Serv(ey)ing You Some Alphabet Soup, Theo's Recipe!

Don't know if you want to know all this, don't care. Today's post is a self-absorbed one.

A - AVAILABLE: Wouldn't you like to know?
B - BIRTHDAY: You just missed it! Thats ok, I still accept belated gifts.
C - CRUSHING: Beer Cans on your head is really dumb and not impressive.
D - DRINK YOU LAST HAD: Lemon Gatorade. At midnight... why not?
E - EASIEST PERSON TO TALK TO: Jude Stevens!!! Hello!
F - FAVORITE BANDS: Too many... Incubus, Queen, The Shins, The Beatles, Rilo Kiley, No Doubt, Maxeen, City and Colour, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Death Cab For Cutie, K-0s, Coldplay, Jeremy Messersmith, Jason Mraz... These are just the bands I listened to today.
G - GUMMY BEARS OR GUMMY WORMS: Bears!
H - HOMETOWN: New York, NY
I - INSTRUMENT(s): Guitar (Acoustic, Electric, Bass, you name it), Drums, Clarinet (grade school, don't remember much), and someday, Piano!
J- JUGGLE: can't. But I can ride a unicycle pretty well, so I'm 1/2 clown.
K- KILLED SOMEONE: uh, no? And if I did, would I admit it here?
L - LONGEST CAR RIDE: 10 hours to Canada when I was 11. I beat all of my gameboy games on that car ride. Beat my pokemon game twice! Now that takes skill.
M - MILKSHAKE FLAVOR: Depends on the day. Sometimes Vanilla, sometimes Banana Strawberry. Sometimes Banana, Strawberry, Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Oreo! But those days are rare and complicated to achieve.
N- NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: 2 sisters, 2 half brothers... 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 3 siblings?
O - ONE WISH?: Equality and peace!
P- PLACE YOU WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GO: Japan, England, Hawaii, Spain, Australia, India, Brazil, Argentina, hey, even Canada again. The car ride sucks but I know to bring more games this time. I'd like to go anywhere.
Well, Maybe not Antartica... With my luck, I'd wander off and get lost forever, and a compass doesn't do much good at the south pole. I hear it kind of just spins in all directions, saying "North is any where else but here!" and thats a little useless.
Q- QUIET?: At the moment, yes, but not for long.
R- REASON TO SMILE: I get paid tomorrow... pay checks mean money... money means sushi... I like sushi...
S- SONG YOU LAST HEARD: Love and War, Rilo Kiley
T - TIME YOU WOKE UP: Noon? Had too much fun last night. Yeah, I know it was a Wednesday...
U - UNDERWEAR YOU’RE WEARING?: ...isn't the fact that I am enough?!
V - VEGETABLE YOU HATE: Olives. Do they count as vegtables?
W - WORST HABIT: oh where do I start... well, biting my finger nails. I have worse habits but thats the simplest one to share. Its a survey, not a short essay topic.
X- RAYS YOU’VE HAD: I think... 4? Back problems, ankle sprains, preteenhood in general.
Y - YOUR FRIEND THAT SHOWED YOU THIS: probably wont read this
Z- ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

Feb. 24th: A year ago today... Election 2008mania commences!

Ralph Nader announced his umpteenth attempt at running for the presidency.
Sometimes I really want him to win, just to screw everything up.
This time, I'm glad he didn't.

It was just in time for the crazy case of Electionmania to sweep the nation, 10 months before November. Long time, when you think about it! Yet looking back, its as if we all just made a wish, blew out the candles, held onto our dandilions, and blinked.

I've been looking back at old clips of my favorite moments of 2008's election which I was so wrapped up in. My news habits still have not declined, but they have stopped escalating. Before the election, I had every news station (except FOX. I'd only watch that for a laugh) send me text messages to update me on the democratic primaries! People thought I was being some rude popular jerk on my phone all the time - and while I was being rude on my phone so much, it definitely wasn't popular.

From day one, My hopes were behind Hillary. Such is the way of the glass ceiling that she's now sitting in a Secretary job. Perfect, right?
I wonder if she feeds Obama's fish... Nah.

Anyway, This video is great. If you haven't already seen John McCain on the Ellen show, you need to see it now.
Greatest Awkward Moment on Day Time EVER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7addd1-SY8&feature=related
I love Ellen so much.

"Our love is the same. To me, what it feels like, I will speak for myself, when you say 'well you can have a contract'... It sounds to me like you're saying you can sit there but you you can't sit there. You know?" -Ellen.

I love how John McCain needs to keep using the phrase "respectable disagreements" - its just SO CLOSE to an oxymoron and a lie. Ultimately its just a really good excuse to speak without saying anything, a talent politicians are known for.

Did you notice his laugh at the very end, when he says "Touche, Ellen!"? How creepy does he look there?

Be honest. He's scary!
He looks like/sounds like the guy on the front porch of his grey house in a creaky chair who you don't want to ask candy from on Halloween and your parents nudge you along saying "Ol' Johnny is a war hero!" but this is somewhat irrelavant and you don't really care because you think he hates you for being on his front lawn and for being a person in general so you'd rather pass his house and try to stare without him notice until you're at a safe distance but instead your parents make you go so you walk halfway up until you start to cry and it ruins your clown makeup which makes you even more upset and its a ridiculous time to cry in the eyes of any adult so this man taunts you from his chair and lets out this kind of laugh!
...
Well... I'm sure he's not that horrible. I bet John is normally a very nice, admirable man. But you can't see it when he laughs like that. This is just my opinion at this place in time.


Um...
Anyway! I'm so glad this creepy creepy guy and the ideas he represents isn't in My White House. How about you?

Oh, and I'm glad this crazy crazy lady is as far from the White House as she could possibly be while still on American soil. Although Alaska is still kinda close. Can't she just move to the moon?

Here's a little reminder that its good to be alive in this economy disaster with good old Joe Biden presiding over the senate as VP - and not this nut!!

Dumber then a third grader? Why am I not surprised...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWegdnKWp4M&feature=related

She probably doesn't miss the lost job opportunity -- she doesn't know what it is that shes missing!!!

SPEAK OUT ACT NOW! Vote NO on 1!

"1" is the new "8",
but will "WON" be the new "H8"?
It's up to us!
http://equalitygainesville.com/

Here's a SPEAK OUT ACT NOW related email straight from my buddy Anthony Haynes, HRC organizer. He said it best so I'm just going to copy and paste his call to action!


“Now that we are on the other side of the election and each one of you have been trained on campaign work we have some work to do. There are many opportunities to get involved and many of you are already doing great things, but there is one item that I need to rally as many people around as possible. It is short term work because there is a Charter Amendment up for vote on March 24, 2009. This work can be done from your home. All you need is a computer with internet access and a cell phone. We are working to help HRC's very own Regional Field Director, Sultan Shakir, who has been sent to Gainsville FL to help defeat Charter Amendment 1.

Here is a brief breakdown:
* Charter Amendment 1 eliminates protections against discrimination and makes it legal to fire someone from their job or kick them out of their home because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.


* Charter Amendment 1 takes away the City’s power to protect its citizens from discrimination! It prohibits the City Commission from prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, economic status, or political affiliation and gives Tallahassee politicians the sole power to dictate what is best for the citizens of Gainesville.



http://equalitygainesville.com/



In the short term we need as many people working the phones as possible to help fight this awful Charter Amendment. Why help with this Amendment in Gainesville when you live in NY? Simple: what happens in FL effects all of us no matter where we live, and we have HRC members calling from across the country to help defeat this Charter Amendment. All of this work can be done from your home and we will be organizing call centers once a week to work together as a group. If you are interested in helping with this and other efforts here in NY please email me today!

Anthony Hayes
Anthony.Hayes@hrc.org
Human Rights Campaign
Regional Field Organizer"





So ...What are you still doing on this blog? GO TO THE SITE!
http://equalitygainesville.com/




Don't wake up on March 5th feeling like its November 5th all over again!
This world has a funny way of mixing great achievements (President Obama) with devastating loses (Prop. 8) and hey, SEAN PENN WON AN OSCAR!!!
-- We can't risk this one! It has all the tell tale signs!!!



Really, if I didn't think it were big, I wouldn't be saying this:
THEO CAN WAIT, EQUALITY CAN'T! GO HELP OUT NOW!
http://equalitygainesville.com/




My blog will still be here when you're done, k? Promise.
Now, really, time for this: http://equalitygainesville.com/

Thank you all!
Theo.

Whether Accident or Intentional

[My first sonnet! I think you can call it that. My english professor always says writing free formed poems is like painting abstract - it doesn't mean you're a good artist, but it doesn't make you a bad one. Plenty of people say, "oh, I don't do realism, I paint abstract" when the truth is, they just can't. If you can paint the hard way, or write in a traditional form, you'll have a better knack for easy going open verse forms, and you'll actually be doing something when you paint abstract! What do you think? -Theo]


WHETHER ACCIDENT OR INTENTIONAL

What do you do when you wound animals?
Whether accident or intentional.
Do you bring to it a swifter short end?
Or wait and let it walk until its dead?
How can you put it out of misery?
Do you know its capacity to survive?
Since miracles happen so constantly
Yet it’d be sin to let the ‘thing’ just die.
You have in one way, or several others,
Ruined our chance of being together.
Will we walk down aisles until we die?
Or will I quit, Bringing a swift quick end?
Whether Accident or Intentional
We are two wounded animals.

OH GOD: Not another religious website 'chopping' away at gays!

As the grandchild of a lumberjack, I am sincerely offended. Chopping? Really?
Read on.









Step One: Go to this site, so you know what I'm talking about.
http://www.lovegodsway.org/
Step Two: Turn on some angry 'gate way' music.
Step Three: Continue reading.

Thank you.


C.H.O.P.
Changing Homosexuals into Ordinary People.

The anger and astonishment provoked by this hip new acronym for all the cool christian kids has not only made me severely dizzy, but tempts me to quote fellow Canadian Avril Lavigne's song "Anything But Ordinary" but on second thought, I won't go there.

Just, Look at the ADs they have! Don't you just want to put that on a can of soup? It's Slim Fast for gays! How can they put that on their site and STILL try to maintain some sort of seriousness?

Not only that, but they quote Oscar Wilde "reformed homosexual":

"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain."

Are these words supposed to make someone want to be straight? Personally, I interpretted it to validate alchoholism. Or writing poetry, much like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson did. Both 'reformed homosexuals' themselves.

I think they're using the word reformed where they should say Closeted. Why closeted? Becaues "God Hates Fags" still exists.

Don't forget to check out the "GAY BANDS" section. Elton John is on there twice!!!
So are the Jonas Brothers, Toby Keith "(cowboy)", The Butchies "(lizbians)", and some chick named "Kate Bush (kissed a girl)" -- Wait, is that supposed to be Katy Perry?

While you're at it, take a tour of their safe bands.
CYNDI LAUPER - Speaks at Gay Rallies all the time!
UNDEROATH - Worst Emo Band Ever. They aren't safe from themselves!
FLYLEAF - What?! Ok, they are a disputable "Christian" band, but, what? They're scary!

And to top it all off:
THE DRESDEN DOLLS
Flyleaf + Creativity - Christianity = Dresden Dolls.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the Dresden Dolls. And, hey, they are straight! They just like to wear make up and fishnet, and sing about murder and alcohol and self mutilation... BUT if straight is what makes you safe, they are most definitely happily married!

My personal favorite by them, and really if I had time for a music column I'd write loads about them, but my personal favorite is "Bad Habit" because it's the happiest song I've ever heard about cutting yourself. See:

"the ugly marks are worth the momentary gain...when i jab a sharpened object in choirs of angels seem to sing hymns of hate in memorandum"
Aww, see, they do sing about Angels after all... Totally
safe band.


Here's a really crappy live version of that song so you can get an idea of how happy this song is, and how "Safe" they are...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0aNGyPwSoM&feature=related

And because lyrics are important, read along! http://www.dresdendolls.com/downloads_n_lyrics/lyrics/badhabit.htm


ANYWAY, I figured I'd share this insanity with you guys for two reasons:

1) For a laugh, or a scream
2) TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
Anything. Tell your friends, point out the innaccuracys of EVERYTHING.

Personally, I chose to write a blog.
And while I wrote that blog, I wrote two emails from two different addresses.

1. One simply said "check your facts" and had a link to these sites:
1) http://www.beyondexgay.com/
2) http://www.news-medical.net/?id=20718
3) http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_mental_health.html
of some pretty good arguments for homosexuality that this guy didn't even touch.

2. The other email said "I HATE GAYS" and told them to list Relient K, Chevelle, and Carrie Underwood under their gay bands.
Hahaha! My three favorite Christian artists thrown right there on the gay band wagon!
So keep an eye out for them!


OH and before you go, check this out!

Right under their FEEL THE MIRACLE Music Video, they have a little link to their shop, reminding us gays that right under heterosexuality, money is also important.

Oh! Oh! Homoaroma Therapy Candles! Mmm! Cures my same sex attraction with every whiff!

It even says PURCHASING GOD'S WAY! I didn't know there was such a thing!

...

This has to be a joke. Thoughts?
-Theo

Entry.

[This one's diving in the deep end. I feel it necessary to add - it's not written from the first person, so no worries. It's the point of view of a very close friend of mine, written after I first witnessed/learned of her daily night terrors first hand. Tough topic to cover through poetry, this is my shot at it. My only advice to anyone going through any kind of parental/spousal abuse: Talk! - Theo]


Entry.

My eyes have seen
enough as it is.
These tears, My heart
is water damaged.

Breaking an entry
inside your skeleton
Going through your things
without a warrant

Without permission, Without consent,
Without any mutual verbal agreement.
Without a care - how will these wounds scar?
I honestly haven’t planned that far

And now you know how it feels.

Didn’t you know,
You reap what you sow?

Karma caught you like you caught my arm
A tight hold, a strong grab that implies harm
The kinds that ruptures veins under the skin
So the next day you struggle to hide the bruises

Do you like
being on the other side?
Do you like
Having trouble sleeping at night?

Be honest,
I didn’t.
But I’ll admit,
I might sleep better covered in scars
Knowing you’re behind bars
Trying to sleep on a cold hard bed
Next to an inmate who fancies men

No diary entry has been enough
to soak up the tears and heal the wounds
I could use all 100 pages/200 sheets
But I would only need more paper by noon

No one thought, no one could predict
how you'd enter my mind and my thoughts, too
It wasn't as simple as picking up and leaving
and it wasn't as easy as just tattle-taleing.

I guess we'll never understand each other's sides
At least I have the upperhand for doing what was right

Irony is tragic and hard to understand
But behave and benefit from its plan.


Entry by Theo Martin
copyrighted 2009

DAILY DOSE OF 'PHOBE: Spotlight on O'Reilly

Oh really, O'Reilly?

So, to celebrate St. Pat's day a whole month early (why not?) I decided I'd post a video of my least favorite Irish person saying the dumbest, most angering things he could ever say, in my point of view.

This video is a few years old, but it still is one of the few videos on YouTube/moments on TV that leave me truly speechless, because I know once I start screaming about it, I won't stop. So, I'll leave the arguing and screaming and ranting all up to you guys!

DISCLAIMER: Billy-boy here in no way shape or form represents the view of all/any people of Irish ethnicity. I know this because I've dated a few (and yeah, it was an 'inapprorpiate' same-sex relationship:)

Enjoy the fuel for your fires:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj8g031VKj0

The Spark

[Happy Valentine's day all! Here's one to coincedental/accidental first kisses, minus the hassle of the trouble it can cause! You can read plenty of those poems later. This piece is pure electricity! Hope you enjoy, Theo.]

A fire in my belly
Back drafting out of my eyes
My nose, my mouth, and my hands
Flames leaping out of my pores
And jumping into yours.

Your big brown eyes
Like two big black holes
They have gravities of their own.

Their pulling me in,
imploding in themselves,
Making me disappear,
Blending me into one.


Like metal to a magnet,
We accelerate towards each other.
Closer, faster, and connect.

We catch each other with such finesse
Like a puzzle, it was just meant.
Fate, in a way. Just-
Like two cars clip in an accident.

A spark of static leaps across.
Your lips tingle against mine.
Your arms tangle around me.

We’ve created something, big.
It could be a life, it could be a mess.
Its getting hot standing here
So close to you in the freezing cold.
Is it just me?

Like a spot light from the heavens,
Shining down upon us,
There’s a chemistry between us,
Besides the chemical in our blood.

I pull away, then I return,
as the tension insists.

For a moment I’m surrounded
By an eerie calm of distraction,
an ignorant bliss.

These problems, their symptoms,
No longer persist.
You are a friend, a medicine,
A finely combined mix.

I’m left stunned and speechless
Shot by a dart to the heart
And I didn’t even see it coming.
But I feel as if I could've.

This fire in me,
This fire I have,
It roars loudly and burns quickly,
From one heart to the next to the next.

I'm trying to find the right extinguisher
That will cool it to just a low steam
Slowly emitting a pot of hot water
Ready for a tea.

This fire burns bridges,
But it needs you.
I need you.

You are more then just a convenience
You are much more then just a route.
There’s a reason I stop to speak to you
And I don’t just pass on my commute.

I don’t want to play darts at hearts again,
I tend to miss the mark.
But I cant deny this science
I cannot argue with the spark.

The Spark
copyrighted 2009 by Theo Martin

Attacked by a Cougar!!

Its older then racism,
but it’s the new sexism.
Its not just a fad with this
generation but all generations.
It’s a little prejudice called ageism
and we stick it to those who do it.
Laugh at the differences now
but the hate is all the same!

Attacked by a Cougar.
Hey, Age is just a number,
An insignificant digit.

And it seems you’ve picked mine, my dear.
You’re only as old as your innocence
And if it makes you feel any better
I’ve been guilty for many years.
1, 2, 3, 4...


You purr like a kitten
You pounce like a lion
Clean cut but misleading
Oh Dear, What are you hiding?

You’ve got my scent
And you’re on the prowl
Sense of smell like a hound
With the eyes of an owl

There’s no way I can out run
There’s no way you’ll be out done
By this punk kid waiting against a brick wall
For what, I don’t know, but I may as well stall


Attacked by a cougar
Mauled beyond recognition
You do what you want, girl
There is no point to resisting

I can fight the tide, the system, the sky
But I’ll never find the words to describe
The way you sink your teeth into life
For as long as I live to write
I’ll never find words to describe

Age is just a number,
Alright, Alright. You still got it.
Age is just a number,
Alright, Alright, You still got it.
1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4...

Attacked by a cougar
Mauled beyond recognition
You do what you need, girl
There is no point to resisting.

Attacked by a Cougar
copyrighted 2009 by Theo Martin.

Bothersome Reminders

(This piece is incomplete, but you wouldn't know that unless you read this, huh?)

This is a song that gets on every body’s nerves….
WELL I would like to die in a hospital bed
As much as I would like to lie with your songs in my head
It’s got an inescapable hook, its almost addictive
I’m coming off to strangers as slightly obsessive
This is foreign territory, I might regret it
This isn’t Kansas anymore, its unprecedented
You ask if I’m ok, I say honey you said it
I’m fine, I feel great, I just wish I was dead and

There’s nothing I can do
To get your songs our of my head
Your songs in my head
Its stuck in my head
There’s nothing I can do
To get these bugs from my bed
Get them out of my bed
They’re in my bed

They’re telling me
You thought you could be
Anything
Anything you wanted to be
You thought you could have
Anything
Anything you wanted to have
Well guess what
Guess what you want
Guess what’s not gonna be
Under your tree
Don’t you see

You’re better off wishing for world peace
Those beauty pageant girls get better beauty sleep

Bothersome Reminders
copyrighted 2009 by Theo Martin

WARNING: Keep Weapons And Heliocoptors Away From This Lipsticked Pit Bull

"I shoot a motha' f'ckin moose eight days of the week!"

-Amy Pohler in Sarah Palin's SNL Rap Skit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/02/ashley-judd-slams-sarah-p_n_163312.html

Dear Actress Ashley Judd,

I commend you, sincerely. You took a stand, you stood out, and you're probably going to get into ridiculous amounts of trouble for it. But you said it anyway! That's whats so great about it.

An example to everyone: It doesn't take a lot to speak your mind. There might be reprocussions, but you can bet you will make an affect. Carry Judd's movement for the rights of animals on!

Eternally grateful,
Theo, and the Wolves of Alaska

The Key Change

The key change.
The song jumps.
The mood switches.

The atmosphere lifts off my shoulders,
And takes me with it like an alien ship
Gravity lifting my ears into space
And for that split second
I’m squished into one little being
And yanked through a vacuum
Pulled into the song
Like a long lost love pulling me to the water that splashes on a shore,
Or a good friend pulling me through a crowd closer to the stage,
Or like a fireman pulling me through the rubble to safety,
And once I’m there,
The floor is put back under my feet,
The weight of the world returns and rests gently on my shoulders.
The tidal wave seeps into the earth,
And the rhythm and the waves roll once more,
Catching their footing on the time line
Of this new layer.

And the song comes to a close,
The last chord is strummed.
The journey ends when I land the jump and stick it.

The Key Change
copyrighted 2009 by Theo Martin.

He.

He’s got a bit of a god complex
But then again who doesn’t?
He’s the kind that thinks of you
When everyone else wasn’t.

And he thinks he’s at the tip
Of an iceberg that’s melting quick
And if he doesn’t jump, he’ll miss it
He’s honest but he doesn’t know what the truth is.

And he thinks he’s at the edge,
But he’s got a while to go.
And he hopes it’s just a phase or a test,
But these days you never know.
Reality appears,
And vanishes just as quick.

He’ll never be complete.
He’s filling a crater by kicking dirt with his feet.
He’s riding on wheels up a hill that’s too steep,
He’s running from the truth that will put him on the streets.

And he considers speaking out
So much
He can’t keep count
Of who
Think they know
Or know he think’s
When will I -- Will I? -- Can I?
Can I ever be free?

And he tries, he tries, he tries
To look on the bright side of life.
And he thinks he’s at the edge,
He’s got a while to go.
And he hopes it’s just a phase or a test
But these days you never know.
Reality appears,
And vanishes just as quick.

Sometimes
the brightest lights
Have the darkest thoughts,
Burning on this idea that it will light itself,
Like it lights everyone else.
Like it will inspire itself
To look on the bright side tonight,
He lives night by night,
And dies a little each time.

So,
They told him to write a note
Of all the things he hated most,
But he couldn’t find all the words
That could best describe
The hate he has inside,
And it was
All aimed at himself.

They said now burn the note
And watch the ashes float
So he took it to his throat.
He used the subject as the media
And made the act an art.

He left,
Leaving nothing behind,
Letting no one know-
What goes on behind scenes
Of a one man duel identity scheme
He didn’t look back,
He didn't have to.
He was free.


He.
copyrighted 2009 by Theo Martin

SPEAK OUT ACT NOW: Christian Anti-Defamation League, aka CADL, aka Cattle?)

Ok, I know, it's been a while.

But I'm coming back, and I am bringing a bang.

Here's the background story, in case I loose you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20M9ywn7Zgs


So, I went to this site, http://www.christianadc.org/ and let me tell you, it is suspicious. Just to read an article I had to register! So, of course, I did, because I wasn't going to let that stop me from seeing what they had to say.

And, boy, what they had to say!

Here's a copy of their article called "Obama's Dangerous Hate Crime Agenda ":
(I bolded all the good stuff)

"Within moments of Barack Hussein Obama, the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, being sworn in as the President of the United States, the White House's website was updated. It showed that President Obama is strongly in favor of hate crimes legislation and will work to see it passed. Hate Crimes will silence Christians and keep them from fulfilling their duty to God to proclaim the truth!
As a State Senator, Obama helped pass hate crimes legislation in Illinois. On his White House website Obama shows that he is determined to pass the most pro-homosexual, free-speech destroying legislation ever to come before Congress, including expanded hate crime laws, and legal "support for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender) community."

WHOA - Let me stop right there. I'm breaking this down in bullets:

• Do we REALLY have to use the middle name? You have to go there? Within seconds, their maturity level has sunk to fifth grade status.
  
• "The Most Liberal" - instantly inaccurate. He is probably the farthest from. Not only are you lying, but your sores from losing are showing. Get a bandage for it, get over it, TELL THE TRUTH!


• This is my favorite. This quote will be the topic of the next few bullets:
  "Hate Crimes will silence Christians and keep them from fulfilling their duty to God to proclaim the truth!"


• Now, shall I make an indented numbered list of whats wrong with that statement? I shall. In fact, I'll talk to you like you are a 5th grader:
  1. Hate Crimes are bad things. I don't know if you've realized this. But you should.
  It's got that H word in it. Hate. That is the opposite of Love. Thats right. That L Word that Jesus liked so much. No, I'm not talking about the show on showtime. I wish it was as trivial as that. No, this L word is a big deal. It's kind of what the Messiah spoke about his entire life. Love, love, love. Love is good. Hate? No, Jesus didn't like hate.
  2. It also has this C word in it. Crime. Say it with me. Crime. Do you know what a crime is? Why, it is something a criminal does. It is something bad, and against the law. This could be the law of the government, or of the church. Now, these two laws, they are two seperate things. For example, in 30 AD, the government thought Jesus was a criminal, but the church knew he was a savior. Then, the church though Gaileo was a criminal for thinking the Earth goes around the Sun, and it turns out they were wrong. See, they are different, because some people have one religion but a different government, or vice versa. I'll explain more on this. But, whether its religious law or legal law, crime is also bad.
  3. Thus, you have a Hate Crime. When you combine the words, specifically what the government is saying is: You cannot commit a hate crime, aka, a Crime because you Hate someone. More specifically, you cannot hurt a person just because of a bias, like the color of their skin, their gender, their nationality, their religion, their gender identity, or their sexual preference. Hate crimes are usually acts of violence against innocent people who are discriminated against for these reasons by someone who is very biased, or in other words, has a lot of hate towards a kind of people, enough to hurt them in a crime.
  4. The President wants to fix this, and make it wrong to hurt people. He won't be silencing anyone, just protecting. In fact, if he DIDN'T do this, he would be silencing the people who would have to live in fear of these people who do hate crimes, or maybe even silencing them by making it ok to hurt them until they can't talk anymore.
  5. What Would Jesus Do? Now, I wouldn't call myself an expert on this stuff, but I'm pretty sure the Bible doesn't want you to hurt people. The Bible wants you to help people and love people. So, wouldn't this be the RIGHT thing to do? By protecting people with this new law? Its a religious law too, not to hurt people. What's wrong with making it a legal one, so everyone follows it?
  Do you get it? Good. Class dismissed.
  
• Back to adult talk. "...the most pro-homosexual, free-speech destroying legislation"? You idiots, it isn't giving anyone any priviledges! It is giving UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. The right to LIVE without getting your teeth kicked in! The right to be yourself without being MURDERED for BIAS! It destroys NO speech - except the filthy mouth you might talk to a child in. YES, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO CALL A CHILD OR A STUDENT OR EMPLOYEE A FAGGOT. YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

"The only reason that we do not already have Federal Hate Crime Law is because of President George W. Bush's veto. President Obama has pledged to sign Hate Crime Legislation if it reaches his desk. We must stop the legislation before President Obama can sign it!"

LOOK: This is not a game, CADL. This isn't a session of Chess, and you aren't losing a Rook here. These are people's LIVES at stake, ok? Whether you think they are abomination or not, they are GOD'S CHILDREN just like you, just like me, just like everyone else in this world. Just like the Saints and Apostles themselves.
President Obama is not giving them any more priviledge or anymore right then he would give a minority race, a foriegn ethnicity, or a RELIGION which also suffers attacks. If you are not willing to help pass legistlation to STOP the HATE and the crime, you are supporting the act of violence.
Don't you see? Every dollar you spend, every effort you put forward to stop this legistlation from passing is another fist in someones jaw, another foot in a teenager's mouth, another hateful word in the ears of a child, confused like a lost lamb.
Regardless, Whether homosexual and transgender lifestyles are right or wrong, they are still people who come from the same creator.
Think about the Good Samaritan, think about the shepard's lost lamb, the prodigal son, the story of Paul/Saul, so many stories of people who get lost and abused but are given the chance to return and live life once again. This law could be their chance to live, perhaps a different lifestyle, perhaps a similar but more grateful one.
Think about it.

I am... out of words.
Theo.