Whether they’re fussing about Jim Webb’s (D) books in Virginia - playing the race card (as in black versus white) in Tennessee ("Blond Bimbo Commercial") in the Corker(R) versus Ford (D) Senate race - or shrieking “fowl” as in the New Jersey State Supreme Court Decision to tell the state legislature there that it must grant gay and lesbian couples the right to marriage - it’s non stop smear based on sex and race. In Tennessee, Ford stands accused of taking money from porno interests. In Virginia, Webb is accused of male chauvinism because of passages that describe abusive sex that are used to illustrate his concerns as an author. In New Jersey, it’s play the “prejudice against gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered people (GLBT) card in order to distract the nation from currently more important issues such as Iraq, national debt and profligate Federal spending, corruption at the centers of power, separation of church and state, balance of power between President, Congress, and Senate, election procedures and voting machines, the failing real estate market, illegal alien immigration, illegal imprisonment, torture, and international terrorism that threaten to undo the nation. This is possibly the most important election in the nation’s history, and it may, once again, be counted inaccurately, even though the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections flashed red flags on that issue. And, the Republican Party continues to scream “SEX! SEX! SEX!”

I’m a Democrat, and I will vote straight Democrat, not because I’m Democrat. As I’ve stated before (October 22, 2006), I’m disappointed in the Democratic Party because it will not take a stand on any of the issues including prejudice against GLBT people. Instead, I’m voting straight Democrat because I want to get rid of this Republican Coalition of evangelical preachers, congregations, and crooked politicians hell bent on power, this Republican Party that continues to scream, “SEX! SEX! SEX!”

Anyone with a shred of concern for his or her freedom, and this democratic republic must, at this point in time, vote, and vote Democrat.

I cruised the web this morning to check the news. While the BBC had 7 articles about the failing war and civil unrest in Iraq, CNN had 1, and FOX - 3. It would appear that either we are loosing interest in the Iraq war and civil war, or are so embarrassed by it that we do not want to discuss it. Amazingly, Mr. Bush is finally admitting that things aren’t quite right in Iraq, and his government is reorganizing it’s approach there though nothing seems to have changed in actual practice. Really, it’s time to leave. Even Iraqi’s are saying they don’t want us there.* Nothing can save a situation created by the faulty policy of “THE PREEMPTIVE STRIKE.” The very fact of that invasion has already destabalized the Middle East. As I have said over and over again since March of 2003 - this war was faulty and immoral from its inception.


So, his advisors are telling him to change his focus.

Instead of the Iraq war, Mr. Bush’s advisors want him to focus on the economy in an attempt to save the mid-term elections for Republican members of the Senate and Congress. While I hope that no strategy can do so, I don’t put anything past possibility because of our gullible electorate, and Democrats would do well not to expect too much of our people. Remember there’s also that well organized evangelical Christian minority that wants to retain control of the country. While the economy does seem to be doing fine - I caution that one month ago, gas here in Palm Beach County was at $3.00 plus per gallon, and will likely begin a steady climb after the elections are over, the Real Estate market has come to a stand still though few seem willing to admit it, our national debt knows no ceiling, and mortgages have placed a huge portion of our domestic debt in the hands of communist China - not a rosy picture.

I would like to see a Congress and Senate dominated by Democrats not because I am a Democrat. That party has repeatedly dropped the ball on all fronts, and specifically refuses to take a stand concerning the immorality of Republican evangelical Christian prejudices against LGBT people. Rather, I would like to see a Democratic Congress and Senate in order to restore a semblance of the checks and balances put in place by our nations founding fathers. My concerns go deep. Let me count them. First, Mr. Bush and his rascally cohorts have put in place a conservative Supreme Court that will perpetuate all inequities in our system for twenty to thirty years. Second, they have altered the tax system so as to place more money in the hands of the rich and less in the hands of the people. Third, they have allowed the pharmaceuticals to dominate health policy to the detriment of all but the wealthy. Fourth, they have placed control of our economy in the hands of the oil barons by undermining the development of alternative energy sources, and the Clean Air and Water Acts. Fifth, they have fostered a Federally dominated test based educational system to the detriment of achieving actual intellectual success for our children, thus placing the possible development of future innovative technology outside our borders. Sixth, they have fought a war for oil that has destabilized the Middle East and brought the world to the brink of disaster – need I say “WW III.” Seventh, they have purposefully aided and abetted the control of our political processes by a specific brand of Christian church, anathema to the very nature of democracy and to our founding fathers, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, et al. I have more concerns, but unlucky seven seems a good place to stop.

Let’s all, Democrat and Republican alike, work to put a check on this group of scoundrels by changing the balance of power in Congress and Senate from Republican to Democratic.


* “Poll: Majority of Iraqi Youths Want U.S. to Withdraw, FOXNews.com, http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,223381,00.html, Associated Press. Viewed Monday, October 23, 2006 at 9:03: AM EDT.

“Iraq Body Count, War dead figures,” BBC News, Middle East. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/..., Viewed Published: 2006/09/21 12:59, 12:59:51 GMT, Monday, October 23, 2006 at 9:05 AM EDT.

“Bush Vows to Adapt Iraq tactics,”BBC News, Middle East. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/…,
Published: 2006/10/21 18:24:34 GMT, viewed October 23, 2006 at 9:

It poured forth from Boston on closed circuit Television this past Sunday evening, an effort by evangelical church leaders to unify their congregations behind Republican candidates for Senate and Congress. I’ve looked for news about it on line, Googeling it, and doing other searches as well, and can find nothing. This National Gay and Lesbian Task Force article is the closest I’ve come to locating anything about this particular new campaigne.

So, I Will Rant and Rave at evangelicals One More Time.

I’M TIRED OF BEING A POLITICAL PAWN! IT’S NOT ABOUT POLITICS YOU BIGOTED PREPARERS OF THE WAY FOR THE ANTI-CHRIST! IT’S ABOUT YOUR MORALITY. IF THE ACTUAL JESUS CHRIST WERE ON THIS EARTH TODAY, HE WOULD BE IN YOUR TEMPLES UPSETTING THE TABLES – GET THE METAPHOR – AND SHOUTING AT THE MONEY MONGERING PREACHERS.

AND, YOU WOULD CRUCIFY HIM A SECOND TIME.

There, I’ve said it. No, I’ve screamed it. It is time, folks. It is time to draw the line. It is time to call a bigot a bigot! I’m tired of being used and abused by these religious fanatics. I’m tired of being relegated to second-class citizenship. I’m tired of the evangelical’s willful ignorance concerning the New Testament message as witnessed by the disciples, and Mary Magdalene in which Jesus Christ declared that God loves us all, each and every one. I’ll not countenance evangelical refutation of this truth. I’ll not countenance evangelical manipulation of language such as “love the sinner, hate the sin,” I’ll not countenance his/her politics. I’ll no longer countenance misplaced interference in the business of the state by evangelical churches.

A corollary to the fact that Evangelicals are bigots

The Democratic Party is political, and therefore by definition, not moral. I do not expect it to take a stance against evangelical Christians, or for GLBT people. It cannot and it will not. The evangelical churches will continue to vilify GLBT people, The states will continue to outlaw our families, and some LGBT people will continue to die in hate crimes nationally. If we expect to be recognized as equal in they eyes of the law, these states and the federal government, we will have to fight for it on our own.

All GLBT people should be donating their time and money to GLBT organizations. Each of us can help fight this juggernaut of a movement by contacting one or more of the following and contributing. I must caution that this is only a partial list. A complete list can be found at Outfront Minnisota.

1. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
2. Lambda Legal
3. Human Rights Campaigne
4. Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network
5. GLBT National Help Center
6. Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

I know the U. N. High Commissioner for Refuges has a 9 million dollar short fall on a 29 million dollar Iraq budget.* Are there also U.S. agencies like the Red Cross doing or planning relief? Since it’s our fault (no argument, Republicans!) because we started the damned war, we should certainly be helping to support the people fleeing from it.

Anyone reading this and knowing of such an organization, please respond.

* Karadsheh, Jomana and Tawfeeq, Mohammed, "U.N. refugee agency: Exodus in Iraq forces priority shift," CNN.com, http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.main/index.html. Posted 2220 GMT, October 13, 2006. Viewed Saturday, October 14, 2006, 9:10 AM EDT.

Put in the simplest of terms - What’s Moral or Christian about our Invasion of Muslim Iraq?

Facetiously, it’s Christian because it’s just one more Crusade against the infidel.

Seriously, is the war in Iraq Christian and moral? Well, we already know the answer. We know the answer deep down inside, We know the answer even if we are evangelical Christians and trying somehow to reconcile this “preemptive strike,” – this war responsible for the deaths of 40,000 Iraqis and almost 2800 Americans - with Jesus Christ’s New Testament teaching. We know, even though this conservative Republican President and his party don’t want to know that we have destabilized the Middle East, caused the proliferation of international terrorists and their cells, and spent our nation into the poor house.

If this president and his evangelical supporters were truly Christian and moral, they would have pushed for an international peace keeping force in Darfur, and offered troops to the United Nations as part of that force in order to help stop the genocide there and help the two and one half million people displaced from their homes and threatened with starvation, rape and brutal murder.

Instead, our nation chose the opposite of “good and Christian.” We chose to go the low road. We chose to create and then participate in the civil war in Iraq. We chose to be the bad guy in everyone’s eyes - our own, and God’s.

Shame on us!

For todays political commentary go toIsaac Stolzfuts' Journal for my entry titled "Mark Foley’s Situation Reflects Unfavorably on Us All: Hysteria, Pedophilia, and Cybersex."