awediot
04-05-2006, 12:35 AM
But we also need to make it clear to Mel White that he is fighting a losing battle.J. Lee Grady is the editor of Charisma and an award-winning journalist.
He is right... I do not know if even one institution has or will make a substantial change in policy due to the SF riders. I would be delightfully shocked if they did. Being tolerated is an insult and the token, politically correct and obligatory recognition that fades with the bus exhaust is not a step at all. All too quick we are out of sight, out of mind. The compounding quotes are at best condescending offers to increase thier prayers for us. But they are spoken with the steeley resolve of one who would indeed sacrifice whatever monetary gain before leading thier flock to hell. It does not always boil down to money. That is a grave underestimation as to these peoples motives. To them we are literally under demonic influences set on destroying the planet campus by campus, family by family. The hope that they will be swayed to offer up thier children to us for some self fulfilling sob story will be our undoing.
Face it. We are freaks. Even to other minorities who may resent us latching on to thier struggle. We stupify science, spirituality, culture, time and ourselves. There is no parallel and there is no reason for a twist such as us. And I LOVE it. I will milk it for all its worth and I'm glad I'm not just another human interest story, repressed minority. I have seen and experienced things from it I couldn't begin to share. Except with you who need no description... We are the minorities minority and the best politically we can do is fight our way back into a screwed up, bigoted society in decline and climb aboard its sinking ship.
All are called to end poverty and injustice. We are to heal, protect and nurture each other. And we are driven to do so because it is right, while knowing full well in the big picture, we will fail. Even if over night we were embraced and satisfied, the tenderness of heart that has been planted in you, because you read such things, would seek out the next underdog to fight for. Every liberated group that now has equal rights, still feels second class...
But none of that matters. Many get fed, and get warm, and get away from those who hurt them. They see they are not alone, they are loved and they are going to be okay... The bus will never leave a trail of opened minds and enlightened souls empowered enough to change untouchable divine law. They instead leave a subtle path of sparks that set fires, lit and stronger people who can now cope with and utilize, rise above and grow from what has always eluded being changed.
I post this with more hesitation than usual, hoping the sharpening of negativity can be seen in a different way, and can be seen through to expose at least, if not the light I see at the end of the tunnel, but the people all along the walls who we can help jump on, or who leap on unknown just because we're passing through.
He is right... I do not know if even one institution has or will make a substantial change in policy due to the SF riders. I would be delightfully shocked if they did. Being tolerated is an insult and the token, politically correct and obligatory recognition that fades with the bus exhaust is not a step at all. All too quick we are out of sight, out of mind. The compounding quotes are at best condescending offers to increase thier prayers for us. But they are spoken with the steeley resolve of one who would indeed sacrifice whatever monetary gain before leading thier flock to hell. It does not always boil down to money. That is a grave underestimation as to these peoples motives. To them we are literally under demonic influences set on destroying the planet campus by campus, family by family. The hope that they will be swayed to offer up thier children to us for some self fulfilling sob story will be our undoing.
Face it. We are freaks. Even to other minorities who may resent us latching on to thier struggle. We stupify science, spirituality, culture, time and ourselves. There is no parallel and there is no reason for a twist such as us. And I LOVE it. I will milk it for all its worth and I'm glad I'm not just another human interest story, repressed minority. I have seen and experienced things from it I couldn't begin to share. Except with you who need no description... We are the minorities minority and the best politically we can do is fight our way back into a screwed up, bigoted society in decline and climb aboard its sinking ship.
All are called to end poverty and injustice. We are to heal, protect and nurture each other. And we are driven to do so because it is right, while knowing full well in the big picture, we will fail. Even if over night we were embraced and satisfied, the tenderness of heart that has been planted in you, because you read such things, would seek out the next underdog to fight for. Every liberated group that now has equal rights, still feels second class...
But none of that matters. Many get fed, and get warm, and get away from those who hurt them. They see they are not alone, they are loved and they are going to be okay... The bus will never leave a trail of opened minds and enlightened souls empowered enough to change untouchable divine law. They instead leave a subtle path of sparks that set fires, lit and stronger people who can now cope with and utilize, rise above and grow from what has always eluded being changed.
I post this with more hesitation than usual, hoping the sharpening of negativity can be seen in a different way, and can be seen through to expose at least, if not the light I see at the end of the tunnel, but the people all along the walls who we can help jump on, or who leap on unknown just because we're passing through.