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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:11 AM PDT
It's despicable how Jerry Brown changed the wording on Proposition 8.
The petition that 1.2 million California voters had signed, read: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Brown worded it thus: "Eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry."
I have no desire to eliminate a right, if it were a right rather than an invalid liberal edict a few months old. Gays have always had the right to private ceremonies, to pledge devotion, to write binding contracts. Fine. But the rest of us have always reserved our God-given right to decline equal recognition. Gay coupling is not equivalent to holy matrimony. You don't see a straight marriage partner who publicly advertises himself as a human toilet.
There is a reason we see so little description of gay sex. I would hate to write, and the News-Sentinel would hate to print, a full description of the open depravity that went on at San Francisco's "Up Your Alley" gay street faire, July 27. Most ominous is that San Francisco police stood by making no attempt to enforce the city's valid laws against indecent public acts. In a PC town, sex confers immunity. What went on at the street faire also happens in San Francisco's parks and squares. And it could happen in Lodi's parks.
The California Senate has before it a bill, SB 1437, that would make it mandatory for textbooks in California — math, science, history, English, reading, spelling — to teach the contribution of gays. Will your kids benefit from knowing perverted scientists? Do they need a paragraph on gays in their spelling book? Would it profit their lives to see a few article boxes revealing the unwholesome sexual habits of famous Americans?
Like Jerry Brown's wording, the Democratic push for sexual puff-pieces in school is a blatant attempt to overturn common decency so that what happens in San Francisco may become accepted in Lodi.
Peter Stearns
Lodi
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audi 5000 wrote on Aug 26, 2008 12:16 PM:
real facts wrote on Aug 25, 2008 11:05 AM:
real facts "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 24, 2008 8:10 PM:
real facts wrote on Aug 24, 2008 7:33 PM:
ultimately -------> God defines and decides, ......and he already has, by devoting ALOT of material to the definitive description thereof.
one things for sure, no matter how "brave" a person feels in the moment when they are "attempting" to alter/change that definition, NO ONE will succeed both in this lifetime or the next.
attempting to argue against God is the most futile of all endeavors "
edumacation wrote on Aug 23, 2008 9:27 PM:
Rhodie wrote on Aug 23, 2008 9:12 PM:
sam wrote on Aug 23, 2008 8:53 PM:
Tasted like Welches Grape Jelly to me.
If you find a wine you like, make note of the label, the varietal, and the year.
I ADORE Cambria Katherine's Vineyard Chardonnay. Then one year I could not even swallow it. Bad year.
This year again is a treasure. A treasure to you?? Who knows. A treasure to me?? Yes. "
Rhodie wrote on Aug 23, 2008 8:20 PM:
Rhodie wrote on Aug 23, 2008 8:18 PM:
Now if you want a good discussion on the flavor hints in honey, I'm your man. Previous job was at a bee shop selling honey to the locals. Loved my Poison Oak honey. Best on sandwiches. "
sam wrote on Aug 23, 2008 6:57 PM:
I love chardonnay, but with chocolate??? Zin. "
sam wrote on Aug 23, 2008 6:56 PM:
A great deep red local could have been a zin or a cab... or a syrah or barbera. We have fantastic local wines.
Wine is not judged by the price. It is all in the taste. My favorite wine might taste awful to you. That is the joy of wine.
FYI, I am a vegetarian. My favorite part of a lobster feed would be the wine, the salad, and oh yumm the dessert, preferably something with chocolate. "
Rhodie wrote on Aug 23, 2008 4:36 PM:
I had one wine at a Lobster feed I went to (ate the veggies and potatoes only since I can't stand Lobster) but everyone brought their own wine. There was a Chardanay (is that one red? It was a dark red wine) there that was the best i ever had, couldn't remember the name for the drive home but it left very little driness in my mouth afterwards.
Oh, and ports, I like my ports. "
edumacation wrote on Aug 23, 2008 8:59 AM:
Rhodie wrote on Aug 22, 2008 9:57 PM:
Do you sell your wine? Must if you put so much effort into it. My brother in-law wants to start his own winery in the Willamette valley, Oregon. Suppose to be some good wine country there. Lived there ten years and it wasn't until the last year that I visited any wineries.
I'd ask where to find your wine (if I'm right that you sell it and it's local) but I'd fear certain individuals may take their vendetta too far. "
sam wrote on Aug 22, 2008 8:34 PM:
Rhodie wrote on Aug 22, 2008 8:12 PM:
Never really got into wines. I know that is heresy in this area but oh well. I like some of the Jack Daniels punches and for some odd reason 5-Alive and Rum. I drink a glass about every 3-4 months.
Wife and i go to parties and I ask for a Rum and Coke, hold the Rum.
Oh, Mead. Daddy's got to have his honey wine. Haven't found any down here yet. Probably a good thing. I'm a hot sleeper and alcohal makes my temp skyrocket. It was fine up in Oregon when it was cold and with the high humidity you could never get warm. Maybe this winter. "
sam wrote on Aug 22, 2008 6:43 PM:
Oh it's that friday night zin. "
sam wrote on Aug 22, 2008 6:39 PM:
I believe we can "feel happiness." We may not be able to maintain that feeling forever, but we feel it.
If you were happy all the time, how would you ever know you were happy. You need to feel sorry or loss to appreciate happiness. "
sam wrote on Aug 22, 2008 6:35 PM:
Rhodie, look up SAM. Nevermind. My blog name came from my hero, Dr Suess, Theodor Seuss Geisel. As a child I fell in love with that sam i am... and those green eggs and ham...
Blog names are for fun. They represent us imaginary blog people. Peace out. "
Rhodie wrote on Aug 22, 2008 12:30 PM:
I kind of took that wrong thinking as a badge of honor. "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 22, 2008 11:39 AM:
Rhodie wrote on Aug 22, 2008 10:52 AM:
Rhodie wrote on Aug 22, 2008 10:50 AM:
From the site:
"The term Rhodie is used throughout the English speaking world. It tends to be used in Commonwealth countries as the equivalent of the American term "redneck". It is occasionally applied to a person with no Zimbabwean connections, carrying connotations of a conservative world view and boorish behaviour."
Okay, I have no problem being known as a redneck or conservative, but am I really boorish? What does boorish mean? Never mind, I'll go look it up. "
wtf wrote on Aug 21, 2008 9:28 AM:
wtf wrote on Aug 21, 2008 9:26 AM:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901574.html
Plus many, many more...I'm sure the Republican Chairman, Ken Mehlman, will be there.
http://blog.democrats.com/node/2700
Along with Mary Cheney, dead-eye Dick's daughter.
http://www.americablog.com/2006/05/religious-right-using-mary-cheneys.html "
wtf wrote on Aug 21, 2008 9:26 AM:
We begin the line-up of this bevy of questionable beauties with Ruby Ghouliani who will be giving the queen-note speech at the GOP (Gonads on Parade) CON-vention. Isn't she lovely?
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/election2008/ig/Election-Funny-Pictures/Trump-and-Giuliani-in-Drag.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_el_pr/gop_convention
(The **real** Republican Convention will be at the Target Center with Ron Paul and tickets are going fast!)
Back to the neocon love fest. There will be plenty of men's room stalls where men like Senator "Wide Stance" Larry Craig can find relief.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-lewis/gop-senator-larry-craigs_b_62084.html
And it's possible that Jeff Gannon, gay male escort with "special" night visits to the White House, might cover the event.
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004229.php
These Gannon visits might bring back fond memories of the time the call boy ring visited the White House after hours when Daddy Bush was the resident.
http://www.hereinreality.com/callboy.html
(cont.) "
Rhodie wrote on Aug 20, 2008 11:47 PM:
A chatroom abbreviation used mainly by imbeciles, usually in response to something mildly, often very mildly, amusing."
I have been wondering if teens, especially those who live through their texting, think that these text abreviations are actual words. IS it showing up in their essays and other writings for school yet. Is "Textonics" the new "Spanglish". (Is it just me or did that come off like a Sex in the City episode.) LOL "
Brian wrote on Aug 20, 2008 5:22 PM:
A chatroom abbreviation used mainly by imbeciles, usually in response to something mildly, often very mildly, amusing. People who use this type of shorthand should be avoided like the Spanish flu. "
Billy Rubin wrote on Aug 20, 2008 5:12 PM:
Yes, God-given, because God favors inequality, slavery, stonings, genocide, infanticide, etc.
Why, oh why are the most religious ones the craziest? "
educated reader wrote on Aug 20, 2008 4:59 PM:
I suppose using the term "old perv" is just a bad habit I've never discarded from my youth. More humourously meant than a judgement of motives. "
sam wrote on Aug 20, 2008 4:48 PM:
I do like that. "
Rhodie wrote on Aug 20, 2008 4:05 PM:
" Brian wrote: "wtf, I like to watch murder movies. Does this mean I am a murderer?"
I like sci-fi. Does that make me an alien? It might explain a lot. Got to run, Mulders at the door. "
wtf wrote on Aug 20, 2008 3:55 PM:
ROTFLMAO!!!
educated reader excellent comments at 9:16AM. "
wtf wrote on Aug 20, 2008 3:47 PM:
I don't know. Are you? ;) "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 12:58 PM:
However, everyone is free to voice their opinion about virtually anything they wish here. If someone believes that certain behaviors are perverted, then that is what they believe. My comments to you were simply to point out the contradictions that I gleaned from your comments. Again, if I am incorrect in my evaluation of this or anything else relating to your comments, I do apologize. "
educated reader wrote on Aug 20, 2008 12:40 PM:
As you state, "when it comes down to the nitty gritty of "sex" in general, who gets to decide what is "perverted" or deviant?" Mr. Stearns obviously feels HE gets to decide.
And my point with the old guy soliciting the services of prostitutes had more to do with the fact that he was not charged. I guess the police get to pick and choose which parties to an illegal transaction are the most at fault. "
Billy Rubin wrote on Aug 20, 2008 12:33 PM:
Well, I don't know that you are NOT a murderer, but perhaps watching others being "killed" on film satisfies your need to act upon your urges in the same way that surfing the web for photos of gay street fair action satisfies you?
I'm just supposin' "
Rhodie wrote on Aug 20, 2008 10:59 AM:
You have the God-given right to believe it is wrong. And you do have the God-given right to vote your faith against it. You do NOT have the God-given right to treat with disrespect, hostility or open violence, verbal or physical. God's highest law is to Love God, Love self and Love your Neighbor.
You have the social right to vote you faith. You have a social right to disagree with it. But no one has the social right to force their beliefs on another group.
Some groups think gambling is a sin, some think it is an addiction, some think it is fun. Is it our "God-Given right" to demand Banks not be allowed to loan them money?
You can hate the sin, in fact we as Christians are called to fight sin. But we are to LOVE everyone, even if YOU find them perverse you have to remember that our God still loves them. Speak your faith, your beliefs and your convictions, but understand no one is dragged against their will through the Pearly Gates. "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 9:48 AM:
I agree that the author of this letter offered his opinion to do nothing more than cause uproar. But when it comes down to the nitty gritty of "sex" in general, who gets to decide what is "perverted" or deviant? There is nothing presented in the other article that even suggests that anything other than "normal" sex was being negotiated between the parties. "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 9:30 AM:
educated reader wrote on Aug 20, 2008 9:16 AM:
Nice way to stir up hysteria about looming "mandatory" gay education. This is just another example of people who subscribe to wacko, irrelevant websites that cite half-truths and downright falsehoods and then jump on their computers to alert the community that the sky is falling, i.e., John Birchers.
As far as your obvious obsession with the details of perverted gay sex, why not also give us the details of perverted heterosexual sex? Or are you OK with that as long as it is between a "man" and a "woman." (Note the poor old guy who had to go to Craigslist to find a few women willing to service his "needs.")
And how is it that he didn't get arrested when it was obvious what had taken place? I guess it was the prostitutes' fault and the old man was a victim! "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 9:04 AM:
Mr. Stearns has also intended to pull this off with his letter-to-the editor, thereby leaving whatever valid points he otherwise could have made in the virtual recycle bin (trash).
In spite of this subject being hashed and re-hashed in recent weeks, it will only increase as the election gets closer to determine whether or not the California Constitution will be amended in such a way that may prohibit gays from continuing to marry one another. "
Brian wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:40 AM:
OF COURSE YOU CAN CONFIRM THIS!!!!!!! "
Brian wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:38 AM:
" I can't help but think that Peter protesteth a wee bit too much. He knows things about what the gays are doing that I never even gave a thought to.
Why is that?
How come he knows what they did at their parade and in the parks, etc.?
Was he there? "
wtf, I like to watch murder movies.
Does this mean I am a murderer? "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:34 AM:
wtf wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:32 AM:
I see. This must mean FAUX "news" covered this extensively. Given that Morlock, er, Murdoch, is a neo-con and that neo-cons are notorious for living in the closet, that would explain things. LOL! "
wtf wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:30 AM:
Then you have Great Blacks in history, Great Asians in history, Great Mexicans in history, etc.
How about Great ***People*** in history?
Let's focus on ***individual*** accomplishments and stop with the dividing people into sub-categories. Last I checked, we're ALL part of the human family. "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:28 AM:
wtf wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:25 AM:
Why is that?
How come he knows what they did at their parade and in the parks, etc.?
Was he there? "
lodisafeway wrote on Aug 20, 2008 8:24 AM:
Brian wrote on Aug 20, 2008 7:52 AM:
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