Teach Me Oh Lord, To Love Like You

This essay was published in February of 1990, in the following context: The Supreme Court had declared in 1986 (Bowers v. Hardwick) that a Georgia law prohibiting sodomy even in the privacy of one's own home was constitutional. I was also writing this essay to a conservative Mormon audience that at the time would have felt no interest in decriminalizing homosexual acts. In that context, my call to "leave the laws on the books" was simply recognizing the law at that time, and my call to not enforce it except in flagrant cases was actually, within that context, a liberal and tolerant view -- for which I was roundly criticized in conservative Mormon circles as being "pro-gay." Those who now use this essay to attack me as a "homophobe" deceptively ignore the context and treat the essay as if I had written it yesterday afternoon. That is absurd -- now that the law has changed (the decision was overturned in 2003) I have no interest in criminalizing homo...

This Chick-Fil-A Thing Getting A Little Carried Away. This Is My Response To Jackson A Pearce And Her Chick-Fil-A Rants. I caught this viral video from JacksonAPearce and Upworthy, a blog who initially i had circled and was starting to like, until i really started hearing what they were saying. Now i understand what people mean when they say that "Liberalism" is about pushing an agenda to everyone. No longer are we okay with the melting pot being a place where everyone can make a name for themselves, and believe what they want to believe. In just a short span of time, homosexual and atheist America are seeking to subvert the morales, and traditions that have long since existed in cities all across this nation. The black becomes white, the white black, and then they all are bled with a copious amount of gray; so much gray that we don't realize where black is, nor where white. You turn your head at the fork left or right, seemingly the landscape has been changed...