YEEHAW! Hail to the Chief!

YEEHAW! I just had to say it again. I am using it to cover my tracks for today. I don't want no GOP operative snooping by looking for subversive content. Hail to the Chief!

YEEHAW! In between bouts of uncontrollable sobbing for our poor desperate, morally and financially bankrupt nation, I have a few seconds to ponder what exactly has happened. Hail to the Chief!

YEEHAW! Have we, as an electoral body, really paved a yellow brick road to the removal of our beloved Checks and Balances for little w to saunter up, waggling his Texass swagger at our puny civil rights as they fall one by one to September 11? Hail to the Chief!

YEEHAW! Have we really opened up ANWAR to the probing proiscus of oil exploration? Have we really given Halliburton a blank check to write us deeper into debt? Have we failed the test of values so badly that a raving megalomanic who talks regularly to the voice of Jesus in his head, who values corporate profit over the health and welfare of the people is now legitimately in charge of our government? Hail to the Chief!

YEEHAW! I guess we have. Hail to the Chief!

Hail to the big pile of bull guano who sits in our Oval Office. Let me tell you something about governance, folks. This is addressed to those of you who stabbed us in the back and voted for Bush.

Governance is about the people. It is our government, dammit! Your personal beliefs have no relevance to how the people need to be governed. None whatsoever. If you would have absorbed that into your soft head we would not be sitting here anxiously on the eve of god knows what sort of hellish horrors Bush will stir up in the next four years.

God, guns and gays. I've seen that analysis of the election a number of times. Funny thing is, though, two of those issues have nothing to do with a government of free people. God and gays are no business the government ought to interfere with. And by extension, they certainly should have no relevance to the laws we pass.

Anyone who uses a god as a reason to support passing a law has no right being in government. Similarly, anyone who expresses bigotry towards gays, has no place in our government, either. But somehow, that's what we have for a majority.

This problem is not just with Republicans, the Democrats have not really distinguished themselves as the champions of the freedom to fuck men in the ass or hot dyke on dyke love.

Personally, I do not give the Rat's Ass who screws who or how. Bill O'Reilly is just as free to use his anal plug as I am to decide that that thought is repulsive. In good governence, the state has no business in the bedroom.

And for marriage, a state marriage is just that, a state marriage. Did you know that you do not have to get the state to sanction your marriage? You can have your church wedding and never have to worry about filing with the state. After a few years you will probably get the protections of a civil marriage, if you even care.

It seems to me that if someone really believes in the authority of the church would not care if the state thinks they are married. The benefit is your god's blessing, isn't it? And if your church decides to not marry fags, then so be it. I can probably find a dozen or so that will. And if all else fails, I will perform them myself.

I have been ordained for several years now, and I take my responsibility seriously as a minister. My church is based on the teachings of Jesus. I respect that. Hell, I've studied Jesus extensively. I've heard he died because you all sin.

I'm taking the blame for my sins, so no sale on the Christianity. And God just doesn't do anything for me. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, gave me my lack of doubt about what it is that separates "man" from "God." And taught me how I can go to my grave comfortable with my karmic accumulations. And freed me of the need for faith. It was just that simple.

"Creation" has taught me that a good god loves gays just as much as he loves straights. Why else would he "create" them? Boy dogs hump each other. Dogs are man's best friend. Hmmm.

Furthermore, in creationist thinking, God created everything. That means: God created gay people. If man is created in God's own image, then, dare I say? You know the conclusion.

As for Jesus, he would embrace homosexuals, especially if they were the outcasts of society. I would gladly marry two men or women in the name of Jesus if they asked me to, knowing full well that the Jesus of the Gospel would fully approve.

But I have digressed away from the point. The point about a state marriage is this: it offers legal protections and obligations to a couple who choose to enter into this state sponsored contract. The state is bound by the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The only logical conclusion is that the state cannot offer marriage to only heterosexual couples.

And no one needs reminding about the church and the state. Do they?