Social Justice Magazine
There they were - all over TV - two men sitting, looking at each other. One sternly intense. The other looking defensive, almost scrunched into his chair.The stern one is a big guy, bulky and retro. Bear-like. He could crush any opponent easily. The other guy is slender and tall. Lean and agile. Tiger-like. Someone who could move quickly, be one step ahead and then strike effortlessly.If … [Read more...]
What do former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly resigned International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have in common?They’re all powerful, older men, who have access to money and who can’t keep their pants zipped. They each have hidden acts of abuse for years and have used their wealth and power for protection from … [Read more...]
Maria Shriver says, "Hasta La Vista, Baby!"In 2010, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was in his last months as Governor of California, 70% of the public disapproved of his job performance. This was a lower polling number than his predecessor, Democratic Governor Gray Davis. If history was to repeat itself, the California electorate, if poked, would rise up and throw Schwarzenegger out of … [Read more...]
As congratulations poured into Washington thanking President Obama and our nation’s military for killing Osama Bin Laden, I tuned in FOX News to see what Glenn Beck might be saying. Beck was on and began talking about the celebrations across our nation saying they were a “silly spectacle” and reminded him of the way Palestinians gave out candy after Osama’s attack on 9/11Beck should … [Read more...]
Conservative evangelicals are setting the Republican Party agenda. As evidence, who hasn’t been wide-eyed at Donald Trump’s poll-vaulting to first place in Republican presidential preferences. Say the birthers: the Trump brand must be burned on the rump of the Presidency. Trump’s rise in the polls has been in direct ratio to his statements doubting that President Obama was born in America. … [Read more...]
The Clown will be leaving the building! The one thing that really talks at FOX News is money! You can forget all about high-sounding principles, conservative causes and saving America, bottom line at FOX, if you can’t make money, you’re out!And so it was on April 6: Roger Ailes of FOX News and Glen Beck, it’s in-house clown-prophet, parted ways.April Fools Day? No. Go ahead, exhale. … [Read more...]
The Armenian Apostolic Church found itself coupled with gays and lesbians on the pages of the April 2, 2011, LAEXTRA section of the Los Angeles Times. While it wasn’t, necessarily, a match made in heaven, and certainly not Church sanctioned, the juxtaposition of the two articles was logical.The logic? Both minorities are fighting to have their histories chronicled and recognized.“For … [Read more...]
Republican John Boehner, Speaker of the House, will defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. Boehner says he needs to take time out from creating jobs to defend marriage because President Obama and the Department of Justice just won’t do it. But don’t cry, Mr. Speaker, you did create at least one job for one lawyer.Cost? According to the Washington Blade, a leading gay and … [Read more...]
On March 4, 2011, The Rev. H.B. London Jr. will be the featured speaker for the “Mayor’s Breakfast” in the Southern California City of Arcadia, an upscale community of about 60,000 straddling the 210 Freeway, just east and slightly north of downtown Los Angeles. While the breakfast is a City taxpayer-funded event, Mayor Peter Admundson obviously feels that it’s “his,” when he … [Read more...]
Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) says, “I maintain that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens makes communities safer, not less safe.” Yeah, right, Rep. Pence. Have you tried telling that to your Democratic colleague Gabrielle Giffords?And, after the carnage in Arizona, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), said, “...I will be introducing legislation that would make it illegal to knowingly … [Read more...]
The riots in Egypt obscured the chaos which erupted in Uganda at the January 28 funeral of murdered gay activist David Kato. Kato, 46, a prominent LGBT rights advocate in the east African nation, was beaten to death with a hammer on January 26. Last October, his name and photo were printed under a banner headline of the Ugandan tabloid “Rolling Stone” calling for gays to be executed. (Not … [Read more...]
Another day, another shooting.In the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, with the sole exception of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was killed and son injured in a 1993 shooting, only one gun control bill has been introduced. Hers! 534 Democratic and Republicant members, where are you? To honor Rep. Giffords, I suggest that a minimum of 32 bills be introduced. One for each of the … [Read more...]
I was very moved by Paul Egertson’s obituary which appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 10. Mr. Egertson, born in Litchville, North Dakota, was 75 years-old when he passed away January 7. I never met Mr. Egertson. I should really say Reverend Egertson, because I learned from the obituary that he was a former pastor (21 years) and Bishop (6 years) in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in … [Read more...]
Same-sex marriage and organized religion: A match made in heaven!The Los Angeles Times has been chronicling Judge Vaughn Walker’s quizzing of attorneys in the Perry vs Schwarzenegger Prop 8 same-sex marriage case. Openly gay Judge Walker, it seems, wants to study all there is to know about everything gay. And, according to Keen News Service, a gay Associated Press, the good judge has … [Read more...]
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LGBT Issues for Breakfast
_On Wednesday, April 20, some readers of the Los Angeles Times may have choked on their oatmeal after perusing the pages of the nation’s fourth largest newspaper.Front page headlines trumpeted: “Inmate sues state for sex change,” “Gay marriage foes decry judge’s use of video clip” and “Porn firms faulted for not aiding HIV probe.” Slightly quieter inside headlines … [Read more...]