Mike Signorile interviewed Blackwell at the RNC convention last year, and he tried to squeak out from under his statement that homosexuality is akin to arson and kleptomania. Just look at the ignorace on display.
KB: I believe that our sexuality is, that we have two orientations: you're female or you're male. A union between a male and a female produces babies. I thought that is was a mistake to start to equate the union between one man and one woman with a marriage between two men and between two women.He continues bleating garbage like this; surf over and listen to the interview.MS:I realize that that was on the issue of marriage, but you compared homosexuality to kleptomania--
KB: No, if you go back and you look, at what, no, at what I said--
MS: Well, here's what you said, "Homosexuality is a lifestyle. It's a choice. And that lifestyle can be changed. It's a transgression against God's law." And you compared it to arsonists and kleptomaniacs, that those things were criminal activities...a compulsion, right?
KB: No. What I said is that, in that regard, you can choose, people choose to be who they are, as they choose to break civil law and God's law...I think you can choose not to be homosexual...
MS: Did you choose to be heterosexual? Did you wake up one day and say I want to be heterosexual?
KB: The answer is that I've never had to make the choice because I've never had the urge to be other than a heterosexual, but if in fact I had the urge to be something else I could have in fact suppressed that urge.
New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, an outspoken, international gay rights leader, has been asked to give a prayer at one of President-elect Barack Obama's first inauguration events at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.Comment from HRC:The announcement follows weeks of criticism from Robinson and gay-rights groups over Obama's decision to tap the Rev. Rick Warren, who's likened committed gay relationships to incest and polygamy, to pray on inauguration day.
Robinson, an early Obama supporter, said last month the choice of Warren left him feeling as if he'd been slapped in the face. In a telephone interview this weekend, Robinson, of Weare, said he doesn't believe Obama has included him in response to the Warren criticism. But he said his inclusion won't go unnoticed by the gay and lesbian community.
"It's important for any minority to see themselves represented in some way," Robinson said. "Whether it be a racial minority, an ethnic minority or, in our case, a sexual minority. Just seeing someone like you up front matters."
Warren, author and high-profile pastor of a California mega-church, will still give the invocation at the Jan. 20 inauguration, shortly before Obama delivers his much-anticipated inaugural address.
"Bishop Robinson models what prayer should be-spiritual reflection put into action for justice," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. "It is encouraging that the president-elect has chosen this spiritual hero for all Americans to lead the nation in prayer at the Lincoln Memorial inaugural concert."
Someone hand me a paper bag, stat.
My lovely limbo-wife received a phone call Sunday morning from Senator Harry Reid's office.
They told her she had been selected
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for inauguration tickets!
Gahhhhhhhhh.
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WHOOPEEEEEEEE!
[Look for us with our backs turned to the stage during Rick Warren's invocation. We're to be in the West SRO section. It's not much but it's what we can do at the moment.]
{My eternal gratitude to my dear ME friend louise for suggesting I diary this fortuitousness.}
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