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Obama extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners of gays

This is amazing news!  I didn’t even see it coming.

I haven’t been posting very much lately because I have been busy getting the last bit of my book finished.  I have 1.5 chapters to do.  I hope to have the next chapter finished within two weeks.  I am having fun writing it.  Right now I am only teaching one course, so I have plenty of time to work on it.  I start teaching an intensive summer course the middle of May for 5 weeks and then again the middle of July.  But the manuscript is due at the end of June.

I find it disgusting that there were people who lined the Capital on the day that Health Care passed and yelled the N word at some Congressmen, yelled the word Faggot at Barney Frank and spit on a congressman as well.  Christine, at TalkWisdom put up a post yesterday titled Rep. McCotter: Obama’s "Hope and Change" Has Degenerated into "Tax and Hate."  I left this comment:

Kevin said…

Hi Christine,
What kind of hate is this guy talking about? Surely he must mean all the racist and homophobic statements yelled at the Democrats after the health care bill was passed (not to mention the spitting)? Or is he referring to at least ten members of congress who have received death threats?
Maybe he is referring to the fact that the de facto head of the new Republican Party (Rush Limbaugh) has called for wiping these people out? Jeez, talk about hate…
Also, where in the bill is the statement about adding a certain amount to student loans? I haven’t heard about this.

March 24, 2010 5:14:00 PM PDT

She didn’t like it and dedicated a whole post to my comment.  She thinks that the people who yelled n**ger and faggot and spit on Democratic congressmen were Democratic plants!  Ugh.

Anyway, I just saw a video clip of some of the threats that Rep. Stupak from Michigan is receiving after he voted Yes for Health Care Reform.  I’ve inserted it below.  Listen to it and see if you can imagine that these callers are ‘Democratic plants”:

Here is more evidence—unless of course you think all this was done by sneaky Democrats to embarrass the Tea Party people. 

Here is another incident that took place at a home targeted members of the TEA Party (that stands for Taxed Enough Already). 

If you can get onto Facebook you can see this video of the crap that when on at the TEA PARTY group in Washington on Sunday.

You can also read more about the violence directed at Democrats here. 

Also see here. 

Who ever thought that providing people with health care would cause people such grief???

The good thing about all of this is that these Tea Partiers can no longer say that this will be the end of the Democrats.  The polls are showing people are happy with it and happy about the work that President Obama did.  On the other hand, people are unhappy with the Republicans.  Who knows—maybe November will see a super majority of Democrats when these whiny Republicans are kicked out of office! 

And why do they name themselves this?  They don’t know their history.  The Tea Party was done because the colonists wanted representation because they were being taxed.  The Tea Party does have representation—the problem is that they lost the election to President Obama.  And if they are taxed enough already, shouldn’t they blame the last president and his 8 years of constant war for any tax increases they might have had?  I also find it humorous that they hold up Ronald Reagan as their guide.  They don’t seem to know that he appointed the first Czars AND instituted the largest tax increase since WWII.  I suppose not knowing history is a good thing for them.

I also don’t understand why they didn’t form when Bush and Reagan were in control? 

Jesus, will this never end?  There is news that California State Republican Senator Roy Ashburn was caught drunk driving.  However, that isn’t the interesting part of this.  He had an unnamed male in his car.  That isn’t all that interesting either.  The interesting part is that he had just left a gay nightclub.

He is also an ardent anti-gay state senator that has voted against ALL glbt legislation.  He has four kids and two grandkids.  It will be interesting to hear what this Republican hypocrite has to say about being in a car with a male that he probably picked up at the nightclub…

I was reading one of the conservative blogs and noticed a phrase that the blog owner had given by Marx:

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

I thought that this phrase sounded familiar (I haven’t read Marx directly before).  Sure enough, I found something very similar to this in the New Testament:

Acts 4:32-35: "4:32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.4:33 With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.4:34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold.4:35 They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need."

So does this make Jesus a Socialist or a Marxist?  Well, Marx said pretty-much the same as Jesus and the disciples—each person got what he/she needed.  And Socialism is the spreading of wealth (which these Tea-Partiers really hate!) and here you have people who did not own anything—they sold all and gave it away.  If this isn’t spreading the wealth, I don’t know what is.  So yes, Jesus and the Disciples were both Marxists and Socialists.

Most people know about the part that Exodus, run by the ex-gay Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas.  Some of their ‘henchmen’ were in Africa recently and not surprisingly, soon after they left there has been a wave an anti-gay violence spreading through Africa.  This company should be investigated by the government and if found guilty of spreading hate, they should be disbanded.  At least that is my opinion of it.  It is no different if a company sent people to Africa and spread an anti-Christian message, which led to Christian persecution. 

Anyway, I see the anti-gay violence has now spread to Kenya.  Back when I moved to Australia, the university found a hotel for me (they didn’t pay for it, they just sent me a name of one).  My first day there I met a woman from Kenya who was about to start her education at Macquarie as well.  She seemed very nice and when she didn’t have any Australian money, I lent her some.  When I found an apartment right across the street from the University, she asked if she could stay with me until she found a place.  Of course I said yes.  On about the 4th day she was reading the paper and there was some news about gay activism in Sydney.  She told me that she couldn’t believe it.  I asked her what exactly she couldn’t believe, and she said that gays and lesbians were actually trying to get their rights!  I told her that I was gay (and I talked about Doug quite a bit, but apparently she wasn’t listening) and that there were gay people in Kenya and she said no, there weren’t.  Needless to say she moved out pretty quickly and I never heard from her again. 

You would think that Africa has enough of its own problems.  But Exodus is pushing their ‘freedom from homosexuality’ onto Africa because the climate in the US is quickly moving to a point where picking on the glbt community is not right.  Maybe Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas should pack their bags and move to Africa.  Then again, being ex-gay (and Alan Chambers STILL admits to having gay feelings) would put them into a dangerous position.  And it is this position that they helped create. 

I see today that an American guy crashed his plane into the IRS building in Texas where over 200 people were working. 

The article in the S.F. Chronicle states that he:  “ranted about the tax agency, government bailouts and corporate America’s "thugs and plunderers."

"I have had all I can stand," he wrote, adding: "I choose not to keep looking over my shoulder at `big brother’ while he strips my carcass."

Hmm.  That sounds like Tea-Party language, if you ask me.  It will be interesting to see what groups he hung out with, both online and in person.  You have so many people whipped up into making statements that Obama is a Marxist, Communist, Socialist thug and some people actually believe it.  So instead of dealing with it rationally, he tried to murder 200 people.  He is a terrorist, pure and simple.