Don't Touch My Bible, Gay Boy!

“The Court’s obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate its own moral code.”
-- The Supreme Court, June 2003, in regards to Lawrence v. Texas


As usual with my writing, (as well as with my oil painting), I seem to ebb and flow in my enthusiasm. This makes me wonder how I could ever truly be a writer seeing as how the essays I do read about “how to write” always feature authors lamenting at how they must force themselves to sit in front of a computer, like a job, about eight hours a day and pound out something. I find that rather daunting myself. I could see myself writing a book in eight crazy, 18-hour days, then doing NOTHING for six months. That’s just the gal I am.

Well, my boy John Edwards, as of 4pm today, will be officially out of the race. SOB! My god, now we’re stuck with Kerry, who excites me about as much as my phone bill does. I will stand behind him, because of course, ABB! (Anybody But Bush!), but what a pathetic turn to politics. At least I could get behind Edwards with some genuine enthusiasm.

And, I’m stealing this off of Cheek’s website, but I found this great. Of course we’re all aware of the gay marriage controversy recently. I find myself totally mystified to the actions of others, even if supposedly, I am in the minority (though I seriously doubt this). Why not let people get married? How will it hurt a society? As Chris Rock joked, “Gay people can’t join the military or get married? Damn, who’s got it better than that?” But here’s the list that was linked off of Cheek’s site. It’s great.

I find myself not articulate enough to fight these “political” battles (which makes me nervous in wanting to write, period). It seems just human decency to let people love each other and not be bothered by others and their beliefs. I have always hated Europeans’ smugness on how liberal their societies are compared to ours. But in reality, they are right in they are way ahead of us in their acceptance of their fellow human beings. I remember a Dutch man I knew once saying to me, “We don’t care what anyone does as long as they’re not hurting anybody else.” At the time I thought it was kind of stupid. As an American, I like order and responsibility and a general lack of chaos. But now, nine years later, I am envious of such a general view. A view like that seems to extend to everything as well. That’s why you find Europeans more laid back about sexuality (nudity along with it), religion, etc. Some may argue that their benevolent attitudes are changing after their recent influx of refugees from not-so-Western-European countries, but I am optimistic those jerks are the minority.

Now let me quote The Economist, the magazine, though WAY TOO EXPENSIVE, is absolutely fantastic in its writing:

“So at last it’s official: George Bush is in favour of unequal rights, big-government intrusiveness and federal power rather than devolution to the states. That is the implication of his announcement this week that he will support efforts to pass a constitutional amendment in America banning gay marriage. Some have sought to explain this action away simply as cynical politics, an effort to motivate his core conservative supporters to turn out to vote for him in November or to put his likely “Massachusetts liberal” opponent, John Kerry, in an awkward spot. Yet to call for a constitutional amendment is such a difficult, drastic and draconian move that cynicism is too weak an explanation. No, it must be worse than that: Mr. Bush must actually believe in what he is doing.”

That man scares the shit out of me. It’s so awful to watch someone fuck up your country and then hope in vain your one vote will make a difference. Which reminds me, FUCKING NADER!!!!!!! I think that article (I don’t have the citation) was right when it pleaded with Nader NOT to run. That the Presidential race was quite a different breed last time, but this time, things are more desperate, more urgent. Nader will only be a “spoiler” (a term we hear a lot lately) and screw things up the way he did in Florida where his 97,000+ votes yanked the mere 1000 Gore would’ve needed to win. This time we MUST get rid of Bush and Nader and his “Corporations own America! (only I can save you with my revelations!)” speeches make me want to throw up my expensive $10 NYC lunch. I watched him that day on Tim Russert and felt a feeling of dread washed over me when he defiantly claimed he was running and that the rest of the world who was against this could piss off and die. “We need a third party, blah blah.” You know, it’s not that people DISagree with you Nader, it’s just that we can’t afford for you to be waving your self-righteous flag right now. You know that morning that Nader announced his run for the Presidency, the entire Bush administration were popping corks of champagne, throwing confetti, giving each other high-5’s, and screaming, “You’re fucked now, Kerry!”

We’re all fucked now.