A few years back a good friend of mine who also is a pastor lamented to me one day he wished the “gay community” would just not be so “in your face” about our issues. We had a pretty loud conversation, fight, and argument that ended with me stomping out of his office and back […]
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What shall we write about this week? It is not like there isn’t a whole mess of topics to pick from. There is the whole Karen Handel power grab under the guise of “family values”. There was some idiot from the political right caught on camera saying that Rachel Maddow was the best excuse he
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I was digging around for something to write about for this week’s blog, and came across the blog I wrote for the last election cycle. I am not sure if I am happy to have found it. We have indeed made history by electing the black person to the office of the President of the
Let me start by saying there is no one who is running for the Presidency of the United States on the Republican side of the aisle that is going to be helpful to the LGBTQIA community. In fact, the vast majority of them if they get their way are flat dangerous to our community. We
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Sunday is a day of mourning. It is not a day that is on the national calendar. In fact, with the exception of a small percentage of people in this country, this day of mourning will pass completely unnoticed. If these words I write look familiar, they are because nothing has changed since I last
Every year about this time I start having this debate in my head…do we really need “Gay Pride”? Do we really need to go all the trouble and expense of throwing what appears to be a weekend long party? Then something like this crosses my desk: A gay Tennessee couple was reportedly attacked — physically and verbally
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Leave it to the Atlanta Police Department to give me more grey hair, or something to write about or maybe just vent or maybe just bitch or make a call for action. Seems the Atlanta Police Department is in what is known in the world of sports as a prolonged slump. Generally, in major league
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Two weeks ago the blog was about an Elephant in the room or as one editor at GA Voice called it: “Did you see the elephant in the room during the raid on the Eagle?” In case the readers missed it, the point of the blog is that homophobia was at the heart of a
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There is an old story that has been around for a long time and told with many variations to the moral of the story and so today this story sums up the raid on the Eagle Bar, the Atlanta Police Department and some of our brothers and sisters in our community. One day three blind
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My attempt in Part 1 of this blog was to offer an alternative to the wanton violence both physically and mentally our society seems to glorify. I also wanted to put the previous two quotes in front of us so we might give them more than a passing thought: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only
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