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Jan 30 2010
Friday Philosophy: Animus
I’ve been watching the Prop 8 trial…except not really, since SCOTUS disallowed us folks who couldn’t be in the courtroom to watch what may be the most important court case ever for GLBT people. So I watched the transcripts instead, as they were posted by the people at the Courage Campaign Institute and FiredogLake.
One of the assertions made time and again by the defense was that Proposition 8 was not based in animus.
What? No strong dislike of GLBT people? No enmity? Are we seriously expected to believe that there was no hostile attitude?
I’d like to think that one could discount those assertions as being false on there face. But this was a court of law. I am no lawyer, but as a writer and a mathematician, I know words and logic.
Having followed the trial closely, I have to ask the following.
When you deliberately choose not to learn about people who you wish to discriminate against, what is that if not animus?
Jan 29 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 28 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 27 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 26 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 25 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 23 2010
Friday Philosophy: The Unbearable Sorrow that is Mr. Tam
Mr. Tam admits he, at the very least, helped author the fourteen words central to Proposition 8.
| Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. |
Brian Leubitz wrote a piece at Prop 8 Trial Tracker, entitled William Tam: He’s like that Cute Ignorant Uncle that everybody cringes at.
No. I disagree. There is nothing cute about Hak-Shing “William” Tam.
I expected at any moment for him to just stand up and say “just kidding! Got you big-time, you don’t think I actually believe that garbage, do you? Ha-ha!”
Methinks that let’s Mr. Tam off the hook too easily.
Jan 22 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 21 2010
Muse in the Morning
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Jan 20 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 19 2010
Muse in the Morning
Jan 18 2010
The Mountaintop, revisited again
I am an activist for my people. As I have grown older, I have more likely performed my activism with my words, which is the tool I have had at hand.
Sometimes I am repetitive. I am a teacher. Some lessons are hard. That’s a clue to the fact that they are important. Important lessons need to be taught more than once, again and again, time and again, using different words, approaching the issue from different points of view. That’s what I do. Some of you claim that I do it “ad nauseam.” It’s your nausea, not mine.
Many of you know me as the transsexual woman (or whatever you call me…I’m sure that it is not favorable in many instances). Some of you know me as an artist or a poet. Some of you see the teacher in me. Or the glbt activist and PFLAG parent. I am all of these. I am a human being.
I was born in a place and time. I have absorbed the life lessons presented to me since then. I am still learning.
I’ve tried to pass on what I have learned. I continue to make that effort, in whatever new venues are available, wherever I can find an opened eye or ear.