I love Victoria Jackson

I love that she has turned one of her lesser know SNL skits, which I believe was called "Ditzy Bigoted Reactionary Has Been", into a career. Victoria Jackson has taken the lesson from Andy Kaufmann about never breaking character to new levels.

Favorite parts: "Secular Humanism rules the airways.", "Homophobia is a catch phrase of the liberal agenda." & "The Muslims hate G*d."

Do you think Glee is encouraging people to be gay, like Victoria claims?

And what God Hates, I Hate

Pastor Richard Parsons of Consecration Temple Church of God Christ in Schenectady said the message he gets when he sees the billboards is that homosexuality is OK. "It's directly against God's word and what God hates, I hate," he said.

(Albany Times Union)

Wow.

Just...wow.

Now, I am not going to mention that no where in the Bible does G*d ever say anything about homosexuality. He is silent on it. He mentions loving thy neighbors when He was down here as Jesus, and caring for those cast out, and preaches about Love. Nope, I don't see hate there.

A number of other people weigh in on homosexuality. The authors of Leviticus mention it, and the Apostle Paul mentions it. (Oh, yeah, they don't care for it.)

But the Omniscient Super Pro-Noun never mentions it. Not a single time does The Big G call down and tell the people of His Book that they cannot engage in love with each other.

No, it was created my people like St. Paul (who may have been a closet case) and then propagated by men like Pastor Parsons.

Pastor Parsons, you can hate whomever you want. You are just a man, but...when speaking in the future, don't put words into the Mouth of the Deity.

Hubris will always come back to bite you in the ass.

An Open Letter to 7-Eleven

Dear 7-Eleven,

I have always been a fan of yours. Living now in Albany, New York, I don't have on that is open close to me, but there is one near my father's house (in Adams, MA) that I go to not often but on occasion.

I had the opportunity to enter 7-Eleven #32540 (Biddeford, ME) on Wednesday evening, while waiting for my pizza to be prepared. I needed a pack of cigarettes for myself and for someone else.

Let me give you a little background here, Wednesday was a gorgeous day. A seriously gorgeous day. I had a good tan going on and when I went to get pizza, I was in chino shorts and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt. Yes, I popped the collar. Why? I was feeling good about myself, and I thought it was cheeky.

Yes, it is a little douchey, but...I am on vacation, and I am a bad person.

As I was walking into Store #32540, a man (25, presumably a little drunk but the way he looked) asked me if I knew that my color was up.

"Yes, thanks," I replied.

"Well, it looks gay."

Okay...what?

It took me a second to figure out what he said but I was not going to make a scene and really, I thought he was a homeless person. After seeing that your store had a really awful selection of beer, I went to the counter to by the aforementioned cigarettes and to my surprise, the man that I thought was drunk and or homeless, and who used the word "gay" as an insult, was behind the counter, discussing the functioning of the store with the woman who cashed me out.

So, 7-Eleven, is your policy to allow homeless people behind the counter or is it policy to employee bigots and homophobes?

In addition, Biddeford in the summer is largely a tourist town and I am going to go out on a limb and state that most of the tourists coming to town and spending thousands of dollars are not as conservative as the locals. It may be in the interest of your corporate image to remind your franchisees that just because they (and the people in their town) may have a certain set of beliefs, the world is a really big place, full of a lot of people who are not small minded or, more to the point, horrifyingly ignorant.

Thanks, and I hope and trust that incidents like this will not longer happen.