The Furious Spinner

As I was falling to sleep last night, I heard (in my head) turning right is wrong. I wondered if this was advice on some future event or just an obvious statement of our times. In any case, speaking of turning right is wrong, have you heard that PBS dropped an episode of "Postcards From Buster" because a lesbian couple is represented. (Let me just say right here I apologize for the advertisement. I tried to find a better link.) They announced they were dropping this episode the same day the brand new Education Secretary Margaret Spellings sent them a letter saying the episode didn't conform to what Congress intended with its funding of such shows. PBS swears her objections didn't have anything to do with it. Oh. So they are just bigoted jerks on their own? I was appalled. If I was giving money to PBS (besides my tax dollars), I would certainly STOP giving them anything right now.

I heard the PBS guy on the radio explaining their decision. He said some parents might object to exposing their children to “that” kind of lifestyle. He said this in the same breath that he was applauding PBS for doing shows where they show Muslim families, etc. The reporter said, well, I'm sure some families were offended by that. What's the difference. He didn't have a good answer. I heard, "Blah, blah, blah. We hate homosexuals." Really, come on. That's it. This administration hates gays, and they're allowing other people to give voice to their hatred. They want gays, at best, back in the closet. We can’t tolerate that. We don’t want nobody back in no closet...except maybe these rapture people. Hey, psst, rapture whackos, I heard Armageddon is going on in the closet. The lord is waiting on ya. Tick, tock. Why don’t you check it out and shut the fuck up. No, no, really, they can talk, they can believe what they want; just leave the rest of us alone.

Here's a piece on what's going on at Gitmo. I've been saying for months now that what is happening at Gitmo and what happened (is happening) at Abu Ghraib should be on the front page of newspapers every day. In our names, innocent people have been detained for years now. In our names, people are being tortured. In our names, people are being slaughtered. The world should be outraged. I agree with the writers that what is happening here could signal the end of our democracy. What kind of democracy would do these things to human beings? What kind of people would allow it? It's not any kind of democracy I want to be a part of.

Here is an interesting piece by a real Christian. What is a real Christian? To me, a true real authentic Christian is someone who adheres to the teachings of Christ, i.e., love, love, love, brothers and sisters. Jesus Christ wouldn't have cared if someone was gay, had an abortion, swore, drank, danced in the street. Hell, he may have been gay, got someone pregnant, swore, drank, danced in the street. If he even existed...but that's another discussion. So a real Christian, in my mind, is someone who is into love, baby, love. These rapture whack jobs ain't reading the new testament. They're reading the old testament. That ain't Christianity. I don't know what it is. It's like reading Grimm's Fairy Tales and deciding to base your life on the literal truth of those tales. Hey, now that's an idea. No, never mind, women don't fare that well there either. But I digress. This writer talks about guilt and the Iraq war. Her website is Jesus On The Family.

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