The daughter of conservative Republican Alan Keyes referred to herself Monday as a "liberal queer" and urged support for gay and lesbian young people who have been deserted by their families.
Nice, huh. A little poison in the blood of the red house. Politics are great as long as they don't involve family, well, besides declaring your family members' lifestyle as a sin and accepting their eternal damnation. If you decided your family member was damned, then, would that mean that the love for yourself and or the love of your god is stronger than the love for your family member?


A little closer to home.

I saw this dude on tv, he's, a little younger than me, tall, thin, well groomed and highly energetic. He's convinced that gays are living a sinful life and need to change their ways. He says they are sinners and has been displaying signs that have a picture of two guys kissing with the red circle and strike through it.

It's odd, I felt sympathy for him. Certainly no sympathy for his cause, but for him, for his humanity. It's clear that he thinks he is doing right by him and his God. He thinks he is helping people and contributing to the greater good. But, he's not. He is creating more division, calling people out for being different than him and judging them. I find that terrible. It's confusing. One one side, I want to console him and educate him, on the other side, I wish him harm. Clearly the correct choice is education and offering of goodwill, but it just so frustrating when people act like this.

Placerville has declared itself discrimination-free and a hate-free zone. It's kinda scary, we were thinking of moving there. I'm glad we didn't. I get pretty darn fired up about that kind of intolerance and ignorance. Jeez, I thought just the ignorant fuckers I grew up with were like this, sadly they are everywhere.