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The Tears Continue for Our Once Great Nation

July 2, 2008February 2, 2010 John Bush, cheney, Chinese, Guantanamo Bay, Interrogations, torture

The New York Times is reporting that military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 based an interrogation class on a chart showing various “coercive” techniques for use on prisoners. What the trainers did not reveal, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied an Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain false confessions from American prisoners. Whoohoo, we’re on a roll now.

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A Resolution on Social Justice for My Methodist Church

June 24, 2008February 2, 2010 John Homosexuality, Non-discrimination, Palma Ceia United Methodist Church, Race, Racism, Sexual Orientation, Social Justice, Tampa

I have prepared a resolution on social justice to be introduced at the next meeting of the Administrative Board of Palma Ceia United Methodist Church here in Tampa. It will create an inclusive statement of non-discrimination. However, it goes a bit further. In an on-line conversation I had with a new acquaintance, he made a statement that caught my interest. He said, “People don’t have to pay a price for discrimination against gay people.” I believe this is a true statement. You can’t really change how people feel, but you can change how they behave in public through laws and through action. People who make racists statements pay a price. If they are business owner, they may be boycotted by people who don’t beleive in racism. At work, they may be ostricized, and it can affect their potential opportunities. But for the most part, people don’t pay a price for discriminating against homosexuals. My resolution requires the church to put its money where its mouth is.

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The Day After – Gay Marriage

June 19, 2008August 5, 2008 John Amendment 2, California, Constitution, fl, florida, Florida Amendment 2, Full Faith and Credit Clause, Gay Marriage, Marriage, supreme court

Well, it’s the day after the first full day that gay marriage was legal in California, and gosh darn it, the sun came up, birds still sang, children were born, people died, there were even some heterosexual marriages, and I still had to go to work. In other words, if God is mad about it, he sure missed that wrath thing by taking it out on the mid-west. This raises a lot of questions, such as what happens next in California, what does this mean to Florida’s Amendment 2 initiative (and see a possible connection), and what does it mean for gay people around the country.

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Some Gay Marriage News

May 27, 2008February 2, 2010 John Ellen DeGeneres, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, John McCain, Morality, republicans

Here are a couple of things to give the krazy kristian kook wing of the Republican Party pause.

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Gay Marriage in California

May 16, 2008February 2, 2010 John Amendment 2, California, Gay Marriage, supreme court

Certainly there is a reason to celebrate the ruling by the California Supreme Court on Gay Marriage. Apparently four of the seven justices recognized that gender and sexual orientation, just like race, can not be grounds to deny rights to individuals.