It's been a busy week

Alright, so it’s not really Wednesday, but I had a really rough week with the unexpected death and subsequent funeral of a close family member. That'll put a crimp in anyone’s week and plans for blogging. But, all is not lost as I have managed to accumulate a whole slew of interesting tidbits that I found as I've been poking around.

So in reference to my disdain for Adam Lambert who we all knew was gay, but managed to keep his fame alive by not actually saying the words "Dude, I'm gay" or some other trashy Lambert-esqe equivalent, I came across this which I was going to use to make my point. Unfortunately as keeping news around doesn't seem to be a big deal for interweb archiving, it's gone. But you can see my point by the "keep guessing" part of the headline. (Another post will be devoted to the idiocy of keeping historical records on something as fleeting as computers, and the utter stupidity of the Kindle thingy).

Now for a repeat issue, (even though I feel like I'm beating a dead horse) this really irritates me. Not the whole anti-bullying legislation (which has been a LONG time in coming) but the reaction to this from the Christian groups and the Catholic Church that is mentioned. I find it reprehensible that the bishop in question would compare a legislation that would protect children from being bullied by their peers and offer sanctions to those who would continue to bully others using homophobic language with the gay marriage debate. That's like comparing apples and pineapples. There's absolutely no correlation. And to say that this legislation is a prelude to allowing gay marriage, is just plain ridiculous.

Not only that, if you read the article the one faith based group is afraid that "...if the bill passed it would lead to the expansion of the state’s hate crime law and anti-discrimination laws to cover gays." I'm sorry, is that such a bad thing? Perhaps in your eyes, at this point in time, it may be so. However, I cannot believe that if one of your children was beaten to death for being perceived to be gay, you'd be in the front lines of trying to get a hate crime legislation passed in your state, if only so you could see justice done for your child. Even if that's not the case, hate crimes are very real, and I for one believe that they are under-punished (or whatever the term is).

Another interesting story caught my eye, and I just couldn't resist making a really interesting comparison. We have fought over keeping religion out of public schools and other institutions that have ties to the state for, well, for most of my lifetime of (nearly) 24 years. And from what I can see we've been incredibly successful. This is fine, if you’re going to go all the way and completely separate church and state. But isn't it interesting that we don't want religion in public schools, but religion and religious institutions have a great deal of influence when it comes to marriage which grants all sorts of civil benefits and rights?

Along that same line this article by Time Magazine illustrates just what I've been saying ever since I started paying attention to the gay marriage debate. If you don't believe me, just find a previous post about gay marriage on this blog, I'm fairly certain that it's around here somewhere. But it’s about time that someone with a touch more clout than I have finally decided to take the idea and run with it. Good for you!

I'm pleased to see that someone else also dislikes the bad boy/pretty boy combination vampires (that break all vampire rules) that Twilight has introduced to mainstream society. Although I'm intrigued by his new book about vampires and the interesting take that he's bringing to them, I have to say, as I've said before, I'm a vampire purist and that's what I look for in a vampire tale. Ok, enough with the vampire proselytizing.

I discovered something interesting about blogger.com, which is that you can post your blogs by email. This is a nice idea should it actually work. So needless to say I tried it and if failed. No worries, there will always be more time to blog. Also, if anyone out there who reads this darn thing knows anything about formatting block quotes in blogger, let me know, because your skills are in demand. At least from me.

Regular Wednesday updates will resume next week, provided that nobody else in my life keels over and/or the world doesn't end