Blue Truck, Red State: Now Boarding, Gate 56

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Now Boarding, Gate 56

Today I feel like going down to the islands. Who wants to go with me?

5 comments:

Frank said...: Are you really going? Not just a wish? If so, pick a friendly island, not one where they harass and do violence to gays. Have fun, even if it is just in your daydream....Check out http://gocaribbean.about.com/od/gayandlesbiantravel/tp/GayCaribbean.htm; June 9, 2011 at 5:48 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm packing the bags already

saludos,
raulito; June 9, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Craig said...: Count me in... summer seems to be avoiding us this year. I always fancied the BVI's. Tortola sounds good.; June 10, 2011 at 1:43 AM
Ray's Cowboy said...: I will go if you want me to. I woul dhate to be in the way. Any would be better than this heat. and it is only June.

Ray; June 10, 2011 at 5:30 AM
Russ Manley said...: I knew I could count on you guys, sounds good. Y'all be packed and ready to jump, I'll call ya the minute my new yacht is delivered, we'll have big fun cruising down there and back.

To answer Frank's question . . . um, if I did go think I'd stick to U.S. territory. Certainly not Jamaica. Culebra sounds real nice, look it up.; June 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu