Shame on you Sally
A friend of ours here at canvas is developing a blog site. It’s a great blog that uses wit, satire and humor to get the point across. The topics being blogged about range from climate change to being an open or closed society. The site is still in its beta stage and every so often we get a push of a blog that’s been written.
We received one yesterday comparing climate change to gays in the military - if we don’t see it, it’s not there. This blog also included a link to a you tube video from a Gay Bashing episode of State Legislator, Sally Kern of Oklahoma. In my head I know people like this clown exist, but I guess I just try to block them out. This person actually says to her audience that she would in in hot water for saying what she’s about to say, and then launches into her bashing. At one point she says “Gays are worse then terrorists.” If she actually believes this I feel sorry for her.
It boggles my mind that we live in a country that is supposedly so advanced, a world leader, yet we have Neanderthals like this shaping our government.
Tom Pellicane - Publisher, canvas Magazine
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Thanks for the comments Tom. Gay people seem to be one of the last acceptable “whipping boys and girls” in America as it is still acceptable to use us and our rights (no - not special interests) as pawns in State or Presidential Elections! Could you imagine if “Blacks or Jews” were referred to in such a political context?
Sadly, it is not just America where homophobia and prejudice against gays still exists. (I wholeheartedly admit the great positive changes that our country has undergone in the recent past with respect to civil rights.)
For more about this worldwide Anti Gay issue read the excellent article by Deb Price called “America Must Work to End Anti-Gay Abuses Worldwide” that I found on Alternet.com yesterday. The article lists sickening open abuses toward gays in different countries starting off with Kosovo:
“After Korab Zuka founded a gay-rights group in Kosovo in 2005, he received threatening phone calls and emails and had his car vandalized.
“We are going to make you hold your intestines,” Zuka, 22, recalls being warned. “We will (rape) your mother … and we are going to cut your head off.’”
The police were indifferent to his cries for protection.”
Luckily the article goes on to say:
“A new gay group, the Foreign Policy Project, is pushing the State Department to work harder to reduce anti-gay abuses abroad.
The project is getting help from the nation’s only openly gay ambassadors: James Hormel, ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2000, and Michael Guest, ambassador to Romania from 2001 to 2003.
“We need to challenge these abuses wherever they occur,” Guest says. “Our embassies must become advocates for change.”
And I can only conclude that here at home each and everyone of us should be “an embassy for change.”
The saddest part about having people like this in our government is our officials are elected by the people. Can you imagine, even for a moment, she represents the majority of voters in her district? And this is a platform that she is sure, if she climbs on, it will net her more votes than it loses.
If people are deaf or indifferent to hate speech, and refuse to protest with their votes, We The People will continue to lose ground in civil rights in our society, and our Constitution whose basis and intent is equality for all of the people of this land, will soon be deemed a best wish and voluntary guidelines instead of the binding law of the land.
Its astonishing that she represents her constituency. But I guess that’s why I don’t have any desire to live in her district. I hope as we progress the voices of, what I believe are the masses, speak louder against this type of hatred.
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