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Harold C. Jones
Top
of the morning to you, bottom of the evening and both sides of the afternoon.
Sure
and begorrah, Ireland turns out for the
same-sex marriage vote.
“Allowing
gay couples to wed would be a seismic change in a country where homosexuality
was illegal until 1993, and where abortion remains against the law except where
the mother's life is in danger. State broadcaster RTE said polling stations
were recording a higher turnout than usual for referendums, with voting levels
in cities such as Dublin, Limerick and Waterford predicted to top 60 percent.”
(yahoo.)
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Michael
Sam first openly gay football player in
the CFL.
“Michael
Sam has been out of professional football since the Dallas Cowboys released him
from their practice squad last October, but the defensive end’s Twitter handle
made plain his ambition: @MichaelSamNFL. But if Sam, pro football’s first
openly gay active player, lands back in the NFL, he will go through the CFL
first. He signed a two-year contract with the Montreal Alouettes on Friday
morning.”
No
financial details. Well, that sucks. (He didn’t mean that, ladies and
gentlemen. – ed.)
Holy
crap, I didn’t know the CFL was still around…and I’m an avid sports fan. If you
don’t believe me, just read the bio located somewhere below. (thestar.)
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Decision
on Gay Scout Masters Expected.
“Robert
Gates, the president of the Boy Scouts of America, tells NPR his organization
will have a decision on its ban on gay adults no later than October. His
comments come a day after he told the Boy Scouts that a ban on gay adults was ‘unsustainable.’”
(npr.)
Yeah,
it’s probably unsustainable. It’s as unsustainable as a ban on gay scouts. The
trouble is that all of those scout troops operate out of church basements.
There are gay scout leaders in the organization. There have been scandals
regarding pedophilia and child molestation. And the law on discrimination is
pretty clear.
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| Kay Tobin Luhusen |
This
writer would say the Scouts face some serious challenges on the issue. Then
there is the whole issue of scouting for girls, and gender and orientation for
young women.
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Kisses Make Big Statement at Eurovision
Awards.
Lithuania
‘played the gay rights card.’
“Monika
Linkyte and Vaidas Baumila took to the stage in Vienna on Thursday with their
bubblegum pop song "This Time", itself a bit "meh" but made
more memorable with some same-sex kisses thrown in. Lithuania has clearly
researched its market, cleverly opting to make a statement by having its
male-female backing dancers swap partners mid-way through the performance for
some gay and lesbian smooches.”
If
only Disney had thought of that first. But we will see this type of dance move
more in the future, methinks. (independent.)
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Jeweller Threatened for Opposing Gay
Marriage.
“You must
not only bake the cake, or arrange the flowers, or make the ring, you must hold
the correct opinion when you do it.”
“A
lesbian couple came into the jeweler’s shop looking for custom-made rings for
their wedding. No problem, he told them. Later the couple recommended him to
some friends, who dropped by — and noticed a sign on the wall that read, ‘The
sanctity of marriage is under attack. Let’s keep marriage between a man
and a woman.’ The lesbian couple then decided they wanted a refund on their
rings. The media picked up the story, and now the jeweler’s being threatened
for his thoughtcrime. Of such things are the mileposts on the road to perfect
tolerance made.”
“It seems
to be a Canadian right to post what you believe,” said the jeweler in his own
defense.
It’s an
interesting story. He provided the service. When the customer discovered what
their opinion was, they took offense.
Basically
a fart in a windstorm, but this is also a new age in terms of media and
dissemination.
Also,
don’t threaten people no matter what they say.
The argument, is all about the moral high ground, isn’t it? (hotair.)
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MOSCOW
– Gay Pride Organizers Ask for Ban to be
Lifted.
“Active
members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community have
appealed against the Moscow authorities' decision to ban them from staging a
procession and rallies in late May. The organizers have asked the court to rule
that the authorities' decision is illegal and to compel officials to allow the
rallies and procession to be held next Saturday, May 30. Moscow authorities
have been banning every LGBT-organized public event for ten years now.”
You
have to admit, it takes guts, bearing in mind the present political atmosphere
in fascist Russia. (russianbeyondtheheadlines.)
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Editorial.
In
Russia, or any country really, those bent on holding power at any price will
use every political tool at their disposal. It’s a common feature of the
despotic, whether it’s anti-socialism, fascism, imperialism, virtually all
theocracies. They take advantage of prejudice, bigotry and intolerance, to manipulate the body politic and get what they want, which is power. A man like Vladimir Putin must inevitably grow old. Having seized
power by means that don’t bear close examination, he must of course fear his
own overthrow, his own replacement, his own little drive down a country road
and the small-calibre bullet in the nape of the neck.
That
doesn’t make his position any less immoral. Change will come. It may not happen
for a while, but when it does come, it will be an absolute sea-change, and not
just for gays either.
All
of Russian society will be the better for Mister Putin’s passage from the
political scene.
Thanks for reading.
Harold.
