This entry is a favorite of mine from my LiveJournal Below is an article was in our local newspaper, “The Indianapolis Star.” Lori Borgman Marriage: It’s for kids' sake March 14, 2004 If you want to peer into the crystal ball to see what family life will be like in the event we redefine marriage, look to Scandinavia. The equivalent of same-sex marriage has been legal for more than a decade, and the verdict is in – same-sex marriage has eroded the already rusty link in the chain between marriage and family.

Very few times in life have I heard something so moving, so honest, and so historically relevant that it moved me to tears…. To my Canadian friends, I envy you… if all goes well, when I die, it shall be on Canadian soil. I can’t believe I missed this… Prime Minister Paul Martin on February 16, 2005 See video of speech "I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act.

Christ, are we too busy robbing Iraq of its riches that we cannot help the people LIVE? From Hnk’s blog: "'Day after day the situation in Iraq is getting better,' that's what one high ranking military official said. Reality shows the opposite. If things are getting better then why we don't we have oil, when we live in a country rich with oil? We have two rivers Tigris and the Euphrates, yet we have no drinking water.

US Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, said recently “That [the] insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We’re going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.” This stuff isn’t rocket science, Donald…. Every day that the US is in Iraq and doesn’t provide basic life sustaining needs, the insurgency will grow.

Because the whole system [is] like going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber." - Bob Novak 5/14/05 “I mean, imagine, the rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm judges. Broken by the other side two years ago, and the audacity of some members to stand up and say, how dare you break this rule. It’s the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, ‘I’m in Paris.

Help Jesus' General in the effort to recruit college Republicans into the armed forces.

A youth opinion writer for the Indianapolis star wrote recently that "Howard Dean’s recent comment generalizing the GOP as 'pretty much a white, Christian party' was both untimely and ill-advised." and that "The greatest prospect for the Democratic Party to win the 2008 presidential election is its potential to exploit the flaws of the Bush administration. Repetition of the issues, however, and not mindless name-calling, is the key to Democratic victory.

I told you so…. From the Florida’s medical examiner’s office: Reported by BBC "'She was incapable of surviving without her feeding tube,' Mr Throgmartin said, adding that she was blind and incapable of thinking, feeling or interacting with her environment. ‘This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons,’ he said." I’m rubbing it in because of how many people weighed in on this topic but had no medical background to base their position on.

Two former members of the Indianapolis Star’s editorial board, James Patterson and Lisa Coffey, have claiming the Star discriminated against them based on their religious views. James Patterson said “This is America. We have the right, under the first amendment, to express those views. At a newspaper, which has had a conservative voice for years and years and years, our argument is we should be allowed to express those views without being persecuted.

The Corporation

Today I read an article by Rishawn Biddle of the Indianapolis Star’s Editorial staff concerning the need for action by our Mayor, Bart Peterson. He said: “Then a walk up Delaware Street reminded me that the gathering of ne’er do wells that usually keep themselves to the corner of the Wheeler Mission now claim the other side of the street – just outside the parking lot of the Regions Bank tower – for their very own.

So long between enteries… Danielle and Tyler, I’ve not had contact with either of you in quite some time. I wish you could understand the road blocks I face, and the hurdles I seem to come up against in my fight to see you. Part of it is an internal battle and part of it’s external. Someone recently told me that “Hope is easy. It’s a word. It’s a thought. It’s a feeling.

Dr Albert Mohler Jr. “In the case Lawrence V. Texas, the Supreme Court of the United States of America struck down every sodomy law in this country. You see, they found the Constitutional right to sodomy. Does anyone believe that the framers of our Constitution intended for it to be there? By no means. Well if it’s not there, how did the court decision get there? By reading into the Constitution what they wanted to find, which isn’t there, but is constructed there, by expanding the Constitution by re-interpretation.

It was brought to my attention yesterday that a few members of the GLBT community had emailed the fifth district city council member Ginny Cain, concerning Prop 68 (the Indianapolis Human Rights ordinance). She said:

"I will always discriminate against unhealthy addictive behaviors."

As a child, I used to be afraid that one day soon Armageddon would come and destroy my world. In those days I feared the rapture, yet now I welcome it. "I'm a radical! I'm a real extremist. I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!" - Mark Schwartz, Republican Senator Tom Coburn's chief of staff. This extremist tone permeates the Congress and the White House.

Tuesday evening the Indiana House of Representatives passed Senate Joint Resolution 7 by a vote of 76 to 23. The measure was passed by the Senate earlier in the month and now must be passed by a separately elected legislature before it can be put on the ballot. The earliest the measure could make it onto the ballot is 2008. Shortly after the vote, a small group of protesters gathered outside the State House.

I had an awesome time in New York and Boston. This pic was taken with a very good friend of mine Ethan St. Pierre

Ug. I have writers block and it sucks ass. I’ve been trying to write a piece since Tuesday and it just alludes me. I can’t even put together a good intro. This happens when I am asked to write something, not something that comes up out of my soul. I HAVE to be able to get through this crap. At least I can write a damn blog entry. Sheesh.

As I was getting ready for work, I sat at my PC and talked with one of my favorite LJ'ers, angiewarhol, about "The Justice League", and it somehow fired a synapse that triggered a memory about my childhood. I get very few crystal clear glimpses of my past and my transsexuality. Usually, it is just a warm memory that is fuzzy at best. For some reason, tonight, I remembered a theatrical presentation of Robin Hood that my 3rd-grade class (not sure exactly sure of the grade) was presenting.

Coming back from Kentucky, Lisa gave me a GLSO Newspaper to read on the way back. Its a queer organization in Kentucky. Anywho, an article in it hit me like a ton of bricks, and I wanted to share it…. The Loss of Innocence aftermath of the affair by Kelly O’ferrell “This is not the face of an ingenue; this is an old soul in a new body- wary, wise to her own long past, on to the wiles of the world, and having miles to go before she sleeps.

The error seems not sufficiently eradicated that the operations of the mind as well as the acts of the body are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

Well, I think I’ve solved my blogging issue. For the longest time I have wanted to be able to blog/post to my website but it’s a pain in the ass to then go over to LJ and reformat the post…then put in any LJ coding and then finally post! I was using Movable Type and an LJ crossposting script, but it wouldn’t let me post the personal posts “friends only” on LJ.

Well, I went in the Indiana Statehouse for the first time in my life. And who stepped through those doors? Marti. It’s wierd to be in a space as a female that I have never been in as a male. I was nervous as hell at first because it was a press conference and I have mild social anxiety anyhow. As soon as we got into the room where the press conference was to be held and that all washed away.

Danielle, I heard you call for me from behind me. I reached back my hand. I felt your hand grasp mine. Even if it was (or is) a just a dream, I hold on to it. I love you.