SJR-7 Passes Indiana Senate
The controversial, discriminatory Senate Joint Resolution 7 – to amend the Indiana Constitution to bar equal marriage rights – had a second reading in the Senate today, and was passed by the Senate, much to the State’s disgrace.
Apparently an amendment to remove the highly ambigous second paragraph of the bill was voted down, even though a similar paragraph in Michigan’s law recently caused domestic partner benefits to be struck down in that state.
The bill will now go to a House committee to be heard.
You can contact your legislators to tell them not to pass this law. Visit Stoptheamendment.org and enter your zip code. Their handy form will allow you to send a message quickly and easily.
The “Hoo Haa” Monologues
Irony, the phone is for you. A Florida theater was forced to change the name on their marquee after morons complained about the word “vagina” appearing in the title of the play “The Vagina Monologues” – which is, of course, a play about making women more comfortable talking about their bodies.
Personally, I wouldn’t have chosen hoohaa as the replacement — it should, of course, in the spirit of the play, be “Cunt.”
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — A modified marquee in Atlantic Beach has been drawing some attention. “Hoohaa” replaced a word in the title of a play after a driver complained about finding the previous wording offensive.
“We got a complaint about this play The Vagina Monologues,” said Bryce Pfanenstiel, of the Atlantic Theater. The Hoohah Monologues is a replacement title for The Vagina Monologues — a well-known play about that part of the female body. “We decided we would just use child slang for it. That’s how we decided on Hoohah Monologues,” Pfanenstiel said. They did this after a driver who saw it complained to the theater, saying she was upset that her niece saw it.
“I’m on the phone and asked ‘What did you tell her?’ She’s like, ‘I’m offended I had to answer the question,'” Pfanenstiel said.
Melissa gets to keep her job
I mentioned yesterday that there was some question about whether blogger Melissa McEwan, aka Shakespeare’s Sister at the site of the same name, would get to keep her job with the John Edwards campaign after complaints from the nutty rightwing blowhards over things she’s said in the past on her personal blog.
Turns out that she does get to keep her job.
That part is really cool. I wasn’t thrilled with the wishy-washy support that Edwards gave her, though.
I can’t believe that people who are certifiably crazy get to shake the trees and get a response like this from Edwards.
I Am The Very Model Of An Ex-Gay Individual
as Justin points out on his site, “Ex-gay” people admit they have what they call ongoing “same gender attraction” (called SGA in the song) but claim they’re not actually gay. (Never mind that the definition of gay is “being attracted to some one of your own sex.)
I.
I am the very model of an ex-gay individual
I’ve no more gay attractions (okay, maybe a residual)
I go to ex-gay conferences, where folks hold me accountable
They say with Jesus, SGA is never insurmountable
I think of God, not Gaynor, when I hear someone say Gloria
I always stay a block away from local gay emporia
I’ve read 8 books on how to please my wife while I’m caressing her
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
[Chorus:
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessing-Schlessinger!]
links for 2007-02-08
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William L. Murphy, who was born in Columbia, California, near Stockton on January 1, 1876, moved to San Francisco at the turn of the century where he met his future wife. He lived in a one-room apartment that had a standard bed taking up most of the floor
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“Fast, Cheap & Out of Control” may be Errol Morris’ most unusual work yet. Morris himself calls it “the ultimate low-concept movie–a film that utterly resists the possibility of a one-line summary”
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A site that works like YouTube, only for Free Flash Games. Awesome. Set the mark for when this site will be blocked at work.
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Wow, Melissa hits the New York Times. Proud to say I know that vulgar, inflammatory female just a little bit.
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“Everyone “feels” nervous on occasion. For example, watching the SuperBowl with friends and loved ones during those cheesy prime time commercial breaks, your first manly-man kiss, or even bearing your chest in public can often cause that “butterflies-in-y
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Thanks, Snickers! Now I’m Snickerphobic!
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Mid-century modern paint colors, from a scanned image of a paint palette from the 1950s.
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Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year.
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“With minor exceptions, the ads this year were disappointingly small and instantly forgettable.”
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Sad that with all the attention being lavished on Tony Dungy of Indianapolis and Lovie Smith of Chicago as the first black head coaches in Super Bowl history, the broadcast of Super Bowl XLI ended up being so homophobic.
Catholic League Bill Donohue Quotes
According to transcripts of his speech at Justice Sunday:
The most insane idea I’ve heard in my whole life, of two men getting married, I mean – that’s something that you expect in the asylum, quite frankly.
Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It’s not a secret, OK? And I’m not afraid to say it. That’s why they hate this movie. It’s about Jesus Christ, and it’s about truth. It’s about the messiah. Hollywood likes anal sex.
Name for me a book publishing company in this country, particularly in New York, which would allow you to publish a book which would tell the truth about the gay death style.
Read more about what this crazy nutjob has to say.
Fuck you, Bill.
Mean Things I’ve Said about the Catholic Church
I’m apparently not nearly as inflammatory as I thought, or perhaps I’m just remembering stuff I’ve said out loud, and not things I’ve blogged. Here’s the scrawny, short list of times I’ve blogged about the Church I grew up in – Catholicism. The top one is probably the longest thing I’ve written.
Which really just proves my point – that I’ve got nothing on Melissa McEwan when it comes to fully expressing what I think online; she writes well-thought-out, reasoned analysis, whereas I occasionally blurt out some half-formed notion. I have a lot of learning to do when it comes to self-expression.
- Nov 17, 2006 – The Catholic Church Has a New Policy on Gay People
- Aug 29, 2005 – Catholic Church moves to ban gay priests
- May 25, 2005 – Catholics refuse communion to people who support gays
- Mar 28, 2005 – Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays
- Apr 1, 2005 – The Pope
“I pray that God bless and care for the Pope and ease his suffering, and forgive him for persecuting gay people.” - Dec 30, 2003 – Pope speaks out against equal marriage rights for gay people
- Aug 4, 2003 – The Magdalene Sisters Documentary
- Jan 27, 2003 – The Magdalene Laundries and the Catholic Church
- Jan 9, 2003 – Catholic Priests Abused Women, Too
Melissa McEwan is a Goddess
One of my favorite writers is Melissa McEwan, who hosts a group blog called Shakesville – which I link to all the time here, so you should be at least familiar with it if you follow along with what I write at all.
Melissa is one of the most eloquent, intelligent writers I’ve ever run across. She seems to have some of the same ideas I do, but where mine are half-formed notions that cross my mind, she examines them in detail and depth that would never have occurred to me. She is, in a word, brilliant. I’ve thought for ages that she should be writing on a national level – for a major paper or magazine, so when I heard she was hired by the John Edwards campaign I was ecstatic – finally, she’d get her due. I hope every one there realizes how extraordinary she is — please.
However, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue and some other right-wing attack groups like Michelle Malkin have started publicly criticizing the Edwards campaign for hiring Melissa, based on feminist posts she’s made in the past on her blog, criticizing the Catholic church for being the homophobic, misogynist bastards that they are.
The story has shown up in major papers like Salon and now the New York Times, and there are rumors that the Edwards campaign is considering firing Melissa.
I hope to goodness they don’t succumb to pressure and do that, because that would be the indication to me that Edwards doesn’t have the stones to be my president in 2008.
I’m going to make a list of all the angry things I’ve ever written about the Catholic Church on this blog — and you know I grew-up Catholic, so there are dozens of inflammatory things I’ve written — and post them all in one place, so if there’s ever any question, they’ll know right where to look.
links for 2007-02-07
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“The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities.” – um, unreasonable search and seizure, anyone? You don’t know what they’re doing with your DNA, especially if you’ve
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13 alternatives to using the Helvetica font.
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Abelardo Morell travels the world and converts full-size rooms (some spare, some ornately rococo) into immense camera obscura devices. He brings the outside in through a tiny pin-hole, and by the alchemy of optics, the outside is projected quite naturally
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Fun search engine – starring the L-Word’s Papi, too.
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How Congress can safeguard science from distortion, something of which both parties are historically guilty.
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American consumers are discovering a disabled button on their Prius that allows them to cruise for short distances on all electricity (it works in the rest of the world) – and they’re re-enabling the button.
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Judy Shepard: “I am outraged that Mars, the NFL and these players would promote such an anti-gay message. This campaign encourages the same type of hate that led to the death of my son Matthew.”
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Good question. Nwsweek routinely censors it’s cover images for Americans, now they’re censoring articles, too.
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Indiana’s official look-up to determine who your legislators are.
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