...to live in a country where television shows like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," "Will & Grace," and "Queer As Folk" are ongoing hits bringing in buckets of money, and yet the same (well maybe not the same, I don't watch enough to know) tv networks refuse to air an ad showing the acceptance of a gay couple in church.

I went to church very rarely when I was a kid, but for awhile regularly, and you won't be surprised I never much took to it. Even today, I could tell you more about the building's architecture than any of the hooey from the pulpit or hot air in the sunday school. (I remember enough about the pulpit and the sunday school to tell you it was hooey and hot air.)

My parents still go there; they started going more after the nest got empty. Once, a long time ago now but still when I was probably close to 30, I asked them what denomination it was. No, I couldn't remember.

United Church of Christ.

Here, I'll say it for you: Hugshyhermit is pretty nasty when it comes to organized religion.


A slight change of subject...
I have to conduct a lot of meetings. Hear tell people like me conducting the meetings, because I'm upbeat and funny and can keep the agenda on track. I'm what BIPC calls "a consensus-builder."

Whatever. Boss thinks I'm a consensus-builder; that's what matters.

And I'm certainly conducting more and more meetings, sometimes three a day. (No matter that I have to gear up ahead of time and skidaddle somewhere quiet as soon as they're over.) Gosh darn it, people seem to *like* me!

So I am perplexed over these recent state constitutional amendments, etc. that are so hateful. Somebody voted for it -- a large majority of my coworkers among them if the statistics are right. It's not quite accurate for me to say "my feelings are hurt", but if my coworkers feel threatened by gays then that means they are threatened by Me.

Don't they know I just want to be left alone?