the id, the ego, & the single misfiring brain cell - Latest Comments on response to tony perkins and the frc https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 admin [Member] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Wed, 26 May 2010 21:50:55 +0000 [Member] c31819@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Thanks, Judy. :)</p> <p>And Aunt Bann&#8230;I agree completely! Lorraine writes beautifully. I often wish she had her own blog so I could puppy dog it. </p> <p>d</p> Thanks, Judy. :)

And Aunt Bann…I agree completely! Lorraine writes beautifully. I often wish she had her own blog so I could puppy dog it.

d

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31819 Judy [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Wed, 26 May 2010 15:46:13 +0000 Judy [Visitor] c31818@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>D, loved reading this&#8230; and copied out your resumé for the family history file. :) You are so on the money. (so money you don&#8217;t even know it, to quote a movie!)</p> <p>Judy</p> D, loved reading this… and copied out your resumé for the family history file. :) You are so on the money. (so money you don’t even know it, to quote a movie!)

Judy

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31818 Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Wed, 26 May 2010 05:07:08 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c31817@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Lorraine, thanks for the compliment! You would have to know more about my family to understand; my parents were determined that all their children would finish high school or be 21 before they quit/got married. My next oldest brother went back to get his senior year after doing his turn in the Navy during WWII. We ALL (all 7 of us) graduated from high school. Three of us graduated from college. I have a master&#8217;s degree, and all three of my children graduated from the same college that Diana&#8217;s dad and I graduated from. The middle one is now the Assistant Registrar at that same college (their dad taught there for his entire teaching career). My youngest teaches in the high school her children (and her husband&#8217;s childre)attend. He also teaches, in that same school.</p> <p>Does that help to tell you why I&#8217;m not stodgy and afraid of life? (I also write, which is something I got from my father.)</p> Lorraine, thanks for the compliment! You would have to know more about my family to understand; my parents were determined that all their children would finish high school or be 21 before they quit/got married. My next oldest brother went back to get his senior year after doing his turn in the Navy during WWII. We ALL (all 7 of us) graduated from high school. Three of us graduated from college. I have a master’s degree, and all three of my children graduated from the same college that Diana’s dad and I graduated from. The middle one is now the Assistant Registrar at that same college (their dad taught there for his entire teaching career). My youngest teaches in the high school her children (and her husband’s childre)attend. He also teaches, in that same school.

Does that help to tell you why I’m not stodgy and afraid of life? (I also write, which is something I got from my father.)

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31817 Lorraine [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Wed, 26 May 2010 02:56:09 +0000 Lorraine [Visitor] c31816@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Dear Ms. Bann, </p> <p>I am surprised that you mention being &#8220;Aunt Bann&#8221; for 60 years as I had assumed by your enlightened ideas and youthful attitude that you were a much younger sibling of one of D&#8217;s parents, making you more a contemporary of ours than her parents. Lucky family to have you in it.</p> <p>Lorraine</p> Dear Ms. Bann,

I am surprised that you mention being “Aunt Bann” for 60 years as I had assumed by your enlightened ideas and youthful attitude that you were a much younger sibling of one of D’s parents, making you more a contemporary of ours than her parents. Lucky family to have you in it.

Lorraine

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31816 Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Tue, 25 May 2010 03:18:43 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c31815@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Lorraine, if you don&#8217;t feel comfortable calling me Aunt Bann, then you can do what Dave does, and call me Ms.Bann. I&#8217;ve been Aunt Bann to all my nieces and nephews since the first one could talk. Mother insisted that they call me my complete name Barbara Ann, with the Aunt in front of it. But they couldn&#8217;t say that, so we shortened it to Aunt Bann, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been for about 60 years, now. I&#8217;m comfortable with anyone who wants to call me that!</p> Lorraine, if you don’t feel comfortable calling me Aunt Bann, then you can do what Dave does, and call me Ms.Bann. I’ve been Aunt Bann to all my nieces and nephews since the first one could talk. Mother insisted that they call me my complete name Barbara Ann, with the Aunt in front of it. But they couldn’t say that, so we shortened it to Aunt Bann, and that’s what I’ve been for about 60 years, now. I’m comfortable with anyone who wants to call me that!

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31815 Lorraine [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Mon, 24 May 2010 07:52:29 +0000 Lorraine [Visitor] c31814@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Thank you for the kind words. (I&#8217;m not sure what to call you as you aren&#8217;t my aunt, as delighted as I would be to have you as a relative.)</p> <p>Canada is far from alone in this world when it comes to thinking of GLBT people as humans when it comes to human rights. We were not the first country to think this way and, more importantly, have laws that reflect it. Let&#8217;s just hope we&#8217;re not the last.</p> <p>Lorraine</p> Thank you for the kind words. (I’m not sure what to call you as you aren’t my aunt, as delighted as I would be to have you as a relative.)

Canada is far from alone in this world when it comes to thinking of GLBT people as humans when it comes to human rights. We were not the first country to think this way and, more importantly, have laws that reflect it. Let’s just hope we’re not the last.

Lorraine

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31814 Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Sat, 22 May 2010 03:53:04 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c31813@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Lorraine, your summation is just exactly what we have needed for many years, here in the &#8220;good old&#8221; USA! Thanks for the info that at least one country on this planet is open and aboveboard about what is right (meaning that everyone is really equal!)!</p> Lorraine, your summation is just exactly what we have needed for many years, here in the “good old” USA! Thanks for the info that at least one country on this planet is open and aboveboard about what is right (meaning that everyone is really equal!)!

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2010/05/19/response-to-tony-perkins-and-the-frc#c31813 Lorraine [Visitor] in response to: response to tony perkins and the frc Thu, 20 May 2010 16:01:39 +0000 Lorraine [Visitor] c31811@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Interesting post, Diana. From my vantage point, it is a little like watching the debate about legalising racially mixed marriages or about extending human rights to Irish Catholics. I live where it is not only legal and acceptable to be openly gay, married and in the military but where, for the most part, it is also irrelevant. Once that happens, all sorts of perfectly ordinary people, young and some quite old, turn out to have been gay all along.</p> <p>Extending human rights, as in the case of those from other religions, nations of origin or skin colours hurts no one except those who gain from bigotry or who feel so powerless they need someone else to spit on. </p> <p>We are not judged by whom we can exclude in our lives but by whom we include. In other words, it&#8217;s not how exclusive your club, or country, is but rather how inclusive it is.</p> <p>We are far from perfect here but this is one battle that has been fought and one that we hope stays won. The sun still comes up, we still have a good military, we still have as much respect for marriage as ever. The difference is now other humans once denied their rights can rest a little easier and put their energies into participating fully in society without fear of reprisal for being born who they are.</p> <p>L. <br /></p> Interesting post, Diana. From my vantage point, it is a little like watching the debate about legalising racially mixed marriages or about extending human rights to Irish Catholics. I live where it is not only legal and acceptable to be openly gay, married and in the military but where, for the most part, it is also irrelevant. Once that happens, all sorts of perfectly ordinary people, young and some quite old, turn out to have been gay all along.

Extending human rights, as in the case of those from other religions, nations of origin or skin colours hurts no one except those who gain from bigotry or who feel so powerless they need someone else to spit on.

We are not judged by whom we can exclude in our lives but by whom we include. In other words, it’s not how exclusive your club, or country, is but rather how inclusive it is.

We are far from perfect here but this is one battle that has been fought and one that we hope stays won. The sun still comes up, we still have a good military, we still have as much respect for marriage as ever. The difference is now other humans once denied their rights can rest a little easier and put their energies into participating fully in society without fear of reprisal for being born who they are.

L.

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