative to how people’s behavior played into the formation of the countries that now comprise Europe and whether nor not they united a population under a ruler with certain requirements.

Anything that threatened a new monarch just starting up a kingdom, or country, was eliminated, and one effective way to do that was killing those people off or making them the kingdom’s rejects best to be avoided by anyone not willing to anger the king, as anger in the past often brought about horrendous redress.

Rome was the home base of Christianity, and Rome was steeped in laws. The Empire needed order and Rome disliked messy court cases and sought to limit them with very specific and detailed laws.

When it came to inheritance, because of the rule of Primo-Genitor that held that everything left by the deceased father went to the first born son, with the acceptance of sowing wild oats, the question of who actually was the first born son was settled by the law that established that the legal and indisputable first born, regardless of the results of promiscuous behavior, was the first son born of a  legally recognized wife.  

Early Christians in Rome, being citizens, followed those laws.

There was nothing sacred about marriage, just convenient, mess avoiding legality.

Same sex couples, being a part of society, but not having kids, did not have the Primo-Genitor problem, so civil marriage was irrelevant and not done. Bi-sexual people could populate whole villages while having a person or people of the same sex on their dance cards, but would have to officially marry a person of the opposite sex if they wanted to avoid inheritance complications and messy court involvements.  

The Church, therefore, established what would now be called “marriage” to bless committed same sex unions, almost out of charity.

“Ya can’t have that, so we will give you this.”

Copies of the rituals are extant.

Boswell researched and studied ancient prayer-books of both the western and eastern churches, and found the rites of adelphopoiesis, or the joining of two men, and cites a mass Gay wedding that took place in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, the pope’s home church as Bishop of Rome.

Overtime, as Rome became history and its laws no longer that strongly applicable, straight Christians wanted the church’s blessing along with the weakened civil union of the Roman Empire, and this along with the Church controlling the inheritance of monarchs and thereby their kingdoms by controlling who married whom, the Church came up with the Sacrament of Marriage in the 1400s at the Council of Trent. Meaning that for the first 75% of Christianity’s existence so far, Gay was okay.

Same sex marriage in the Church preceded opposite sex marriage and was based on something as spiritual as the committed love of two individuals while the straight form of marriage was the equivalent of a business arrangement.

Evidence of the acceptance of Homosexuality has been in front of the people presented by the priests each time they said Mass.

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For those not Catholic in any degree, the Canon of the Mass is the center of it.  The Mass, like a three-act play, has a lot of business going on at the beginning until the sermon ends, followed by the main act, and ending with communion and some final prayers.

According to Catholic belief, unlike other Christian denominations where they stay what they are, the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ at the Consecration. Up to that point while the first part of the Canon is prayed there is only bread and wine on the altar. After, there is Himself sitting right there in the flesh, so things obviously have changed. Things have become serious.

With Christ right there, there are a few more prayers before the Doxology, Communion, and the mad dash to the car in the parking lot to avoid the exiting bottle neck, and it would stand to reason that those saints mentioned after the Consecration have a better placement than those mentioned before, which would make them special by placement.

Some saints may have been mentioned with the bread and wine sitting there, but these post-Consecration saints are mentioned when it’s Jesus on the altar.

In one of the prayers in the second half of the Canon, the priest prays,

“To us, also, your servants, who, though sinners, hope in your abundant mercies, graciously grant some share and fellowship with your holy Apostles and Martyrs: with John the Baptist, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia and all your Saints; admit us, we beseech you, into their company, not weighing our merits, but granting us your pardon, through Christ our Lord.”

For the Baptists, those last four words are the Catholic version of “In Jesus’s name” so there is power in them.

The Felicity and Perpetua mentioned were two women. One was a Roman noblewoman, who was put to death for being Christian. The other was her servant and true soulmate. Being a Lesbian was just a thing in those days, with nothing extraordinary about it, so it was not talked about, not because it wasn’t decent, but because commonly accepted behavior was of no note. Women may not have married, only male activities were addressed in law with women’s actions only important insofar as they related to males, so it is through certain noticeable actions that stood out, like abandoning female roles for male ones and forgoing the assigned role of wife and mother even though Perpetua was a Roman noblewoman, that their non-traditional gender roles are visible.

Perpetua kept a diary that still exists, and there are a number of offhanded mentions of non-gender specific role choices, so her “Lesbian-like” behavior is a matter of record.

The inclusion of Perpetua and Felicity and their placement in that part of the Canon indicate no one had a problem with their being Lesbians.

And they are brought up with Jesus sitting right there.

Sexual activity had not been a topic of conversation (what was there to talk about?) being the business only of those engaged in it, and orientations did not exist as a thing until, when creating psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud needed to separate what he considered normal from abnormal behavior, and with himself as the benchmark, things he did and his life experiences were the model of normal with everything else abnormal.

Then sex became a topic.

It might be interesting to know that, after the word “Homosexual” entered the lexicon in 1869, it was only in the 1890s that the word “Heterosexual” was coined because if you were going to refer to abnormal behavior by a name, “normal”, often merely public behavior, needed a name too.

Pope Francis is not introducing something new in supporting Civil Unions, but reintroducing with a baby step what had been for the first 1400 years of Christianity, and some are not pleased.

According to Catholic belief, regardless of any politicking during a conclave where the cardinals choose the next pope, the ultimate choice is made by the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, in order to further along God’s plan.

So, unless they reject what they claim to believe, knowing that God works in mysterious ways, rather than politically object to his support of Civil Unions, which are not church related unions but merely a civil business arrangement just as marriage had been for early Christian heterosexuals, they aren’t putting much faith in the Holy Trinity’s Paraclete department.

So, considering that Gay people had church marriages and weddings before Straights, and had their own fancy term, Homosexual, at least 25 years before the Straights got theirs, Heterosexual, perhaps it is time society stop judging others and assigning them the role of enemies and threats, and take care of their own lives, families, and needs in defense of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and back off and let other people, who belong to a group they don’t, exercise those same creator endowed rights.

A simple rule of thumb is that if you are going to try to entice a specific group of citizens to support your campaign for public office, include all the members and definitely do not make it obscenely obvious that you are willing to ignore any segment of it.

Another good rule of thumb is not to assume those to whom you speak are uninformed.

Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany, spoke at what was billed as a “LGBTQ pride” campaign event.

Before she even spoke, however, it was clear this was a staged photo-op with no desire to actually speak honestly to the GLBT Community, but to bolster Trump’s claim that he is the best friend and president the GLBT Community has ever had.

The first sign that things were not on the level was that the event was not proudly announced, but was subjected to quiet and limited notification you had to stumble on, or was promoted through the grape-vine touting it as “a diverse coalition dedicated to re-electing President Trump, the first president to begin his presidency in support of marriage equality.”

Second, the banner in the background, reflected in the sign on the podium, did not say “GLBT Pride”, or any title or collection of relevant letters that could have been attached to acknowledge the Community, but it proclaimed “Trump Pride” with PRIDE in just five of the six colors of the Pride Flag as if that half-hearted patronizing was the best that the Community was going to get.

Not content to just put his name on other people’s work, he put his name on Pride.

Her skipping the T and referring to the “LGBQIA Community” when upon gaining the stage she began with,

“I know what my father believes in. Prior to politics, he supported gays, lesbians, the LGBQIA+ community,” 

was another sign that support of our Community was not inclusive.

As if she is totally uninformed and was banking on the Community forgetting its own history, the fight to gain rights, the need to defend them, and the attacks on it during the last four years, Tiffany told us that,

“Prior to politics, he supported gays, lesbians, the LGBQI – IA plus community, OK?”

But, it is not what he did before entering politics, but what he did when he was in a position to enact things.

Trump:

• Reversed Obama’s trans protections in schools.
• Banned transgender service members.
• Banned homeless trans people in shelters.
• Attempted to reverse Obama’s protections for trans people in health care. 
• Nominated anti-GLBT judges with a third of the more than 50 circuit court judges having a verifiable history of anti-LGBTQ bias.
• Removed employment protections for GLBT people who work for government contractors
• Empowered the religious right, by creating anti-LGBTQ offices within federal agencies,  supports and enables and white supremacists, white nationalists, and other domestic terrorists. 

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Don’t stand over the collected bodies of my slain family and explain that I should like the murderer because before he slaughtered my family, he had never killed anyone.

Tiffany’s attempt to appear that she knows of her father’s love for “The Gays” because she has Gay friends immediately exposed that below the surface lurking canard that we should ignore someone’s mistreatment of Gay people, or Black people, or LatinX people, because “I have (pick the group) friends” when she blanketly dismissed her Gay friends’ fears of the future and the influence of her father’s actions on their lives by saying,

“I have friends of mine who reached out. They make up stories. ‘How could you support your father? We know you. We know your best friends are gay.’”

Apparently unlike her Gay friends who have had life experiences that she neither has had nor of which she may very well be unaware, she has lived a life where she is able to dismiss them as being simply made up stories.

White, straight privilege can dismiss a lot, and in this case the life experiences of her alleged Gay, perhaps after this former, friends.

I should add one more easily missed feature of this event.

Although the announcement on the website of a the event included the statement,

“President Donald J. Trump is the only President to openly support the LGBT community since his first day in office. President Trump stands in solidarity with LGBT citizens by supporting and enacting policies and initiatives that protect the wellbeing and prosperity of all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. TRUMP PRIDE is a diverse coalition dedicated to re-electing President Trump, the first President to begin his presidency in support of marriage equality. Through his bold plan to end the HIV epidemic to his global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in the 69 nations where it is illegal, President Trump has proven himself to be a strong advocate for the LGBT community both at home and abroad,”

there is no reference to the event being a GLBT one, and, replacing “GLBT Pride” with “Trump Pride”, makes it seem it was about people’s feelings toward Trump.

Also interesting is that for most of the time, including during his presidency, Tiffany has been almost as invisible and excluded from public events as Melania’s son, as Trump has referred to Baron, so part of what is supposed to attract the GLBT Community was dusting off a virtually unknown person to speak on something of which she has little experience or knowledge, so it can be said the GLBT Community is close to Trump’s heart.

Sadly, I know some members of the GLBT Community who not only buy Trump’s best friend claim, but also believe that the life experiences of other, not being part of their experiences, are something “They make up”.

At no point in her speech did she stop gushing about her father’s imagined love of Gay people, and address anything relevant to GLBT citizens of the U.S., such as our rights and equality.

I have enough faith in the GLBT Community, that I believe this one act play was seen as the patronizing sham it was.

We, as a people, should be insulted by this game.

I am not the best Catholic. I may have been born and raised Boston/Irish Catholic, and I may have gone to a seminary where I learned a lot more about the Church than a rank and file Catholic, I feel that, rather than me leaving the church, when I accepted my true self the church let me know that other than at the collection time, I was of no use to it.

But, regardless whether you are a practicing, a lapsed, a Fallen Away, an Ex, or an ex-communicant, you really can’t shake completely the way you were brought up, so, even in your most nonreligious moment, there is still that little voice that creeps in, magnified if you went to an elementary school taught by nuns.

As with any organization, there is a simple statement of beliefs that cuts through all the trappings and additions that were latched on to over the centuries, but are not integral to the belief system, and are rather optional. The frosting on the cake, no matter how aesthetically pleasing, is not the cake.

In the early days of the Catholic Church there was a lot of doctrinal discussion as to what being a follower of Christ was really all about and among these was some heavy theology mixed in with other things that were nice to hold to, but not necessary to be a believer. At a certain point, things had to be formalized, and what was needed was a doctrinal statement of correct belief or orthodoxy, simply stated, to separate the essential beliefs from things that popped up as various forms of devotional expression.

To this end bishops gathered in Nicaea in Turkey in 325 and established the Nicene Creed, often called the Apostles’ Creed which sums up the core beliefs of Catholicism. It is usually recited by a congregation at Mass just after the sermon, The Credo. For those who know the Mass only through symphonic works by famous composers, the Credo would be the longest song, “Credo in unum Deum”.

“I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic (universal) and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.”

Its less wordy form recited on one’s own as opposed to a formal recitation at Mass, might be less flowery, but it still lists the essential beliefs.

“I believe in God, the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and

born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.”

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That’s it.

Those are the essential beliefs to be Catholic. Rosary beads, circumcision, celibacy, Hand-Maid outfits, things like that, are merely optional ways to express religious devotion, but they are not essential nor are they universally required of a believer.

When judging someone’s Catholicism what is essential is that person’s adherence to the Creed and not to how they might express devotion as one person’s chosen devotional may not be that of others, but springs from the common essential beliefs.

An example would be the various religious orders where priests, brothers, and nuns liven under a prescribed set of rules to become more perfect people in the eyes of God. But, a person can pick and choose which order is the one that fits best. If you like to talk a lot, the Franciscans would be a better fit than the Trappists. Both still hold to the essential creed, but the expression of them is a matter of individual choice.

Another example would be Opus Dei that focuses on the lives of the ordinary Catholics who are neither priests nor monks.

Someone else may want to wear odd thigh mutilating garters or perform self-flagellation before going to bed, but neither is for everyone, nor is either essential.

Even within the Church there are differences of opinion when it comes to devotional practices as some seem a little extreme and, honestly, rather off-putting.

So when the senate Judiciary Committee was questioning Amy Barrett for a Supreme Court seat, the usually ant-Catholic senators from those states who have traditionally seen the Catholic Church as the Whore of Babylon showed their lack of knowledge as to what a Catholic is and based their assessment of her Catholicism on their misperceptions of what it actually is, and offered defenses of it as if the things for which she is known are universal beliefs within the Catholic Church while ignoring Joe Biden’s Catholicism that involves more core beliefs with few optional add-ons. They were not praising her Catholicism, they were accepting of her personal, and not universally held, beliefs as if certain choices made by her made her a good Catholic. 

I suppose whipping myself in the privacy of my room makes me more Catholic than if I were feeding the hungry?

Extremism is extremism in any religion.

And, not being content playing the victims who see any limits to imposing their religious beliefs on all of us through religious based laws and the uncontrolled exercise of “religious freedom”, these senators not only attempted to paint a picture of the Democrats on the Committee as being anti-Catholic in spite of our only Catholic president being a Democrat and the present Democrat running for president would be only the second Catholic to move into the White House, they completely ignored that if Judge Barrett gets on the Bench, seven of the nine Justices will be Catholic.

Barrett does not represent your average Catholic, and her beliefs are not necessarily those of the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church” in spite what the non-Catholic senators want to belief and hope to get us to as well.

Not all Southern Baptists pray by waving around snakes.

Whenever Donald Trump makes some policy pronouncement, or expresses his opinion on something that comes across as way out there, if it is receive quietly because it is more of a harmless discharge from a dyspeptic senior citizen with little effect on reality, Trump and his people brag about its brilliance and him for his. However, if the majority opinion is that he said something so outrageous, his people will immediately explain that the man who says what he thinks and means what he says respond with,

“He didn’t mean it.”

It started with his pussy comments on tape that were easily brushed of as simple “locker room talk and continued from there.

During his campaign Trump declared,

“I will tell you this: Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

The word about possible Russian election meddling wasn’t public knowledge yet, nor was the meddling a solidified theory. Month’s later, when this odd declaration was attached to the meddling during the Mueller Probe, Trump insisted that he made the statement

 ‘in jest and sarcastically, as was apparent to any objective observer.”

The Russians, apparently, were not objective observers and took this as an assignment, within five hours of the remark, a Russian intelligence service began targeting email accounts associated with Hillary Clinton.

And as the originator of what was supposed to be clearly a joke, for the next four years, Trump kept bringing up the emails.

His Press Secretary at the time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told Fox News that

 “clearly the president was making a joke during the 2016 campaign.”

When Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, responsible for any Clinton Email leaks and of whom Trump had proudly told his cheering audience, “I love WikiLeaks,” he denied any knowledge of either Assange or WikiLeaks saying,

 “I know nothing about WikiLeaks.”

He threw it right in there with David Duke, Proud Boys, Q-anon, and his son, Eric, things someone in his position just never had the opportunity to learn about.

He may have very well instigated a spate of police brutality when he told a gathering of police officers to stop being nice to people they arrest, which Miss Sarah the explained away,

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“I believe he was making a joke at the time.”

When the Democrats were not enthusiastic about one of his State of the Union Speeches, Sarah had to explain that when Trump asked,

“Can we call it treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much,”

he was “clearly joking” while most of us noticed that he had equated loving his speech and with loving this country.

Most recently Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, Eric’s wife, became an apologist.

At his recent “come for the meandering string of incomplete thoughts expressed in even more incomplete sentences; leave with the Virus” rally in Michigan held 10 days after a plot was foiled that would have included kidnapping the Michigan Governor, trying her in a kangaroo court in another state, and then executing her, the same having been discovered to have been planned for the Virginia governor, because she, and he, insisted that her state follow the federal guidelines promoted by Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force and his CDC, Trump threw raw meat to his supporters by demanding she loosen the state’s coronavirus-related restrictions. they responded with, “lock her up,” and he responded with, “Lock them all up.”

He has yet to address the kidnapping plot against a duly elected governor of one of the states of which he is president.

Lara Trump simply explained that in these frustrating times people are, well, frustrated, and his attack on Governor Whitmer had nothing to do with her attempted kidnapping, after all, since “it was the president’s Department of Justice that actually thwarted” the plot, we can all just move on. However, this was not just a threat against a sitting governor, it was also a threat to her family and other governmental officials with the self-appointed uber patriots wanting to inflate their egos with some flashy action, and would welcome his encouragement.

And they got it.

The governor was following the federal guidelines in order to save the lives of the people in her state.

Lara’s explanation was that Trump was just having a bit of fun.

“He wasn’t doing anything, I don’t think, to provoke people to threaten this woman at all. The president was at a rally. It’s a fun, light atmosphere. Of course, he wasn’t encouraging people to threaten this woman. That’s ridiculous.”

Rather than tell white supremacists to end their violence, the threat of it by their playing Junior G-Men and hoping to become paramilitary policing groups, and not to interfere at the polls, he told them to hang around and wait until they are called for, to stand ready.

No one has said he was joking yet.

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The 43rd anniversary of the moment when Anita Bryant was pied in the face by Gay rights activist Tom Higgins during her interview for her crusade against homosexuals was just a few days ago.

While most people knew her as an American singer who had four Top 40 hits in the late 50s and early 60s, the former Miss Oklahoma1958 who made it to Second Runner-Up in the 1959 Miss America Pageant, and then the face of the Florida Citrus Commission, smilingly reminding us that a day without orange juice was like a day without sunshine, for some, and a sizable some, there was the side, the nasty, demeaning side hidden behind the orange juice smile that the general population didn’t see because it didn’t touch them directly.

She was also an outspoken opponent of Gay rights running the Save Our Children” campaign to repeal the local ordinance in Dade County, Florida that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, using the false Christian belief that Homosexuals were after children for recruitment to some “lifestyle” they insist exists, and molestation as her weapon.

She said such things as,

  “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children”;

“If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters”

And,

“All America and all the world will hear what the people have said, and with God’s continued help we will prevail in our fight to repeal similar laws throughout the nation,”

all while referring to Gay people as “human garbage”.

Not content with her activities in Florida, which, although successful at the time, brought about a national boycott of Florida orange juice with Gay bars not serving any drinks with orange juice and the idea spreading to ally bars, politicians, and social justice advocates, an action that would bear results, she went national most notably with her anti-Homosexual campaign inspiring the Briggs Amendment in California which would have made pro-gay statements regarding homosexual people or homosexuality by any public school employee cause for dismissal in effect, besides preventing GLBT students access to, at times, lifesaving information while making verbal harassment and bullying on school campuses directed toward GLBT students unstoppable, Gay teachers could be purged throughout the state.

It failed. 

When I taught in Los Angeles I worked with and knew many fine teachers who would not have been there had Anita Bryant been successful, nor would I have even been hired as I would not be allowed to teach.

Times were changing, and Gay people, in becoming more open and visible, revealed that we were as normal as Straight people, and reality began to push aside religious based false fantasies.

Her activism began to be seen as the fanaticism it was, and there was fallout from it.

The Singer Corporation rescinded an offer to sponsor a possible weekly variety show, and the Florida Citrus Commission allowed her contract to lapse after her divorce, a divorce that killed off her Christian fundamentalist audience with invitations to appear at their events drying up which meant the loss of a major source of income.

Although divorce went against her firmly held religious beliefs, since it affected her directly, she eventually came to the belief that,

“The church needs to wake up and find some way to cope with divorce and women’s problems.”

A series of failed businesses in which she was involved with her second husband ended in bankruptcies, a series of unpaid employees and creditors, and unpaid state and federal taxes.

In explaining their divorce, Bryant’s first husband blamed the Gays by playing the victim, claiming those who reject being victimized by him and the Missus were in the wrong for not accepting it, saying,

“Blame gay people? I do. Their stated goal was to put her out of business and destroy her career. And that’s what they did. It’s unfair.”

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The woman who had worn her religion on her sleeve and worked to have her religion the basis of civil laws applicable to all citizens, when asked just a few years ago her views on Gays, she said, in my opinion patronizingly, dismissively, and hypocritically,

“I’m more inclined to say live and let live, just don’t flaunt it or try to legalize it”.

She had caused such damage to Gay people and threatened to do more.

So that is why the pie was thrown.

During Bryant’s fading years, I was living in Oklahoma when Brad Henry was elected governor. He was young, a Democrat, and a creature unique in that state at that time, a Liberal politician. I was on the Board of a political committee in the GLBT Community of Oklahoma City who backed him during his campaign as he spoke strongly for the rights of GLBT people. We helped on his campaign with time and money, and this resulted in our getting an invitation to his inaugural ball after his election.

Henry was popular and this led to having three settings at the ball. On one floor there was a child-oriented room with games, child friendly eats, and adult supervision. The governor had children. Another floor had the Blue Room for those who had donated money and/or given of their time up to a certain level. The third floor had the Gold Room for the high-end donors. Most such events would have just had the one Gold Room for the moneyed and influential, but, because of the guy he was, Brad Henry extended the invites beyond the “elites” while still keeping them feeling special.

 The Board I was on met the requirement for the Gold Room, and, as with other organizations being appropriately identified, our table had a sign sticking out of the centerpiece with our organization’s name on it. 

We had opted to abandon the totally irrelevant boy/girl seating pattern for the more relevant boy/boy/, girl/girl or whomever you came with pattern, and at dessert were chattering like children planning to do something naughty about going to the dance as the true couples we were, rather than dancing like Heterosexuals.

It may not seem so now, but this was in the Buckle of the Bible Belt that was Oklahoma in 2003, quite close to what 1958 had been in other states when it really had been 1958, at a state wide function of the state’s movers and shakers where there was a lot of press, and where such an action would not go unnoticed, perhaps the very opposite with unknown reactions, so this was one of those little moments that was actually a pretty big deal.

It was a time in that place when anything done by a GLBT person openly as themselves with no shame or fear was most likely the first time it was done out of the closet making it “A First”.

While we were whispering, the MC for the evening had introduced the local, well known dance band whose leader then introduced its guest performer for the first set as the woman who used to sing with them way back before she became famous, and the dancing began. We hadn’t heard the singer’s name over our and the tables’ around us talking.

We walked into the middle of the dance floor and added a little Gay club spirit to it, dancing men with men and women with women, cutting in and mixing up couples, ending up most of the time right below the singer and getting a lot of thumbs up from the other dancers who I thought were signaling that they supported what we were doing.

That would have been enough to show we were among allies.

However, as it turned out, it wasn’t just that we were unabashedly dancing as the Gay people who had earned our invite just as the other people on or near the dance floor that they thought was great, but more that we had been dancing right below Anita Bryant, herself, as she sang her set just above our heads.

Those of us dancing had no idea of this until the set ended and we were approached by a lot of happy people as we left the dance floor who could not believe we had not only taken the bold step of dancing as Gay couples so freely and proudly, but we had taken the further step of doing it blatantly under the gaze of Miss Anita.

It was a big thing, the memory of which makes me proud to have known, been with, befriended, and worked with the people who sat at the table and danced for the Community.

This was that moment in time.

Those at the table who took that step on to the dance floor that night, at least the ones I can remember after the intervening 17 years, were Edward Kromer and his spouse, Paul Bashline, Anthea Maton, a wonderful artist, Margaret Cox, a power house in the fight for women’s rights in general and Lesbians’ in particular, Tom Mac Donald who, perhaps just doing instead of considering possibilities, came up from the Blue Room to the Gold Room with his date because, well, there was live dance music, and me.

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Speaking about the upcoming election and the polls, when Trump announced,

“We’re going to have everything. We’re going to have sheriffs and law enforcement and we’re going to have, hopefully, U.S. attorneys, and we’re going to have everybody, and attorney generals, but it’s very hard,”

not only did militias go crazy that they could strut their stuff, and certain county sheriffs, like Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson get as excited as a middle school boy who suggests to the teacher that now is not the best time for him to go to the chalkboard because they could suit up, get all the gear on they can, and go to the polling places, where there has been no trouble in the past, for no real reason other than create the trouble in a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Oh, and for the pictures. It’s always good to have pictures with everyone looking so Rambo.

Not only did the president imply that there was no local law enforcement at the polls, or any worth being there, but he and the Bristol county sheriff implied quite strongly that up to this point the local law enforcement officers had somehow shown that they were not up to the task they had been performing competently for decades.

When some local state representatives proposed legislation to ban Trump’s Militias to cause trouble at the polls, and ensure that as it has been, only local law enforcement should do the job of keeping order at the polls, Hodgson not only showed how badly he wanted to become a real boy, but he also revealed his low opinion of local law enforcement saying that the bill is

 “one of the most outrageous bills I can remember. …Why would anyone want to prohibit law enforcement from protecting the rights of the citizens of Massachusetts?”

Obviously the sheriff of the county is so dismissive of local law enforcement, he not only does not acknowledge they exist or do their jobs, but represents the county sheriff and militias as its equal.

Neither is local law enforcement.

I have been voting for over half a century. I have voted in large cities, like Boston and Los Angeles, and real small rural towns with the back of my house abutting a corn field ,and in a number of states. I have served as a trained poll watcher at more than one election, and have seen, even now at my present polling place, that there has  always been at least one local police officer, present while all of us working the polls had the emergency phone number if there were any major problems in the voting process, behavior of the voters, or activities near the polls.

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A friend, as offended as I, took it upon herself to set the record straight and contacted her local law enforcement department asking

“In view of the much publicized call to citizens to protect the voting polls, provoking the real possibility of action by non-authorized persons appearing at polling sites for this purpose, what plans have you and your Department considered or have decided to implement on November 3rd (or before) if this situation arises, to keep voters safe and not intimidated?”

The reply:

“We will have a police officer present at every polling location in town for the duration that the polling location is in operation.  This plan may be amended should specific intelligence be developed that would require a higher level of protection at certain locations.  We have always worked closely with the Town Clerk to ensure that polling locations are safe and free from intimidation.” 

That is the way it has been done in any place I have voted in my half century of voting.

So all this drama about needing a paramilitary presence and a county sheriff presence at the polls is just that, drama.

Rather than allowing the local law enforcement officers to just do what has to be a real boring assignment, they want to dump a huge problem on them to handle, ignoring that when the party is over and they all go home, local law enforcement is left behind to clean up the mess.

They demand that they get to get dressed up in paramilitary drag, swagger around in public out doing each other in looking the meanest like there’s a tiara to be won, “playing guns”, as we called playing any type of pretend game with toy guns when I was a little kid, and then being able to brag within their bubble how great they had been when the general population is left wondering why they had even been there.

Yet while they will Back the Blue and have all manner of pro law enforcement paraphernalia on display, their very action, their very presence will show they really have no trust in the  competence and effectiveness of the local law enforcement who did not ask them to be there.

While saying they support and respect local law enforcement, their actions say otherwise.

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A short recounting of an innocent experience involving voting that shows how those who accept without thinking can panic others with a baseless claim.

At the top of the steps and to the left of the main entrance of the New Bedford city hall is a white curbside style mailbox into which, instead of mailing them, you can place payments for municipal bills if you are in a hurry or city hall is closed. Its identical twin stands at the opposite end of the block at the corner of two major one-way streets for those who can just drop and drive.

Because of its COVID era hours, City Hall closed at 1:00 p.m. on the day I intended to bring my mail in ballot directly into the office of the Election Commission, no fake drop off boxes or bundling scams on this one. I confess that I did not check the hours it would be open because it was a Tuesday, and I only learned of the shortened hours from a city hall custodian who passed me as I headed toward the steps, so by the time I got there a little after 1:00 p.m., it was too late to go inside.

I had to choose just turning to my right to put my ballot in the USPS curbside blue mailbox or walking up the steps to the white box.

Another man with his ballot envelope in hand approached and, as a lady who had just pulled into one of the fifteen minute free parking spots for City Hall business and was rolling down her window obviously to ask a question or say something, asked that since City Hall was closed, were we supposed to put our ballots in the white box or is it limited to only municipal business.

The custodian, being helpful, although he should have phrased it better, explained that anything in the box was taken inside, sorted, and delivered to the appropriate office while some things are put aside because However, there are some specific sildenafil canada pharmacy conditions that are firmly connected with growing exhaustion of the adrenal glands. It can be emotionally draining and tends to have weak erections due to which their sexual activity for more than 4 bulk tadalafil hours as it gives its possible effects for a longer period of time. You can enjoy enhanced levels of sex power, stamina and energy in men. free viagra pill Any other person cannot identify the product; hence it gives you more confidence to ordering the medicine from an e-pharmacy. tadalafil free shipping the city office it is meant for could be in another location to which it would be delivered, said simply,

“Yeah, they take everything inside, and City Hall stuff goes to an office and the ballots are just tossed aside.”

The man who had approached could not believe the city would so cavalierly toss out his ballot, his voice and all the other voices, and the lady, who was now halfway out of her SUV, was equally incensed.

It was voter suppression. voter fraud. Shame on the city. Typical.

It was raining. The area in front of City Hall, the street that passed it, and the area next to the public library across that street was empty except for the four of us, three and a half if you consider that the lady in the SUV never got more than half way out of it, so before the revelation about voter fraud could ripple through a crowd to be spread all over, the custodian was able to rephrase his answer realizing his own poor choice in the original quick explanation, and even laughed that he could have started a rumor that could have spread like COVID if there were more people around who heard it.

And to be honest, that was a strong possibility had the lady in the SUV angrily retreated back into it before she heard the clarification and driven off in her anger to spread, what was in reality, a false alarm.

In these times, don’t assume something you agree with or agrees with you is true.

This is a time for critical thinking.

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