words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Friday, November 21, 2003
We must help people see the truth to the gay marriage fight, that it's about civil rights, and nothing else. Interestingly, Newsday makes the perfect comparison, saying, "But there's another civil rights analogy that the court's 180-day deferral invokes, whether or not the justices realized or intended it. Look at a calendar, and count off 180 days from Nov. 18: the first same-sex marriage licenses in American history can be issued on May 17, 2004 - the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. That's quite an appropriate coincidence, isn't it?"
We all know that separate is not equal, that creating something like civil unions will never work. Our own American history proves that.
Slate gives a decent overview of why conservative religious people are opposed to gay marriage or homosexuality in general. I can only argue for Christianity, since that is what I know. The Old Testament often discusses a state of being cut off, of people not able to bear children, of the nation of Israel even, being cut off from its progeny, its reward or future. The state of being cut off was dirty, like eating pork, the Israelites cast out those who were cut off, as if they were a plague that might infect them. Homosexuals are part of that group of being cut off because we do not reproduce but simply die when our time ends. But there are many prophecies about the barren, about the time when those who could not bear, would be given a legacy anyway. Christ fulfilled those prophecies when he, cut off himself having never married, gave up his own life to create a way to reach God. All of us have access to God because of this sacrifice, whether we are gentile or jew, gay or straight, pregnant or barren. Many people miss this point because it somehow feels good to alienate small groups of people, as if it makes your prize that much better if it's not shared by all. The Jews wanted to originally deny Jesus from the Gentiles, which is why Paul had to argue so vehemently that the salvation was for everyone. the legacy of Jesus is for all of us.
Or we could just argue the declaration of independence which says that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If gay marriage does not exemplify liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I don't know what does.
12:01 PM
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