Fun Summer Crafts Project!!!

Hey folks,

So some of us folks who are in the Pagan community are involved in a discussion of Pagan Values, and I found the following wonderful image at a blog I go to pretty regularly...




So kids, for a fun and productive June arts and crafts project for your blogs and websites how about fomenting a social revolution? Here’s how!

1. Right click on the image above and choose “Save Image As” to save it to your Computer.

2. Upload it to your blog or website as a virtual protest sign!

3. If this cause moves you, and you’d like to take action, check out the Join The Impact blog and click on the link below!




Peace, and Humor and Civil Rights for All,

Geoffrey

DOMA Flip-Flop Campaign... !REPEAL DOMA NOW!

Their site is a little hard to read. (Gray font, on a black background... THIS is the best choice a homosexual (or a friend and ally of one) could come up with?!?)

So here is the link to print out your own flip-flop card, and here is one to print out a blank one to write a more personalized message on.


The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Gays in the military May 2009, isn't it about time we moved forward?

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You can find more information about Dan Choi here.

So many informed and expert sources have come out AGAINST "don't ask, don't tell" and also AGAINST the idea that Queers serving in the military will be a moral problem. And STILL the Fundementalist Right says that Gays are infiltrating the military, how gays are bad and equal rights for gays will weaken our country, our families, our culture. They said the same garbage about equal rights for women, they said the same thing about blacks when my father served during the Korean war...

Isn't it about time we, as a nation, moved past THEIR petty prejudices?

Ok folks, time to step up!

Ok, folks. Here's the deal get the code for this video from youtube, share it with as many as you can.

While your at it use the fabulous resource that is Contacting The Congress to contact your legislators and ask them to support the Hate Crimes legislation.

And drop President Obama a line on the issue while you are at it.

Activist alert, Info on the latest anti-marriage ad...

Hey folks,

Not a lot of time right now, but I wanted to drop in and say how thrilled I am at the goings on in Iowa and Vermont. I also wanted to share a couple of links to information about a new Ad campaign you may have already heard about.

A group cleverly mis-named the National Organization for Marriage, had spent $1.5 million dollars on an ad campaign spreading a lot of lies and misinformation about the issue of Gay marriage hiring actors to portray concerned citizens...

Information available from the HRC and from CBS news...

If you would like to support the cause of Gay Marriage, and of GLBT Civil rights in general, please feel free to check out these sites...

Freedom to Marry

Marriage Equality USA

Yes On Gay Marriage

And the many sites to the right in the Sidebar! --> --> -->

Finding our voices versus finding our wallets...

So as a socially conscious individual I have signed a few online petitions in my time. Thus I have ended up on more than a few e-mail mailing lists. A couple of e-mails I've received today have highlighted for me why I am wary of some of our larger GLBT Rights organizations...

One of the e-mails was from the Democratic Party, or some ally or instrument of the Obama administration. It was asking me to take the time to call my representatives in the U.S. Senate and House and tell them of my support for the current budget before Congress.

The other e-mail was from a major GLBT rights organization, cautioning me that Congress would soon be taking a break from its duties and while at home many Senators would be under pressure from anti-GLBT groups to not pass the Mathew Shephard Act ( See also here, and here)

Was the major GLBT rights organization trying to help me connect with my representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives or in the Congress?

No, they wanted me to give them money... without one mention to the idea that you as a person might have some way of speaking up for yourself, no give us money and you don't have to worry your little head about this...

Now I don't doubt that this organization does good work and does indeed work on behalf of GLBT peoples... but why not add some direct action information with the appeal for more money? Isn't it at least as important that GLBT and Allied peoples find our voices and reach out to our leaders on an individual basis as it is for us to support organizations working on our behalf?

Perhaps someone should write some of these larger organizations a memo?

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PS I found Contacting the Congress, with a few moments search. It is a privately created and maintained resource page...

A few thoughts on the struggle...

Sometimes, sometimes the simplest thing we can do in the cause of GLBT Civil Rights, is simply live our lives. Being the friendly co-worker, being the good neighbor, being the gals with the great son, or the guys with the great yard, or whatever we are... simply being it. Reaching out in the smallest simplest way... not as GLBT people, but as people.

People of faith, people of values and morals, people of conscience. Living and peaking to truth.

It still astounds me that in all the discussion about Prop. 8 and Amendment 2, and all of these similar legal speedbumps... the one thing that people in the media are consistently NOT focusing on...

The folks in favor of legally limiting or eliminating Gay marriage felt the need to out and out LIE to the public, to deceive them, about what Gay marriage would mean legally and in our schools and religious organizations. They Lied!

Isn't the "American Way" supposed to involve both Justice and Truth?!?

Truth, and Justice, and Honor and Integrity, these are among the ideas and ideals wrapped up in the issues of Gay marriage, and of GLBT Civil Rights. Walking this talk, keeping this simple truth in our hearts and minds as we go through our daily lives; THAT is how we will change the world for the better and how we will win this struggle!