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... about the "Politics Of Exclusion" that attracts fringe groups from all over the spectrum, uniting them in one purpose, and one purpose only, that being namely to deny to others that which they themselves enjoy and so readily benefit from?
I have often written here of EQUAL MEANING EQUAL. PERIOD.
Too, I've stated that there can never be some who are more equal than others. Not before the Law, not before each other and certainly not before God. So much so, that it has almost become a mantra of mine. Yet, I continue to, and fervently so, believe this to be true; this not-with-standing, and in spite of, all evidence I witness daily to the contrary.
Why is this?
Will it be, and has it already become, two Millennium now since the passage of Christ, necessary for those who have so long been denied societal dignity to rise up and smite those that would deny to them that right?
I, today, hold no religion; having long ago lost faith in the Church I was born into. That said and done, I find it difficult to have faith in any other either; regardless of its' deity or its' doctrine.
Brody speaks, in another thread here, of his being proud of his being a Canadian in the face of the U.S. Senate's decision yesterday to block passage of the annual Defense Appropriations Act, and amongst other inclusions to that Bill, the repeal of the onerous Don't Ask, Don't Tell polices of the U.S. Military combine. I now speak of my being ashamed of my being an American.
Fourteen generations of my family (my brother and I are of the fifteenth, his children the sixteenth) have been from Caucasian, Protestant (of the John Knox Presbyterian variety), english-only speaking upper New York State American stock, bred for business purposes, to Caucasian Roman Catholic, french-only speaking Québecois. The tides of the family fortune rose and fell every other successive generation due to alcoholism; never through racism or servitude; so much so, that when the time arrived in the middle of the last century, to divest the family of its' holdings because of my own father's alcoholism, my grandfather turned to one of his then employees, groomed for just such purpose, to take the enterprise through its' next incarnation and evolution.
My fore-bearers believed in equality of all, a concept never before so sorely tested as it was when I returned home to Montréal that fateful September of 1967 with my chosen life-partner Jon. Everything about Jon and I flew in the face of my family's entrenched Puritanism and Catholicism; yet, closing ranks, the family embraced us, allowing both he and I to find our legs, nurturing us and enabling our growth individually and collectively. Our family's strength lay, not in its' disparity or divisiveness, but, rather because of it; the sum of the whole being greater than any one individual. My Grandfather well knew and understood this, as had those who had passed before him, and as surely as he instilled in those that would follow.
Why cannot this ever be for all; each and every one of us in The World Community? Why must we belittle and denigrate those amongst us whose step is not quite of the norm? Why is it that women are often as not treated as second class citizens in that community? Why are our children still considered to be so much chattel, to be used, abused and discarded when deemed no longer worthy of a place at that table? Why is it that one faith can be deemed to be more righteous than all others? Why is this?
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
[Updated on: Wed, 22 September 2010 16:57]
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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